The Bush Breaking Point

[jmowreader]

I'm going to go drive my forklift for a few hours tonight, but my shift doesn't start until 6pm so I have a few moments to kill.

I looked at a thread I started earlier about a dream job--being the judge in Rush and Dubya's trials. Someone responded that we shouldn't execute Mr. Bush but rather make him watch people being put to death. I came back with a comment about subjecting George Bush to mock executions.

Whoa! thought I as I pressed the "post" button. Is that what I've come to...that mentally torturing Bush by putting needles in his arms and injecting him with sedatives so he thinks he's being executed is something I'd think would be a good idea? I thought I was better than that; apparently this is not the case.

Mock executions? That's too cruel. Even for Dubya, but Dubya's a special case. I call him Hitler sometimes, as do we all, but he's not the reincarnation of Hitler. He's the reincarnation of Tomas de Torquemada (http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~gbrandal/Illum_html/Torquemada.html), the Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition. There is a line in The Stuff that describes Bush perfectly: "No one is as dumb as I appear to be."

Yes, I'm at the Bush Breaking Point, that fine line between Bush's antics being cute and their being dangerous to anyone with a George Bush bumper sticker on his car. Something's telling me walking around with a paint scraper would be a bit too obvious.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. IF we ever try the shrub what you suggest

IS REVENGE and cruel and unusual punishment, NOT justice

Small but significant difference

[jokerman93]

2. George Bush should be held accountable

for ALL maleficence on his watch, since he wanted it so much. All criminal charges should be brought against those who carried out the crimes. All guilty charges should be additionally applied to George W Bush.

This would be in order to restore the accountability of the Executive branch to the order of the Federal government and to the American people.

He should fry for every crime under his watch.

[wryter2000]

3. I know what you mean

It's a different thing to have revenge fantasies and actually want to act on them. We really are better than Bush and his drones.

My fantasies all have to do with his utter and total political humiliation. I'd like to see all of the repugs get about 12% of the vote the next time they run for election. I'd like to see endless editorials and articles, dissecting in teeny-weeny detail how the neocons and Bible-thumpers lost the hearts and minds of the American people. I'd like to see screaming headlines on the cover of Time, Newsweek, etc. CAN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SURVIVE? And inside the answer would be, "only if they return to the Republicanism of Eisenhower." I'd like to see a time when the most radical far-righter they can get for Crossfire is John McCain and they all sit around talking about the idiots who just left office.

[bain_sidhe]

4. My "revenge" fantasy...

We all have a "regulator" in our brains that prevents us from just saying whatever pops into our head. I sometimes fantasize about Bush's regulator getting turned off... on live (and un-interruptible) TV, with VCRs all over the country taping the whole thing.

Ok, it's not particularly gruesome or anything, but I'm just not a gruesome sorta gal. I don't even like horror movies (which, come to think of it, is probably why I've hated the last three years so much).

**edit: rewrite error!**

[salinen]

5. I have * , Rummy, Ashcroft, Cheney,

Rice, Powell, Norton, Rove fantasies daily. I guess for guys like us that is the manifestation of years of anger. I'm not worried that I will take this any farther than a wish. You shouldn't either.

[rucky]

6. one word: Gitmo

n/t

[eleny]

7. Well, one bit of cruelty that I could live with

... is that the Repubs lose key elections by a tiny margin for some time to come. So close, but no cigars. As for Bush - I think he deserves impeachment and then to jail for what he's helped to perpetrate on the world. He and his nearest and dearest cronies.

[carols]

8. The worst revenge for the idiot usurper

would be if he had to spend the rest of his life living as a "normal" person - no special perks, no daddy and cronies to bail him out when he couldn't pay the mortgage. Set him down in a working class neighborhood and make him go out and apply for a job. Make him punch a time clock. Subject him to annual performance reviews. Make him wait in line at the health department for his flu shot. And the Driver's License bureau. And fill out his own tax returns. Put him down next to an old busy-body who will report him to the city every time he forgets to trim his hedges. Make him scrub his own toilets and cook his own meals. Sentence the bastard to our lives. He would be begging to go to jail.
Carol

[gristy]

10. Sentence the bastard to our lives.

How poetic!

[vanityfair]

12. Carol...

Excellent! I think that is the most appropriate punishment for Bush.

Loved your line: "Sentence the bastard to our lives."

[newyawker99]

13. Hi vanityfair!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[cliss]

9. JMO, you have the patience of a saint.

I reached the "*B Breaking Point" a long time ago. I think it was around January this year. As I saw his ugly face on the news, night after night, ranting and raving about Iraq, all I could think of was, "what the hell's going on here?".

I knew that something TERRIBLE had happened to my country. And it was all behind the scenes; the government had been taken over by thugs and criminals, and by the time I figured it out, it was too late.

Every time I hear his wretched voice on the radio, my shaking hand reaches out to turn to another station Quick. There is nothing cute about the man. He thinks he's charming, but I've seen the pure poison and hatred right underneath his silly little jokes. Pure vomit and retch he is.

[jmowreader]

14. If I acted toward Bush like I act toward traffic lights...

you'd be reading an article in the paper "North Carolina man arrested for screaming obscenities in Bush's face." And there'd be a picture of the Bush boy trembling in his boots as I, doing my very best R. Lee Ermey imitation, called Mr. Bush a lying murderer to his nose.

But no, it's best to put all of our energies to more important pursuits, like working to ensure the defeat of this fraud and preparing the New Pressure Treated Lumber class I have to give to the public in two weeks.

[drdigi420]

11. Justice would be....

...forcing the entire Bush family to live out their lives as a poor black family in Tulia Texas