We Are All Dubya's Doormat

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We Are All Dubya's Doormat

News flash for ordinary Repubs and born-agains: Bush doesn't care about you,

either

- By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

 

This just in: millions of moderate Republicans and gay-terrified evangelical

Christians and intellectually numbed conservative parents who thought they were

doing some sort of good by blindly voting for Dubya and hence protecting their

wee ones from swarthy Islamic evildoers who want to steal their kids' Kraft

Lunchables and nuke Disneyland all should be emerging from a deep fog of savage

denial any minute now.

Wake, they will, to the increasingly obvious fact that their beloved smirkin'

president, the one who seemed to care about them so deeply just a couple weeks

ago and who reached out to them and promised them the gun-happy gay-unfriendly

moon in exchange for full access to their civil rights and a blank check to do

whatever the hell he likes, he apparently doesn't give a damn about them. Not

anymore.

The truth will soon be hitting much of the conservative nation like a redneck

smacks a dog: now that the fear-saturated Right has handed this failed oilman

four more unrestrained years to do his dirtiest deeds and a deeply contaminated,

well-greased Congress to do it with, he no longer needs their support and he

couldn't care less about their " moral values " or their positions on Social

Security reform or the war in Iraq or just what the hell he meant about spending

the " political capital " he claims he's earned by winning the election (by the

slimmest margin of any incumbent president in history).

Oh, sure, Bush reached out, didn't he, Mrs. Moderate Republican? He made you a

believer. He promised more intolerance for gays and more Bible classes in the

White House and more laughably irresponsible tax breaks you don't really need

and more dumbed-down, black-and-white, good-versus-evil perspectives that take

all the pressure off of having to, you know, think.

And because he unconditionally refused to acknowledge any sort of mistake, any

sort of massive error in judgment or policy related the appalling Vietnam-grade

quagmire that is Iraq, because he stayed " on message " and never fired Rumsfeld

for gross incompetence and because he let the lower-rank military plebes take

the fall for Abu Ghraib and never once wavered in the most disgusting of lies

about why we needed to invade Iraq and kill over 100,000 of their people in the

first place, why, he " earned " your vote.

It's so true, isn't it? Despite proof after proof and report after report and

dead U.S. soldier after dead U.S. soldier, you thought Bush would do better than

Kerry in " defeating " terrorism. No matter that Bush's very actions, his ugly

little war, his very poisonous foreign policy that has so violently destabilized

the Middle East, no matter that this is what has, in fact, amplified the terror

threat a hundredfold and made the U.S. more detested than ever. Ahh, irony. It's

what's for dinner.

And now, your reward. You get to be as misrepresented, as tossed aside, as

openly ignored as the rest of us. Isn't politics fun?

We are all suckers, all losers in this election. Are you a Democrat? Republican?

Doesn't matter. The line is no longer liberal/conservative. It is no longer tax

'n' spend versus cut 'n' deficit, Toyota Prius versus Ford Expedition, happy

godless heathen sodomite versus Mel Gibson.

It is now ultrawealthy, power-hungry Bushite CEO versus, well, the rest. Do you

see? News flash to conservatives: Bush just pretended to care about you, because

he had to, because Karl Rove told him to, because he needed your fear and your

blind faith to win another term. You matter about as much as a U.S. soldier in

Fallujah, now.

 

Oh how you will be disappointed from here on out. Oh how you will gnash your

teeth and sigh your sighs and wonder what the hell happened to your fearful

leader, why you feel so abandoned as your schools implode and your health-care

costs explode and your air quality suffers and your jobs vanish and your women

get smacked back to 1953 and your kids die miserable and forgotten in Iraq.

Because now you get to sit by with the " liberal elite " as we watch in bitter

satisfaction as Bush will now have to wallow in his own nasty, vicious mess, lie

in his own snide and war-torn and economically gutted bed for four more years,

as much of the country sits deeply ashamed and the international community sits

stunned and horrified at our sheer ignorance and gall.

But wait, there's more. See, we know that Bush has never been so beautifully set

up than now for a cataclysmic, Nixon-like fall. This most secretive and

corruption-filled and Rove-stained administration in history, with its 9/11

cover-ups and well-documented stack of fumbles and flubs and murderous

misprisions leading up to the Iraq mess, it is positively bursting at the seams

with potential impeachment-level calamity. You think the Nixon tapes were

ruinous? Just wait for the Bush mumbles.

Every sign points to the fact that history will look back on Dubya Dubya II as

one of the worst-run, least accountable and most abusive, warmongering,

homophobic, environmentally unfriendly presidencies in American history. Which

means either one of two things: there is a very slight chance that Dubya will

now try to ease off some of his party's more heartless and voracious of

policies, if just to try to create a more appetizing and appealing " legacy. "

But don't bet on it. If Rove's recent spittle-filled announcement that Shrub

will again seek a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is any

indication, Bush might very well go the other direction entirely, making history

the cold-blooded, autocratic way: through policies so hollow and self-righteous

and smirking, history can't help but be impressed. After all, neofascism makes

great textbook fodder.

What else? Well, now BushCo has no one to blame but themselves. The neocons own

the White House and Congress. All fingers of blame for most impending disasters

and war ills and social meltdowns point straight back to the GOP. Furthermore,

the U.S. has already crashed through the $7.3 trillion debt limit, thanks to

Bush. Unless Congress raises the debt ceiling ASAP, as BushCo so desperately

demands they do, the U.S. government will run out of cash. We are, in NASCAR

parlance, running on fumes.

This, then, is the sour truth for the Repubs and the born-agains, and the sliver

of bittersweet solace for the liberals. Will it not be laughable, in a

soul-deadening, kill-me-now sort of way, to watch BushCo try to pin the imminent

economic implosions and cultural backlashes and catastrophic social-service

breakdowns this nation now faces on, say, Bill Clinton? Will it not be horribly

amusing to watch this administration sink into its own self-made quicksand?

Will it not be, in short, just all sorts of tragic fun to watch the cancer eat

itself?

 

 

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