What in the....?
All aboard the "Minnow". Or is it the "Pequod"?
I'm still stunned. Two weeks and it's not yet in focus.
What a script. A feckless ne'er-do-well buys his way into national prominence and steals his way into the White House. In his four-year term he proceeds to invade a sovereign nation that had done us no harm, inflicting thousands of casualties and costing billions, as well as alienating most of the free world, of which he is supposed to be the de facto "leader".
He increases the national debt burden to staggering proportions. His tenure coincides with the biggest loss of jobs since the Hoover administration, an increase in poverty rates, and a widening gap between the rich and the poor.
He quietly and systematically guts over thirty years of environmental regulations and safeguards.
At least half of the electorate feels that the nation is headed in the wrong direction. By any standard his is a failed presidency.
What to do?
Re-elect him! Give him four more years! Four more years!
That the folks of Ohio would be the ones to put Bush over the top is the ultimate in bitter irony. The manufacturing base that has been nuked in the last four years would be enough, you would think, for most clear thinking Buckeyes to throw the bum out of office. However, he evidently scored major points with his cynical stance on gay marriage and abortion rights . After all, who cares about jobs when you're surrounded by homos, dykes and butchered babies?
The odd thing is that the average Buckeye has probably never seen, or will ever see, a gay or a lesbian, let alone two. They most likely don't know, or will ever know, someone who has had an abortion.
Yet, they voted to "stay the course".
The course? Pre-emptive war, crippling debt, rampant unemployment, shrinking wages, unattainable health care, a lethal environment, codified discrimination, and an increasingly polarized citizenry. That is the course set for this ship of state and Gilligan, unfortunately, is firmly at the helm for the next four years.
But, unlike the benign dunce of the TV show, this dunce masks a lethal reality--a seething and relentless Ahab, who armed with a perversely perceived "mandate", and a Biblical sense of self-righteous destiny, as well as both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, is determined to steer the nation into deeper and darker waters that neither he, nor his divided crew, may be able to successfully navigate.
I'm still stunned. Two weeks and it's not yet in focus.
What a script. A feckless ne'er-do-well buys his way into national prominence and steals his way into the White House. In his four-year term he proceeds to invade a sovereign nation that had done us no harm, inflicting thousands of casualties and costing billions, as well as alienating most of the free world, of which he is supposed to be the de facto "leader".
He increases the national debt burden to staggering proportions. His tenure coincides with the biggest loss of jobs since the Hoover administration, an increase in poverty rates, and a widening gap between the rich and the poor.
He quietly and systematically guts over thirty years of environmental regulations and safeguards.
At least half of the electorate feels that the nation is headed in the wrong direction. By any standard his is a failed presidency.
What to do?
Re-elect him! Give him four more years! Four more years!
That the folks of Ohio would be the ones to put Bush over the top is the ultimate in bitter irony. The manufacturing base that has been nuked in the last four years would be enough, you would think, for most clear thinking Buckeyes to throw the bum out of office. However, he evidently scored major points with his cynical stance on gay marriage and abortion rights . After all, who cares about jobs when you're surrounded by homos, dykes and butchered babies?
The odd thing is that the average Buckeye has probably never seen, or will ever see, a gay or a lesbian, let alone two. They most likely don't know, or will ever know, someone who has had an abortion.
Yet, they voted to "stay the course".
The course? Pre-emptive war, crippling debt, rampant unemployment, shrinking wages, unattainable health care, a lethal environment, codified discrimination, and an increasingly polarized citizenry. That is the course set for this ship of state and Gilligan, unfortunately, is firmly at the helm for the next four years.
But, unlike the benign dunce of the TV show, this dunce masks a lethal reality--a seething and relentless Ahab, who armed with a perversely perceived "mandate", and a Biblical sense of self-righteous destiny, as well as both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, is determined to steer the nation into deeper and darker waters that neither he, nor his divided crew, may be able to successfully navigate.
posted by jvmuss at 8:51 PM
1 Comments:
Archer!
I'll admit that my ignorance is boundless, so I guess that makes me a true red-white-and-blue blooded ’Merican. Now if only my red state comrades would admit the same. They won't.
At the heart of your argument is the moral superiority factor--that through our "immoral" ways, (homosexuality, abortion), we forfeit the moral high ground to the Islamafacsists. The fact that these acts are capital offenses in the Islamic world is not an issue. Adultery is also a capital offense under Islamic law. Are we going to pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting that?
No, dear Robert. To fight medievalism we must not reciprocate! We must remain steadfast! We must not waver! We must . . .!
But we won't.
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