Scandals Overview

Time After Time...!

These scandals are just about getting laughable.   I found this quote below to be very telling about the Republicans as to their attitude and their standard operating procedure.   Even tho this comes at the end of a piece about the latest Katrina findings, DarkSyde's playbook framework fits just about all their scandals.


I had changed the description of my blog quite a while before Katrina (somewhere post Chiavo - PlameGate).   After Katrina I was forced to add Incompetence to it for it to really be accurate.
Torture, Treason, Corruption, Lies and Incompetence...
Known by their works...   The Republicans 2000 - 2008
    - fc

Republicans Blister White House
By DarkSyde
DailyKOS.com
Wed Feb 15, 2006


Feel safer yet? There are so many instances of what can only be interpreted as paranoid behavior, incompetence, misinformation, scandals in various states of legal and journalistic illumination, or blatant lying, now plaguing this White House, that just trying to keep up with them all is bewildering. But from Loose-lips Libby to Heckuva-job Brownie to Dead-eye Dick, perhaps a useful unifying framework to keep it all sorted out is the apparent Bush and Company gub'mint playbook:

•   Step 1: Screw-up

•   Step 2: Evade, spin, and Cover-up

•   Step 3: When it's too late Show-up

•   Step 4: Quietly Lawyer-up



•   Step 5: Finally, promise to cooperate and then Clam-up

Maybe the powers that be lost the next page out of the playbook, or they would know Step 5 is traditionally followed by Step 6 in which voters demonstrate at the polls that they're fed-up. Or Step 6a; after which the guilty and the complicit are locked-up.

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