Does Bush Rule Us From an Alternative Universe?

[Bozvotros]

Does Bush Rule Our Lives From An Alternative Universe?

Exerpt:

What color is the sun in this world where you can change your reasons for war like you change TV channels and the clowns responsible for the quagmire are awarded the Medal of Freedom? What kind of reality operates when a war is said to go well, despite increased attacks, destruction, death and torture? Perhaps water isn’t wet there, either. This might explain why, amid some of the worst storms and floods in history, the president chose to eat cake, play air guitar and tell the incompetent crony who left New Orleans underwater that he is “doing a heckuva job.” Even with California flooding and Texas burning, Bush went on yet another brush cutting vacation.

Down the rabbit hole of the Bush administration, the Clean Air Act means more pollution, the Healthy Forests Initiative means clear-cutting, and Making the World Safe for Democracy includes having computer-hackable elections, torturing people in secret prisons and listening in on those dangerous Quakers.

Certainly they have a different economic system in Bushworld. There, one can blow through $6 trillion in surplus, run up $5 trillion in deficits, lose track of hundreds of billions in Pentagon transactions, have a stagnant stock market, fund unnecessary and unwinnable wars, cut taxes on the wealthy and still claim that the economy is recovering. All this makes me wonder if Bush made himself exempt from certain drug laws, too.

In his world, Bush can claim to be responsible for the messes he leaves, but pay no price for them. He can make and break laws, lie repeatedly, fail miserably, appoint cronies, crooks and contributors to high office and still count on the Republican Congress to cover for him. It is said that neurotics build castles in the sky but psychotics live in them.

It’s now Bush’s world. He just lets us live in it, for now.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I wish.

I sure don't like him hanging around mine.

[boobooday]

2. YES

[davidwparker]

3. He only gets away with it because of corporate control of the news. It's

the corporatocracy that we need to strike out against and then, break the stranglehold they have on the news. Granted, most americans are sheep. But, if we had a responsible, independent press, there would be more outrage.

[TreeMonkey]

4. Why Blame Buch?

Buch does NOT RULE America, or anything else. He is obviously NOT in charge. He was put INTO power because of his family connetions with BIG OIL, (Uhm like Al Gore- sorry). When did he EVER give you the impression that he writes his own speeches, or does ANY policy decisions??

Again,- show me a REPUBLICAN message board, so some of his backers can tell me exactly what he has done while he is in office! Ive hit alot, ALOT of message boards, and they alwasy come up EMPTY.

Rove, and the VP are in charge. Every one else is just "administration", that is, they have to ("whine") "attend" to the ' pesky 'buisiness' of government while they work for the big $$ companies, then go off and work for said companies and make a small personal fortune...


Even his DAD is pissed at him for his CIA anti-American fiasco.

God, give us at least a REAL republican, not a wishy washy monarch.

[davidwparker]

11. I went back and read my post and don't follow yours. I totally agree

that he isn't in charge. I see him as the organ grinder's monkey. He goes out and puts on an acceptable face to the sheep. I agree Cheney is in charge and is the organ grinder.

What I was saying was that Bush has an image that is propped up by the press of his actions personally and of his administration. Witness: AWOL Bush. Common sense says he was AWOL if not a deserter. It comes up and goes away. Rather/CBS take the hit. Lies about cherry-picked intelligence? Downing Street memos get but a mention. Etc. Etc.

He has a charmed life and nothing that he corrupts comes back on him personally and so far, not his administration either.

[Bozvotros]

5. Agree about the main stream press but....

Interestingly, this is the conservative newspaper in a very red city in a very red state. The editor happens to be a deficit hawk however and so probably is less than enamored of the way Bush is bankrupting the country. He also seems to be willing to let the other side locally have a voice, even though there are very few progressive national columnists to be found in the paper. I believe that if everyone wrote their local paper every week alot more alternative views would find their way into the editorial page.

[Slyder]

6. Just like Soviet-era in Eastern Europe

Bush and his use of the "memory hole" is starting to remind me of the Soviet Era in Eastern Europe where the media and government were in contradiction with obvious reality. Remember that Vaclav Havel (sp?) started out as an absurdist playwrite. I can see the beginnings of an absurdist movement in the US. Here is involved more graphic images. Like the parodies of the Brokeback Mountain posters. Tonight online I saw such a parody of Muppet characters who have been accused of being gay. This is going to be fun. This would be a wonderful time for a new Frank Zappa! I know it is also sad. But when fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade!

[katty]

9. absolutely-bizarre and cruel

[Vidar]

7. Take your pick: Hell, Mordor, Cludcuckooland, Neverland.

[CJCRANE]

8. Bush thinks he's BIGGER than America.

So far no one's proven him wrong.

[TreeMonkey]

10. He is

Shrubber has blood relations to Royalty in Europe, as does his good buddy John Kerry, although Kerry is Nordic I believe. They were both selected for the Ruling Elite at Yale, right in with William Buckley and half the upper crust of our Government. Hillary was not!


The good thing is that Jeb Bush is not in the club,(I dont think)and its any ones guess as if they will let his half - hispanic son in. Its a tight group, but they did accept thier first female last year. Its doubtful they would trust a 'Hispanic', but you never know, he is a Shrubb, and thier last chance at keeping the Shrubb line in Power.-

Its that America is at 'war' that the Shubbmeister stayed in. He has done NOTHING for America! Well- he nominated Meyers for the Supreme Court. What else can they claim? NOTHING!

Of course, even his dad is pissed at him now for the CIA anti-American FLUB.

NO MORE DRUGGIES, NO MORE ALCHOHOLICS, AND NO MORE AIR-FORCE FIGHTER PILOT DROP OUTS!