It’s been a terrifying 7½ years. For me it’s hard to believe today is Halloween, because... the past 7+ years have been one LONG nightmare. It’s time for the candied apples, mulled cider, jack-o-lanterns and Dick Cheney costumes. Has anyone set up a Neocon Haunted House tonight? It’s time again to hear religious fundies rant about all the "witchcraft" connected with kids having fun. It’s time to watch a scary horror flick.
In keeping with this being a political blog, I thought I would combine horror movies and politics. So which horror of the past 7+ Bush years scared you the most?
And the nominees are:
Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue - A group of befuddled Supreme Court judges rule that a corporate-controlled narcissist-nitwit has won a Presidential election. Then the nightmare begins!
The Blair-Bush Project – Two world leaders secretly plot to illegally invade an unsuspecting country using PowerPoint slides, aluminum tubes, retired Generals, and a drunken madman named "Curveball".
The Texas Cheney Massacre – The story of a sinister "man behind the curtain" who devises plans to rule world.
Escape from New Orleans – Large groups of people are trapped in rising floodwaters without food, water, or medical help for several weeks.
I Spit on Your Constitution – The story of the Patriot Act and what happens when a President and an Attorney General decide that the Constitution is just a "piece of paper".
Dead Voter Walking - The first 4 years were bad enough, but how the hell could they vote for him a second time?
What ever happened to Baby Jane? - The sad story of a sick child without health insurance.
The Rummy – A man once thought dead, is resurrected from a previous warmongering regime, and begins making preparations for a new war.
Attack of the Killer Spinach - Due to cuts in various government programs, (like the FDA and USDA) various people and their pets are slowly being poisoned by melamine, salads, chili, and lead paint.
Something Catastrophic This Way Comes – How bubbles, bankers and brokers rob millions of citizens of 700 billion dollars and cause the economic collapse of a once powerful nation.
Children of the Damned – Children of the future try to pay off the debts of their parent’s, while dealing with Global Warming, Peak Oil, and an environmentally ravaged Earth.
Little Mrs. Sunshine - The story of the US education system, a religious "hockey-mom", and how so many Americans seem to want to choose their President (and Vice-President) based on who would be a better guest at a backyard BBQ or who their pastor tells them to vote for.