Bad News Burnout - The (Not So) Secret Bush Doctrine

By BlackJack

At some point during the last 7 years I remember wondering why the nation hadn't taken up torches and pitchforks and marched on the White House. With every day bringing news of a new scandal, a new moronic statement from an administration insider, a new misrepresentation of the truth I wondered how much of this could America take.

Then the brilliance of the Bush plan hit me - overload the public senses with bad news to the point that they can't handle any more. It's not a matter of reaching a breaking point - it's a matter of not being able to process any more.

As a devout left-wing loony I've tried to keep up on the news but even I have had to take a break at times. Apparently I have a bad-news tolerance level and I've reached it several time during this administrations reign. I think most Americans reached their limits long ago.

Now I find myself unable to break it all down into separate events. Instead all of the bad news have lumped themselves into little jumbled chunks of information, like some kind of sticky black trail mix. I've got big gooey morsels of 'waterboarding hunting accidents' and 'gitmo IED chads' clumped together all over my brain.

I'd like to put together a timeline of the bad news, lies and corruption but I think it's might take 7 years to assimilate it all. Perhaps Ken Burns will make a documentary called The Uncivil War.

Until then I'm going to try to get this crap to form back into real bits of information.