HOLD BUSH AND CHENEY ACCOUNTABLE

RIGHT WING WRECKAGE

It's ironic when you think about it. The traditional idea of conservatism is to conserve, to be cautious. What gets called "conservative" now is about destruction: destruction of the economy, destruction of the environment, destruction of civil liberties. It comes straight out of Orwell's 1984. The people who shout "freedom" are the destroyers of freedom.

Shakespeare described conservatives well when he wrote in A Midsummer's Night Dream: "The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion."

My prevailing mood these days is weariness. I have a job I absolutely loathe and can't leave because of the economic disaster left by the Bush administration. Hopes for universal health care, which this country desperately needs, appear to be dimming. The war in Afghanistan is actually escalating. News on the environmental front is constantly depressing. It seems the human race is determined to destroy our own planet. The "jaws of darkness" do indeed "devour it up."