Today is the day that Washington finally flushes a turd that's been stinking America up for years. Yes, Karl Rove is leaving the White House and today he celebrated by gazing into his crystal ball and writing an opinion in the National Review about how history will view Bush. It's probably the single most detached-from-reality piece of work I've ever read. It's existence scientifically proves the existence of other dimensions, this one written from a far away realm named the "Bush White House". Karl has only been funnier while rapping. Of Bush and his policies, Rove writes:
America, he said, will not wait until dangers fully materialize with attacks on our homeland before confronting those threats.
More "Iraq attacked us". Classic!
The president gave the nation new tools to defeat terrorism abroad and protect our citizens at home with the Patriot Act, foreign surveillance that works in the wireless age, a transformed intelligence community, and the Department of Homeland Security.
Karl, what about the domestic spying programs? Aren't you proud of those? He busted my gut with this one:
And this president saw the wisdom of removing terrorism's cause by advocating the spread of democracy, especially in the Muslim world, where authoritarianism and repression have provided a potent growth medium for despair and anger aimed at the West. He recognized that democracy there makes us safer here.
The National Intelligence Estimate, released on Thursday, casts doubts on the viability of the Bush Administration strategy in Iraq. It gives a dim prognosis on the likelihood that Iraqi politicians can heal sectarian rifts before March, when US military commanders have said that a crunch on available troops will require a reduction in the US presence in Iraq.
Bush's brain would rather focus on the positive:
President Bush will be seen as a compassionate leader who used America's power for good. While the world dithered, America confronted HIV/AIDS in Africa with the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which has supported treatment for more than 1.1 million people worldwide, over one million of them in Africa.
Karl didn't mention that much of the money spent by the US is for abstinence programs that don't work. Or worse, put more lives in jeopardy.
Nobody can be wrong all the time and Karl is 100% correct when he states:
The outcome in Iraq and Afghanistan will color how history views the president.
Ain't that the truth...but don't forget New Orleans!
History demands much of America and its leaders and I am confident it will judge the 43rd president as a man more than worthy of the great office the American people twice entrusted to him.
Bush has discarded habeas corpus and the Geneva Conventions, justified torture and secret trials, damned critics as anti-American, and is responsible, according to Information Clearing House, for over one million deaths of Iraqi civilians, which puts Bush high on the list of mass murderers of all time.
HOOFAH!...to be fair, I'm not sure if Roberts is still a republican after years of Bush. Roberts lays it on:
"The war criminal is in the living room, and no official notice is taken of the fact," Roberts writes. "Lacking US troops with which to invade Iran, the Bush administration has decided to bomb Iran 'back into the stone age.'"
Oh yeah, Iran. One of the more interesting ideas floating around Rove's resignation is that he was actually an internal administration voice that was against air strikes on Iran. After losing that struggle with Darth Cheney, it was time for Karl to "spend more time with the family". (Incidentally, in this supposed scenario Tony Snow decided he didn't want to deal with the questions of bombing Iran, so he retired to make more money to fight his cancer.) Interesting indictment of the American health care system, no? The President's very own mouth piece can't afford to work for him, live comfortably and fight his cancer.
Unfortunately, we're cursed to live through interesting times. Worse still, dissent has been practically equated with treason. Say what you will of Karl Rove -- nobody can ever make the case he's not a bright guy. I think he's pulling a "Costanza" leaving on a "high note" (If only). Adios, Turd Blossom. You will not be missed.
Bill Moyers puts a nice bow on the end of the Rove era:
FTR was sick with the flu today, so it fell to Gerry to send Karl on his way.
I wonder if there is substance to the idea that some of these recent Administration resignations have something do with Cheney's boner over bombing Iran (besides Gonzo of course).
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Zarth
Seattle, WA
December 2004
AUG 31, 2007 03:57 PM
KUNGFOO said:
I wonder if there is substance to the idea that some of these recent Administration resignations have something do with Cheney's boner over bombing Iran (besides Gonzo of course).
Condi's supposed to be holding the Dick's leash right now.
While most of the globe ignored Sudan and Darfur or refused to act, this president labeled the violence there genocide _ and pressed world leaders to take action.
SebastianCrump said:
hilarious! is he going on tour with this stand up routine???!!!
nothing like living in a capitalist monarchy...
oops sorry i mean constitutional republic...did i say monarchy?
It's a plutocratic oligarchy, actually.
True story. I like how at the end all the leashes running bush, and his remaining administration have faded out. Leaving only his inept self, and the Chaney behind the curtain to face an angry audioance.
no, that's tony snow. i thought he just looked terrible because he was exhausted from being press secretary for the bush administration but apparently he has cancer...and is also exhausted from being press secretary for the bush administration.
MrCrisp said:
no, that's tony snow. i thought he just looked terrible because he was exhausted from being press secretary for the bush administration but apparently he has cancer...and is also exhausted from being press secretary for the bush administration.
Being press secretary for the Bush administration must be enough to give a guy cancer.
MrCrisp said:
no, that's tony snow. i thought he just looked terrible because he was exhausted from being press secretary for the bush administration but apparently he has cancer...and is also exhausted from being press secretary for the bush administration.
Being press secretary for the Bush administration must be enough to give a guy cancer.
If that were true, Ari Fleisher's face mouth would be swollen with tumors.
But I suspect the likes of him will continue 'spinning' even when he is in his grave.
absolutlely - I can't imagine that he is going quietly into the night to teach and write. The paranoid hippy in me is just a little scared that he is now free to "spin" out of the public radar...
Gerry_D
Los Angeles, CA
May 2003
AUG 31, 2007 02:59 PM