Implosion vs. Impeachment ... The Clock Is Ticking
It is really happening now, and it is a frightening thing. President Bush is cracking up. Losing it. Out of control. On the edge. Imploding.
I know, I know ... people have warned about this before. About him sputtering and squirming in 2004. About his presidency imploding in 2005. About the drinking & drugs starting up again, and Laura leaving him over the affair with Condi.
Yes, the rumors of Bush's mental collapse have, in the past, been exaggerated.
However, I sense something different now. The widespread fact-checking dissection of his SOTU speech, which emphasizes the increasingly common assumption that the man is chronically dishonest, and most dangerously so when speaking publicly. The Senate smack-down on Bush's disastrous stick-it-to-daddy's-friends-with-a-plan-cooked-up-by-a-napoleon-scholar- who-cannot-see-the-Waterloo-parallel effort to send more US troops to die in Iraq. And the spread to the far reaches of the universe - from Motor Trend to Republican Senators - of the increasingly common understanding that Bush's neocon-spawned paranoia is leading this country on a path to destruction. That President Bush is, in effect, the single greatest threat to our national security.
With Libby on trial and his lawyers claiming that he was set up by his superiors as the scapegoat-of-choice to keep the pressure off of Karl Rove - the traitorous, CIA-covert-agent-outing brain behind the Bush rise to office - the heat will only get turned up in the pressure cooker that the White House has now become.
And when the heat gets turned up, George W. Bush turns ugly. The sad thing for all of us is that this isn't just a bad day on the golf course, where Georgie can simply scream obscenities till Mommy sends him home (thus sparing him a loss). It's a bad day alright, but it's on the world stage, it's not Mommy that's going to send him home, and going home isn't going to spare him a loss.
This is all beginning to settle in with the man from Crawford, and it is making for a highly unstable, highly dangerous George Bush. We would do well to get him away from the levers of power before he does even more damage in a moment of rash, grasping, desperation.
I know, I know ... people have warned about this before. About him sputtering and squirming in 2004. About his presidency imploding in 2005. About the drinking & drugs starting up again, and Laura leaving him over the affair with Condi.
Yes, the rumors of Bush's mental collapse have, in the past, been exaggerated.
However, I sense something different now. The widespread fact-checking dissection of his SOTU speech, which emphasizes the increasingly common assumption that the man is chronically dishonest, and most dangerously so when speaking publicly. The Senate smack-down on Bush's disastrous stick-it-to-daddy's-friends-with-a-plan-cooked-up-by-a-napoleon-scholar- who-cannot-see-the-Waterloo-parallel effort to send more US troops to die in Iraq. And the spread to the far reaches of the universe - from Motor Trend to Republican Senators - of the increasingly common understanding that Bush's neocon-spawned paranoia is leading this country on a path to destruction. That President Bush is, in effect, the single greatest threat to our national security.
With Libby on trial and his lawyers claiming that he was set up by his superiors as the scapegoat-of-choice to keep the pressure off of Karl Rove - the traitorous, CIA-covert-agent-outing brain behind the Bush rise to office - the heat will only get turned up in the pressure cooker that the White House has now become.
And when the heat gets turned up, George W. Bush turns ugly. The sad thing for all of us is that this isn't just a bad day on the golf course, where Georgie can simply scream obscenities till Mommy sends him home (thus sparing him a loss). It's a bad day alright, but it's on the world stage, it's not Mommy that's going to send him home, and going home isn't going to spare him a loss.
This is all beginning to settle in with the man from Crawford, and it is making for a highly unstable, highly dangerous George Bush. We would do well to get him away from the levers of power before he does even more damage in a moment of rash, grasping, desperation.
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