Back To The Bunker: Bush Has Learned Nothing In Six Years

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Back To The Bunker: Bush Has Learned Nothing In Six Years
by Alan Bisbort | Apr 12 2007 -

Before leaving last week to vacation at his fake ranch, Bush made his usual generic slam of “the Democrats” for not sending him a military spending bill to sign. And yet, Congress did send him a bill — one that brings the troops home from Iraq sooner rather than later — but it is not the one Bush wants, so in his malignant narcissistic view, they didn’t send him a bill to sign. It’s all about Bush.

The Bush Regime is out of gas, and because there is now a power vacuum in Washington D.C., Speaker Nancy Pelosi filled the leadership role by going to Syria and engaging our presumed enemies in dialogue. Bush and Cheney, predictably, accused Pelosi of “bad behavior,” presumably because women are not supposed to make Republican men feel inadequate. And, again predictably, the corporate media pundits recycled Bush and Cheney’s talking points about Pelosi.

God, is this tiresome, or what? How much longer can we put up with this charade of leadership in the White House? The American people are hungry for a real leader to take charge and lead us to some other better direction. That is why I believe you will see a dramatic spike upward in Pelosi’s approval ratings this week.

No longer can we hope Bush’ll have a change of heart or suddenly grasp the concept of checks and balances, or even accept the fact that the Democratic Party now holds the majority in Congress and the reign of rubber stamp republicanism is done, perhaps for good.

When his threat of a veto did not get the desired results, Bush ran to his Crawford bunker — where Cindy Sheehan awaited him, as she has since the dog days of 2004. Sheehan set up Camp Casey on the fourth anniversary of her son’s death in Iraq — the 39th anniversary of Dr. King’s murder — and gave Bush daily servings of what Allen Ginsberg called “reality sandwiches.”

Was it really three years ago that Sheehan sat in the Texas heat and did what Congress was too yellow to do: call Bush out? Was it really three years ago when Bush told reporters that he would not meet with Sheehan because “it’s important for me to go on with my life?” Did he really say that? This little man, incapable of even faking humility or compassion, then said, “I think the people want the president to be in a position to make good, crisp decisions and to stay healthy, and part of my being is to be outside exercising.”

Ah memories.

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