Bad Policy, Worse Public Relations

Guaranteed Toxic if Shrub Touches it.

Toxic...if I had to choose a one-word description of pretty much every public policy pursued by Team Bush, that's the word.

Their capacity for extreme violence and destruction, as witnessed by their hyperventilating for multiple wars--wars that have gone bad faster than the rot from a Katrina Fridge--is matched only by an equally shocking inertia when it comes to cleaning up the mess made on their watch--the mess along the Gulf Coast, the financial mess resulting from running the national debt up faster than a teenager with their parents' car & credit cards, the international political mess...Team Bush is as toxic as the I-10 corridor between Lake Charles and Houston.

Today I saw the term "constructive chaos" at America Blog--though this was used to describe foreign policy, it could just as easily apply to New Orleans, where yet another report notes a level of despair that I imagine could be multiplied even further in places like Iraq and Afghanistan--speaking of, there's yet more news regarding two atrocities we know about--the Haditha massacre and the "kill them all" order last May in Samarra...and, while we know of other "incidents," I don't doubt for a moment there are even more we DON'T know about.

Lebanon is still on the receiving end of a savage collective punishment--punishment Rush Lamebone fully endorses and which is fully in tune with the twisted logic of Osama bin Laden. And it's a virtual certainty that this war will be as bad for Israel as the present twin quagmires of Iraq and Afghanistan are for us...between the outrage of those we're "liberating" and the stresses borne by the "liberators" (i.e., the military), does anyone doubt there will be MORE violence in the future?

And this crap will feed on itself. Thanks, Team Bush.

Athenae put it well-- it's THEIR mess and it's time they were called to task:

And the minute some right-wing blowhard like Norm Coleman, or that weird little plastic creature Santorum, or some other jerkoff of the week, goes on TV and says, "They have no plan for Iraq," these hawkish Dems should say, "So now you want us to fix your mistakes? Talk about the party of personal responsibility."

Because the minute you act like it's your assigned task to change the sheets, you take the focus off the guy who shit the bed in the first place. It's their mess, and they should have to lie in it all night long.