Strongman Politics: Bush Becomes Huey Long

Nicholas Kristof was getting pummeled by various newsgroups for his 'anti-Israel' attitude, coupled with the usual racial rhetoric that entails. As I read through his blog comments on THEIR comments on him, it struck me that supporting Israel now or not, this issue is immaterial to the basic debate on The War on Terrorism (it predates it, for one thing) AND the War Against IRAQ (I mean, of course its against the Iraqis ... they still can't tell us who the bad guys are, so they'll just have to suffer, won't they?)

Let me re-phrase the above. We are in a wrong headed war only because of one characteristic of the Bush W Administration: Political Expediency at ALL COSTS.

Has or has not this been the hallmark of the current gang o' thieves in the Big White House? They corralled us into a war in IRAQ as an extension of the War on Terrorism with outright misdirection, bells, whistles, posters and mirrors. Was it Bush losing control of war and foreign policy to the Neo-Cons? Don't forget that both Wolfe and Rumsey signed that letter to Bill Clinton forming the "New American Century" think tank.

Bill was more amenable to the covert concepts from the Neo's, mostly 'cause he wanted to put a hit on both Qaddafi AND Saddamee. But the same guys talked him out of that because the Jesus Nazi's caught him with his johnson hangin' out.

So with Bush in power, the Neo's move in with him, since they will back his Jesus Nazi act. They're practical. They can wait.

And they start putting all the Intel from NSA, CIA, etc through the feed back loop, so that they can cook up the infomercial at the UN they conned Sect of State Colin Powell into MC-ing. Wow, did they hang him out to dry or what?

THEREFORE (big drum roll, please) is it any surprise that they used the same political expediency philosophy in the dismissals of eight federal prosecutors? And isn't this something like the political style of the potential presidency envisioned by Huey Long?

Bush ain't dumb, he's a demagogue. He doesn't stumble on purpose, he makes sure his agenda is met, and makes it look like the little guy effed up. Hence Scooter Libby's ritual sepuku, and the Attorney General's soon-to-come Roman Senator Bath routine (they often were offered an 'honorable death' by cutting their wrists in a warm bath ... echoed in the movie, The Godfather II).

Thank Gawd Bush can't run again. The closest thing to him on the political horizon would be Mitt Romney, but he ain't got a snowball's chance in hell.