What Does Chimpie Have in Common with the Blues Brothers?

If you can't answer this, you just have to get out on the Internet more. From The Independent:

...the former Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath says Mr Bush told him and Mahmoud Abbas, former prime minister and now Palestinian President: "I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,' and I did."

"Mission from God." Oh, Jesus! Please, please start drinking again and give up this religious shit!

Bush: Big Suck

One of my favorite putdowns came from a former colleague who hailed from Taiwan. When he was really, really pissed about the performance of a particular piece of equipment or software or company (let's call it Fantexo), he would say, "Fantexo big suck."

Ha ha ha ha ha! Watching Chimpie lie yet again about terrorism in yesterday's speech was almost heart rending...except that I genuinely hate the motherfucker and everything he stands for, so it was really quite delightful. This is a desperate, floundering ass, and he can see the dark, damp, shit-encrusted drain around which he is now circling. The CBS poll released today is unspinnable: 26 percent think the country is headed in the right direction; 69 percent say it is on the wrong track.

Now the question of the week (a new desperate attempt on my own to drum up commentary on this lonely blog): Who the fuck are these 26 percent? Please describe the mindset. All I can figure are people in comas who are asked the question in this way--"If you think the country is on the wrong track, please leap out of bed and do ten jumping jacks. If you think it is on the right track, continue to breathe through your respirator."

The Fear Is Gone

When the Senate votes 90-9 to add provisions to a defense bill that impose limits on the treatment of terrorism suspects, and they do it in spite of Chimpie's threat to veto that bill, it means that not even Republicans are afraid of this White House any more, and that means some big shit about to his the Bush evil empire. Only nine senators voted for torture, in other words, and that means a Chimpie veto will be overriden easily.

The rumor mill is burning up with talk of 22 indictments from Patrick Fitzgerald, and Rove is among the targets. This Senate vote is a watershed moment, when the rats are realizing that the Republican ship with crazy Chimpie at the helm is not going to right itself, but is in fact about to capsize, trapping all those still onboard to a dismal fate. Let's hope that the oil fire that will soon surround this exploding political vessel vaporizes a good number of the rodents swimming madly for cooler waters.

And word to the Democrats--don't pick up any survivors. Sharks gotta eat too.

Fascism in Our Lifetime, in Our Country

You don't think so? Well, imagine the avian flu pandemic is upon us, and the Bushits, consistent with their absolute incompetence in all things, have not built an adequate stockpile of vaccine and/or Tamiflu to combat its spread in the United States. What is the Bush solution? Read this and fear for the republic:

Citing concern that state and local authorities might be unable to contain and deal with such an outbreak, Bush asked Congress to give him the authority to call in the military.

The president has already indicated he wants to give the armed forces the lead responsibility for conducting search-and-rescue operations and sending in supplies after massive natural disasters and terrorist attacks — a notion that could require a change in law and that even some in the Pentagon have reacted to skeptically. The idea raised the startling-to-some image of soldiers cordoning off communities hit by disease.

"The president ought to have all ... assets on the table to be able to deal with something this significant," Bush said during a 55 minute question-and-answer session with reporters in the sun-splashed Rose Garden.

Dr. Irwin Redlener, associate dean of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and director of its National Center for Disaster Preparedness, called the president's suggestion an "extraordinarily draconian measure" that would be unnecessary if the nation had built the capability for rapid vaccine production, ensured a large supply of anti-virals like Tamiflu, and not allowed the degradation of the public health system.

"The translation of this is martial law in the United States," Redlener said.

Chimpie and the gang know they are losing it in country at large where now only the most ignorant, deluded, or ideologically blinded support his policies. They find themselves surrounded by and soon faced with indictments right inside the White House, and all that will be left to them is the declaration of disasters justifying extreme measures that can be used to control an increasingly rebellious population.

I do not mean to downplay the public health concerns that an avian flu pandemic would raise, but why is it that this administration cannot find the wherewithal to take reasonable preventive measures, measures that our European and Asian friends seem to realize are far better than dealing with a worldwide pandemic that could kill tens of millions. From the New York Times, we learn of yet another Chimpie regime disaster-in-waiting:

Health officials have warned for years that a virulent bird flu could kill millions of people, but few in Washington have seemed alarmed. After a closed-door briefing last week, however, fear of an outbreak swept official Washington, which was still reeling from the poor response to Hurricane Katrina...Mr. Leavitt [Michael Leavitt, secretary of Health and Human Service] responded: "We need a plan. I'm resolved to make sure we have one and so is the president."

We need a plan? Why the fuck don't we HAVE a god damned plan?

But then you remember that the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rove/Wolfowitz/Perl/et al cabal has no problem with the death of innocents, whether through negligence (9/11) or willful lies (Iraq) or incompetence (Katrina) to secure their power, and you tremble at what horrors we might yet face in their quest for domination.

Fascism in America. It can happen here. It is happening here.

Cockroach Goin' Down

Let me pat myself on the back by referring to my blog post on April 6, 2005, in which I made the case that DeLay had so much shit on other members of government, including some Democrats, that he was only a cell phone call away from having it all posted to major news outlets.

Inside each envelope is damning evidence: of payoffs, bribes, filthy deeds done, smears conducted, perjury committed, and perhaps much, much worse, all of it done and documented about members of the House, the Senate, and people in the White House...Tom "Giant Flying Cockroach" DeLay has his cellphone in his hand at all times, with that young woman's number at the top of the display. His thumb is lightly touching the "Send" button. He will not get flushed down the sewer alone, that much his colleagues know...and fear.

It's going to be a glorious shitfest, a virtual revolution, perhaps. Let the bloodbath begin!

With DeLay now under a second indictment granted by a different grand jury, the speculation is that Jack Abramoff has beat him to the punch. Has Abramoff squealed to save his own ass? Are the dominoes beginning to fall? Will the Giant Flying Cockroach make the call and take everyone else down with him?

I sure hope so.

He Said It, Not Me

From the Lowell Sun in Massachusets:

“The invasion of Iraq I believe will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history,” said Odom, now a scholar with the Hudson Institute.

Odom is retired Army Lt. General William Odom, veteran of the war in Vietnam who, under then-President Ronald Reagan, served from 1981-85 as the Army's senior intelligence officer in his role as Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, followed by the directorship of the National Security Agency (NSA), aka "the Puzzle Palace," from 1985 until 1988.

Odom believes our focus should have remained on Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, and Osama bin Laden, and he would like to see our forces redeployed along the Afghan-Pakistan border where the folks who actually perpetrated 9/11 have been hiding FOR FOUR FUCKING YEARS.

If any Bushit, rightwingwad nutcases lurk here, I want to hear from you. First, tell me why the invasion of Iraq was justified. Second, explain to me how it can in any way be called a competent exercise of the use of military and political force in the US interest. Finally, show me how, in any way, we are better off economically, strategically, or in terms of national security as a result of invading Iraq.

Lastly, if you didn't see Andy Rooney on CBS's Sixty Minutes, please go read the transcript here. It's short and to the point, and Rooney, a veteran of WWII, reminds us of the dire warning from outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower in January, 1961.

We had a great commander in WWII, Dwight Eisenhower. He became President and on leaving the White House in 1961, he said this: “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. …"

Well, Ike was right. That's just what’s happened.

That's the reason we have this disaster in Iraq--the defense industry, holding hands with the energy interests, now determines all foreign policy, and the rest of national policy derives from that. We are citizens of an aggressive, imperialistic, and militaristic nation that is spiraling into destruction of its noble institutions, all for the sake of greed and power of a cabal of truly evil people linked around the Bush family, people whose sense of privilege enables them to commit war crimes and violate international law as well as the very best principles of the United States. We are a pariah nation now, lead by madmen who also happen to be amazingly stupid and incapabile of learning from their mistakes and who lack any redeeming qualities whatever.

It is time for them to fall and fall hard, or the future will be far more dangerous, violent, and uncertain. These really are the last days, in a sense, and what will befall all of us we will deserve if we let these few continue to pull the levers of government and industry for solely their own self-interest.