美国政治中的四人帮

３０年前，中国粉碎了四人帮。可是大家说话的时候，都明白是五人帮。

最近美国出来一个富丽门，就是年轻有为的第１６选区的国会议员，爆出比莱文斯基还严重的性丑闻，因为涉及了同性恋－未成年人－双重人格，使一向以标榜宗教信仰占领道德至高点的ＧＯＰ，一下子就炸开了锅。

民主党就把下面这一幅照片，帖的到处都是！

左起：布朗、小布什、结巴布什、马克富丽在一起

小布什大概也不希望失去国会，可又有什么办法呢？

相媲美的，是下面这一幅：

The facts of the photo are, no doubt, utterly mundane. It's evidently from a 2005 post-hurricane event in Florida, the type of symbolic visit everyone's familiar with, designed to show that the government - the president, FEMA, Congress, the governor - are all on the case.

But you can't look at it now without feeling a little queasy. Events have assigned the image an entirely new set of symbols.

It's the men who represent three big debacles - Katrina, the Iraq war, and Foleygate. They come from across the government - the federal bureaucracy, the White House, and Congress. They're striding forward resolutely - seemingly unaware of what's really going on around them. The one thing they should pay attention to - a stop sign - is behind them. Even the other people in the photo, folks just walking along with the crowd, take on a strangely creepy cast. Jeb Bush is hanging back. And who is the young man just behind Foley?

We've had a lot of history happen the past two years - and even more the past two weeks.