My friend Judy has a post up on her site titled, “The New Pandemic: Outrage Fatigue,” in which she expresses the feelings of millions of Americans who have grown exhausted by the daily outrages produced by the Bush Administration and their cronies in the 109th Congress over the past two years:
I am so tired of Bush and his gang ignoring evidence and feeding the American public only partial truths. I am tired of photos of our angry president on the front page, tired of his hollow swagger on the public stage, tired of 51 percent of Americans believing what he says.
I am exhausted by the damage he and his cronies have done to America in the eyes of the world. Even our allies are worn out from the the Bush team’s pretense that America is on the right track in our war against terrorism.
Tomorrow, we shall see if voting can cure outrage fatigue — or at least ameliorate it. As Judy says:
However, I am never too tired to vote. I will have the strength to vote against lies and half truths.
Amen to that.
