Economic disaster regarding the debt ceiling and the disarray of public
services doesn't concern this administration. The only people who would suffer
aren't his base of the 'haves and the have mores' unless they are his base
that believe in the Second Coming and Armageddon, which makes them even more
inclined to support the downfall as part of the 'End Days'
In reality, Bush doesn't have to worry about economic woes. He can always sell
off a couple of F-16's or get a quick-cash-fix from the House of Saud
prezbotchistheultimatechimpanzee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
News flash for ordinary Repubs and born-agains: Bush doesn't care
about you, either
This just in: millions of moderate Republicans and gay-terrified
evangelical Christians and intellectually numbed conservative
parents who thought they were doing some sort of good by blindly
voting for Dubya and hence protecting their wee ones from swarthy
Islamic evildoers who want to steal their kids' Kraft Lunchables and
nuke Disneyland all should be emerging from a deep fog of savage
denial any minute now.
Wake, they will, to the increasingly obvious fact that their beloved
smirkin' president, the one who seemed to care about them so deeply
just a couple weeks ago and who reached out to them and promised
them the gun-happy gay-unfriendly moon in exchange for full access
to their civil rights and a blank check to do whatever the hell he
likes, he apparently doesn't give a damn about them. Not anymore.
The truth will soon be hitting much of the conservative nation like
a redneck smacks a dog: now that the fear-saturated Right has handed
this failed oilman four more unrestrained years to do his dirtiest
deeds and a deeply contaminated, well-greased Congress to do it
with, he no longer needs their support and he couldn't care less
about their "moral values" or their positions on Social Security
reform or the war in Iraq or just what the hell he meant about
spending the "political capital" he claims he's earned by winning
the election (by the slimmest margin of any incumbent president in
history).
Oh, sure, Bush reached out, didn't he, Mrs. Moderate Republican? He
made you a believer. He promised more intolerance for gays and more
Bible classes in the White House and more laughably irresponsible
tax breaks you don't really need and more dumbed-down, black-and-
white, good-versus-evil perspectives that take all the pressure off
of having to, you know, think.
And because he unconditionally refused to acknowledge any sort of
mistake, any sort of massive error in judgment or policy related the
appalling Vietnam-grade quagmire that is Iraq, because he stayed "on
message" and never fired Rumsfeld for gross incompetence and because
he let the lower-rank military plebes take the fall for Abu Ghraib
and never once wavered in the most disgusting of lies about why we
needed to invade Iraq and kill over 100,000 of their people in the
first place, why, he "earned" your vote.
It's so true, isn't it? Despite proof after proof and report after
report and dead U.S. soldier after dead U.S. soldier, you thought
Bush would do better than Kerry in "defeating" terrorism. No matter
that Bush's very actions, his ugly little war, his very poisonous
foreign policy that has so violently destabilized the Middle East,
no matter that this is what has, in fact, amplified the terror
threat a hundredfold and made the U.S. more detested than ever. Ahh,
irony. It's what's for dinner.
And now, your reward. You get to be as misrepresented, as tossed
aside, as openly ignored as the rest of us. Isn't politics fun?
We are all suckers, all losers in this election. Are you a Democrat?
Republican? Doesn't matter. The line is no longer
liberal/conservative. It is no longer tax 'n' spend versus cut 'n'
deficit, Toyota Prius versus Ford Expedition, happy godless heathen
sodomite versus Mel Gibson.
It is now ultrawealthy, power-hungry Bushite CEO versus, well, the
rest. Do you see? News flash to conservatives: Bush just pretended
to care about you, because he had to, because Karl Rove told him to,
because he needed your fear and your blind faith to win another
term. You matter about as much as a U.S. soldier in Fallujah, now.
Oh how you will be disappointed from here on out. Oh how you will
gnash your teeth and sigh your sighs and wonder what the hell
happened to your fearful leader, why you feel so abandoned as your
schools implode and your health-care costs explode and your air
quality suffers and your jobs vanish and your women get smacked back
to 1953 and your kids die miserable and forgotten in Iraq.
Because now you get to sit by with the "liberal elite" as we watch
in bitter satisfaction as Bush will now have to wallow in his own
nasty, vicious mess, lie in his own snide and war-torn and
economically gutted bed for four more years, as much of the country
sits deeply ashamed and the international community sits stunned and
horrified at our sheer ignorance and gall.
But wait, there's more. See, we know that Bush has never been so
beautifully set up than now for a cataclysmic, Nixon-like fall. This
most secretive and corruption-filled and Rove-stained administration
in history, with its 9/11 cover-ups and well-documented stack of
fumbles and flubs and murderous misprisions leading up to the Iraq
mess, it is positively bursting at the seams with potential
impeachment-level calamity. You think the Nixon tapes were ruinous?
Just wait for the Bush mumbles.
Every sign points to the fact that history will look back on Dubya
Dubya II as one of the worst-run, least accountable and most
abusive, warmongering, homophobic, environmentally unfriendly
presidencies in American history. Which means either one of two
things: there is a very slight chance that Dubya will now try to
ease off some of his party's more heartless and voracious of
policies, if just to try to create a more appetizing and
appealing "legacy."
But don't bet on it. If Rove's recent spittle-filled announcement
that Shrub will again seek a constitutional amendment banning same-
sex marriage is any indication, Bush might very well go the other
direction entirely, making history the cold-blooded, autocratic way:
through policies so hollow and self-righteous and smirking, history
can't help but be impressed. After all, neofascism makes great
textbook fodder.
What else? Well, now BushCo has no one to blame but themselves. The
neocons own the White House and Congress. All fingers of blame for
most impending disasters and war ills and social meltdowns point
straight back to the GOP. Furthermore, the U.S. has already crashed
through the $7.3 trillion debt limit, thanks to Bush. Unless
Congress raises the debt ceiling ASAP, as BushCo so desperately
demands they do, the U.S. government will run out of cash. We are,
in NASCAR parlance, running on fumes.
This, then, is the sour truth for the Repubs and the born-agains,
and the sliver of bittersweet solace for the liberals. Will it not
be laughable, in a soul-deadening, kill-me-now sort of way, to watch
BushCo try to pin the imminent economic implosions and cultural
backlashes and catastrophic social-service breakdowns this nation
now faces on, say, Bill Clinton? Will it not be horribly amusing to
watch this administration sink into its own self-made quicksand?
Will it not be, in short, just all sorts of tragic fun to watch the
cancer eat itself?
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