At Long Last
Sara Taylor's testimony today got me thinking about something that's been in the back of my mind for a long time. How insular must the lives of the major players here be?
I'm sure a great many of these clowns were born into money in wealthy, all-white suburban neighborhoods, were home schooled, then went directly to Regent University and from there to a series of conservative think tanks before landing in the White House. That can't account for all of them, though. Some of them must have social circles that extend a bit beyond the 28% dead-enders.
What do you say if you're Sara Taylor's old neighbor, college friend, ex-teammate, whatever? Do you ask her how she can look herself in the mirror? Do you exhort her to find the tiniest scrap of backbone and actually tell the truth about something?
It's not like there's copious moral, ethical or legal grey area here. Taylor, who is about my age, has grown up to be a genuinely bad person. An advocate of some of the worst policies ever seriously entertained by this country. A criminal who will remain unpunished because she and her protectors control too many of the levers of power to allow justice to get a grip. Is there no one in her life who can look her in the eye and convey that she should feel shame for her actions?
I'm enough of an optimist to believe that shame hasn't been genetically bred out of Republicans. Bush isn't bright enough to screen out all the good, decent, loyal conservative Americans from his inner circle. Someone will break.
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Her explanation boils down to: The President is a good and decent person and I know he would never do anything wrong; however, he has requested that I not speak to you about this particular issue other than to assure you he is a good person and was not involved, and by telling you the truth of what really happened (even though he was not involved and he didn't do anything wrong) I would be imperiling Karl Rove's ability to give the President candid advice. Even though it may in fact be a felony to invoke "executive privilege" as a tactic to interfere with a Congressional investigation, and even though I am now a private citizen no longer employed by the White House, I'm still going to sit here and repeat ad nauseum that I can't answer that question other than to say the President is a good and decent man who has done nothing wrong and therefore doesn't need to explain to you what he did.