"The Morning Fix"-Watching Bushco Crumble

[trof]

Watching BushCo Crumble
Ratings slipping, economy tanking, lies spiraling, credibility shot. Try not to cheer
(By Mark Morford)
This is what happens when it's all a house of cards.

This is what happens when you build your entire presidency on an intricate network of aww-shucks glibness and bad hair and cronyism and corporate fellatio and warmongering and sham enemies and economy-gutting policies and endless blank-eyed smirks that tell the world, every single day, whelp, sure 'nuff, the U.S. is full of it.

Shrub's ratings have dropped below 50 percent for the first (and probably not the last) time since they surged hugely right after 9/11 and he was hoisted in front of a wary America and puffed out his chest and pretended like he could find Afghanistan on a map and promised he would bomb every damn country on the planet that didn't have a McDonald's or an Exxon or a secret U.S. chemical-weapons deal.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/07/25/notes072503.DTL&nl=fix

GO MARK!

[Spazito]

1. Thanks for the link!

Great read and very accurate!

[realFedUp]

2. Should have titled "House of Cards"

another great column from Mark....and Mark,
you are almost as cute as Rall. :-)

[chiburb]

3. Excellent Morford (again)!

Last week's was especially great too. Thanks for the link Trof...

On edit, just a wee bit more snip:
This guy is a GREAT wordsmith!:

"Funny how the BS can wear you down. Funny how it can make you feel like someone's been piling huge rocks on our collective chest for the past three years and stomping on them with ugly polished right-wing loafers until we can hardly breathe.

And all you have to do is ask any schoolteacher or grandparent or health-care worker or conscious sensual attuned soulful organism anywhere, and the answer is unavoidable: The nation is gasping for air. "

[caledesi]

4. This is a must-read. Thanks.

Especially liked these lines:

Maybe it's that feeling that we've reached saturation, that the nation can't really absorb any more misinformation and misdirection and snide switcheroos, Osama to Saddam, nukes to uranium, WMD to WMD intent, serious threat to "liberation," brutish recession to "temporary downturn."

Can we say major morphing?

[sonias]

5. Wow excellent commentary

I was not familiar with Morford but I like him already. He's right on target.

(snip)
Maybe it's the regular slew of lies. You know the ones: "proof" of uranium purchases, "proof" of Iraqi nuke facilities, "proof" of WMDs, poison gas, plus two quick and "painless" wars, a robust economy, women's rights, gay rights, America proud and strong and respected the world over, a nice shiny oil-sucking SUV for every flag-waving misguided Fox News-drugged American. Ha.

Funny how the BS can wear you down. Funny how it can make you feel like someone's been piling huge rocks on our collective chest for the past three years and stomping on them with ugly polished right-wing loafers until we can hardly breathe.
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We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore! Take our country back in '04.

Sonia

[Sinistrous]

6. Thanks, I needed that.

But I am still wincing from the memories of all the other scandals that SHOULD have brought down the House of Bush, but mysteriously vanished.

However, this latest round does seem to be bigger, hotter, longer-lasting, and consisting of many more facets than those earlier sources of false hope.

[chiburb]

7. Just one more?

"But we are healing fast. We are coming back to life. We are opening our blackened eyes, realizing we have been massively and systematically and enthusiastically and intentionally duped by some very rich, very impotent white males three years running and it's damn near time for a domestic regime change and let's just float a Dean/Kerry (Kerry/Dean?) presidential ticket out there to the cosmic Void, see how it plays, shall we? "

YES!

[trof]

8. One of the high points of my day

I subscribed to his (FREE!) almost daily e-mail, "The Morning Fix", about a year ago. I highly recommend it.
Glad you liked it.

[chiburb]

9. Bump. Because its worth it! n/t

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