Disgraceful is as disgraceful does...

Dumbleyou has labeled the NYTimes’ reporting of the Bush administration’s latest extra-legal shenanigans – as usual, at the expense of American’s civil rights – as “disgraceful.”

Now when a man like W calls something disgraceful, that’s like Willy Wonka proclaiming a new candy “yummy.” If anyone knows disgraceful, it’s the Dissembler-in-Chief.

Some days, just to make myself crazy, I mentally list the crimes, misdemeanors and assorted legal, ethical and moral shortcomings of his administration, starting with putting the brakes on stem cell research in the weeks leading up to 9-11 to appease his rapture-enthusing core constituency of dim bulbs, to the seven minutes of very unpresidential sweaty panic after being told America was under attack, to selling us a war against Dr. Evil and serving up a Mini Me instead, to blowing off the search for Osama, to MIA WMDs, to Abu Ghraib, to extreme rendition, to Katrina, to his unprecedented use of ‘signing statements’ to negate the intent and efficacy of bills as he signs them into law (so much easier than issuing his first presidential veto, still yet to come), to domestic wiretapping to dumping phone records to pilllaging bank records to whatever new crimes against the Constitution and/or Geneva Convention will have come to light by the time I’m done typing this.

And oh brother, that’s just skimming the surface, the stuff off the top of my head. If I wasn’t on Man Cub duty right now, I’d do the research to compile a more comprehensive list. A project for another day.

The point is, every single day of the Bush administration has been a Goddamned disgrace. And until only recently, the media in general has colluded with Dumbleyou to keep America uninformed and the President unquestioned. Now that the worm has finally started to turn (it’s a shame it took Katrina’s devastation to remind the fourth estate of their duty to a free society) Bush is craftily taking a page from the Tricky Dick Nixon playbook and attacking the media for exposing his questionable activities.

Disgraceful? As the President himself might blurt out inarticulately, “I am the Disgracer!”