Rotten From the Head Down

“a fish rots from the head down”

-Greek Proverb

He may have been able to sell himself as a man of hope and change and at least with some nitwits he still maintains a certain cultlike allure but Barry Obama faces his toughest sales job yet. He was once a man who could get Eskimos to buy ice and as recently as last week, former NSA goon General Michael Hayden emphatically stated that the top job for the pope of hope would be to get Americans to buy into gratefully accepting their own enslavement. Obama’s in your face press conference last Friday where he told the nation that his NSA Stasi was not invading their privacy and that the he was "comfortable that the program currently is not being abused." He also spoke of "reforms" and more oversight including the establishment of a review board. What was unsaid is that the apparent top pick to lead the review would be one James Clapper, a proven perjurer who had already lied to a feckless congress. B.H.O. was allowed get away with his dog and pony show presser because as is their normal pattern of behavior, the White House Press Corps refused to ask any serious questions, especially about the unconstitutional surveillance programs that El Presidente was so ardently defending. Putting Clapper in charge of this would be akin to his appointment of Wall Street bagman Timothy Geithner as his Treasury Secretary or of Bush appointing war criminal Henry Kissinger to head up the 9/11 Commission. It would be like the Soprano family being entrusted with an internal audit at the Bada Bing Club, a total farce. 

But of course it was all bullshit. That was something that a good many of us suspected at the very least, the cynics and those who have an antenna for big government lies knew it in our bones that the president was a bald-faced liar. Obama’s statements in defense of his NSA are as blatant as "I did not have sex with that woman", "read my lips, no new taxes" and Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. It is pretty apparent by now that one of the top qualifications for the job is to be a pathological fibber, how else to sell wars of aggression, the redistribution of wealth to the well connected one-percenters and the disemboweling of the U.S. Constitution. While Obama has been screwing off with the other high-rolling swine on taxpayer money at the swank Martha's Vineyard a little story came out that proved that his stance has always been hogwash. According to the Washington Post an internal NSA audit documented over 2,500 incidences of the breaking of their own privacy rules. And these are only the ones that we know about, just think of all of the gravy train riding contractors who were providing this information to god knows whom and for what purposes. I have been pondering just how all of this information that has been purloined is being abused by those outside the realm of our already pathetic government oversight. Rather than go into all of this here I suggest reading this piece form Washington's Blog on what else this information may be being used for. 

So scantly a week after last Friday's manure disbursal session that giant leeching sound that is emanating throughout the land is Barry's asshole puckering as the rest of his credibility whooshes out of the bubble that he resides in. Only a moron would believe a damned thing that this man says and in any decent country, were the sitting Congress not a corrupt gaggle of bickering jagoffs we would be having talk of impeachment. I am still waiting for Darrell Issa to hold hearings on Obama's secret police state but don't hold your breath for that one. Despite all of the Republican bravado of Obama being worse than Nixon now that rock solid proof has emerged that he makes Tricky Dick look like a rank amateur they will do nothing - because they are in on it too. After the news broke about the NSA audit that once and for all exposed the emperor as being a bare-assed naked fool the corpulent toad and defender of taxpayer fleecing trillion dollar munitions and other military associated deals, Senator Dianne Feinstein provided her usual dissembling. The poor, misunderstood NSA Stasi did not "intentionally" abused it's authority. It is a certainty that her disgusting counterparts, full blown fascist freaks like John McCain, Lindsay Graham and their ilk will be making their rounds of the Sunday morning propaganda shows to cover their dear leader's asses and protect their graft.

Another interesting note on the latest rotten day in this rapidly decomposing country is the revelation that the chief of the secret FISA Court, Judge Reggie B. Walton gave a statement to the WaPo that the court's ability to monitor abuse is limited and that the court itself must trust the government. Translation: the buck sure as hell doesn't stop at MY desk. I was always skeptical that Ed Snowden's leaking would not amount to much, that he would be shunned as a leper after an organized state media smear campaign and he would be extradited and then tortured before a show trial and imprisonment but I must admit that I may have been wrong. This thing is huge and has more staying power than the Jodi Arias story. Every day seems to peel away one more layer of this giant, rancid and stinky onion.

As a man much wiser than myself once remarked "when the water reaches the upper decks, follow the rats"