| Unbelievable. Unbe-friggin'-lievable.
Just when you thought our beloved president, a k a The Decider, a k a Commander Guy, couldn't sink any further into complete blithering idiothood, he surprises you.
With the apparent approval of his handlers, Bush seems to have decided that the only way to rally support for his policy of doing precisely the wrong thing and doing it with unprecedented incompetence is to tell us all that he has been a miserable failure at what should be his main job -- keeping us safe.
To hear Bush tell it, we are no safer now than we were on September 12, 2001. If anything, we are in even deeper doo-doo, unable to protect ourselves from a rag tag bunch of smelly little [insert favorite racist epithet here].
We should be scared shi spitless, according to Bush, which according to his logic just proves that he's on the right track.
Given his tendency to botch familiar old sayings, it's probably just as well that he didn't try to channel another great "War President," It probably would have come out, "All we got to fear is fear itself. So let's get busy and fear it. I mean, it's all we got."
And who in the White House thought it was a good idea to toss in a little hurricane imagery? We're in the eye of the storm, Bush says. And as anyone who watches TV weather reports knows, that means that the whirlwind is mere hours away. But don't worry! We know that the government will leap to our aid when the hurricane destroys our community. Oh... Wait a minute...
For lagniappe, we were also treated to the profoundly depressing spectacle of seeing how the despicable Ayman al-Zawahiri is able to play our clueless president like Br'er Rabbit played the Wolf.
It's all put me into a decidedly Brechtian mood. Show me the way to the next whisky bar. |
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