WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A FAILURE?
By Peter Fredson
June 6, 2006
I watch the Bush administration bellow and bluster its incompetence to the world. I watch as the cabinet dances war dances, shouts ominous threats, pronounces rivals to be EVIL and therefore unfit to live with decent Christian Republicans.
I listen to little Condi Rice, the Black Angel of Death; scare the public once more with visions of mushroom clouds, aluminum tubes, yellow cake and other strategic lies. But Donald and Dick are optimistic that everything is going super well. They weekly repeat this mantra and will do so until Bush retires in disgrace, an utter failure, letting someone else manage the national deficit, the war, the utter division of the country, and the immense build-up of personal hatred.
I watch George Bush strut and smirk across the stage seemingly unaware that he is the worst president in American history. He has the saving grace of not being able to distinguish fact from fancy, a good sociopath attitude. Thus he smiles, glad-hands, makes dozens of speeches without new content, keeps film crews busy with photo-ops glorifying his imaginary legacy, and holds hands with Prince Bandar before gas prices double.
I watched him on Memorial Day, laying a wreath, pretending to have served his country with honor, and wondered how he was never court-martialled for dereliction of duty, unless by grace of his daddy and friends.
His fairy godfather, Karl Rove, tells him to keep insisting that the U.S. is in grave danger, and that only good old George, gallant soldier that he is, can save us from utter destruction. The mantra is that Gays threaten the entire moral fiber of our nation.
So Al Qaeda and the ghost of Liberace will anger the Old Testament God of George Bush, and utter destruction will ensue, unless we get a dozen Constitutional Amendments in place before George retires.
You see, it is not important that George lied to get us into an unnecessary war, or that he killed thousands of Muslims, and is still destroying their lives and property, or that Millennium has stolen billions of dollars. No, it is Gays that threaten our very existence. And Messiah George has again come forward to lead the charge against this unspeakable evil. It certainly is a wonderful distraction from being a failure.
This ploy worked in 2000 and 2004, so why not try it again? The fundamentalists have never changed their minds about gays and will charge into the breach once again with fire and fury to save the nation.
In the next few months you will hear many Bible quotations as substitutes for our Constitution, and every assurance that unless Congress changes the constitution all females will go unfondled and the army will get no new fodder for their cannon and family life will shrivel so that even outdoor barbecue fires will extinguish.
God and Jerry Falwell are angry, and the terrible wrath of Katrina will seem like a fine summer day when Bush's God eradicates all our cities with terrible vengeance. Terror indeed! A glimpse of Janet's nipple merits $250,000 fine, when hanging should have been the solution.
The list of misinformation, deception, stealth, deliberate twisting of facts, and perpetual lies of the Bushites have extended from my printer and rolled endlessly down the floor. Never has a President lied so frequently, so maliciously, so arduously and never has one been backed up by so many sycophants without a word of reproach, caution, or warning.
I see the glee on the faces of the war manufacturers, the big corporations, delirious with the magnificent harvest of Gas and ammunition prices.
I see the look of rapture on the faces of Christian fundamentalists, dominionists, reconstructionists, as they realize that their dreams of conquest of the infidel might soon be realized, and that our petulant, irritable, strutting peacock of a president is a "Messiah," who listens to the advice of Yahweh and helps fight evil and wants to rule the world for Jesus, where VICTORY is nigh.
George is chanting terror, 9/ll without stopping, Iran will very soon have enough atom bombs to blow up the world, including Crawford, God Bless us All, EVIL is afoot!
George and company are seducing the entire country into precipitous action. Dick and Donald and Karl are doing their thing, without letup or hindrance, Bolton is trying to destroy the institution to which George sent him with malice aforethought. And corruption has passed all understanding.
The Judicial Committee, the Republican Senate, has betrayed our democracy for a unitary executive who differs not at all in loony behavior from other mad emperors of history.
Surprisingly McCain, whom George tried to destroy with slander, was able to pass a no-torture bill, which George imperiously bypassed by pronouncing that no restrictions applied to his imperial will.
Then McCain, thinking he might be a viable candidate to replace Bush in several years weighed in on the side of the war-mongers. He too now talks mushroom clouds, evil Iranians, their insolence toward George, etc., so his patience too is exhausted and he reluctantly opts for death and destruction, thinking he cannot not be a viable candidate unless he throws some meat to the Christian lions.
Such talk is always popular with the people whose lives are either boring or blighted, especially with those indoctrinated by religious wolves like Falwell and Robertson. They glory in death and destruction ..to someone other than themselves of course.
Whatever they may say they believe about either Jesus or the Constitution, the façade crumbles before the prospect of a gladiatorial circus in which Iranians are thrown into the path of shining missiles from heaven. And all the good Christians will shout Hallelujah and blubber over a copy of the Ten Commandments as their country sinks into the abyss and lives and ideals of countless people blighted forever. But those Gays will be destroyed come hell or high water. Next step: stone all masturbators.
We know that Bush has only contempt for our Constitution, but this does not seem to bother many Republican Senators. If there is ever an investigation of Bush for exceeding constitutional limits, we know that the Republican Chairpeople of committees will trivialize everything, deny it all, stupefy the public with terror rhetoric, accuse critics of treason, attempt to censor all voices of dissent and in every way try to distract or deviate any investigation of the imperial President.
They have done this for the past six years and there is no doubt that they will repeat their performances.
This nation is in grave peril under the Machiavellian hand of the Bushites, who respond to no appeal and no logic, but will jump at the imperious command of a dry-drunk who is out of control and dragging this country into an endless cycle of bankruptcy, deficits, environmental destruction, economic woes, shameful disregard of humanity and possibly into another World War.
If you like gasoline at $6.00 a gallon, or waiting in endless lines for medicine or pensions, or have most Americans living in poverty next to shining mansions of corporate executives, you will like the Bush administration moves in the next couple of years.