(In Valerie Plame’s recent testimony before Congress, that is…).Does it really matter at this point who sent Joe Wilson to Niger to investigate the claim that Saddam Hussein was trying to purchase uranium prior to the Iraq war (and of course, as we know from our history, the claim worked its way into Dubya’s State of the Union address in 2003 and has since been proven completely false).
Apparently, it does to Senate Repug Kit Bond of Missouri, as noted here.
Well, at least when it comes to Plame, the wingnutosphere has been consistent (consistently wrong, that is, as noted by Glenn Greenwald here – h/t Atrios).
And once more, here is Bill Maher's final word on "Real Time" from a little while back that explains why all of this matters (h/t Rising Hegemon).
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ya know, i don't know how many take-downs of the bush administration i've seen, what with maher, olbermann, jon stewart, etc., and, for the most part, they're all right on... i'm starting to feel, maybe more than just starting, like we're all engaged in verbal/blogger masturbation... yeah, i put up a post, watch a youtube clip, comment on somebody else's blog, it relieves tension, gets it out of my system for a while, but, ultimately, is very unfulfilling... dontcha think it's about time something actually HAPPENS...? i don't know if i can sit here much longer, watching the slow dissolution of my country before my very eyes... but, god help me, i don't know what else i can do... i don't trust the political system any more at all... even getting a few good candidates elected doesn't begin to address the massive changes that need to happen... i guess it's just one of those days, altho' they seem to be coming more and more often lately...
There are definitely times when I have “blogger burnout” also and wonder how much this is actually accomplishing. As I do my rounds to figure out what I can say, I alternately find that there is such a mountain of B.S. out there that I can never possibly say something about all of it, and even if I do, I’m repeating myself like crazy (I know how I feel when I’m doing that – I can just imagine how somebody feels who actually reads it). And how much this could actually lead to a change that makes a difference is something of which I cannot conceive.
I try imagining a little voice that sounds like Markos in my head telling me to keep going because it took the Repugs and their acolytes about 30 years to get us stuck in this mess (his standard line, I know), and it may take that much or longer to get us out, God help us. Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn’t, and maybe it’s partly because the summer is here also and I don’t feel like posting about all of the stupidity we have to slog through every day (and on top of that, I get the inevitable response from family members who don’t want to deal with it either – we all feel the same way, though; something along the lines of what World War I must have been like a bit in the sense that you just dig a trench of sorts metaphorically and just blast away until you run out of ammo, which hopefully won’t be before 1/20/09 or something happens with these criminals…I have to hope that all of this isn’t as futile of an exercise as “The War To End All Wars” turned out to be).
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