A Question

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6811719312494990925.post-56084568830949185012007-05-27T13:23:00.000-07:002007-05-27T14:16:28.195-07:00A Question As Jonathan Freedland argues, in the New York Review of Books’ "<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20251">George Bush's Achievement</a>", our disaster of an administration has somehow managed to make San Francisco naïfs and Beltway insiders just and justified bedfellows. It seems that we are left with the question: what can a US citizen do now other than whine, bellow, wince and prepare to vote in 2008? Not only do we have to suffer a President who--as Philip Roth put it--isn't qualified to run a hardware store and who will veto any legislation that might actually save our country, but we also have a Democratic Congress unable to muster the courage to go after a near lame duck with a 28 percent approval rating. In other words, we are witnessing two unalterable, inexorable forces--of mindless power on one hand, and of crabbed poltroonery on the other--achieve a state of moral and political entropy to which no solution is available other than that provided by ourselves as citizens. Environmentalists have a knack for writing and marketing 10 Things You Can Do lists. Inheritors to Thoreauean dissent might be wise to follow suit. So here we go: What, then, are the ten most effective things that we, as United States citizens, can do to put a stop to a government capsized by a moronic president, cloven-footed vice-president, gutless congress and antiquated constitution? We seek suggestions from near and far. The editorial staff here at Tragos Enterprises promises to compile an official 10-Steps list to be distributed widely in the near future. Yours in Earnest, C. Davis LoveChris Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01608373084289103783noreply@blogger.com