Why do they screw us? Because we let them!

The idea of leadership, particularly political leadership, is supposed to be noble. They are, after all, given authority by we the people to govern on our behalf. Ahhhh, the glue smell particularly sweet today, it must be all this side act, playing with php and sql.
Yes, we all know that governments are bought and paid for by a fairly narrow section of society, i.e. those who can afford to buy, and profit from the ownership.
These thoughts have been playing on my mind, whilst dabbling with aforementioned program codes (perhaps why the codes are so bloody difficult!).
We’ve got good old George W, wallowing in all sorts of excreta, but still able to breath normally. He is showing a great talent for uncomplicated defense, namely Roving. I guess the normal tactics of dissembling and obfuscation are a bit complex for him, but with Rove on the strings he can get by.
Australia has George’s good buddy, fellow cricket loving PM, John Howard. Now Johnny could teach George a few things about handling a crisis. Howard squares up, tells it like it is, at least how he wants it to be, and doesn’t even blink.
He has built a neat information shell about himself and would reduce a lie detector to slobbering tears.
In Britain, George’s other good buddy; PM Tony Blair has been equally adept at walking through fire and emerging at the other side unscathed. While ministers fall around him, or others even go on the direct attack, Tony has seemed impervious.
I say has been, because out of the three, Tony is beginning to look a little less secure. Not because of scandal though, even if that weakened his grip, Tony is in trouble over social policies.

The point is, these three leaders have been shown, time and again, to be implicated in unethical behaviors. Well might Howard challenge, “show me the written proof”; knowing he does not allow sensitive issues to be committed to paper or other recording methods.
The fact is, it’s not what they might know or approve, and it’s what they have an obligation to know. Bush had an obligation to be informed on many of the key issues he is now dodging, not least of which was the vulnerability of New Orleans.
These leaders carrying the ball on our behalf, we are watching them continually drop it, and then apparently approving of them anyway.
It is like we are giving them permission to screw us, rather than demanding they live up fully to their obligations on out behalf.
Unless, and until we the people start disapproving poor behaviour they are happy to accept It seems to me to be high time to start kicking a little arse!