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Edited on Fri Dec-08-06 12:27 PM by Plaid Adder
What matters is that he gets removed from office. Because clearly, he's not fit for it.
Seriously, if W. were on the bridge of the old Starship Enterprise, McCoy would have already relieved him from command and confined him to sickbay. As it is, W. is still running around doing his act the way he's always done it, and all that's changing is that the group of people who are intensely alarmed and frightened by it is getting larger and larger and larger. We're now discovering that even W's daddy and his daddy's friends are so appalled by the monster they have created that they are trying to rein him in. But what they are discovering is what we knew already: that it is impossible to get W. to change his mind about anything. That boy is on a permanent world-wide lunatic spree that nobody on God's earth can rein in.
He's not going to change. It doesn't matter what anyone tells him; it doesn't matter whether it's coming from his father or Jon Stewart or me. He doesn't listen, he doesn't care. He is either unable or unwilling to grasp the fact that he has irreparably harmed his country and the world, that he has made a mess too big for anyone to clean up, and that the only decision he now controls is whether we will withdraw our troops according to our own timetable or whether they will be forced to retreat according to a timetable drawn up by the people who are shooting at them. Looking at him even for ten seconds on video tells you the story. There is nothing going on behind those eyes. That face is a mask. Even his body seems to have congealed into a permanent and grotesque slump. Bush is a constant now. There is no change coming to us from that quarter.
It will not help that recent events will only confirm the paranoia that has clearly been part of the White House atmosphere for years. Because, let's face it: everyone is out to get him. Specifically, everyone is out to get him the hell away from the levers of power, because they've seen what happens when he's allowed to play with them unsupervised. So look for Bush to become ever more intransigent as the chorus of disapproval and dismay gets louder and louder around him.
Well, I can't say I feel too much sympathy for W's daddy and his daddy's friends on the ISG. From the Bush family's point of view, dynastic rule seemed like a great idea. It was the neocons who decided it would be keen to make the presidency so powerful that no matter what kind of idiotic policy decisions were proceeding from the White House, nobody on Capitol Hill would have the power to kill them. It was Rove who engineered an environment in which it appeared to be political suicide for other politicians--Republican or Democrat--to publicly oppose the President. They made their boy king. Now, all of a sudden, they're worried about how he's ruling. Be nice to hear, if it wasn't too fucking late.
Obviously there will be no "new direction" in Iraq until W. is no longer Commander in Chief. It will not be long before even his daddy has figured that out. But even after W. goes--whether in 2008, or in 2007--the fact remains that when it comes to Iraq, it is too late. It is important not to do more damage than we have to, and to get out as quickly as possible. But the really bad damage has already been done. We have destroyed Iraq, enabled the violent deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, lost thousands of our own troops, and started a sectarian civil war which will still be burning up the Middle East 50 years from now. These things cannot be changed, by the Iraq Study Group or by anyone else.
He has to go. I think more people who are putatively on "his side" are starting to realize this. They are also starting to realize it is going to be difficult to dislodge him. But frankly, I can't see the Republican party putting up with him for another two years. And though I have no proof of this, I feel pretty strongly that back in the smoke-filled rooms of the GOP strongholds, plans are afoot to get him out of there. The question is, will they be able to pull it off. It's possible that sooner or later W. will get miserable enough to resign, though at the moment it doesn't look likely. Otherwise, I guess it would have to be impeachment. Although I don't know. How crazy does a president have to be before he gets put on enforced medical leave?
It's scary to look at him now. The fact that he's cornered only makes him more frightening. Because we are faced with the knowledge that he _is_ a minority--someday, he will be a minority of one--but he holds all the cards. The presidency is now stronger than it's ever been, and it's held by the most insane, incompetent, bloodthirsty child that has ever occupied that office. We have long known that this is not good. It's a little scary to watch the rest of the "grown ups" on Bush's side realize this--and to see how ineffectual their first gambit has been.
Well he's your monster, guys. Good luck controlling him. When you decide he needs early retirement, don't be afraid to reach across the aisle. We're not as freaked out by this whole "my God, we're being ruled by an idiot with nearly absolute power" thing as you are. We're used to it.
C ya,
The Plaid Adder
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