Madness of King George

Who’s going to tell Bush he’s mad? It’s going to come down to either Laura, if she can speak through the Xanax-induced haze, or failing that, Barney. Do you see anyone else who’s going to do it?

Does anyone at all have the guts to just come out and say to his face “Mr. President, you are insane”?

Daddy’s attempted last-ditch intervention has failed. The ’80s Criminal Cabal Wise Men’ve given their recommendations, publicly and in no uncertain terms (no frills, but politely, as befits a sitting head of state, even one that’s gone insane) and still Bush says he needn’t take any notice.

He’s the deciderer, see, and no-one can do the deciderin’ like he can even if the decisions are for shit:

White House advisers say Bush won’t react in detail to the ISG report for several weeks, while he assesses it and awaits various internal government reports on the situation from his own advisers. Bush tells aides he doesn’t want to “outsource” his role as commander in chief. Some Bush allies say this is a way to buy some time as the president tries to decide how to deal with rising pressure to alter his strategy in Iraq and hopes the critical media focus on the Iraq war will soften.

He wants to buy time? What time? There is no bloody time. The streets of Baghdad are littered with the corpses of the tortured and murdered. 1000 people are leaving Iraq every single day:

More than 1,000 Iraqis a day are being displaced by the sectarian violence that began on Feb. 22 with the bombing of the Shiite Askariya shrine in Samarra, according to a report released this week by the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration, a U.N.-associated group.

This increasing movement of Iraqi families, caused by the lack of security and by the growth of armed local militias and criminal gangs, is adding to the already chaotic governmental situation in Baghdad, according to U.N., U.S. and non-governmental reports released over the past weeks.

When families who fled from Baghdad to Qadisiyah, a fairly safe district south of the capital, were questioned by the IOM about why they left their homes, “almost all said it was due to direct threats to their lives . . . letters, anonymous calls, graffiti on their homes or in their neighborhoods.” All were Shiites.

The internal refugees are creating a growing humanitarian crisis that, the IOM report says, will primarily affect single women, children, and the sick and elderly as winter approaches. Security fears appear well-founded: A report Wednesday by the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq said the number of Iraqi civilians killed in October reached 3,709, a monthly high.

Many residents, especially professionals, are fleeing the country in larger numbers. The U.N.’s High Commissioner for Refugees said earlier this month that up to 2,000 Iraqis a day are going to Syria and an additional 1,000 a day to Jordan. Overall, the High Commissioner estimates that since the war began in March 2003, 1.6 million Iraqis have been displaced internally and up to 1.8 million are living outside the country.

For every minute Bush tries to deny the inevitable, for every moment the people around Bush pander to his madness, the more they stand frozen like rabbits in the headlights as sycophantic impotence personified, more people die for no good reason, civilians and troops alike.

The cowardly Democrats don’t have the guts to do a damned thing either (except for Cynthia McKinney, whose parting shot to Congress was an impeachment bill). And, in the middle of a constitutional crisis the likes of which the US has never seen, what is the Democrat political hopeful doing? Denouncing the regime and calling for immediate change?

Hell, no. Hillary Marie Antoinette bloody Clinton, unbelievably, is out campaigning against video game violence with Turncoat Joe bloody Leiberman. Fantastic.

The best the opposition’s come up with so far is some pussyfooting, ‘we have no plans to impeach’ triangulating obfuscation, while the world is crying out, desperate for someone, somebody – anybody, even a dog – to step up and tell it straight to the boy Chimperor’s face.

Blair won’t do it: he’s had his chance and bottled it too many times to count. Despite his continued sycophancy and the fact that British forces are filling the gaps in his own ranks Bush is turning on his former allies. Even if Blair were to get finally a grip, pick up the phone tomorrow mrning to call Washington and finally expiate the sin of Iraq by giving it to Bush straight, I doubt Bush’d even take his call.

The president is as isolated and alone as any president has ever been, so now is the perfect time to strike and put an end to this tragic farce of a presidency. Somebody get this psycho out of the Oval Office before he kills all of us, please.

If somebody does, that somebody, human or canine, will win the undying gratitude of the whole planet.

But what’s this? It looks like Barney may actually be too busy to save the world:

WASHINGTON Dec 8, 2006 (AP)? Just in time for the holidays, America’s best-known Scottish terrier is back with a new video on the White House Web site.

It’s “Barney’s Holiday Extravaganza,” a production that follows Barney around the White House as he plans a holiday show, runs into trouble developing a plot and then wrangles over his budget with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Budget Director Rob Portman.

The supporting cast includes President Bush, his wife, Laura, entertainer Dolly Parton, three-time Super Bowl champion and “Dancing with the Stars” winner Emmitt Smith, political strategist Karl Rove, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, Press Secretary Tony Snow and others.

Miss Beazley, the Bushes’ other Scottish terrier, and the first cat, Willie, also make appearances.

We really, really are fucked, aren’t we?

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