No Exit: Descending Into Hell With George Bush

[buzzsaw_23]

No Exit; Descending into hell with George Bush 

By Mike Whitney 

09/21/05 "ICH" -- -- The bodies of the mangled and bloated corpses are no where to be found on America's news programs. Like the countless dead in Iraq they're purged from the coverage and stripped from the public record. They've been replaced by the well-scrubbed visage of the Potemkin-president issuing his comforting words for his people. 

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Just look around; Iraq, Afghanistan, Enron, Cheney's energy-papers, the deficits, the courts, the UN, Israel-Palestine, New Orleans, the corporate-corruption, the war-profiteering, the incompetence, the lies; everything Bush touches is reduced to rubble. No institution, however protected, can withstand the onslaught of his withering company; the vast wreckage extends in every direction. 

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"Character is fate," Marcus Aurelius said; it is a straight line drawn from a man's birth to his final hour. Some men will fail in everything they do and there is no force in the universe that can alter their destiny. 

Harken, Arbusto, Spectrum, the Texas Rangers and now the United States of America; all following the predictable downward spiral into the muck. The trajectory cannot be amended by simply putting down the bottle. Failure is an indelible blotch, like the mark of Cain, forever embossed on the soul of its victim. Its part of Bush's genetic-code, as integral to the whole mechanism as the cocky-drawl or the lumbering gait. 

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[AverageJoe]

1. Sad, scary and powerful stuff

I pray that this is just overblown rhetoric, but I fear that it is not.

[longship]

2. Right on target.

ICH says they're the source for "News you won't find on CNN". Well, this article *should* be found on CNN. It won't though.

Nominated and kicked.

[rooboy]

3. Couldn't have said it better myself. n/t

[understandinglife]

4. Keillor: "His career was based on creating low expectations and then ...

.... meeting them

It's a hard fall for George W. Bush. His career was based on creating low expectations and then meeting them, but Katrina was a blast of reality. The famous headline said, "Bush: One of the Worst Disasters to Hit the US" and many people took that literally. Poor black people huddled together in the Superdome were seen on national TV, people stretched out asleep between the goal lines, and a 911 operator broke into sobs telling what it was like to talk to little kids in flooded houses and two weeks later the president had become a New Deal liberal and was calling for a major anti-poverty program in the Gulf and hang the expense. The annual deficit is running around $300 billion, but the president says we can afford a few hundred billion in hurricane repair without a tax increase, even if we call it a "hurricane impact fee."

Meanwhile we are pushing a large deception down the road - the idea that the war in Iraq is to defend us against terrorism - at enormous expense to our armed services and also to the Treasury, and for Americans who remember the last time a Texas president told us we must "stay the course," there is a certain sinking feeling.

But that's life. It happened to the Romans and the Mayans and the Sumerians and it's happening to us. In our society, as in those, the Grand Poobah gives the orders and the lackeys, minions, henchmen and stooges carry them out, and when the experimental plane with the lead-covered wings crashes, the minions return to His Eminence and lick his boots and he dispatches a yes man to chastise the fall guy, and then the fall guy whips the whipping boy, and then both of them pound on the goat. And construction begins on a new lead-covered airplane, except this time the lead is twice as thick. It's a supply-side theory: The greater the weight, the greater the buoyancy.

Solomon said, "The thing that has been is the thing that shall be; and the thing that is done is that which shall be done: There is nothing new under the sun." Or, to put it a slightly different way, a man walked into the house with a handful of dog waste and said, "Look what I almost stepped in."

Link:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092105E.shtml

Unfortunately, Bush has shit on America, from sea to shining sea, and no matter where you step, you step in it .... and the smell is everywhere, 24/7.


Peace.

[sweetheart]

5. That seems to be his job

In a twist that can only be deliberate, he has done more damage to the
empire than any foreign enemy, and caused a dramatic rollback of
the credibility and power of all american influence... a sort of
conservative objective, to destroy the government whilst appearing
to champion it.

[ithacan]

6. but, but but, jeebus is watching over our poor little w, ain't he???

Jeebus will save George W., just like all those other times -- or was it James Baker III?

[Patiod]

7. "I like that he was a successful businessman"

I actually heard that during the 2000 elections, and saw it on the editorial pages. Uh, no, he wasn't successful. But they didn't want to hear that.

I would love to find those people and smack them upside the head now for their blindness, deafness and stupidity.

[txaslftist]

8. Bush has the reverse Midas touch...

...everything he touches turns to shit.

[DistressedAmerican]

9. Like This?

[cassiepriam]

10. fabulous and fitting quotes

"Character is fate," Marcus Aurelius said; it is a straight line drawn from a man's birth to his final hour.
Our future is hopelessly shackled to the dwindling fortunes of our vacuous president, George Walker Bush.

[katty]

11. Gigantic failure/failures-yet, bush still in the WH-and we will all pay

for this continuing tragedy in office.


"Failure is an indelible blotch, like the mark of Cain, forever embossed on the soul of its victim. Its part of Bush's genetic-code, as integral to the whole mechanism as the cocky-drawl or the lumbering gait."