Monday George II glowered mightily, and decreed it was "unconscionable" for Congress to place any conditions on the expenditure of monies "needed" to continue his failed occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Say what?
George II is now accusing others of acting in ways "unconscionable"?
Let us first consult the dictionary:
unconscionable: not guided or controlled by conscience: unscrupulous; excessive, unreasonable; shockingly unfair or unjust.
Let us next try, below the fold, to recall some of the many times in which George II has himself behaved, in a manner that is: "unconscionable."
On September 11, 2001, through sheer inattention, George II, unconscionably, lost the lives of 3000 Americans. Through sheer bullheadedness, he has since, unconscionably, lost the lives of at least 4000 more.
In counting George II's earliest unconscionables, we should start with the innocent beasts he put to death; move next to the fellows he smirkingly bullied and burned; travel next to the prisoners he sent, mocked, to their deaths; culminating in the innocent unsane, from all the four corners, he personally pursued into madness.
Yet he, even at that fleeting moment when he rocked at the top of the world, hadn't the stomach to watch, he who'd he warred our nation 10,000 miles against, the pitiful pinata he hung from the gallows.
Chickenshit.
Of course it is unconscionable that George II has relinquished control over his own economy. That he has let slip away American supremacy over other world currencies.
As it is unconscionable that he has lost the confidence of the American scientific community. That he has lost the confidence of the American academic community. That he has lost the confidence of the American intelligence community. That he has lost the confidence of the American diplomatic and military community.
That he has lost the community of the American people.
Whatta we got, after seven solid years of George II?
We got that it is unconscionable that George II has more or less delivered the United States over to German barbarism::
The Germans had always been inclined to substitute the authority of a single leader for written law. Even in the days of the Romans they had considered that a code of laws applicable equally to all men was contrary to the honor of individuals. They preferred to be judged by the decree of one superior person, in whom they trusted, rather than by definite laws, drawn up by the dictates of reason. Unfortunately, their Leader approved of murder. Rules were no more than cobwebs before a machine gun. A brief turn of the hand, and whole libraries of former rules became waste paper.
Where next?
disturbance at the heron house
a stampede at the monument
to liberty and honor
under the honor roll
the gathering of grunts and greens
cogs and grunts and hirelings
a meeting of a mean idea
to hold
when feeding time has come and gone
they'll lose the heart and head for home
try to tell us something
we don't know
we don't know
everyone allowed . . . .
We were angry and righteous in those days, and there were millions of us. We kicked two chief executives out of the White House because they were stupid warmongers. We conquered Lyndon Johnson and we stomped on Richard Nixon--which wise people said was impossible, but so what? It was fun. We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river.
That river is still running. All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash these crooked warmongers out of the White House.