Will Bush Ever Get His Comeuppance? (by Chris Durang at HuffPost)

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Chris Durang

Will Bush Ever Get His Comeuppance?
Posted July 26, 2007 | 08:35 AM (EST)


Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over?

Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting novel in which the hero is the country, and the president is this disturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worse and worse and worse.

And as with a fictional villain, I find I have a longing that he get his comeuppance -- that his villainy is codified and he's finally held accountable for what he's done.

But will that ever happen?

I need the relief of truth and justice triumphing that I experience in books and movies.

Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty, after endless and stubborn cruelty against his men, is finally confronted by out-and-out mutiny by his angry officers and crew, and is set out in a little boat in the middle of the ocean. Goodbye!

Or another captain, Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny, is removed from duty by his officers after his domineering incompetence and instability causes him to freeze in the middle of a serious storm. But then he challenges the officers in court and nearly succeeds in having them all court-martialed until that longed-for moment when he starts to unravel on the stand, obsessively going on about who did or didn't steal strawberries from the mess hall, all the while nervously fingering those three metal balls in his hand. And the entire courtroom falls silent, staring at him, finally seeing his craziness. I need a moment like that.

Or I need Edna May Oliver to show up and put Bush in his place, as she did with the evil Mr. Murdstone when he came to reclaim young David Copperfield to his sadistic clutches in the 1935 David Copperfield. In that film, Ms. Oliver (a treasure of a 30s character actress) listens calmly to the supercilious adult murmurings of Mr. Murdstone and his sister, and then she stands up and says she doesn't believe a word they say, and she will not hand David over to them; and she picks up a broom and chases them out of her house and down the road. And then she and Davey and her strange but benign friend Mr. Dick join hands and dance a little jig of joy. I need a moment like that too.

But will we ever have such a moment? ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-durang/will-bush-ever-get-his-co_b_57893.html

[groovedaddy]

1. I pray that it be so

and it can't happen a moment too soon!

[Demeter]

2. It's Starting Today

On Wall Street,

On the Hilll,

in every hamlet in America,


THE COMEUPPENCE!

On the small screen near you!

[Briar]

3. No

In real life (as opposed to fiction, where the good tend to end happily and the bad unhappily) power protects its own. Bliar is safe as well.