Bush's Last Laugh: Whether Moron Or Liar, Who Cares?

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/11455

Bush's Last Laugh: Whether Moron Or Liar, Who Cares?
by P.M. Carpenter | Dec 8 2007


It's become borderline amusing, though I scurry to stress the borderline angle. We have in the White House either a dangerous moron or a heinous liar, or perhaps he's even a twofer. And that seems to be the Great Debate of Era: Is our president an epic halfwit, or Nixon squared, or some fantastic combination of the two not seen since Nero? Yet whichever of those limited possibilities his character happens to be, the joke's on us.

Our Great Debate -- or what should be a great debate, one leading to a great resolution -- is nothing but a piddling parlor game.

We and our elected representatives sit and ponder and at times even chuckle over Mr. Bush's increasingly tangled and twisted lies, delivered with decreasing competency, and repeatedly conclude that he's too stupid or too corrupt to sit at the apex of power. While we're doing that, however, Mr. Bush is collapsing in incredulous joy and relief that there quite obviously is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- he can do that will lead Congress to the water of serious investigations and, consequently, and, inescapably, impeachment.

In short, while we and Congress are laughing our asses off at his vile stupidity, he's laughing his ass off at our vile timidity.

The latest presidential spectacle will someday have historians in stitches. From the bowels of the Bush 43 Presidential Library, one will hear the raucous laughter of researchers, interrupted only by disbelieving giggling and the occasional, "And this idiot really got away with this crap? Two friggin entire terms of this friggin insanity?"

Insanity, indeed. And yes, he got away with it. And yes, the joke was on us -- and on any remnants of systemic checks and balances and legislative oversight and investigative doggedness and all that other tedious constitutional stuff.

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The joke is indeed on us -- the Great Debate that never was; fellatio is a national crisis, while manufactured hysteria over a manufactured war is not -- although I doubt the Founders are laughing.
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[Va Lefty]

1. Excellent post K & R!

[groovedaddy]

2. Some joke! Paid for in blood...

I still view him primarily as a puppet. An incompetent puppet? How can that be so? Yes, there is incompetence, but doesn't that belong to the people pulling the strings? Same with the lying. Yes, he has LIED. But are these lies based on his own calculation or his handlers?
This is the main reason for keeping impeachment off the table. What happens if they really pull back the curtain on this whole, sordid affair called the bush administration? The repercussions could rattle foundations like nothing else in our history. Above all else, the status quo of power and wealth can not be threatened.

[Cha]

4. bushit is the perfect vapid puppet.

A sociopath who learned nothing in his formative years.

Do sociopaths have the gene or is it something that gets knocked into them from their environment?

[groovedaddy]

5. In the cult of personality, we are compelled to analyze this ass hole to the nth degree

But what are the larger forces at work here? Are there people in the halls of power who are decidedly undemocratic and wish to remove the impediments that democracy imposes on their grand designs? Are they the ones working the srings on Bush? He probably is a sociopath, but that's not what got him to where he is.

[Cha]

6. Right..not what got 'im there,

but his handlers must think they hit the "trifecta".

[groovedaddy]

7. Funny you should mention "trifecta"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/04/21_trifecta.html

[Cha]

8. Interesting article...thanks, groove!~

"What is The Original Trifecta? It is the three forces primarily responsible for George W. Bush's ascendancy to power, as well as the setting of policy, both foreign and domestic.

They are: 1) the think tank "Project for a New American Century" (foreign policy), 2) The Christian Right (foreign and domestic policy), 3) Corporations (foreign and domestic policy)."

[insanad]

11. Can someone get Pelosi and Reed some Viagra ?

Our Congress has been so impotent and I'm very very unsatisfied. What will it take to get them to stop posing and bragging and just DO IT!!! With over 70% of the American people disillusioned or dowright violently angry with Bush and his corrupt administration, the exodus from his cabinet and absolute dysfunction of the entire staff, the lies, the lies, the downright dirty bald faced lies, WHY CAN'T THEY DO SOMETHING???

THe world is glaring at us like the Mom at Walmart with the obnoxious disobedient loud spoiled child who refuses to discipline him or demand better behavior as he has his temper tantrums,destroying everything around him and causing an embarassing scene. Because we allow our own despot dictator to do to others what we condemned in Saddam Hussein and other depraved corrupt power mongers, we in essence show that in spite of our "Enlightened Privilege", WE THE PEOPLE, are as easily led as any in the less endowed countries. For the first time in my 45 years, I'm ashamed of our nation for failing to eject George Bush and his corrupt administration. What will it take for our congress to act? Could someone get them a double dose of viagra so they can at least "Get it up" long enough to get the ball rolling on the impeachment? The world needs us to TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN BAD SEED.

WE THE PEOPLE have expelled corrupt dictators in the past. WE THE PEOPLE have fought against tyranny and oppression and won. WE THE PEOPLE have found good and just leaders and supported them and WE THE PEOPLE can do it again. We are innovators, creators, leaders, inventors, producers, and dreamers. We sent men to the moon, ended wars, created vaccinations for some of the worlds worst diseases, fed nations, and connected all of us here on this site with the internet. WE THE PEOPLE can change the course of this nation and make a difference in the world.

I have no intention of presenting a PollyAnna view that all will be well if we just elect a good leader. In fact, whomever that leader will be will be handed a bag of broken glass and the demands to "Fix" it will nearly paralyze any leader, even a good one. We the people are over 300 million strong. Surely there must be a fair proportion of those people who are willing to rise up, to fight and work and sacrifice and change to make the difference in the world. It won't just be a leader but a nation of leaders.

An apocalyptic view and bitter resentment won't be the glue that will hold us together. I don't doubt for a moment that our world is more corrupt, more toxic, more troubled, more cruel, more in the throes of anarchy than ever before in the history of our modern world. I also don't doubt that one person can influence another person, and another, till a whole community is inspired, and then a city, and a state and a nation.

Today I signed yet another protest against Bush and Cheney. Today I lent my name and reputation to some serious causes. Today I tried to share information and influence with people I love to inspire them to do something too. Today I reduced, reused, recycled. Today I didn't spend money I didn't have or go where I didn't need to go or consume what I didn't need to consume. I'll do it again tomorrow and the next and the next. I alone can't change the world but all of us can.

This petition can be sent to everyone who cares. Give it your best and do something TODAY!!!

http://impeachcentral.com /

[Cha]

3. Well, bush is fubared stupid..

And, congress as a whole is timid to the VILEth degree but we'll see who laughs last.

It can't stay this way forever and thank the Universe..the bushits are out gathering rope in their spare time from calculating ways to screw the Planet.

The Founders of our Nation are definetly not amused but lets hope they get vindicated in their experiment with Democracy.

[Democrats_win]

9. bush is proof that justice is dead in America. The courts are the REAL joke.

[rockybelt]

10. Maybe Congress is laughing their asses off

I am not! You have a retarded, narcissistic, spoiled, psychopathic, congenital liar who is sitting in the White House trying to do everything he can to bury this experiment in democracy and a grin comes across your face?

He is busy killing thousands of our soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans, he wants to start WWIII with Iran and you chuckle?

Our freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution are going down the shitter and you laugh out loud?

Congress is not doing anything to fulfill their sworn duty to protect and defend from all enemies either from outside or within and it's a gut grabber?

You see a VP sitting there trying to destroy the world while making himself ungodly rich and tears come to your eyes?

I cannot see a goddamned thing funny about it.