I'm back...Yet again

Ok, I swear this will be the last time I will ever use that title again. :)

What's up everyone? Sorry to be away for so long, but since I made my last posting I went on to write another novel, apply to grad schools, get my novels rejected about a zillion times, and then I started a new book. I do try to keep myself busy, and as such I've gotten away from my civic duty of monitoring what's going on over with the Bush boys in Washington DC.

Seems though, our President has been much more zealous in his vigilance.

I suppose in a year that has been so catastrophic for this country--over 2,000 Americans killed in Iraq and countless billions spent on a war whose beginnings are a mystery that not even the Law & Order teams could solve, the washing away of a major American city, the inditements of Delay and Frist, and of course the whole Valerie Plane scandal--a reversal to an earlier time might have appeared to be a comfort. That is if that particular era wasn't the Nixon administration. Now faced with yet another criminal action, Bush, the most historical revisionist since Reagan ("We did not sell arms to the Contras"..."Oh wait we did, but I didn't know."), has even more domestic problems to answer for, and all the while these issues not only feel to this writer that they could have been avoided, but threaten to lead us astray from the real crisis facing America. Then again, perhaps this is the crisis.

When Bush took his oath of office (Twice, just in case he forgot it the first time), he swore to do one thing; uphold the Constitution of the United States. Often you hear him and his toadies talk about the President's job as the defender of American life, but according to his oath, he has one job and that is it.

Though it tends to be a bit ideological, one must concede the point that America, the nation, and Americans, the people, are one and the same and each is wrapped and mired in the Constitution. The defense of the Constitution is the defense of American life, because without the Constitution we are no longer Americans. Without the Constitution we no longer enjoy the things that make this country great and respected throughout the world, such as the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, the freedom of the press. But Bush and Co. feel that it is within their power to shred the Constitution at their whim and hide behind it when it suits them. When Katrina occurred and this administration failed miserably to "defend American life" by claiming that the state never asked for Federal aid, they rolled out the separation clause in the Constitution like it was Harry Potter's invisible cloak, but wiretapping domestically without a warrant that's a-ok. Running in rhetorical circles like this demoralizes the country and takes us farther away from the challenge of our forefathers, which is to create a more perfect union. We have not progressed, but regressed and now our swiftly tilting planet threatens to spin into oblivion unless a semblance of fairness, and justice is reinstalled.

If America is to be preserved then we will have to return to the foundation of our principles of our nation to light our darkest hour. After all, that's the purpose of the Constitution.

Wow, my first rant of the new year, and Bush is in office and possibly drinking again. This is going to be a great year! See you in the fallout shelters!