GOP: Stay the Course
Thu Oct 05, 2006 at 04:51:34 PM PDT
The George W. Bush aka "The Titanic" is full steam ahead.
About a year ago they started rearranging the deck chairs as they chanted "Stay the Course."
Iraq was unimagineably screwed up then and now in 2006 has deteriorated to the point where almost everyone in America can agree that it is a FIASCO. The Republicans headed by their leader George W. Bush say, "Stay the Course."
Hurricane Katrina came along and while Americans drowned, waited for rescue and tried to find bodies in the storm rubble our President Bush was on vacation and when asked why he didn't cut it short he replied by saying, "Stay the Course!" No he didn't say that, but he really did. He partied with John McCain on his birthday complete with cake and a photo-op and played the guitar while Americans were left waiting for rescue. Bush Stayed the Course.
We found out that President Bush was spying on Americans without warrants from our courts and the Republicans said, "Stay the Course." Well, Bush really said, "Trust me," but that is what all the guys say when they want you to "Stay the Course" if you get my meaning. Women and some Congressional Pages may have a better idea of what I am saying here, but
trust me means you are about to be f*cked if you fall for it.
By January 2006 we were indeed full steam ahead on the Republican ship S.S. George W. Bush aka "The Titanic".
The Administration had appointed two Supreme Court Justices and they were confirmed based entirely on testimony that boiled down to: "Trust me" too. "Stay the Course" and it doesn't matter what that course is. Stay it anyway!
The President and his Republican party in the Spring - probably to counter the extreme sea sickness being created by Staying the Course in Iraq - told you to hate Mexican Americans. Oh I know they didn't say explicitly that you should hate Mexican Americans, but that is what they were saying. They wanted to get you to want to kill and capture some other people on the ill fated ship so that you would forget about how sea sick you were. All the while, they Stayed the Course. It was a tactic that was sort of "talk amongst yourselves" while we drive the boat straight into... well, I won't get into that.
By June we had had enough of attacking Mexican Americans and other immigrants and BushCo ever astute knew that. Iraq merited a few more calls to "Stay the Course" and a new charge of "Cut and Run!" leveled against all those people who were still sea sick from their ride on Bush's Titanic. The ship's purser, Karl Rove, knew for sure that the people on the boat were getting so sea sick that a game of shuffle board wouldn't take people's minds off their sickness. He offered a combo suppository of Gay Marriage Bans and Flag Descration Acts. The "hate gays" parlor game had worked to distract many times in the past and for those who were tired of that one, Purser Rove offered Flag Desecration! Each was offered up as a fast paced game of chance where one side lined up to destroy the Constitution and the other side lined up to defend it while getting called unAmerican and amoral. As you can imagine the guests on the ship played the game with great gusto. The team defending the Constitution was sort of tired of these games, but they stood strong and won.
By July, the voyage to the New World was getting even more rocky. There was no hurricane and no particularly large storm that tossed the boat, but the seas were consistently very rough. Iraq was worse and creating even more sea sickness than anyone could have imagined before. Maybe it was just that it was getting really old. More likely it was the thousands and thousands of people that were dying in Iraq. It was sickening. Who wouldn't be sea sick?
Then the passengers on the Republican ship started to really, really want to CHANGE the Course. But the Captain and his crew really did not want that mutiny so they did what they all do and said, "Stay the Course" and threw in a "Trust Me" or two topped off with a few "unAmerican Cut and Run" accusations. To those passengers who just looked to be weary they said, "It is Hard Work"...
Hard work is right. As it turns out the ship stopped by Lebanon and destroyed that country's infrastructure. Why the ship wasn't picking up the other Americans on shore really challenged most of the passengers' sensibilities until it was made clear by captain and crew that they were probably disloyal anyway and that there were some new/old terrorists to be afraid of and they were on the SS George W. Bush. Worse, those terrorists were being funded by Iraq's scary neighbors Iran and Syria, but suddenly the ship veered away. The passengers were obviously really sick of it all by then. It was getting to be too much. This voyage was supposed to be fun. So sensing some discontent, the captain and his Republican crew Stayed the Course by retreating to revisit the course on another day. Or something like that.
By September, it was clear that the SS George W. Bush was facing a potential mutiny and so the Osama bin Laden game began again. Osama bin Laden was supposedly a passenger on the ship that no one had ever seen, but was rumored to be a serial killer. All of the ship's course decisions had been made with him in mind almost from the begining of the voyage. Worse yet, he had many, many associates and many were not only probably on the ship, but also many on the ship. As the ship forged through the rough seas the captain and crew reminded the passengers constantly that these terrorists would or could arrive at any moment in their local grocery stores (per Curt Weldon). Again because the evil and scary people (the passengers had never seen anywhere except in pictures) were pursuing the great ship Lollipop, Bush and the Republicans said, "Stay the Course!!!" LOUDER.
They followed that up with "Or You're All Gonna DIE!" in your grocery stores (Curt Weldon). Meanwhile, not only was Iraq bringing the sea to a boiling point, but Afghanistan (remember that?) exploded also. Stay the Course or You're All Gonna Die was the Captain's message every day for a month.
Then about a week ago the passengers on the ship beleagured, tired and essentially fed up with having to hold on to railings as the ship tossed about and trying not to lose their lunch everyday for years found out that the ship's Republican captain and crew had designs to torture people and arrest them without formal charges. They realized that the Captain could "disappear" them at any time. He smiled at them and said, "Stay the Course".
The boat that once seemed so large and freeing when they set out on the journey with this captain and crew seemed to have shrunken to the size of a small dinghy. The passengers' minds were still reeling from the realization that any day they could be thrown over board, when they found out that one of the crew had been sexually preying on their kids.
All hell broke loose.
Months and years at sea - months and years of rough seas came to a head at that moment. The passengers took control of the ship.
It is said that Captain Bush was heard screaming "Stay the Coooourse!!!" in the distance as the passengers of the ship sailed away from the life boat where they left the captain and his crew. It is said that the Captain sounded like a mad man as he screamed. It is said that he probably was a mad man. History will probably prove them right.
The passengers are still searching the depths of the ship's hold for the First Mate they could not find called Cheney. They hope they can reach the safety of dry land before he emerges from his hiding place on the ship. They plan to scuttle the ship immediately after they arrive. It is the only way to end the curse of the SS George W. Bush, a Republican ship doomed from the start of its maiden voyage. All maiden voyages must come to an end.
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