"...President's Chatter, with it's brainlessness and brazeness, drives many to distraction."

[KoKo]

Whatever...by Josh Marshall

(snip)


The only reasonable argument that I can see for our continued occupation of Iraq (though on balance I find it unpersuasive and disagree with it) is that we have screwed things up so badly and made the place such a powder keg that we need to stay there to try to undo or at least ameliorate what a disaster we've created -- to paraphrase Woody Allen's famous line from Annie Hall to get Iraq safely back from horror to mere misery.

But with respect to the president's cartoonish babble, like I said, whatever. I know this reads like an expression of cynicism or disengagement. But while the president's chatter, with its brainlessness and brazenness, drives many to distraction, I think this is the only appropriate response. Anyone watching what's happening can see that what the president is talking about bears no relation to what's actually happening in Iraq -- a fact well confirmed by the fact that polls show no change in the public's take on what's happening in response to the president's speech. Primitive animals will sometimes keep chattering or twitching their muscles even after their heads have been cut off. And that's probably the best analogy today to the president's continuing enunciation of his policies.

The president's continuing power as commander-in-chief, behind a wall of 1/3+ support in the Congress, is key. His arguments aren't. They have simply predeceased his presidency.

--Josh Marshall
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/053207.php

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I wonder if that will hold true for all the Neo-cons? Will they still be chattering

away about their ideology long after their deaths?

[KoKo]

2. I just gave a "snip" but the rest of the short article is worth the read...it's incredible!