Bush-hating Republican

I have resisted being political on this site until now, but it has just gotten so unbelievably bad, I can't stand it. If I were a citizen of another country observing this one, I'd probably laugh. Since I'm an American, I'm just sad and ashamed. I truly believe that the Bush administration will go down in American History as the worst and most corrupt, ever. It's absurd, truly absurd what is happening on a regular basis in this country. Forget the war in Iraq, forget the ongoing disaster in New Orleans. Take a look at just another straw on the pile of mid-level outrages going on daily in this kleptocracy:

The Pentagon's inspector general will be leaving his post Sept. 9 to take a top job at the parent company for Blackwater USA, one of the largest private security firms in Iraq, the Defense Department said yesterday.

Joseph E. Schmitz has been the IG since March 2002, heading an office of 1,250 military and civilian officers and employees, with a mandate to prevent waste, fraud and abuse in the Pentagon. Its work included an extensive review of a controversial plan for leasing Boeing Co. jets as Air Force tankers. A top Pentagon procurement officer and a Boeing official went to prison in that case.

Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, said, "The inspector general is a standard-bearer for ethics and integrity for the Pentagon. To see a person who has been holding that position cash in on his public service and go work for one of their contractors is tremendously disappointing," she said. Schmitz will be based in McLean for Prince.

This is a symptom of a much larger disease - one that starts right at the top. As they say, the fish rots from the head down. If you are a Republican who supports anything Bush does, please wise up. Blind support is not being a patriotic American, or even a good Republican. Read some of the stuff at Huffingtonpost.com. Just because it comes from the left, doesn't mean it's wrong. Who else will criticize him and his administration? Most of our Republican representatives are party-line cowards.

God bless John McCain, for President 2008, please...