Bush: Still a Doofus

Work kept me busy yesterday; hence no posts...then, this morning, I came across this story (Atrios had a link yesterday, so you've probably seen it)--so the government is funding "abstinence" sex education programs that flat out lie...to the tune of $170 million dollars. Why am I not surprised?

Because...Bush is a doofus.

Why wouldn't Bush push this kind of bullshit? You can go to any era of George W. Bush's life--from his boozy, powdered youth to the present--and he all but shouts out from the rooftop, "I'm a moron."

"Now watch this drive."

You know, this country might be so insular, and enough of its citizens so isolationist that their voting preference becomes a matter of "who they'd rather have a beer with," but the issues facing the world are quite real, and will require decisive leadership--and no one can come up with a SINGLE case where George W. Bush has shown anything remotely resembling leadership. In fact, his life screams the opposite.

Take a look:

Bush's youth? Drinking, snorting, arranging for abortions for girlfriends, compulsory community service following what was probably an arrest for drugs, drunk driving, or something like that--you know, that almost makes me think he's not such a bad guy after all...except that Bush is a hypocrite, preaching a totally different message these days (except for when it comes to his daughters, who seem determined to do what he did, not what he says--and daddy apparently doesn't give a shit, although he had plenty of young men and women busted during his tenure as governor). Then there's the matter of his National Guard "service," , which could be summed up as "while many were called to serve their country, George W. Bush served...himself another glass of bourbon."

Bush as a businessman? See for yourself. Bush and profitability were in what I believe mathematicians call an inverse ratio. There's a shady stock deal thrown in for good measure, some international cronyism involving both the bin Laden family and the government of Bahrain, and, when it suited him, big bucks from the public till to build his team a baseball stadium.

Then there's his record as Governor of Toxins--I mean Texas. Short version: don't breathe too deeply and pray you don't get convicted of murder.

As for the Bush presidency? More bullshit, with an extra large side helping of lies. Commander Codpiece was straight out of the third world/banana republic playbook. Mission Accomplished and Bring em on are not only an insult to the troops, but display a profound ignorance of basic military principles and strategy--which isn't exactly what you want from a commander in chief. Bush could have done just as much by announcing "as a matter of fact, I AM a doofus" to the entire planet.

Consider: before Bush's foolish invasion of Iraq, the United States was in a position of overwhelming strength in the region. Now, thanks to Operation Go Fallujah Ourselves, we're in a position of profound weakness (mirroring what he did with the economy), hemorraging lives and money. The best Bush can claim is that he got rid of the Don Fanucci of the Middle East, which could have been accomplished in any one of myriad ways--if that's actually what we wanted to do in the first place. Given that our choice for the New Iraq was Ahmad Chalabi (before he managed to bite the hand that bribed him one too many times), then Iyad Allawi, i.e., the New Don Fanucci, there's no fucking way anyone can say the war was fought to end the "suffering of the Iraqi people."

Yes, the world notices this. They see through the lies designed to whip up war fever, they notice things like the fact that Bush's response to the August 6, 2001 p.d.b. (Title: bin Laden Determined to Strike U.S.) was to go golfing and fishing, they're rightly appalled that the man who is PRESIDENT, for chrissakes, won't admit to a single error in judgment when, on his watch, we've seen Camp X-Ray, Camp Delta, the Gonzalez torture memos, Plamegate, Abu Ghraib, the whole shameful and wanton destruction of Iraq (including, in another display of third world/banana republic imagery, the ridiculous "Coalition of the Willing"), the giving up on working for a Palestinian/Israeli peace settlement, the active and tacit support for subversion of democracy in the Caribbean and South America, the A.D.D.-like loss of interest in catching bin Laden (which exposes the entire planet to danger, given that the "global war on terror"--unilaterally declared by Bush--happens to involve the GLOBE, as evidenced by tragedies like the Madrid train bombings, towards which the Americans responded by...accusing the Spanish of playing politics with tragedy--hmmmm, if I recall the GOP did their level best to fuse themselves with 9/11 almost from the moment it happened) and so on.

And yes, 55 million Americans, who don't equate public policy with NASCAR or professional wrestling notice all this too. And more. We see in Bush a man who refuses to show a shred of responsibility for ANY of the things he's done as president. And, unlike the wingnuts who have a bizarre, cult-like attitude towards him, we see, instead, a little man, more of a boy really, who, believe me, will one day be judged for the actions he's taken--and not judged for the better. History will serve a cold dish of revenge when Bush's administration is chronicled.

Now watch this drive.