Motto for the Bushits

If you ever saw the movie Blaze with Paul Newman and Lolita Davidovich, you might remember a great line from Newman as Louisiana Governor Huey Long: "Honey, old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill." Modified for use in the current administration it would become, "Arrogance and incompetence will always overcome humility and competence, so long as you lie your ass off."

Furthermore, if the lies don't work anymore, then divert, obfuscate, ignore, and play completely dumb. Check out the pathetic and apparently witless Scott McClellan, White House spokesclone, trying to shut down a line of questioning that points out the lies of Dick "As Evil as I Wanna Be" Cheney. Just a sample:

Q But the insurgency is in its last throes?

McCLELLAN: The Vice President talked about that the other day -- you have a desperate group of terrorists who recognize how high the stakes are in Iraq. A free Iraq will be a significant blow to their ambitions.

Q But they're killing more Americans, they're killing more Iraqis. That's the last throes?

McCLELLAN: Innocent -- I say innocent civilians. And it doesn't take a lot of people to cause mass damage when you're willing to strap a bomb onto yourself, get in a car and go and attack innocent civilians. That's the kind of people that we're dealing with. That's what I say when we're talking about a determined enemy.

Q Right. What is the evidence that the insurgency is in its last throes?

McCLELLAN: I think I just explained to you the desperation of terrorists and their tactics.

It continues like this until Scottie finds the thread he started with to complete a totally circular path of logic, which is to say, there is no logic. Of course, the question I want answered is for the members of the White House press pool--why don't you ALL start getting tougher like this and pursue McClellan on his lying? I'm amazed that all of you keep from bursting out laughing every time he opens his mouth.

Anyway, getting back to the motto for the Bushits, as national polls show the American public souring on Bush and his illegal war, and some Republicans are now deserting him too, what will the Bushit camp do? Well, Chimpie is being sent out on a tour, based on the success of his Social Security propagandizing (yes, that's a joke), to try to once again create a national reality distortion field. Here's the arrogant and ignorant Scottie McClellan again:

"The president recognizes that this is a concern that's on the minds of the American people," McClellan said. "That's why he's going to sharpen his focus, spending more time talking about the progress that's being made on the ground — there's significant progress that has been made in a short period of time — the dangers that remain and that lie ahead, as well as our strategy for victory in Iraq."

Isn't our strategy for victory already in place? Wasn't it there on day one of the invasion? Didn't Chimpie declare "Mission Accomplished" two years ago while thrusting his enhanced crotch across the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln?

See what I mean? Arrogance+incompetence="Strategy for Victory." And trust me, those words will be used over and over, directed at all opposition in the form, "Don't you support our Strategy for Victory?"

You see, for the Bushits, reality isn't the reason for slippage in the poll numbers, but rather an indication that their lying is not intense enough. So, liar-in-chief Chimpie will try to swell the bubble that surrounds him to include the American people again, but I don't think it's pliable enough to cover all those coffins coming back from Iraq that we're not allowed to see, or the legless and armless and blind veterans who are awaiting treatment. The general populace always wants to believe their leadership, but as they learned thirty-five years ago in Vietnam and as they've learned yet again, most leadership doesn't deserve such trust and should NEVER be given the benefit of the doubt.

As the motto of my old unit in the Air Force went, "Freedom through Vigilance."