Through A Glass Darkly

The juggernaut of the tailspin may have its curse fulfilled. As the twine starts coming loose and the patience becomes a harnessed ghost, reality becomes the sobering tool.

The polling information has George W. Bush at dismal 39%. Effectively, it is considered that only the truly dedicated are still waiting around. I find this fascinating because I believe popularity is the only thing this President cares about. I know I’m pooh poohing this a little but I found it a most tantalizing detail in the script against the Clinton Administrations that Bush considered it laughable to have any concern with polls. Underneath it all, with his rolled up sleeves and the Texas two-step, we have found the center of his universe.

I think Vice President Dick Cheney was malicious citing Valerie Plame’s identity as a source of retribution. I think Bush did it for brownie points. The landscape is such as this, Bush doesn’t get his hands dirty. He is great at self deprecation. His waddle is such of a person who is aware someone is watching him walk away; which is different from anyone coming into a fight. Imagine that strut on any boxing canvass; that blood sport allows for circus but not false bravado. I think he has been suckered into the war by listening to bumpkin logic that centers on old fashion romanticism. The old prison song of tough guys don’t dance is candle therapy for him.

Is it as much as because his father failed in Iraq? I don’t think that he did fail. I think that the no fly zones were a bad idea. I think that led to the conclusion that it was a strategic failure. Not to mention a costly experiment. Had we left Iraq to its own devices we may have been able to go back in without such a slaughter, without the threat of terrorism and redeemed a historic country. That would be the fairest assessment I can come up with concerning this. I believe something needed to be done; the gamble was too little too late and obviously cloudy judgment.

Bush Sr. lost the 1992 election for the same reason that Bush Jr. is in the same straights. His only selling point is because he seemed likable. He seemed like the good hearted fella that laughs at all the jokes, admires everything you do and has to ability to not mind being lead around if the appearance is that he is in control. Bush Sr. lost the ideological battle against common sense. He suggested a check box on the tax form if one wanted to reduce the deficit. Bush Jr. is in that same spectacle of wonderment. In the same sense as the Talking Heads line, “How did I get here”?

This is why Karl Rove is still in office, why Libby got a rave review, why Brownie considered himself a fashion-god because he can not say no. It is also why everyone who was critical of this Administration after they left probably had their picture in the urinal like they did to Senator Jeffords. That is a problem of its own, but worse, he doesn’t like anyone to tell him no. It refutes his power. It undefines his appearance of control. Karl Rove is a genius because he understands this about the President and about politics in general. For Bush being the CEO President, he is no Donald Trump. I don’t say this because of the considered thought of the Emperor Has No Clothes, because he does have a little bit of political sense. He wants to do things that are Republican in nature. He wants to do things religious in nature. He has those core beliefs. But this is a sucker’s game. He is finally between that rock and hard place that all friends must realize when they are in politics together. If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.

I expect to see some kind of rebirth into the charity aspect of his communal instinct to arise. I think he will attempt to appear unselfish. In the end, Rove and Cheney will be an albatross. He will find this truth on some quiet night and the ghosts of those dead presidents will rattle their unrelenting song. He will strike out independently and finally get the courage to send the American people a note. It will be something along the lines of, do you like me? Do you really like me? Check yes or no.

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And then there is this tidbit for all in the no new taxes crowd.

Before the Flood

I took a peek at the who’s who on the Sunday morning programming. It appears to be that the decision has been made to pretend that the wolf is not at the door. Is it Surprising logic coming from the dry addiction of the Georgie boy fan club?

All I hear about is that the central ideology is bankrupt in Pleasantville. Burnout, gambling against the American public and just trying to save the world by 21:00 hours is just hard to accomplish. Over the last few weeks the pressure has come from the inside. Colonel Lawrence Wilkenson ripped the administration for its march to war, assumingly with the approval of Colin Powell. Brent Scowcroft, the former general and National Security Advisor with Bush I has made his displeasure known again via the New Yorker. Damage control is a seamy business. I still hear the words echo in the air from Bush’s stump speech, “no controlling legal authority”, and the screams of adulation! So, now we have Libby falling on his sword. Tenet falling on his sword for the slam dunk earlier has some interesting overtones.

If the idea is to not approve anybody to send out who would have anything to say about the indictment; goal accomplished. We have a problem, this allows the administration to sit back and say look at the vulture’s swarming the carcass. The liberal talking heads are running around speculating and we do not respond to that type of partisan behavior. Sidney Gottlieb is smiling somewhere. Take heed friends, the pregnant sister has gone to her aunt’s in the country, it’s better that we don’t talk about it anymore….Cheney and Rove become hero’s because they beat the rap, and Libby gets a grotesquely incredible job offer in the public domain to be chairman of Dogs of War Inc and gets the pardon of the misunderstood.

I don’t relish what I want to say next, but isn’t the pattern obvious? Cheney is mentioned briefly five times in the indictment. Bush is not mentioned directly at all? Rove was kneed deep in it and has begged for understanding and will probably get it. I roll back in history to mention Bush’s military record. I think back to the SEC investigation during his oil barron days. I think back to how he was even able to become a partner in the Texas Rangers organization. I think back to South Carolina and the McCain whisper campaign. I think back to how he plagiarized Condoleezza Rice on the campaign trail in 2000. I reflect upon his actions before 9/11/01. I think about his actions towards North Korea. I think about the flu vaccines. I think about vacation and Hurricane Katrina. I think about WMD. I think about the Plame case. I think about over 2000 dead American soldiers who were going to be greeted with flowers. He must be getting his advice from his brother Neil. Sometimes I wonder if anyone is paying attention.

After the Flood

I wasn’t surprised to hear that most of the Sunday chatter was about how Georgie boy can save himself. Sooner or later the truth will come out. I will reiterate my suspicion that Libby is taking the fall for something more dynamic than lying to a prosecutor. It seems that oversight like that is improbable to come by in this day and age. I am appalled that most of these talking heads often repeat that “no one will remember the details of this in six months”. That is the most irrelevant statement I continue to hear. How do we ever expect to resolve anything whatsoever if we provide that kind of caveat to anything this administration does?

I suggest the MSM start going to ALANON meetings.

I’m gonna take some time and look to see about connecting the dots. The Niger story, Jack Abramoff, “Stay golden” Libby, the fall out from Coingate and who is making the best out of the situation.

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Thank you Rosa Parks.

Happy Guavaween.