The Mandate

By sending Bush back to office for another 4 years, America has provided the administration with the nod and wink, the collective thumbs up to so many star studded policies: the Patriot Act, Camp X Ray, Abu Ghraib, the selling of war like soap; the flouting of the Geneva Convention and Kyoto Accord; the blessings of torture and humiliation; military aggression; divine inspiration and holy crusades; draconian tax cuts and deficit spending; bagmen and oligarchs; folly on the march; the reinstitution of puritan morality; the codification of selfishness, rapid global isolation. There will be no stopping the shock and awe of this administration's rush to plunder and conquer now. Who is there to stop them? The courts? The supreme court? The congress? The governors? Santa Claus? The Grinch? Batman? Bill O'Reilly? Nope. That's the power of a clear majority. We speak with our vote. We say to them and to the whole world, 'these things are OK. We approve.' We the Nascar Dads and Security Moms in our McMansions on the hill are just mighty fine with all of that.... You wanna supersize those freedom fries, sir?