Is Anyone Home?

Yawn…..Oh, I am sorry, I was busy not worrying about whether or not Carl Rove did whatever it is he is accused of doing. I am not sure anyone knows what he did or if what he supposedly did is a crime or even against the rules of common decency. I do know one thing though. In a country where upwards of 4 of 5 Americans cannot name a single supreme court justice I know that no one outside the beltway gives two hoots about whatever it is the media is trying to stir into an uproar or even better into a “scandal”. The Carl Rove Scandal – that is clearly the goal of the mainstream press. I have had the following thought many times over the past year or so, but have never bothered to put down this thought on paper – or onto my hard drive. I wonder if politicians and the pusillanimous press who hang on politicians every word understand how irrelevant “political news” is to everyday, non-political junkie Americans. I have heard Hillary Clinton spout off about something or another, I have heard George Allen make comments about something else, and the press trying to make Carl Rove evil incarnate. Okay, fine. I don’t really care. I can name all of the supreme court justices and couldn’t care less about 98.5% of what is breathlessly reported by the mainstream press about the actions and speeches of our politicians. It is not that I am not interested in politics. It is not that what they do does not at times have merit. However, if politicians are not talking about my wallet or doing something that will have a direct impact on my family or national security, I really don’t care what they say or who they say it to. It is comical and also a little sad to watch the parade of congress men and women make impassioned pleas about….whatever it is they are frothed up about and then listen to the press try to get a disinterested public…well interested in the latest “scandal”. Every two-bit journalist thinks that if they can just turn the volume up on their completely irrelevant story, they will be the next Bob Woodward. So let’s look at what is really going on with this Carl Rove story. The democrats and mainstream media who despise President Bush more than kids despise their broccoli are trying to score political points with this “scandal”. I guess my question is who are they scoring political point with and to what end? It is clear to me that the press and the democrats think Carl Rove’s name is catchy enough that it can be the next Enron or Haliburton. When the next election comes around they can use “Rove” like they tried to do with their other verbal bb’s. “Oh yeah, well Bush is just trying to pull another Enron – remember how close he was tied to Enron. If it wasn’t for Bush and Ernon…” – Really, what about Bush and Enron? Do you have any idea what Enron did for a living and why they collapsed? “Well Dick Cheney is just trying coddle his buddies at Haliburton. Haliburton is who got us in this mess in Iraq. If it wasn’t for Bush and Cheney doing their buddies at Haliburton a favor we wouldn’t be in Iraq” Really, that is fascinating, can you name one line of business at Haliburton? You must to remember all the shrill comments and accusations coming from the left using a single catch-word to demonize the Bush administration. One hundred percent of the time the person spewing the catch word had not a clue what the catch word was or meant other than it was bad and it was tied to President Bush or Vice-president Cheney. I am guessing that Haliburton and Enron have lost their political cachet, so the media needs to create a new one. Rove! Rove is a single syllable word and surely event the biggest simp can keep Rove in their head long enough for the democrats to hang Bush with the Rove scandal. The reality behind all of this is that Carl Rove was the chief architect of the campaign strategy last fall that made the dems look like the nation’s political keystone cops and lost an election where 46% of the nation would not have voted for George Bush under any circumstance. The democrats and their friends on the media left had to find an additional 4.1% of the vote to swing their way and with the make up of the electoral college the election was their’s – heck they really didn’t need that many more votes, they just need a few thousand more votes in Ohio. In any event the Dems and their liberal friends blew it – they choked big time. This is a political axe that the democrats and the mainstream press now have to grind. They can’t help it. They are still so fuming mad about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory last fall that if they have a chance to hang the chief architect who made the Dems look like a bunch of political ninnies, well, they just have to do it – no matter how disinterested the nation is. The problem is that absolutely no one cares. No one outside of Washington cares about this circus that is arguably as important as a b-league professional wresting match at the local high school gym. This is not the first issue of this ilk, they come and go all the time and are spun up by both sides of the aisle. The problem today is that the left is so overwhelmed by their hatred of George Bush that they will grasp at the flimsiest of straws to try to make him look bad. So now we have the shrill senator Clinton and the camera hound Chuck Schumer trying so desperately that the veins are popping in their ears to try to make anyone care about the Carl Rove scandal. The only good news is that in a week or two there will be a new scandal brewing that we can all ignore. Clinton, Schumer, and fat Ted Kennedy will be outraged about the newest scandal that never makes it outside of the beltway. Wake me up if the politicians start talking about cutting my taxes again – then they will have my full attention.