W finally ships out to the ‘Nam – 30+ years too late

Where are Daddy’s connections when you need them? Oh yeah, they’re all busy trying to dig junior out of his godawful catastrophe in Iraq. ... Oops.

Oh dear sweet sonny Jesus, are the late-night comedians going to have a field day with Bush going to Vietnam. The jokes are already busy writing themselves! I’ve decided to sit it out and leave it to the professionals, but I did want to get out ahead of the piling on, and now I have.

Democrats take Congressional power back and the very next week Bush is finally compelled to go to Vietnam? The visit will likely top several news cycles, and all that lovely MSM airtime will have to be filled with speculating about something...

Oh yeah, and in between those two events, Trent Lott, the cracker-ass Senator from Mississippi who Bush couldn’t kick to the curb fast enough during his mini-scandal a while back? Just promoted to the new #2 guy in the Senate. Bet ya didn’t see that one coming either, did you Karl?

Enemies to the Left and to the Right – what’s a self-appointed God’s-Right-Hand-Man to do?

Am I a bad person to be so richly enjoying Bush’s presidency crumbling around his ears?

Fuck no. I’ve been waiting for six years for his karma to catch up with him and it’s come about six years too late. Too late for the thousands of our American brothers and sisters who have died needlessly in Iraq; too late for untold thousands of Iraqi civilians slain in the power vacuum he created over there; too late for Katrina victims, the environment, the minimum-wage earner, this list could go on forever.

Two more years to go (barring the impeachment he so richly deserves). How many more lives? If Bush had gone to Vietnam with his less well-connected peers (as well as some of his equally well-connected peers like Johns McCain and Kerry) thirty-some years ago… I shudder to think of how many lives might have been saved in the last six years and the coming two.