BARBARA BUSH AND THE WRETCHED DICK CHENEY

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December 4, 2005

 

Barbara Bush and the wretched Mr. Cheney

by Mike Whitney

 

 

http://www.opednews.com

 

One of the few bright spots in an otherwise bleak news week was an

oddball account of Barbara Bush going ballistic over the way her boy-

George has been abused by other members of the administration.

 

Huh?

 

Apparently, Lady McBush got it into her steely-blue helmet-head that

Dick Cheney and Co. have " undermined " the commander-in-chief and are

responsible for his plummeting popularity. According to Steve Clemons

of " The Washington Note " the First-mother is on the war-path and

may " call on Nancy Reagan to get a refresher lesson on how she took

on and kicked out then Chief-of-Staff Donald Regan " .

 

" Cut-throat Nancy? "

 

Normally, this type of " he-said, she-said " story is only moderately

interesting, but the prospect of Nurse Ratchet unloading on Dick

Cheney is bound to put a jolt in anyone's pacer.

 

Is this the " last throes " of the sneering V.P.?

 

The Texas matriarch has plenty of reason to be irritated, too. Sure,

she doesn't waste her " beautiful mind " on the wretched minutia of

Washington chitchat, but, don't kid yourself, she knows what's going

on. She's seen Cheney and his spectral-twin Donald Strangelove,

dressing up junior in flannel shirts or navy flight-jackets and

packing him off him to pitch the war to the wary public.

 

She's read the shocking reports from Colin Powell's ex-chief of

staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, claiming that Bush was kept out of the

policy-making loop prior to the invasion of Iraq.

 

She knows her boy has been duped, manipulated, and dragged through

the Washington mud by some real pros.

 

And, " O my Gawd " , she had to endure that mortifying episode where the

Cessna breached White House air-space and the whole capital was

evacuated, but VP Cheney never even told cycling-George that we were

under attack.

 

That's the kind of prickly humiliation that stings for months.

 

Ouch….rip off the band-aid!

 

Now, according to " The Washington Note " , Bar's in a spitting-rage

that would melt the pearls off the neck of a blue-blooded matron; and

Torture-Dick in her crosshairs.

 

Ah-ha, maybe justice isn't dead in America?

 

In fact, Clemons is saying, " Watch out for a lot to change right

after the State of the Union speech " .

 

Is it possible; could Mommy Dearest actually take junior aside and

work up a Shakespearean plan for dumping the dumpy veep?

 

It's possible.

 

Barbara's always been the grittiest street-fighter in the famiglia

Bush; an imperious Wagnerian she-wolf with enough verve and venom to

take down a dozen Cheneys.

 

When Christmas roles around, Barbara will huddle with her Manchurian

progeny and tidy up the details for giving Uncle Dickie the " heave

ho " . That will give Bush the chance to pluck Jim Baker from

retirement and put a new face on the administration.

 

I can just hear the thunderous applause bursting from the op-ed pages

of the Wall Street Journal and the " paper of record " as they praise

the Dear Leader and the dazzling coup that salvaged his nose-diving

presidency.

 

With the albatross, Cheney, gone, Bush will have plenty of

opportunity to hang the leper's rattle on Halliburton's snappish

geezer; blaming the whole Iraqi nightmare on his former VP.

 

Brilliant!

 

We shouldn't " misunderestimate " our simple monarch. He may be an

incurious malingerer with the attention span of a spaniel, but he has

the instincts of a Mafia Don. After Bar gets a hold of him, he'll see

that the only way he can pull himself out of the political ash-heap

is to toss Cheney overboard and start fresh.

 

Cheney's days a numbered; he might as well clean out his desk and

move on back to his bell-tower.

 

 

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