It’s ignorant shit like this—on WaPo’s page A01, no less—that’s got our country sliding down the greasy slope toward monarchy. The lead from loyal subject Peter Baker:
By the time He arrived in Prague in June for a democracy conference, Bush was frustrated. He had committed his presidency to working toward the goal of “ending tyranny in our world,” yet the march of freedom seemed stalled. Just as aggravating was the sense that His own government was not committed to his vision.
Gawd, Peter, get up off your knees, wouldja? The government is not “his” government. It’s our government. Do you understand? Is there any hope that you understand?
And I plowed through Baker’s whole chin-drooling hagiographic authoritarian-loving screed looking for a single mention of the… the what? The screamingly funny? The entirely typical? …. the forehead-banging-ly ironic fact that while Bush speechifies about ending tyranny abroad he’s systematically installing tyranny here at home . See Federalist 47, Peter Baker, you very well-insured and extremely well-paid fluffmeister of hackitude.
Jesus, I better go do something else, or I might get angry.
NOTE Telling detail of life in Versailles on the Beltway:
The group adjourned to lunch in the White House mess, where, Gaddis later recalled in a lecture, Rove recommended the “chocolate freedom tart,” a French desert renamed during the Iraq invasion.
What is it with Rove and chocolate, anyhow? Granted, many times chocolate is just chocolate. Then, again, at other times, it isn’t. Speaking of tarts.
NOTE ON STYLE I always try to capitalize the “h” in “He” or “His” when writing of Bush. Because God is in the White House, eh? And how like God Bush indeed is. If your God is the kind of God who liks to pull wings off flies, that is. (Cf. King Lear, Act IV, scene 1.
UPDATE Damn, I should have kept cool, because if I’d read further I would have seen this quote:
“OVP has this little-girl crush on strongmen,” said an official on the losing side.
Eeeew!
[DICK CHENEY, using Shirley Temple-like voice] Pwease, Mistah Torturer, can I hold your tool? Just for one minute?
Depending, of course, on what you mean by “strong.” Strong as in “strong odor,” I would say.
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Rove's connection is yet ANOTHER reason
… to outlaw the stuff: http://just-john.com/outlaw_chocolate
Bush was "frustrated" and "aggravated"
And he caught some grief for the whole torture thingy, too.
Poor little guy just cannot catch a break.
I KNOW! Let’s give him and his dreamy AG unlimited wiretapping authority! Won’t that make him feel all better?
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