Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. I know. We're progressives, and hate is not in our vocabulary. What would the Buddha think? He wasn't into hate. He was a lovely, lovely man, although with something of a weight problem.
But I am not a lovely man. I am just an ordinary schmuck who thinks that ordinary men might be able to, eventually, after a great deal of effort, make some sort of a difference in this world. Stupid, I know. My father was an ordinary man, although extraordinarily physically strong. He worked hard and loved his family. He loved to tinker in his basement workroom. He made no money at it, since he had no political cronies. What a jerk.
But still, you know, he wasn't too bad. He didn't treat kids badly. He put up with me when I was young and shot my mouth off. Despite his strength he was a peaceful man, since he had been at war and he knew what it was all about. All of it, baby. And somewhere along the line he came to the conclusion, although he wasn't an
educated man or any of that
intellectual stuff, that money wasn't everything, and power wasn't everything. And you know what? Just about everyone who met him liked him.
A lot more than you can say for DeLay. Right? I mean, somewhere along the line this is a guy who came to the exact opposite conclusions of my dad. Power and money are everything. Bush and Cheney too. And the question I have is, how many people actually like Bush or Cheney, or Delay? Seriously, how many?
DeLay, for example, ran into trouble with his legal fund, where he ran out of money when he hit $1.6 million or so. This is why, let's face it, he's resigned. He had $1.3 million in his campaign fund, and believe it or not, he can use that for his legal defense. At $500/hr for his team of lawyers it won't take long for that to be burned up. But let's be honest, if he had any friends at all, he'd have no trouble at all with money. My old man wouldn't have had any trouble with money, not that he'd get into trouble like DeLay. People liked him, you know what I mean? The money would have come in. Not for DeLay, oh my no. He's had to abscond with the $1.3 million of campaign contributions he had for his next run at Congress so he can use it for his defense. And I would guess that the corporate and big-bucks individual contributors whose money has been misallocated like this can't be too terribly thrilled. Right?
Which bring me back to - where are their friends? Where are Bush's or Cheney's or Rummy's friends? Do they have even one? Bush goes to bed at 9am every night. Doesn't anyone ever invite him to a party? And the answer is: Of course not. Because everyone - every freakin' one - hates Bush. They hate him, they hate his father and mother, they hate his wife, they hate his hideous drug-addicted daughters, they hate his crazy brothers, they hate everything about him. He is a man with crazy, perverted, views of humanity. But as long as he can make a profit for the real powers, the big multinationals, he will be tolerated, as will Rummy and crazy drunken face-shooting Cheney.
But really, everyone in their heart of hearts hates Bush and his entire inept crazy family. Including his Nazi-funding grandfather, who had his bank shut down in WWII because it was supplying money to Hitler. Including his insane father, George H.W. Bush, who actually bailed out from his bomber when it was hit before he knew if his crew had any idea that the bomber was going down. (He was the only survivor. Funny how that works with the Bush family.) And his mother - oh my goodness, his mother. Barbara. From whose toxic womb he was spawned. A woman who made a contribution to Katrina relief that was earmarked for another brain-damaged son, Neil Bush, who contributed to the near downfall of the US economy with his involvement in the Savings and Loan scandal of the 1980's. Yeah, good old Neil, who came up with the crazy idea of Ignite!, an education software company, a magnificently crazy company. But hey, Barbara was given shares, so she earmarked her 'charitable' donation for Katrina to Ignite! (every New Orleans resident was screaming, Give Us Some Educational Software Now! when their levees went down, as Bill Maher has pointed out). So what could she, in good conscience, do - she contributed. Tax free of course. To her own company.
I mean, let's face it. It's hard to find a better cause than to put money into Neil's company, in which you own shares, at a tax deduction since it's for 'Katrina Relief'. Even though you already have millions and millions of dollars. Am I right?
There is a sci fi horror novel called 'I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream' by Harlan Ellison. In it he has a computer that kills off most of humanity. The computer has come to absolutely hate humanity. It says that if the word HATE was written on every electron in the universe it would still not express 1 billionth of the hate that the computer feels for humanity. A classic - you gotta read it.
And this is the way I feel about the Bush crime family. I truly hate every single one of them, not just Dubya. George Senior, his nasty wife, his children Neil and Jeb, his repulsive grandchildren Jenna and Barbara, Dubya's robowife Laura, and most especially, Dubya himself. I hate each and every one of them, and may the Buddha forgive me. I figure that at some point in the future the name 'Bush' will be similar to 'Hitler'. The name will not be permissible in polite society. Do you know anyone named 'Jim Hitler'? Well, that's the way it will be, in a just world, with the name 'Bush'. People will trample over themselves to change their names to 'Boosh', or 'Busch', or 'Shrub'. Or even 'Hitler'. Anything but 'Bush'.
And that goes quadruple for the foul torturer Cheney, but you saw that coming, didn't you?