He’s still in the bunker

Wow…there’s self-pity, and then there is full-blown crazy. Iraq’s been set up, alright, but I don’t think the end result is going to be anything that resembles Bush’s vision of our country’s destiny – unless our destiny is to eventually resemble the aftermath of Armageddon.

“Wild-eyed” is not a term I want associated with any president, and if this is what it has come to, we are in a lot worse trouble than any of us thought.

And, I’m not at the “could get scary” stage – I’m at the “already too scary for me” stage.

With any luck, he’ll try and prove his greatness by wandering off into the desert for a few years like Moses.

On a strictly human level, you can understand why Bush is freaking out.

His whole life, he’s been a colossal fuckup. Everything–everything–he ever did, he messed up, and was bailed out, and failed upward.

This time, there’s nobody to bail him out, and nowhere to fail upward towards. He’s trapped with his own mistakes. The tragedy, of course, is that to a lesser (someone like me, sitting at home mildly upset about the whole thing) or greater (GIs on patrol in Baghdad, Iraqis generally, whoever dies from infected meat, etc) extent, we’re all trapped with him.

***He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of “our country’s destiny.” ***

Dems need to be literally bitch-slapping the GOP side of the Senate with this one. The man, if already not insane, is on the edge of an abyss—and he will drag America into that abyss, as a self-envisioned penance for the nation not embracing his messianic greatness.

Another possible angle on this is that Bu$h has convinced himself to hop onto the trail to martyrdom. the only real difference is that his “suicide vest” is the entire United States of America….

This IS scary. Every passing day this man is left in office is another day we gamble with the fate of our Democracy. Congress is the only means to stop him and they just ignore the danger. Does Bush have to rape Pelosi on the House floor before they will act. What does it take to get a sense of urgency around these compromising under achievers. What are they so afraid of? Bush pounding on his chest about being the president is insanity especially mixed with drugs. I suspected all along that he was trying to make it nearly impossible to leave Iraq and he can accomplish that by attacking Iran.
Please somebody stop him. Quit standing around with your mouths gaping and your thumb up your ass and do something congress.
I write my Senator McCaskill over and over about impeaching Bush/Cheney before its too late and she keeps sending back a form email about about how it would take up all their time and energy and they wouldn’t be able to legislate on the other important issues. I keep telling her this is the MOST important issue and should take all their time and energy if necessary to get it done as these guys are destroying our country. She says it would not be successful anyway and I say BULL. Once the investigation starts it would be like a flood of information and people testifying who are too afraid to right now because congress is failing to stop him. The corruption is everywhere and impeachment, no matter what it looks like now, can only be successful.
Right now impeachment would just put Bush in handcuffs which is less embarrassing than having to put him a straight jacket (disguised as a flack jacket). Keep writing your representatives because this IS the most important issue. Everything else is resolvable.

What a pathetic little man.

Bush cannot escape his destiny.

WARNING: viewing the above link helps the terrorists and could put you on a Homeland Security watch list….you have been duly warned. (You cannot escape your destiny, either).

***He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of “our country’s destiny.” ***

Bush met with Dobson recently and ever since Dobson has been ranting about the evils of Iran and how they need to be destroyed.

Congress is walking around with blinders on because all that is left for Bush to do is wear a sign around his neck saying “I’m going to attack Iran”. Everything else is in place……
War ships in the Persian Gulf
Troop strength to capacity in Iraq
War czar for the ‘new’ war
FEMA camps operational for dissenters
A blank check from congress
And a power hungry “ruler” who feels he is controlling the “destiny” of America.

Congress has no excuse for not stopping this but they are running out of time. Many predict war with Iran before Sept.

We can be understanding and we can be humorous and we can act concerned, BUT ~

WHEN HE THINKS THAT HIS TIME IN OFFICE IS TOO SHORT FOR IMPEACHMENT HE’S GOING TO NUKE IRAN and then write himself a pardon.

While the Democratic Congress dabbles in Political Theatre and folds up like a cheap suit.

Me Tarzan!

Clearly, he’s gone to full George of the Bungle mode. I don’t buy that it’s full-blown crazy. It’s just a philosophy others explained to him, filtered through his limited communication organs.

Reagan tried to spend us into massive debt so any successor would be restricted in efforts to expand social programs and would have to put more focus on deficit reduction, thereby achieving a conservative economic goal.

Bush, similarly, is trying to lock us into a Middle East imperialist frame that seeks economic stability through increasing control of energy resources. The man can’t explain his real purpose, just as Reagan couldn’t. But unlike Reagan, he also lacks the capacity to provide a faux rationale without sounding like a moron.

So rather than Nixon Lite, we’ve got Reagan Lite, a president whose policies are proscribed by his handlers, not by his neuroses. The underlying ideology is the same, and even many of the handlers are the same: we’re the 600-lb gorilla who will set the global agenda and we’ll find ways to maintain that agenda by creating complexities that political opponents can’t easily undo.

Additionally, media consolidation permits the application of ongoing pressure so any Dem successor is so consistently rocked back on his/her heels in defensive mode that he/she can never gain a foothold towards a proactive agenda. They are kept in reactive mode, as Clinton was, and the aims of their ideology never gets undone.

That’s how I view Bush: a useful tool. He’s crazy… like a fox.

Has he started to talk to the pictures on the walls yet? Or does he just rip them off the wall and throw them at people?

Next up – a betting pool or “futures market” on if/when he’ll go off the deep end in front of a camera.

Almost always, no matter how reprehensible a person’s actions, I’m able to find some compassion for them, on the assumption that they suffer as much if not more than those they’ve harmed. But haven’t been able to muster up the least bit of such feeling for Chimpy.

And as if the chest-thumping didn’t give us enough to be scared of – don’t forget, if he’s impeached or the 25th Amendment kicks in, we get months and months of Shooter openly in charge.