Scribbling

I read on a recent blog that should President Bush not support AG, Alberto Gonzales, the president would be cut off at the knees and would be left to endure the rest of his tenure on bloody stumps; therefore, it behooves our erstwhile leader to support his beleaguered appointee and long time friend and former employee.  This may ring true in some system of logic but it suggests more of the same disingenuousness, which has come to characterize the Bush administration.  Loyalty is all the more noble when it is deserved; however, Gonzales, even by Lindsey Graham’s reckoning is “wounded”, and perhaps should take his cue from the noble Brutus to avail himself of a sharp sword to finish the injury he has so clumsily inflicted on himself, although the Attorney General’s resignation is more preferable and less sanguine, notwithstanding W’s bloody stumps.  It is time to end the subterfuge and the self-indulgent game of charades, which has overreached its inside-the-Beltway coyness.  If Bush wants to honor loyalty, I suggest that he reflect on the oath of office that he took when he became President; that he recite, if he is unable to comprehend, Lincoln’s spartan phrase that restated the focus of the office of President: the government of the people, by the people, and for the people should not perish from the earth.  If the President is unable to match Lincoln’s resolve because his definition of loyalty places cronyism above service and sacrifice, there is no appeal that can alter the course of his political demise as the effrontery of this regime stands in stark relief as if it were carved on the memorials of the casualties suffered under this administration:  there has been no remorse for the deaths resulting from the ill-fated war in Iraq, the lies and innuendos by which the case for attacking Iraq was made and from which our reputation with the rest of the world may never recover, the corruption that has riven our government with a debilitating state of suspicion instead of promoting the kind of cooperation vital to enduring democracy, the use of fear to justify usurping individual rights and constitutional authority, or the penultimate hubris of self-righteous arrogance that has been emblematic of this administration and the least deserved quality that it could have ever ascribed to itself.   If the dismissal of Alberto Gonzales leaves the President so horrendously maimed, he should check himself into Walter Reed for its superior patient care to facilitate his speedy recovery and rehabilitation.