Steve looks at a scary story about Bush and says:
Bush is scaring people who don’t scare easily. Like Jim Baker.
And I guess what I’d like to say to people like Baker and the other three people who are suddenly shocked and dismayed at the way Bush is behaving — with the refusal to listen, and the assumption that people disagree with him just because they don’t respect his authoriTAH, and the stubborn insistence everybody bow down to his title, and all of it — is oh my God did we ever try to tell you this for years.
Because it boggles me that people continue to hope Bush is going to wake up some morning and be all, “You know, maybe I should take advice from others, play nicely, and work on my handwriting.” It’s like waiting for a dog to do a math problem. It’s just beyond the dog’s capabilities, and Bush is many things but he is not adaptable to advice which carries with it the implication that what he’s done has been a monstrous clusterfuck, which is what anyone other than the voices in his head will tell him right now, so we can wait all we want, the dog’s not gonna develop the ability to manage algebra.
I am just gobsmacked that anybody could be scared at this point. That anybody could muster up the suspense of the unexpected enough to be frightened. I mean, in order to be jolted by this you’d have had to be paying absolutely no attention to the man for the past six years, hell, his whole life, which has been about avoiding responsibility, ducking required service, taking credit for his parents’ achievements, and belligerently demanding respect instead of earning it. And yes, people can change, and there’s nothing wrong with wanting them to do so and hoping that they do, especially when such changes would serve to improve the state of one’s country. But there is something wrong with delusion, especially when such delusion gets lots of people killed.
At this point I’m viewing every revelation from every newly-come-to-Jesus former Bush supporter or confidante that the guy really is as bad as everybody said he is as the futile hope that when the next empty suit comes along they’ll actually listen to the opinions of others, even if those others are Democrats, or liberals, or less-than-orthodox conservatives, or slightly-to-the-left-of-Klansman. Even if those opinions are impolite, or delivered in less than deferential tones, or make some people uncomfortable.
Because nothing that’s happened in the last six years is anything that went unpredicted, so for Baker and others to be all scared now that Bush has refused to take their sage advice? It’s like that bumper sticker: You haven’t been paying attention.
A.
I am just gobsmacked that anybody could be scared at this point.
I’m scared because I don’t think we’ve seen him at his worst just yet. Full metal meltdown from this clown is something that should frighten all of us.
What happens when he flat out refuses a subpoena from Congress, or refuses to testify under oath, or produce the documents demanded?
The chances of a full blown constitutional crises because of this spoiled brat approach 100% in my opinion.
And that scares the shit outta me.
“At this point I’m viewing every revelation from every newly-come-to-Jesus former Bush supporter or confidante that the guy really is as bad as everybody said he is as the futile hope that when the next empty suit comes along they’ll actually listen to the opinions of others, even if those others are Democrats, or liberals, or less-than-orthodox conservatives, or slightly-to-the-left-of-Klansman.”
Three words: President Pierce Bush.
This is a rather sad subject for me. 6 years ago, I lost some very dear friends over Shrub.
They were so enamoured with the glitter that they saw the Repubs as the only moral choice and Dems were out to kill God. They were so caught up in the wave that they couldn’t see anything else.
I tried to avoid arguments. They kept sending me emails of examples of how Shrub loved the troops and went to church and quotes from Rush proving the corruption of the Demos.
I asked them to just avoid the subject. They wouldn’t. I had to filter out their emails to /dev/null.
I wonder if its worth trying to strike up the friendship again? Everything I can think of to send them would sound petty (Subject line: have you seen the light yet?)
–MapleStreet
The last time I was really surprised by W was when he tried to give German Chancellor Angela Merkel that neck rub.
That showed me the little box on his back wasn’t working any more.
gee, you people, i made my rummy go away, isn’t that enough?!?
that’s what is in his head. nothing is gonna change.
But the people who were saying bad things about Bush were so UNCIVIL! They used words like ‘damn’ and ‘shit’ so how could we take them seriously? We had to believe the other people. They wore jackets and ties.
/media whores
Three words: President Pierce Bush.
Na. Ga. Hap. Pen.
The one favor Junior has done us is to ensure that there will be no further Bushasshats in office…at least in our lifetimes.
Pierce better find a day job.
Sorry, but Gilliard is seeking false comfort himself. Bush isn’t going anywhere, and neither is Cheney.
Only if he is impeached will he step down. There’s no pressure coming to enact the ISG report. Hell, the ISG report itself says only some troops will start leaving by early 2008. Wow, that’s speedy! And it’s only some troops. “Rapid response troops” and others will stay around. And with fewer troops comes less security, or ability to secure an area. Which means the troops left behind are even more vulnerable. Which means it gets even worse and we race down the disposal and move like greased lightning toward the last helicopter lifting off from Saigon and lots and lots of bodies left behind because we just can’t get to them, and we can’t even save the soldiers we leave there.
Bush scares Baker? Like I give a wet snap. Fear is a luxury now. Fear is for people who don’t have any responsibility to do anything, and are just now figuring out the people in charge aren’t uberparents who will finally ride to the rescue and make all things well again. The wolverine has locked his jaws on our hand and he’s not letting go. “Scared” passed us by a long time ago. It’s no longer a question of whether we lose the hand, or even if we can live with one hand. It’s a question of how much more we’re going to lose before we get the wolverine off.
now let’s kick Nader’s ass for saying there was NO difference between Bush and Gore.
Bush won’t be impeached. If the Democratic Congress impeached him they might have a harder time getting reelected in 2008, so they won’t even consider doing it. Patriots are in very short supply in Washington.
I was terrified by the election of Bush in 2000, more terrified by his selection of an old never was as Secretary of Defense. Since then I haven’t gotten more scared, just more depressed. I still cannot understand how our voters could possibly be so stupid that almost half of them would pick such an obviously bad choice for President. But they did. Now the best we can do for the next two years is hope that Congress goes into perpetual investigative mode, so that Bush and his cohorts have to spend all of their energy defending themselves.
Athenae, and the rest of you: you can’t really be saying that a bunch of dirty, hippie traitors have been scared for a loooong time, because they – you know – knew this was how things would turn out. That can’t possibly be right.
hoppy, the teevee gnews said georgie was better.
I give any 5-6 year bush supporter NO QUARTER.
We told them over and over again that he was a pompous, stuck up asshole, but they refused to listen.
I’ve been called the worst names imaginable by my own family members. My own grandfather disowned me because I refused to worship at the bush alter.
Much like the Germans who supported the Nazis, I feel nothing for them.
I hang bush like a burning tire around their necks. EVERYTHING that has happened due to Bush’s incompetence is THEIR FAULT.
I can forgive mere insults, but the beatings I’ve taken over that asshole are almost unforgivable. And what he has done to this country, this world, I can’t forgive in any way.
There should be a special place in hell for those blind morons who on bended knee licked the bush.