Divorced From Reality

I can't believe I'm citing Dan Fucking Quayle, but with the latest headlines touting Shrub's latest attempt at speechifying, the first thing that came to my mind was close enough to "What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is." I might as well give credit...

Oh for the days when the VP was merely a dingbat/airhead.

So, it looks like the dauphin is adopting a Rumsfeldian "metric" for "defining success" in Iraq--that is to say, as long as we ignore death and mayhem, hostage taking, suicide bombs, official lies, etc. etc. etc., things are going just great. Besides, electricity is so overrated anyway, as Iraqis of all persuasion now know.

Meanwhile, it looks like other headlines will push Shrub's speech aside--but, after giving it a closer look, it's evident the pResident is as loony as Rummy. Two and a half years after Mission Accomplished, the boy-in-chief is now lauding our successes in exactly two cities, Najaf and Mosul, the former recently in the news for giving Iyad Allawi the shoe treatment, the latter presently below the radar...but already taken over by insurgents last winter (while Team Bush trumpeted their success to the south in much less heavily populated Fallujah, which, thanks to their handiwork, is even LESS populated but no less hostile--but I digress)...and Mosul could probably be taken again by insurgents when they so choose.

Otherwise, Shrub's latest drone was only notable for its utter lack of anything noteworthy: generalities about painted schools or the odd plumbing fix, 9/11, Zarqawi, Zawahri, stay the course, and freedom, freedom, freedom.

Hell, Shrub and his neo-con/wingnut phalanx of synchphants--AND their fellow travelers in the press--haven't the first idea of what freedom means in THIS country, much less almost halfway across the planet. Do they speak ANY arabic? No. Do they visit with the people over there and ask them questions? No. Do they even seek out individuals who might be able to make a legitimate claim to popular support in Iraq? Of course not. Instead, they throw around platitudes for domestic consumption HERE (as evidenced by the fact that a pollster was called in to help draft the speech in Annapolis) while not bothering to ask Iraqis if they wanted to be the test case for the hastily concocted "flypaper" strategem--which isn't working anyway.

But again, while I'm angry--livid--I'm not all that surprised by Dodo-in-Chief's effort. Here at home, business as usual, i.e., we've got fine instances of cronyism where they don't even bother to pad the payroll in Tammany Hall fashion, that is, just throw the money and don't bother with even creating a few patronage jobs. Members of Congress show off their inner feelings of racial superiority as they continue to single out this hurricane season for scrutiny...something they most decidedly DID NOT DO in 2004...which all adds up to a government that presently spends upwards of $6 billion dollars a week to accomplish absolutely nothing overseas (well, except for the deaths of our own soldiers and Iraqi citizens) while spending almost NOTHING on rebuilding an area critical to the economy of the nation.

They're completely fucking delusional. What else can you say?