Polling for Ethics

As though we needed a poll to tell us that the White House suffers from serious ethics issues. There's little doubt that every administration since America's conception has developed ethical quandries of their own. But the core of the Libby case is the fraud inflicted upon, and with utter disdain for, America's people. The sham of shilling such a ridiculous and overrought case for purposes which have never been disclosed, have not proven beneficial, and present, at best, a frightening world for Iraqis...

The ethical violations in The Administration are astounding, but truthfully, Scooter Libby's timing inconsistencies with the truth are not indicative of questionable personal ethics. They are part of a terrible culture of governance reflected in every decision and shortcoming shown in The Administration.

And while the Bush Administration should be comended for the positive actions they've taken [promotion of African trade and debt justice, although with severe shortcomings in health initiatives and various other problematic requirements] we can count the many inflictions of cultural harm brought by The Administration's lurching ideological stance of "conservative" greed: disdain for women's health, Katrina's broken social contract, manipulation of intelligence to go to war, undermining national security with intention of going to war, poor humanitarian performance while at war, a broken education system, nonexistant healthcare, skyrocketing living costs with huge wealth divides, fraudulent war, propagandizing, a culture that condones torture, and more. The list is long.

So the ethical indictment in the VP's office likely falls short, and it's not really an "indicator." If the indictment demonstrates to the American public that The Administration has ethics issues, then they bought the Bush Line of Accountability while remaining ignorant that The Administration is the lease accountable in memory. That's just foolishness.