Our Unhinged President-King
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by Glynn Wilson
Bring on the strait-jacket, please.
It is kind of hard to keep up with all the news when your Web server is being pummeled by casino spammers from George W. Bush's home state of Texas. But I did manage to catch a good bit of the president-king's press conference yesterday, enough to see our commander in poop go unhinged one more time.
The Associated Press moved a story saying Bush dismissed the CIA leak story as "old news."
"It's been a tough issue for a lot of people in the White House," Bush dissembled.
Really? How tough? It has been a tough issue for the country and the Constitution as well, not to mention all of Valerie Wilson's contacts around the world.
Do we have to keep reminding the president and the country that Bush said he would get rid of anyone involved in the leak way back when?
But ole Karl Rove is still there in the White House, advising the president, no doubt telling him to keep saying it was al-Qaida in Iraq that was responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
Oh, but wait. There was no al-Qaida in Iraq in September 2001. Saddam Hussein pretty much had that situation under control – until the U.S. invaded, creating the vacuum and civil war there today.
But we can't begin to pull the troops out either, commander "Mission Accomplished" says - because we might be admitting a mistake. And when you are a king, there are no such things as mistakes - only divine coincidences that historians will just have to sort out later.
Meanwhile, at least one prominent Democrat in the U.S. Senate, albeit one from San Francisco, now says Impeachment should be "on the table".
But why wait for a long, drawn out impeachment process that might further damage the reputation of America and its government?
Isn't there some provision in the Constitution for removing a mentally unstable commander in chief?
Come on Nancy. Come on Harry. Call Walter Reed. Get a team of psychiatrists over to the West Wing right away. Tell them to bring an ambulance - and a strait-jacket.
It makes one think of a Tennessee Williams play set in New Orleans, when in the end, Blanche DuBois says, as she is taken away to the insane asylum, "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
Bush's "compassionate conservatism" has just about killed kindness in America, what with former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman being shuffled off to jails in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma and all.
Hey, there's an idea. Any votes for a 12 by 12 cell for Bush?
Or, since these Republicans seem to like monarchy and capital punishment so much, maybe we should just bring back the Guillotine?
Or better still.
Since this frat boy president is having such a "hard" time of it up there in Washington, why doesn't he just resign and take Cheney, Gonzales, Karl Rove and Jeff Gannon with him back to the ranch and be done with this disastrous affair now?
He's already fucked in history.
So here's the deal.
If he resigns now, we won't bring back the Guillotine.
