The House Servant

Today we hear that the Attorney General of the USA has resigned, and there he was all by himself at a podium, uttering the same words we have heard so often. What is this,no. 7 or is it 70 of the Disciples of Strauss and their pals swept into discard since last November. All it took, it seems, was the switch of a couple of dozen seats in the Congress and the historical broom started its awesome sweeping.

American political process is confused and raucous, but there is no escaping the majesty of their Constitutional Gods sweeping out the stable. I begin to wonder, is it possible it will reach all the way to the black and menacing figure of Cheney.

Already it seems that a harsh picture begins to emerge. One recalls Walt Disney's Sorcerer's Apprentice. When the apprentice calls up a spell to have the broom load the pails with water from the well and save him the work, he has no ability to stop them and soon the Sorcerer's house is flooded. Then the Sorcerer comes home.

So who is coming to the White House to take over from the hapless but bloody minded and very nasty little boy who has been causing such havoc these 7 years. Is it Bush the Elder and his group of pals from the oil industry, and other governing circles. The people who dress up in togas from time to time and wander around manicured gardens pretending they rule the world. Maybe the world is sort of like the fantasies that are so popular in movies, and they do fit. It is just the rest of us that are stuck in the mud.

They all remind me of a startling glimpse into that social world by Fitzgerald:

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

Shedding his killers one by one Junior Bush still has quite a ways to go, yet we have already stumbled into a swamp where the media have no idea what to say, anymore. Do you suppose they might start telling the truth, just because there is nothing else to say.