According to next week's New Yorker magazine (isn't internet a wonderful medium... this magazine isn't even out...), the George W. Bush administration is 'changing the rules'.
The article explains that every administration since Jimmy Carter has been issuing so-called 'Midnight Regulations': rules that are pushed through in the final weeks before the government has to make way for the new president.
Now it seems to me that Bush has changed the rules throughout his entire two terms, starting from his first election. After all, Al Gore was the winner, strictly speaking. Or think of the Scooter Libby affair (just google Scooter Libby and enjoy), or Guantanamo Bay. This time, I think we can just be happy that these last-minute decisions are likely to be overturned on 21 January, in just about the same way Dubya reversed all of Bill Clinton's midnight regulations.
But at least it's likely to be too late for one thing to be overturned: the indictment of sitting Vice President Dick Cheney by a Texan Grand Jury.
You see, Dick Cheney holds A LOT of shares in prisons. Yes, in prisons. In other words, jails in the US are apparently supposed to make profits, which are then put into Dick Cheney's pockets as dividents. This seems rather ludicrous to me anyway, but apparently that's not why Cheney is charged. It turns out that being sent to one of these prisons is not good for your health, because inmates have been systematically abused. The Grand Jury has now decided that that qualifies these penitentiaries as criminal organisations, and has therefore indicted their owners, one of which is Dick Cheney. And suddenly this news doesn't seem nearly as surprising as I had assumed...
Talking about criminal activities, the republicans are having a bad month. Their longest sitting senator, Ted Stevens from Alaska, who had been on the senate since 1968 and was convicted of corruption only a few weeks ago, has lost the election and will be replaced by a democrat.
I just hope he'll be enjoying his well-earned pension. Maybe he should be spending it behind the bars of one of Dick Cheney's establishments...
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