Colin Powell Finally Waking Up. Gee, Thanks.

You'll forgive me if I don't pop a hammy springing up to applaud Colin Powell for finally getting chatty re: the Republican party has sucked for a while now. Even going back to when he came out for Obama, it had been FOUR YEARS since he left the Bush Administration, and he never said a fucking word in those four years til now, this late in the game. Hmm.

I know I'm being hard on Powell, if only cause I'm bracing myself for the inevitable slew of dudes in the adminstration who either cheerled or stood by mute on the inside of the Bush White House who will be cashing in with their "Bush was wrong, what a jerk!!" tell-all bestsellers, as I previously bitched about HERE:

A few weeks ago I was bitching to someone about this, and now it's started to happen: the first in what will be a long series of tell all/please forgive me! books from the Bush Administration. How Bob McNamara of Scotty McClellan to be the first to get things started! In the next decades as the ones who pulled the trigger(s) reflect with guilt at what they've done (or, more likely, wanna make a ton of more money while clearing their names), we Americans will be sprinting to Barnes & Noble to throw more money at these people and allow ourselves to do that which is the most American thing to do: forgive somebody simply because they're famous enough to be able to write about their sins. Of course my instinct is that the founding fathers of this war should not be allowed to profit off their wrongdoings (haven't they already made enough from them?) But instead of course we'll have mothers of dead soldiers buying the paperbacks at airports and weeping "oh wow, poor Dick Cheney, he's so sorry! he's an amazing American!!" etc etc. Talk show circuit, some crocodile tears on Larry King and we'll all be barking and clapping like seals as we revise history in our own minds. This practice from this Administration will become the Celebrity Rehab of it's day. You can fucking book it.