Ship, Rats, Captain and Crew...Oh, Wait, They're All Rats

The Republicans are in a major panic now, as evidenced by the absurd performance art of former FEMA director Michael "Drownie" Brown before the whitewash committee of the House, formed by, yes, the Republicans. In a bravura portrayal of a self-important, terribly wronged, yet obviously incompetent and lying sack o' shit, Brown entered the immortal annals of righteous indignation, alongside Clarence "In Scalia's Anus" Thomas, Ollie North, and, yes, William Jefferson Clinton ("I did not have sex with that woman." Oh, if only he had said, "Yeah, she sucked my cock. I'm the fuckin' president. What's it to ya?").

I can only believe that Drownie was directed to this Richard Burton-like level of acting because there is nothing left to these incompetent, lying, murdering, criminal bastards but air and words. With new indictments in the offing every single day (Frist's insider trading, Plamegate, Jack Abramoff, TRMPAC, and so on and on and on) they should be scared enough, except that prior to the laugh riot of Hurricane Katrina, the American public was so benumbed or just flat stupid to still give them the benefit of the doubt. But now the utter failures in Iraq, domestic facts of existence, and the unbelievable excesses of sleaziness of the right wing have finally penetrated all but the thickest of skulls, inside of which there is so little room for brain tissue that any hope of thought is hopelessly naive to expect.

It does not look good for a Republican future. The trend has gone totally negative for the Repugs as far as Bush and his criminal empire goes. Of the 31 states Chimpie carried, for Christ's sake, he now has negative approval ratings in 19 of them! The 12 holdouts include extremist nutlands like Utah, Idaho, Mississippi, Wyoming and Nebraska, but even places like Idaho are trending south. It's true that Mississippi and Utah are trending back upwards, but population-wise, who gives a fuck about them? If Haley Barbour, governor of Mississippi hadn't been a Bush cocksucker for decades, they'd still be treading water down there. Texas is even trending down on Chimpie faster than Judy Miller on Ahmad Chalabi's chubby.

But wait, as they say in the infomercials, there's more. I predict that we are going to see the pieces of a criminal puzzle come together that will dwarf any corruption seen at the federal level since 1789, encompassing, perhaps, even capital murder. Bush will earn his place in history, all right. He'll be the man who redeemed Warren Harding as perhaps overly maligned when put against this new scale of corruption.

You set the new standard Chimpie-boy! Congratulations!