The Gang Aft A Gley

by pessimist

This isn't a good week for the Louse That Bored or the BFEE/PNAC Petroleum Pirate Posse he runs with. Despite all of the best laid plans, all of King George's War Whoreses and GOP 'Men' can't put the country together again - they are all too busy practicing that last-ditch CYA drill, which I cover on the flip side.

Beginning with The Louse That Bored:

According to Nielsen Media Research, Bush's speech was watched by just over 23 million people in roughly 18 million households. As one marker, the season finale of "American Idol" drew 30.27 million viewers. [T]his was the smallest audience for any major Bush speech. The president's address announcing a new policy on stem cell research in August 2001, the previous low, drew 8 million more viewers. When a wartime leader speaks and much of the country doesn't choose to listen, it's more than a political problem.

CBS doesn't give the speech even that much value:

Bush's speech will not alter the landscape -- here or in Iraq. It was the rhetorical equivalent of treading water. Bush delivered a flat recital of his previous justifications of the war, while offering vague assurances that (a) he realizes (really, really) that the war in Iraq is "hard" work and that (b) his administration is indeed winning the war. It was an artificial event; Bush was standing at the podium and reading words off a TelePrompTer that were written by a speechwriter not because he had anything new or significant to say but because the White House had no better PR alternatives at this moment. (What, no flight suit?)

All the world wondered when the Ft. Bragg troops didn't applaud during your speech. Maybe because they just finished listening to their John Lennon collection and demand that you 'Just Gimme Some Truth'? A war parent certainly agrees that it's time for straight talk. USA Today founder Al Neuharth says 'Bring Our Boys Home', and is seeking a Cronkite to tell the American people the truth about Iraq. It seems that 'our boys' aren't waiting for a formal invitation to leave the 'War On Terra': Stars And Stripes reports that Army desertions already equal the total from 2004.

Even Iraqis are deserting your effort! The mayor of Baghdad is threatening to resign over a lack of support for rebuilding the water system - something that should have happened within weeks of the capture of Baghdad. His situation only got worse when an overloaded electrical transformer blew up and brought down the main city water pumping station. With the city's policerecruits getting blown up, there aren't enough to protect prominent citizens from harm adn establish that security you tout so loudly.

But don't try to step in and provide that security - the Iraqis don't trust you or the troops you've sent there. Iraq's Ambassador to the UN is accusing US Marines of killing his cousin in cold blood. I'm sure he's telling all of the world's diplomats all about this incident, and maybe much more. Is that why you wanted so desperately to send John Bolton over there? It won't stop the world from recognizing your incompetence.

It only gets worse! The Oil-rich Iraqi South wants to secede, which would ignite that smoldering civil war you insist on ignoring. The Kurds in Syria are demanding participation in that government, which is only going to rile up the Kurds in Turkey and Iraq, and maybe Iran, and each place they do, the conflict you instigated will only spread, further alienating Middle East allies.

And what of your 'successful' democratization of Afghanistan? Your pet Afghan Unocal executive is in charge (but not in control!) of the capital of an active war zone, getting weaker while the Taliban grow stronger. Your buddy Pooty-poot seems to be paying the bills for this resurgence. All's fair in love and war, eh?

Sixteen dead on an oil man's chest, yo! ho! ho! And the neocons run!

Give it up, Dumbya! Even your unindicted co-conspirator in the war insists that the best evidence against you is the DSM, and that they are genuine. Maybe you should have listened a little more sympathetically when Tony the Poodle asked you to support the Kyoto Accords and stop pretending that global warming is a lib'rul plot against Intelligent Design and corporate profits.

And one more things before I move on to your cohort - extradite airliner bomber Luis Posada Carriles or be seen as a hypocrite on terrorism. And you wonder why so many Americans would consider impeaching your fratboy ass?

Hiding Hineys

On to Bu$hCo supporters who deserve exposure.

In spite of the efforts to try to convince all of us that the first Republican President was really a conservative, and Blacks that they are not using race as a divisive issue, extreme wrong-winger Paul Harvey pulls a Trent Lott and longs for the days when American men were Manly Men:

Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and into this continent by giving small pox infected blankets to native Americans. Yes, that was biological warfare!

And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever. And we grew prosperous. And, yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves.

[W]e proceeded to develop and deliver the bomb, even though roughly 150,000 men, women and children perished in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

We gave old pals a pass, even though men and money from Saudi Arabia were largely responsible for the devastation of New York and Pennsylvania and our Pentagon. We called Saudi Arabians our partners against terrorism and we sent men with rifles into Afghanistan and Iraq, and we kept our best weapons in our silos.

And so it goes with most nation states, which, feeling guilty about their savage pasts, eventually civilize themselves out of business...

And just where is civilization barbaric and barbarism civilized? Only in Jesusland, where everyone who registers to vote somehow becomes a Republican no matter which choice they put on the form! It doesn't matter anyway! Jesus Hates You!

But it's still OK for favored war criminals to insult foreign leaders, or give your friends other people's money to squander, or to take people's money when you know you shouldn't and then get mad when you're deemed unworthy due to your sins, or to say the most scurrilous things about those you hate or to wish them harm and get all incensed when someone uses your actions against you [Warning! Very raw language!].

It's OK in Jesusland to continue to search for the missing clue that will turn a lie into a truth, or to shamelessly steal. Whatever floats your 'rented' boat, eh?

In Jesusland, it's OK to decide what is art and to hunt for 'bias' fomented by non-believers which are actually lies, and to hire incompetents to conduct this search using other people's money to pay him without the expressed permission of those responsible for its utility.

And as long as you are doing the Lord's Work for His Chosen Leader, it's OK to break the law and expose an otherwise innocent person to grave peril. you will find someone to defend you from the indefensible. Those who aren't doing the Lord's Work will have to stand up for themselves.

After all - that's the plan - and it's working so well.