First Karl Rove, and now Alberto Gonzales. The Bush administration
is clearing brush from its pathetic ranks, but let's not fool
ourselves: They're not doing it to save face. Or because they finally
saw the error of their ways.
George W. Bush may be many things, but contrary to popular opinion, he's no idiot. With weights like Alberto V05 and Turd Blossom hanging around his neck, there was simply no way he could ever compete with the news cycle, which fed on those guys like Rupert Murdoch feeds on apathy. Everything the Bush administration did or wanted to do would have been filtered through those twin monsters and their flippant lack of compassion and culpability.
But now with them out of the way, Bush can take better control of the perception industry, and steer his doomed administration into the type of "bipartisan" waters that the Democrats have been drowning in since they took over Congress. After all, the Democrats did everything from give Bush the keys to the Iraq War and greenlighting the Patriot Act to exploding what terrorism can be with the Military Commissions Act.
In other words, we are still going to war with Iran. Or we're going to at least carpet-bomb the shit out them, just as Bush's predecessor in institutional lunacy Richard Nixon did to Cambodia, long after the Vietnam War was an utterly lost cause.
Call it the last throes. Call it wargasm. But just make sure to call it before Christmas. By then, we should be swimming in Bush's last plans for his doomed legacy.
If you think that the Bush administration is going to sit idly by while they have a year left to invade or assassinate someone, you need to think again. The American people have won nothing at all with the recent fleeing of Gonzales and Rove. Bush's hyperreal war machine is still humming at optimal speed, and it could trample us all if we sit back and chill, thinking that the loss of two losers amounts to anything more than musical chairs.
Don't get comfortable. Our job isn't over. It's just beginning.
And if you're the attorney general but you can't remember a god damn thing then you shouldn't have had the job in the first place.
With them out of Washington, Democrats will have a more difficult time getting Republican help to go after them.
Reid wants to go after the attorney general, but he will have zero support from across the aisle. And now they'll all sing about how the Democrats don't want to legislate, just investigate blah blah blah.
Smart move as both had outlived their utility.
Now, I'm just speculating here, but is it possible that there is at least one thing that Bush would want from the Justice Department that even Gonsalez blanched over and so refused to go along with?
If so, you all have any thoughts as to what that might be?