Rage Against the Bush Machine

[indigobusiness]

Where are we going? What have we done? When will it make sense? Who will be trampled in the process?

According to George W. Bush, if we had just listened to him, the oil crisis, for one thing, would much less severe and let that be a lesson to us to listen to him in the future, and refrain from opposing and vetoing his policies. I will pause now for derisive laughter....
This is a perfect example of W's penchant for blame shifting. Yes, if we had just listened to him everything would be just fine. Oh, really? There IS oil in ANWR, enough to run our country for months and months. Then what? Other examples of his unwisdom are legion and well-told elsewhere. But, his latest pearl exemplifies the sort of band-aid visionary our president represents and personifies. Will someone please wake up our fearless leader and gently break it to him that this country has been crippled as a direct result of doing his bidding, not otherwise?
Virtually the entire world tried to stop him from unleashing his war machine, and now he looks to blame others for its colossal failings. At that task he is working hard, yet the more vigorously he tap dances with his tarbaby, the firmer its embrace. He is clearly to blame, and is quickly running out of underlings to take his arrows for him.
Where I come from, it is called a 'comeuppance' and George W. Bush's is just around the corner, and it won't be pretty.



--typo edit

[Warpy]

1. Don't hold your breath

He's a study in dumb rich white boy assisted living, and has been protected from facing the consequences of anything he's done his whole life.

[indigobusiness]

4. Justice is built in

you can't outrun karma.

[molly]

2. His TV appearance today was blatantly

arrogant - he announced his own lunacy. It's NEVER his fault - whomever opposes him is to blame. If we had just drilled in Anwar we wouldn't be in this oil mess. If we would just pass his energy bill, this mess would all go away.

[Virginian]

3. Ahhhhh

So he isn't releasing the strategic reserve until he gets permission to drill in ANWAR.
That makes sense now. We will just have to face our punishment for not letting him have his way.

Don't forget the part in Woodward's book that tells us the price will go down just before the election. If I were a betting person, I would put some money on that one. The price of gas will go down before Election Day 2004. If the Arab friends don't make it happen, the Big OIL friends will make it happen.

[indigobusiness]

6. I don't think that will magically absolve him

...in the eyes of the electorate. He is hurting people deeply...and his supporters are feeling betrayed and duped.

[Virginian]

17. He has followers who

would eat broken glass if he told them it was rock candy.

He has been pushed onto the fundies like he was God's other Son.
Because it has come to them through their religion, they will BELIEVE even when logic tells them not to. That is what happens when you mix religion with politics. You start to worship your politician. It's sad that they have corrupted a perfectly good religion into such a cult.
I wonder what happens when he tells them to drink their Kool Aid...


(Hey, that might not be a bad retort to someone in the office who starts preaching the word of Bush.
"Oh, go drink your Kool Aid.")

[indigobusiness]

19. well said n/t

[redqueen]

10. re: Big Oil 'friends'

Something I read this week indicated that bu$h's mangling of the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan has the big oil people ticked off down in Houston. Apparently the inability to secure those lucrative fields is the kicker.

Not sure of the accuracy, but FWIW...

[indigobusiness]

16. Oil and gasbags

seem to go together.

[Virginian]

18. If they had wanted the job done right...

They shouldn't have sent a dim son to act in their behalf.

[indigobusiness]

14. The depth of his denial is astonishing...

And his refusal to take the blame for ANYTHING is unprecedented.
Is it possible that he has been wrong about EVERYTHING he has done, throughout his enire life, and just doesn't know any different?

[MuseRider]

5. I like your rage.

As much as I try not to rejoice at the discomfort of others this is one guy that I will completely enjoy watching go down. Not only will he come down hard it will be fun to watch his disbelief turn to helpless wonder to anger and then, if we are really lucky, shame. That is if they actually take defeat and that I am not sure of. I am increasingly optimistic that they will be dealt that card but will they take it? Don't know and don't want to think about it too much. Perhaps it is long past time to think about that one. Things look bad for Bush* baby.

[indigobusiness]

7. All I want is for the unnecessary suffering of innocents to end.

Bush is a cancer on the land. He must be removed.

[Karenina]

8. He's just a poster boy.

Rip it down and check out the monstrosities propping him up. Pretty as Babs face, I tell you.

[info being]

9. Yes, that is too easy to forget these days

I want every billionare Bush-backer exposed.

[MuseRider]

11. I agree.

It is intolerable to live with this happening. That is why I will enjoy his discomfort, karma for Bush*. It will be an uncomfortable first for him. Perhaps he will learn from it. Naaaaaah.

[nefarious]

12. Bush big oil and those bad terrorists

indigobusiness said:

"Yes, if we had just listened to him everything would be just fine. Oh, really? There IS oil in ANWR, enough to run our country for months and months..."

9-11 coming on the heels of the prior week's show of lack of congressional support for drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil. A purely coincidental chain of events? Or was it another chilling JR Ewing reason to co-opt America with the MIHOP extortion plan?

[indigobusiness]

13. crypto

possibly.

[indigobusiness]

15. kick