Suffering Through

I'm going to try and work through this as I write because the premise is probably a little wobbly and has been done before and better by other people. But, looking at the new round of scandals coming down the pipe and by that I mean the 8 USA's, the 5MM e-mails, the fact that Dick Cheney still runs foreign policy within this administration, Wolfowitz and his kept woman, etc, etc, how uninformed do they think we are? Now, GWB (also, oddly enough, an anacronym for Gypsum Wall Board) may not be the keenest utensil in the horizontal storage area - maybe his handlers test every crackpot theory they have on him first as some kind of policy for dummies litmus test - but he's the best front man they've got and they march him out in front of the cameras and select audiences with every necessity, only to utter the usual platitudes and bromides we have come to expect. His speaking style has been heavily critiqued and caricatured, the emphasis is all wrong, the smile is unappropriate and insincere, the smirk arrives at the oddest moments, ad infinitum. The sound bites that make the evening news and cable shows are hackneyed and bellicose but, my question is... who is he talking to? Who is watching what he does and says anymore? The base? That eroding, fundamentaly flawed percentage hanging on to his every word like the good little Bushies they are? Probably... the only other people watching, and this is the point, the news with any fervent degree of sophistication, as far as I can see, watch only to see the reaction from the peanut gallery, they remain disinterested and unconvinced by the arguments. Personally, I don't even listen to the speeches any more, just the breakdown afterward, I know what he is going to say I just want to find out who's still inbibing the coolade on the good ship neocon and who has finally given up all hope of ever seeing this administration actually make a reasoned adjustment mid-stream and are therefore inclined to abandon said ship. So the president is not talking to me or 61% of the rest of the country. What does this say? And, what does this mean about this present administration? That is what I'm pondering now... and I hope to post on it a few more times. Just what does it mean when an administration no longer cares about the majority of its citizens and has, apparently, given up even trying to communicate to them?