Sunday Morning Comin’ Down -- Part 2.

Dubya it is your…Density.

Back on Fox News Sunday...the panel runs in the Mouse Circus hamster wheel for awhile.

Kristol, from deep in his own, private Führerbunker practically screams for more troops, more resolve, more superweapons, more strength, more Iron Will.

“Steiner will save us!”

This truly is, as Steve Gilliard puts it, the last gasp of the Neocons. Their policies have ruined this nation and left the world poorer, more dangerous, more paranoid and more brittle than at any time in recent memory.

It has left us without moral authority, without a flexible military and without room to maneuver.

Which, of course, was always the plan; to dupe us into a corner where things are so dangerously out-of-control that the simpleton in the White House will come to believe he has no choice but to let the atomic missiles fly and roast the half a billion people who are inconveniently sitting on our oil.

That it is God’s Will.

Of course the Conservative Final Solution to the reality Problems is – as always -- to double down the wager with the rent money and double-up the Koolaid.

And, of course, “Neocon” being synonymous for “bellycrawling chickenhawk”, it will all be done on someone else’s dime. On the backs of -- and steeped in the blood of -- other people’s children.

The question that Dems across the teevee spectrum (even Juan Williams, who was obviously treated himself to a double-shot of whatever watery testosterone-analogue they use over at Fox to keep their token Liberal tackling dummies flaccid-but-at-least-minimally-verbal) was this: Ok, tough guy, what would you do?

Juan Williams...oh wait a minute. There is an actual transcript available over at Think Progress.

Well the tubes of the internets are just fulla surprises!

“You just want war, war, war, and you want us in more war. You wanted us in Iraq. Now you want us in Iran. Now you want us to get into the Middle East. … You’re saying, why doesn’t the United States take this hard, unforgiving line? Well, the hard and unforgiving line has been, we don’t talk to anybody. We don’t talk to Hamas. We don’t talk to Hezbollah. We’re not going to talk to Iran. Where has it gotten us, Bill?”

We have invaded and conquered two whole countries and deposed their governments…and the problem it we’re not aggressive enough?

This is in-friggin-sane.

Where has that gotten us, Bill?

Then everyone shuts up while Fred Barnes verbally rewrites history and lies his punk ass off.

Someone needs to tell Fred Barnes and Bill Kristol that the GOP actually won and now has to actually govern. That the irresponsible-bombthrowing-outsider skills that won them power now sound absolutely de-ranged as they continue to scream that the government is not nearly trigger-happy enough.

Having watched Dodd and Allen, I think Liberals all just need to smile more.

Apparently that’s the trick.

George Allan can lie in the dirt like three hectares of AstroTurf, but he keeps his lobotomized grin stamped on his face at all times and so I guess he's not "angry".

And Pat Robertson is really, certifiably insane, but he keeps on a’grinnin’ as he vomits crazy in every direction, and he rolls on and on and on.

Jerry Falwell is bloated evil incarnate, but as long as he keeps the Happy Face up 24/7 he can inhale oxygen and exhale hate every day of his life and his Little Bus Christian Followers will fall for the okey-doke every single fucking time.



On This Week...we get Real News directly from Lebanon and Israel.

Q (for Israeli spokesman): What about Putin’s criticism of your response?

A from Issac Hertzog (the Israeli spokesman): Perhaps we should respond to terrorists like Putin has?

Ouch!

Condi Rice shows face again. Same suit/same cards.


On Face the Nation...Real News this time directly from Israel.

Condi Rice: Same suit/same cards, opining that any suggestion that Iraq has made the situation worse is...”grotesque.”

Madeleine Albright: I have no explanation for why he [Bush] hasn’t called [the Israeli Prime Minister]. ...I am stunned – frankly stunned – that we are not involved in this…we can’t wait for the fighting to stop.

Albright: There is no question in my mind that Iraq has distracted us from other, real problems. Iraq is turning out to be a huge disaster. With many, many unintended consequences, one of which has been empowering and embiggening of [Iran and Hezbollah.]

Q: And what Condi said about Iraq? The “grotesque” thingie?

Albright: This Administration is living in some kind of parallel reality. And it is absolutely clear that our involvement in Iraq has made the situation worse.

Thence a panel...with Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts, George Will and Fareed Zakaria.

Fareed: The reason Dubya’s isn’t saying shit is because he’s tacitly signaling his OK for Israel to do what it’s doing. Israel’s reaction is right, but the question is, “Is it smart?” Hezbollah is a movement among 1.4 million Shia in Lebanon. For the first five bombs, you blame the guy who instigated it. By the 500th bomb, you blame the people dropping them on you.

The quoting of Bill Kristol pops up again. Again with his blank check demands for more of the same to the tenth power, and his capacious silence about how we actually get “more”.

Well Lordy, this Sunday George Will actually got pissed-off at his own species. Of course to explain the failings of chaos junkies like Kristol, Will has to pretend that they're not "real" Conservatives...

Will: The most radically misname group in D.C. are the “neocons” who say, “Why put off until tomorrow when you can have a war today?” Sheeet. What a pack a’ wankers. And the only sweat they break over this suggestion to add napalm to a truck fire comes down to, “well, sure, there may be repercussions..”


Meet the Press...and again, genuine Real News from Lebanon.

Then comes Biden v. Gingrich, followed by the Novakula.

The Biden piece is worth your attention if/when it goes online.

Here’s the Short Version: Newt will have to be fitted for diapers and a pee bucket, because he’s gone have to stay seated in his chair for the next 30 years. Have to be carrier by his stump-necked bearers from hog-trough to neocon circle jerk to mistress and back again.

Because Biden just administered a mighty sweet, Five-Point Palm Exploding Heart beat down of the former Spokesrodent of the House.

Biden just beat Newt stupid. Seriously, I was afraid the G-Man would start shitting himself, running in circles and then expire.

This whole conversation is the result of Newt’s eternal and priapistic hard-on to be Preznit…and his assumption that his wingnut followers are too cinderblock-stupid to see through his latest geopolitical “Theory of Everything”.

That we are now hip-deep in World War Three...

Newt (while we all remember that all Sunday Morning quotes are approximate or just kooky make 'em-ups): We should tell Iran and Syria decisively that we will take action if they don’t rein in Hamas and Hezbollah.

The Newt WWIII calculus is this; there are many wars and nutty people in many countries. Korea = the Canadian nuts = the New York loonies (who were Christians) = the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand = Rasputin = Guy Fawks = Attila the Hun = the Boston Strangler = Steve Bartman = Slim Shady = Fat Bastard = Paper Lace =

Of course, there have been wars and bad people and nut-jobs since the world was young.

Timmy: Do you think – as some people suggest – that Dubya hasn’t engaged the Middle East enough?

Biden: Are you fucking kidding me? I don’t believe the President HAS a Middle East policy.

Newt: We should tell them that an attack on Israel is an attack on America.

What the hell? Did I actually hear that right?

Biden: We have dug ourselves such a deep hole that everyone knows we can’t do boo-boo. If we had any credibility in that part of the world, we could unite the Sunni powers, who are terrified of a United Shia Front. But a certain nitwit from Crawford pissed it all away...

But people doubt our judgment. People don’t believe we have a plan.

Biden’s word for the day is “Perspective”.

For all of Newt’s ridiculous, careless, fact-free allegation, the answer comes back laced with these kinds of questions...

What is the evidence?

What is the actual nature of the threat?

What’s the actual plan?

Who are our allies?

What are the outcomes?

How, specifically, does your plan get us to your stated outcome?

You know, all those questions for which demagogues never have an answer.

Timmy: It’s easy to talk tough, “It’s a lot easier to start a war than stop one.”

Newt begins “Well you know Tim, after 9/11…” and I know how shocked you are that to find that when the mole rat is cornered, Newt will 9/11 as punctuation.

As pigskin to wrap another sentence diseased-bratwurst-packed-full-of-lies for public consumption.

Newt continues that we are suffering from “...a failure of intelligence and ‘imagination’. When in doubt, I want us to be ‘very strong’.”

Notice how this powerhouse and leading intellectual light of the Neocon Movement cannot answer a simple fucking question.

Timmy: But..but...but isn’t this policy the Bush policy? Isn’t this a condemnation of George Bush?

Newt: It’s not a condemnation of, uh, Bush. It’s just, uh, a condemnation of where American policy is right now.

Of course, Timmy is never, ever gonna call a Conservative a bad name no matter how vigorously that Conservative just rubs his ass in Timmy’s face and chortles. Still,
to his credit, Punkin’ Haid had the good taste to look utterly baffled. There was even some beetling of his mighty brow. Rather like the expression on a not-very-bright dog’s face should you were to throw a snowball into a snowbank and say “Fetch!”

Biden just kept pounding away. Be specific.

The closest Newt got to specificity was -- as far as I could make out -- a bold call to increase the wattage and broadcast hours of the Voice of America into South Korea and Iraq.

Newt is Conservative Cognac; a hard-liqueur-crazy distillate of basic Wingnut Koolaid, Hate Radio rhetoric and Neocon delusions of a Greater Republican CoProsperity Sphere.

He is...turbonuts.

So when Newt deigned to offer a specific answer at the “Mr. Rubber, meet Mr. Road” level, it was such a typically batshit lunatic Gingrichism that I couldn’t really comprehend it. Apparently the VOA outside of rogue nations is being run on a crystal-radio-set-operated-by-a-narcoleptic basis.

And that should change.

But I could be wrong.

Then Newty snapped on his Booga-Booga Mask and posited a hypothetical tanker carrying a hypothetical nuke into a hypothetical harbor.

And that means we should bomb the living crap out of South Korea.

Or Iran.

Or Venezuela.

Or Burkina Faso.

‘Cause they’re all in on it! All of ‘em! Sneaky sneaks, all conspiring to nuke Seattle and steal out precious bodily fluids!

Or something.

Biden: That bomb in the rusty hull of the hypothetical Panamanian freighter? The one that Fatty Scarebuckle here is using to try to frighten you into doing something stupid?

1. Ok, there is a threat to our ports so instead of freaking out, let’s ask what have we done. Actually done. I called for better port security. Three years ago. If these clowns were serious about that, specific threat, why have we done nothing about port security?

2. The GOP “plan” for Newt’s Doomsday Scenario has been to piss away precious time and money by porking-alloting and misallocating National Security funds to protect petting zoos in Shelbyville while cutting taxes for billionaires.

3. I agree that we’re big & strong. In fact, we’re so big, we’re so strong, why not sit down with the Kimster and tell his what’s what? Here’s what you get. Here’s what you give. Here’s what happens if one of your missiles lands anywhere outside of a test range. Here’s what happens if you get frisky and start firing on the South or getting flea-markety with your nuclear capacity.

The Chris Matthews Show...is where I lost all interest in the Mouse Circus except for two items.

First, Dan Rather was on. Which was kinda weird.

Second, this by BoBo Brooks on whether or not the discovery of the idea of “patience” is a really-truly change of Dubya’s heart, or just more politics being played with national security.

Brooks: They still believe in democratizing the world. They tried it and it led to some chaos “in the short term”. In the long term they still believe...

Shorter Brooks sub-audible prayer:

How many friedmans must we wait, oh Lord?