Mr. President: SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP
Tue Jan 23, 2007 at 01:22:26 PM PDT
I'm sure we're all waiting with bated breath for tonight's State of the Union address, especially those of us who are playing the drinking game. In it will be the usual mixture of boners, along with some kind of "wha ...?" distraction along the lines of human-animal hybrids.
We are told that Bush will put forth "bold new ideas" tonight, which makes it sound likes it's supposed to be 2002 or something. Halfway through his second term, a president should have bold successes to tout.
Bush has none.
The big push, of course, will be for the Big Push, or rather the Surge™ or escalation with Iran. Or Iraq. You know what I mean. One way to do this is to pretend that we are already at war with Iran, since they are supposedly directing the violence in Iraq, except that just like Saddam's supposed WMD, Bush doesn't have a case. Meanwhile, back in reality, American military supplies are once again flowing to Iran. Maybe Ollie North is back in business?
In America, of course, this doesn't politically matter, since the usual idiots in the Vienna Sausage Choir are already ready to chide Democrats for not being stupid enough to support it. For example, one of the architects of this new meaningless slaughter has had the dishonesty to ask:
"You really wonder, do they want it to work or not? I really wonder that. I hate to say this about the Democrats. They’re people I know personally and I respect some of them.
I think we can easily answer his snide little rhetorical question: it's not meant to "work," unless by "work" you mean "help Bush run out the clock on his failed presidency so that rightwing hacks like Sean Hannity can blame Bush's failure Iraq on the Democrats in his piercing, gnat-like voice.
I'll say it now so that we can keep it straight later: Who lost Iraq? Bush.
Next question: what damage will Bush do to the Republican party tonight? They are already in disarray on this issue. The White House is fooling itself if it really belives, as one anonymous aide recently smirked, that Congress would be forced to accept the Surge™ once the soldiers are in harm's way. This is how Republicans use our troops: like hostages. Support them, or the soldier gets it, get it?
The only thing Bush will be lacking when he pushes for the Surge™ tonight is a jihadist's scarf covering half his face. Meanwhile, back in America, real Americans want Congress to determine any escalation by a margin of three to one.
So stop butchering your countrymen, you incompetant twit. You have allied us with the nation that is supporting the Taliban and yet tonight you will "ChallAnge" [sic] the Democrats to get behind you in a war on terror in which you are practically a mole.
We don't really need any fancy theories as to why Bush sucks. We already have a perfectly good word to explain the phenomenon: "aristocracy." You never had to be anything, which is why you aren't anything. A nation that chooses its leaders because of their breeding is a nation that is doomed to fail. If ability doesn't matter, don't be surprised when you find none. We have found none in you, and now thousands are dead. On top of Bush's disasterpiece in Iraq, they've delivered a "recovery" that does nothing for people who work for a living and a Tax Shift onto Americans who work for a living one that they will be paying for your for generations to come. Then again, since Republicans think that people who work for a living are suckers, this is just fine. Welcome to the third world.
This second Bush presidency is the climax vegetation of a movement, now defeated in Congress, to sell America's laws on what amounted to an oppen market, all covered with a thick layer of "values" distraction, unison chanting, and direct intimidation. It's a guarantee that conservatives' ideas will suck and their leaders will be losers like Bush. This combination may make for a potent political machine, but it easily leads to solipsism. It was their strength. Now it's their doom.
The only upside for them, since they do have to live in the mess they've made, is that they've managed to make the little people pay for their policies that don't work.
November taught Republicans that, unless they perform a smirk-ectomy, Americans will perform a parasite-ectomy. Since that hits them in their pocket-books, we finally have their attention. For this reason, tonight Bush will merely be announcing his irrelevance not only to America, but to his own party, which must find a way to contain the damage he does to the Republicans just as Congress tries to contain the damage he's done to America.
I'm sure the rightwing bloggers have already written their breathless reviews of the speech. Yet again, it will surpass the Gettysburg Address. But, for the few remaining Republicans in attendance, their actual reaction to tonight's round of Bushspeak can only be an uninterrupted cringe, just wishing he'd sit down and shut up.
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