I orginally intended this post to be a rant against George Bush and Dick Cheney's commutation of traitor Scooter Libby's prison sentence after the cowardly weasel Libby had been convicted for perjury and obstruction of justice in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame.
But along the way I decided to instead post an intervention-type rant about how I've come to the long-overdue realization that my ranting attempts to convince certain people about how corrupt, inept, cowardly and deceitful this Bush crowd is, will in no way whatsoever, ever, ever change their opinions nor the opinions of the remaining 26 percent of Bush approvers who have a collectively subservient, cult-like view that their glorious leader George W. Bush is indeed is some form of earth-bound, American Flag-waving, celestially-begotten God who represents only "the good Americans." And of course they believe their God-in-Chief will utilize his rapturous powers to crush the other 74% of "bad Americans" (aka evil libruls) thus protecting them and the Fatherland - - er, Homeland - - from us "evil libruls" and their evil librul desire to placate the gathering horde of swarthy Muslims, who supposedly as we speak, are planning an imminent, mass invasion of the United States to convert us all into falafel eating, camel owning, Arabic speaking, Mosque attending slaves.
So if this post happens to offend some of you acquaintances, friends, or family members --- well -- I sure as fucking hell hope it does. For in my opinion you all consciously and willingly checked out of the reality-based community a long time ago in favor of worshipping some phony action-figure con man who whispers patriotic-themed sweet-nothings in your ear and comforts you by promising to be your protective daddy against all the big, bad bogey men of the world who want to take away your American way of life and destroy the Fatherland --er Homeland (sorry about the mixup, for some odd reason WW2 Nazi propaganda and Bushspeak sound awfully similar to me.)
The Bush worshippers routinely beseech their BushGod to use his divinely inspired Presidential appointment (to us sane folk who paid attention it was an election theft) and accompanying ethereal dominion over planetary affairs to force all of Earthly humanity to bow before his smirking-chimp greatness and grovel for his mercy and forgiveness for the heinous crimes of critical thinking, free speech, human rights, freedom of the press, open government, truth, justice or any other nefarious activities related to the practicing of the evil, dark arts of Representative Democracy.
Now, I have some friends and a few family members who are proud, card-carrying, Platinum lifetime membership holders of the George W. Bush-is-a-God fan club. I've ranted and raved, frequently Tequila-fueled, (it keeps me sane) for years to them about their horrible judgement, or lack thereof, and mis-guided devotion to this bamboozling frat-boy, circus clown Bush and his oh-so creepy circle of thuggish politburo komrades - frustratingly to no avail.
Many of said friends & family, it must be noted, actively suffer from the advanced stages of Slick Willie/Bubba/Clinton did it too!/But, but, but, but, Clinton!! syndrome. They've never gotten over their collective bout of faux moral outrage surrounding Bill Clinton and the infamous Executive Hummer (not the secret service, presidential transportation type Hummer.) And of course not having the cognitive, adult mental capacity to have recognized a political witchhunt for what it was and how it blinded them to the truth, it simply served to stir the restless dormancy of hatred lurking in their hearts for any and all who dared reject their infantile, Bubba-hate rage in favor of sensible, fair-minded, practical thinking. Try to convince these people of the FACT that the evil Clinton's approval rating on the day AFTER the hypocrites in the GOP Congress voted to impeach him was more than double that of what the current Boy King-in-Chief's approval rating is and they just stick their fingers in their ears, roll their eyes skyward and start childishly screaming,
La!,
La, La!,
La, La, La!,
La, La, La, La, La!!
And so it goes with the Bush-is-God worshippers on all matters small and great . . . Well -- an accounting is in fucking order if you ask me. And if it's the last thing you and I ever converse about re: this subject -- let this be the last rant you ever hear from me. Let it be said, let it be done.
So here goes -- if you got the courage -- stick with me:
No amount of vetted, documented data showing how the national economic prosperity of this country thrived under the Clinton tax-the-rich era will ever convince the Bush/GOP worshippers that tax cuts for the rich have never and will never benefit anyone other than the wealthy elite who buy and control GOP politicians as if they were simply another toy possession in their throw-away collections.
No amount of documented evidence showing how the local and national GOP organizations conspired to suppress minority and Democratic voting in the 2000 and 2004 elections will convince the bamboozled Bush-is-God lackeys that their party's actions were not only criminal but are anti-American, anti-Democracy and stand against everything they themselves purportedly believe in.
No amount of documented evidence to the contrary will ever change the minds of the Bush-is-God groupies that the bastards who attacked us on Sept. 11, 2001 did not come from Iraq, did not have any (as in none, nada, zero, zilch) connections to Saddam Hussein and were mostly from Saudi Arabia whose royal family have long been Bush family business partners and advisers and is also where Osama Bin-Laden happens to hail from.
No amount of documented evidence will ever change the opinions of the Bush-is-God sycophants that invading a sovereign country based on manufactured intelligence (lies), destroying that country's infrastructure, occupying that country, torturing it's people in the same prison (Abu Ghraib) it's former brutal leader tortured people in, fomenting civil war, looting their most valuable national resource (oil), and directly contributing to a civilian death count that would rival some of the war crimes charges that the Nazis were convicted of in the US-led Nuremburg trials after WW2 ended, were all horrible decisions.
No amount of documented evidence will ever alter the views of the Bush-is-God minions that his deceitful and illegal invasion (I don't absolve the Dems here -- they were fucking cowards to vote for the authorization and they should be ashamed) and occupation of Iraq has led to an unprecedented level of distrust and dishonor for America and Americans around the world and in fact has caused irreparable damage to our country's prestige and standing which will take decades to undo and as a direct result of that distrust and increased level of non-cooperation in the international fight against terrorism America and Americans are much less safe than they were before.
No amount of documented evidence will convince the supremely deluded Bush-is-God apostles that squandering the tax surplus left by Clinton on tax breaks for the wealthiest, cutting back social services for the nation's neediest, diverting tax dollars to corrupt private entities and corporate cronies to perform government work at half the efficiency and triple the cost has contributed to the largest deficit in this nation's history and combined with the astronomical and obscene costs associated with Bush's Iraq mis-adventure will all but guarantee that our children and grandchildren will be paying for this fuck-uppery for decades to come thru higher taxes and a shittier quality of life.
No amount of documented evidence will satisfy the Bush-is-God bootlickers that had Bush not diminished the role of FEMA by removing it's head as a cabinet-level position AND, not appointed an unqualified ass-kissing political crony (Heckuva job Michael Brownie) to run it that the level and effect of devastation, death and suffering in New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina would not have been as profound and lasting. Don't even bother trying to defend the Busheviks on this one my friends. Go tell it face-to-face to the victims along the Gulf Coast -- although you may have a hard time finding many of them as about 4,000 are dead and a good portion of the rest are scattered refugees. However if you are fortunate enough to find some survivors to defend your God Bush to, please call me ahead of time so I can come watch as you rightfully and deservedly get your sorry, stupid ass beaten to a bloody pulp.
No amount of documented evidence will ever persuade the hypocritical Bush-is-God dreamy-eyed fascist wannabes that the deliberate exposing of a covert CIA agent (Valerie Plame) who was actively working on tracking the proliferation of WMD's in Iraq and Iran was treasonous and an act in and of itself worthy of impeachment and imprisonment. Bush and Cheney did it in order to retaliate against Plame's husband, Joe Wilson, a former Iraq Ambassador in the Bush 41 admin because of an op-ed he wrote in the NY Times refuting one of the key rationale the Bush administration was promoting as a reason to invade Iraq (the completely debunked claim that Saddam Hussein tried to purchase yellow-cake uranium from Niger for atomic bomb-making). Now since I abandoned my initial intended rant re: the Libby commutation to rant about ranting, I will take the liberty to state a couple of very clear and basic points about this particularly sordid case and would love to hear any dissenting responses: firstly -- please don't e-mail me the Limbaugh, Hannity, (insert your favority right-wing pundit name here) talking point lie that Plame was not covert. The CIA themselves say she was as did the Special Prosecutor in the Libby conviction - Patrick Fitzgerald. If you wish to put the credibility of the Limbaughs and the Hannitys and the O'Reillys up against the words of the CIA people and Fitzgerald, you're a bigger fucking idiot than I imagined and you'll be condescendingly and rudely dismissed. Secondly -- don't dare tell me with a straight face that if this exact same case had occurred in an Al Gore or a John Kerry administration that every single one of you wouldn't have been marching down Pennsylvania Avenue, pitchforks and nooses in hand, led by Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly and the entire Fox News (snort!) pundit staff, screaming for the immediate arrest and lynching of the White House occupants. Hypocrisy -- thy name is Conservative Republican.
No amount of documented evidence will ever impel the Bush-is-God disciples to acknowledge the mind-blowing absurdity of the premise that illegal and secret spying powers in the hands of a power-hungry, unethical bunch like Bush, Cheney and the neo-cons would never be abused and used against law-abiding Americans. If you sincerely believe that, and unless you're a major-league moron/hypocrite, you'll have no problem then ensuring that a Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or John Edwards administration will be accorded those same unfettered, unrestrained powers should they be elected and you'll duly keep your fucking mouth shut if they should so desire to use them.
Now -- I could probably add another dozen or so paragraphs here which would simply bolster my view of the infuriating idiocy of these 26 percenters who continue desperately to cling to some freakish, immature notion that George W. Bush and the Republican party actually gives a shit about them and is acting in their's and their loved one's best interest. But instead I'll just compile a quick bullet point list of some of the more important life-affecting issues, issues that affect a good many Americans, that the Busheviks and GOP have been on the wrong side of and either corrupted or attempted to corrupt for their own selfish political purposes.
Medi-Care prescription drug plan giveway to pharmaceutical industry
Social Security privatization
Government funding of faith-based initiatives
Stem cell research
Torture/extraordinary rendition/Guantanamo Bay
Terry Schiavo/right to privacy
No Child Left Behind underfunding
Walter Reed scandal
Underfunding Veteran's health care
U.S. Attorneys purge scandal
Cheney's secret energy policies
Stacking the federal and Supreme courts with right-wing nutball judges
Global warming denial
Environmental laws rollbacks
Sigh . . . !!
I wish that were the end, but it's not. But I haven't the stomach to list any more. For a really, really comprehensive list go here [click here].
In closing, even though I know I haven't changed a single mind amongst you Bush-is-God 26 percenters, you can take comfort in knowing that your slavish devotion and loyalty to a rat-fucking loser like George W. Bush has not gone unnoticed by your fellow countrymen. And as the Republican party and their intellectually and morally bankrupt version of conservatism is slowly led by their phony cowboy leader and his thug henchmen into the bottomless shithole of political and ideological irrelevancy, you can be assured us sane folk will be there to graciously and humbly hold open that shithole hatch for each and every one of you who chose to follow them -- and for as long as it takes -- to rid our system of Representative Democracy of the whole rotten lot of ya.
I'll leave you with one last quote from a famous American Patriot (unless the right-wingers have declared him a traitor too) Benjamin Franklin:
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
And with that, I've said my piece and made my peace.
----krazee
