That Feckless Fuck

Well, so much for trying to keep this page moderate. Bush's victory-lap of speeches leading up to The Great Day in Iraq (right now, as a matter of fact) are as embarrassing as they are years late.

This just in: President accepts responsibility for own actions! Breaking news: Compassionate Conservative President shrugs off laughably low-ball estimate of 30,000 Iraqis killed since the American occupation! Flash: President admits what the rest of the world has been howling in unison for years now - he took us to war on 'flawed' intelligence! If this dope lives to be a hundred, just think of all the startling revelations that will be dragged kicking and screaming out of his Lie-Hole. The mind reels.

What's even more depressing is that new polls suggest this gun-to-his-head show of carefully-parsed candor is playing with John and Jane Bumpkin in the intellectual hinterlands. Even the mainstream media is getting on board again, with W uncharacteristically granting 'exclusive' TV interviews left and right. Wow, access to the President? That changes everything! The shithead who pedaled while New Orleans drowned is suddenly a sober and serious statesman.

This guy is held to a lower set of ethical and professional standards than the fry cook at the local Burger King. And the rubes and the media whores eat it right up and then dutifully puke it back at us on talk radio, the blogosphere and the first 20 minutes of the “Today” show.

The Man Cub and his digestive dilemmas have left me too sleep-deprived to put forth a full-length rant, and anyway, beyond this anything I have to add would be redundant.

So yippie for gun-barrel “democracy” in Iraq. Yippie for purple fingers and the fundamentalist Islamic, America-hating regime we will see installed before the inevitable descent into full-scale, even-Bush-can't-pretend-it-away civil war that's brewing up there.

Oh, my little Man Cub. I've brought you into a world that is hopelessly broken and all I can do is bitch about it. I only hope when the inescapable conclusion of our arrogance and willful stupidity comes, that it will be as swift and painless for you and as it is brutal and prolonged for the bastards who will have brought it down upon our once-great nation.