Don't Get Comfortable

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.

Comments

[dejavu2]

Every move this administration makes is calculated and always has been. Everything is so transparent that people can't see it. Oh sweet irony!

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.

[Robert59]

Both resignations were calculated moves to split whatever bipartisan support there was targeting Rove and Gonzalez for wrongdoing.

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.

[Spookcatcher]

Now your thunkin! They have brought the time zone down close enough that bush can make recess appointments without senate confirmations. Now while the congress is lulled back too their comlacency and bickering, the administration archetics for the future DIG. they go under and that is where they like to excel. Buyer Beware!

[NoContest]

Dude, you rock. Nobody can get my back up like you can. I agree that a wounded enemy (shrub) is at his most dangerous point ever.

[Audacity Of Hype]

Tricky Dick Cheney would complete the unholy trinity. Then we could get back to bipartisanship and negotiation.

[loslobo]

He's not leaving till the 15th, might want to hold our breath till then.

[Desiderata]

Bush called Gonsalez down the the ranch instead of accepting his resignation via email.

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?

[sarge]

No. Not possible.

[AsaNisMasa]

wargasm. haha i love it. that's going into my vocabulary.