CNN Reports that President Bush has taken time out from his “David Hasselhoff-style” (they hate me in the U.S. but I am HUGE in Liechtenstein!) trip to Eastern Europe to denounce today’s Senate vote on whether to assert “No Confidence” in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Several GOP Senators are calling the vote a “political trick.” Now, in Washington, D.C. where money fuels all screwing, the term “political trick” is normally used in reference to an individual, not an action. So I had to investigate.
According to Dictionary.com, the word “trick” has many meanings, among them, “a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile...a mean, foolish, or childish action.”
The phrase “the pot calling the kettle black” doesn’t even begin to do this justice. Accusations of “political trickery” in defense of an administration defined by a constant stream of deception and unsophisticated inflexibility begs a better phrase. How about, “hell calling the iceberg hot”? Or “Stephanie Miller calling Bill O’Riley useful”?
For you Parliamentary Procedure Nerds, the vote today is actually whether to consider the resolution declaring No Confidence in Gonzales. And the truth is that there really is no such thing as a “Vote of No Confidence” in the U.S. system – it is a Parliamentary thing. Thus, the worst that can be said about today’s vote is that it is an empty gesture. Oh, but what a gesture!
For a populace so profoundly pissed off and disconnected from a government that continues to be run by Prezzie-boy and his BFF’s, this Royal Flipping of the Bird to Attorney General Gonzales is ceratinly no trick. On the contrary, empty calories and all, it is unquestionably a treat.
I’m only saying what I’m saying.
-MG
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