Bush and the Neocons are Destroying the US Government from Inside and Out

Bush and the Neocon Termites are Destroying the US Government from Inside and Out

by Rob Kall OpEdNews.COM

Our government is being corrupted. Our resources are being prostituted for politics. The far right chants its 'get rid of government" mantra and at the same time is not only starving it with federal tax cuts, but is also sordidly turning our government resources into gutted, empty, characterless, integrityless bastions of policy promotion, just like CATO, HERITAGE, AEI, PNAC, Hudson, etc..

Paul Krugman talks about how the treasury department has become a marketing arm of the Bush administration, just like the CIA, the EPA and the national institutes of health. Not only have the neocons taken over government, but they are in the process of converting the government to extensions of the neocon think tank empire.

Recently, the treasury department has been converted from operating as a source of information, exploration and a generator of facts that are used to determine financial and tax policy. It has been demoted and transformed into a propaganda arm of the Bush policy blitz, relegated to providing statistics, no matter how far it has to stretch to make them fit, which support the Bush/Rove policies currently being sold.

Of course we know how the CIA and FBI and a whole slew of agencies were disconnected from each other and funneled through Condeleeza Rice and the Oval office (see Information Sharing: Why Did Bush Coordinate All National Security Through Himself Via Condi Rice? Margie Burns.) It is reasonable to assume that this disconnection, which very likely led to the lack of interagency communications which led to the failure to protect the US from the 9-11 attack, was implemented to enable the Bush administration to allow its fanatical need for control to be assuaged.

We know the EPA has become a tool for selling off our natural resources, a front that is being used to trick people who want to be fooled, to lay waste to the environment. And they do it while giving the toxic project environmentally friendly names like the "Clear Skies Act" a cover for allowing industry to increase pollution.

Our military is now run by neocons who were formerly members of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC). It is no longer a fighting force designed to protect the US and friends. It is now an aggressive pre-emptive attack force, being redesigned so it is adept at implementing the urges to empire of egghead Zionist zealots. (This is no anti-semitic remark. I am Jewish. The actions of Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith and other radical, extremist zionist neocons are not consistent with the politics, policies or attitudes of any of the Jews I know. Most American Jews want a safe middle east where there is peace and fairness. The violence on both sides is intolerable.)

The point of this article is, that like termites eating away at the foundation of a venerable colonial building, built over 200 years ago (we have lots of these in Bucks County, where Washington's Crossing and hundreds of colonial era homes exist) the Bush right wing fanatics who stole the presidential election are destroying the inner workings of our government, not just the tax base that supports it.

We know (see U.S. Policy Towards Iraq: Unraveling the Web of People, Think Tanks, Etc.) that the build-up of the Iraqi war was promoted by the neocon Think tanks-- the policy promotion cruise missiles of the far right billionaires who have dragged our country into a horrid state of vile partisan conflict and mean-spirited pure power and money greed-- with strong coordination with a handful of government agencies, particularly the Defense Policy Board.

It's become more apparent, with new disclosures on the corruption of the election process that Bev Harris has been reporting (Voting Company Reverses Stand: Flawed software WAS used in Georgia and other elections - Official to city of Boston: There are “kinks” in touch screens By Bev Harris) that it is very likely that the PResidency and the Senate majority were obtained by intentional, criminal attacks on the voting process, through fraudulent manipulation of voter cull lists, through fraudulent computerized counting, through, illegal counting of overseas ballots...

America has been stolen and now raped and pillaged. Bill Moyers said that the right has put the government up for sale. But worse than that, they've put it up for prostitution and rape.

What are you going to do about it? Start by demanding from your representatives that they fix the vote laws. If you've already written or e-mailed, then call and write. We have a shot at getting Bush out of office, along with his termite team of structural destroyers. But we need a clean vote to do it.

Rob Kall rob@opednews.com is publisher of progressive news and opinion website www.opednews.com and organizer of cutting edge meetings that bring together world leaders, such as the Winter Brain Meeting and the StoryCon Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story. This article is copyright by Rob Kall, but permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog, or web media so long as this credit is attached