If He's Such a Disaster, Why Didn't You Crush Him When He Was Xeroxing Press Releases for Poppy?
Last week we blogged on Richard Viguerie, who is suddenly pissed off because the Dear Leader is such a complete fuckup. Without Viguerie, of course, the Dear Leader would be looting a corporation or a savings and loan somewhere.
The latest group to disclaim responsibility for the Dear Leader - this time for his Middle East policies - is a bunch of Bush 41 foreign policy types. "Woe is us!" they moan in today's New York Times:
“There is a danger in a policy in which there is no daylight whatsoever between the government of Israel and the government of the United States,” said Aaron David Miller, an Arab-Israeli negotiator for both Bush administrations, who has high praise for James A. Baker III, the first President Bush’s secretary of state. “Bush One and James Baker would never have allowed that to happen.”
Other advisers who served the elder Mr. Bush are critical as well, faulting the current administration for having “put diplomacy on the back burner in the hope that unattractive regimes would fall,” in the words of Mr. Haass.
Listen up Whinycons - James A. Baker, the Bush family fixer, is one the reasons that the Dear Leader is in office - who the fuck do you think was in charge in Florida in 2000, and who do you think shut down the recount? Jim Baker should apologize to this nation.
You whiners knew George W. was a Jeebus-worshipping Dispensationalist asshole who wanted to blow up the world. Did you lift a manicured finder to stop him? Fuck no - you sucked off your particular government teat until it dried up and then went off to some think tank to fulminate about your creation. You wanted power even if it meant turning the country over to the mental runt of the Bush family litter.
So Whinycons ... do you want to do something to save your country? Go to your friends in the Senate and the House and convince them to impeach the Dear Leader and remove him before we're all blown to bits. Or you could just sit there giving interviews and collecting speaking fees. And that's what you'll probably do.
"...the mental runt of the Bush family litter."
A perfect description. And no, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Viguerie et al to do anything. It's much more fun to shake their heads in dismay and pontificate from the sidelines.
Posted by: Kathy | August 02, 2006 at 08:21 AM
Mental runt of the Bush family is a bit below the belt.
I mean, cmon, NEAL?!?!?!?!
Posted by: actor212 | August 02, 2006 at 09:36 AM
damn dude, the lease you could do would be to put some photoshop on that creepy picture, especialy since you're so ambivilent about your feelings for the prez daddy buddies there, like get a room er something, AS IF anybody could get those inbred assholes in the senate to hop off of junior's gravy train
Posted by: EEK | August 02, 2006 at 10:17 AM
Bumbleshrub is like a little kid playing with his army set and Viguerie & his ilk are like those parents who shake their head and chuckle at his antics, maybe tsk tsk a little, then go fix themself a martini. No one is going to rein in the Ignored Child. I would just like to see more Dems jump on the impeachment train. Like you said, before we're all blown to bits. I literally have been waiting to hear a bomb drop somewhere around here. You know it's only a matter of time.
Posted by: HelenWheels | August 02, 2006 at 10:30 AM
what's odd is that Poppy and his crew were Arabists. they had strong ties to the Saudis through the Carlyle Group and other business interests. 41 even castigated Israel occasionally. But G Dubs, thanks to his bible bashing brain, is practically a Zionist...just another example of shrub trying to differentiate himself from daddy warbucks
Posted by: Comandante Agi | August 02, 2006 at 11:24 AM
Frankenstein's remorse?
Posted by: LewScannon | August 02, 2006 at 05:54 PM
Speaking of James Baker--I had just purchsed my first computer in the fall of 2000 and had AOL dialup with all its funny spunds. After the Disaster Monkey stole the election that fall it seemed that James Baker was constantly on TV lying as he tried to defend Fool #1. It occured to me at the time that Baker's old, slow, nasal, country southern drawl was the ideal match for AOL dialup with all its strange groans and squeaks and grunts.
Posted by: Plutonious Monk | August 02, 2006 at 09:57 PM
Go read this Greg Palast piece. He delves into James Baker and the whole oil-related casus belli.
(You may wish to put on a hard hat, because you'll be smacking your head on your desk by the end of it...)
Posted by: litbrit | August 03, 2006 at 08:45 AM