Sunday Morning Comin’ Down – Part 2

Mouse Circus: The Director’s Cut

(Sorry, seem to have over-written the previous, placeholder post)

On “This Week”

Orrin Hatch and Charles Schumer, followed by Bob Dole and Donna Shalala.

Hatch continues his campaign to be the Last Republican Attorney General for the next 16 years by fiercely laving the President’s taint.

Stephanopoulos to Schumer: Aren’t you more concerned that the public will think the Congress is more interested in investigating and nor legislating.

driftglass: The Public, you will note, is alternately imputed to Not Even Fucking Notice and Think Its All Politics. Translation: Quit looking up Dubya’s dress!!

Schumer: The reason we need an independent investigator is that everyone in the DOJ reports – directly of indirectly – to the Preznit’s consigliere at the top.

Orrin Hatch really took his salts, Viagra, Metamucil and Soul-Thinners today

Stephanopoulos: Well, you’re the one person the Congress would probably confirm as AG. Are you interested?

Hatch (giggling girlishly): Fresh boy!

Stephanopoulos: So…?

Hatch (batting his lashes): I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

Hatch lapses into daydream…


"Gone With The Wingnut"

Hatch: Oh, Dubya! Please, don't go! You can't leave me! Please! I'll never forgive you!

Dubya: I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if an impeachment gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Orrin. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.

Hatch: Don't hold me like that!

Dubya: Orrin! Look at me! I've loved you more than I've ever loved any Republican and I've waited for you longer than I've ever waited for any Republican.

Hatch: [turns his face away] Let me alone!

Dubya: Here's a Preznit of the party of God who loves you, Orrin. Wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me, you're a stuffed shirt sending a Preznit into cruel history with a beautiful memory. Orrin! Kiss me! Kiss me... once...

Stephanopoulos: Yadda, yadda, yadda.

Yadda?

Uh…yadda?

Hatch snaps back to the here-and-now.

Hatch: Gonzalez has been used as a punching bag by Democrats. And some Republicans.

Hatch: I respect Gonzalez.

Hatch: Gonzalez has done some good at the DOJ.

Then it’s”BYO Straw Man Day” on the Panel with David Gergen, Cokie Roberts and Fareed Zakaria.

Gergen’s face time, reminds me of bygone , pre-David Brooks days of weekly debates on PBS when I used to actually looked forward to the give and take.

Cokie Roberts, ever willing to haul any debate into “Why Democrats Are Always Wrong” mudpit: “If Democrats keep trying to out-dove each other they’ll get themselves into the same problem they had ion Vietnam”

Fareed; This is not 1975. The country is in a totally different place. And the Democrats are haunted by the memories of George McGovern.

Cokie (In her best Red Queen accent): As well they should be!

Gergen: There is nothing Republicans would like more that some pussy who would retreat from everything, cooperate with dictators and hold hands and sing "Kumbaya"

And of course, no one anywhere is arguing for that.

Cokie (accidentally dropping a dime on herself): This is a problem of perception. And in politics, perception is everything.

Ahhh. Classic “What poo smell?” mendacity.

Cokie argues in an absolutely perfect circle.

Skanks and Broders like her are in Terrible!Terrible!Danger! of losing control of the public perception of politics. Their whole MSM Free Lunch Program depends entirely on propping up the 40-year-old stereotypes of what Liberals and Conservative are like, despite the fact that reality bears no relationship whatsoever to those stereotypes.


So she and her fellow liars frantically work the “Serious” Journalist sandbag line, as the Centrist Levee in which their entire livelihood depends blows leak after crack after breach.

What really freaks her out is that Liberals are in danger of busting completely out of the frame she and her colleagues are desperately trying to keep them stuffed into.

Of being perceived of as regular Americans; pragmatic, Constitution-loving, everyday working people who are terribly concerned with the dark road down which the Christopath Right has led us, and terribly angry at the craven, Beltway-circle-jerk complicity of the MSM in the disaster.

And then...no more Free Lunch for Cokie.

On ”The Chris Matthews Show”

Kelly O'Donnell -- NBC News White House Correspondent, Michael Duffy -- Time Magazine, Gloria Borger -- CBS News/ U.S. News & World Report, David Ignatius -- Washington Post

Kelly O’Donnell: It’s all about Fear.


David Ignatius: This is George Bush’s war. The American People are fed up. They’re tired of this war and feel they were lied into it.

Oh, and Michael Duffy shamelessly lifts my point from 12 days ago ago: That on the one hand the Administration is pumping of the Big Giant Fear of Al-Qaeda …at the same time they are arguing that Al-Qaeda is weak, on the run and we are kicking ass against them.

You’re welcome, Mike.

This was all sadly inevitable, predictable and predicted when you are stuck with a delusional, fanatical White House whose whole Strategy was, is, and always will be: “Army Group Steiner will save us!!



From The News Blog, June 2005:

Army Group Steiner


How many doors? How many patrols? Will this ever end?

In Hitler's bunker, he repeatedly said that Army Group Steiner would rescue Berlin. The fact that Army Group Steiner was a ramshackle group of units and unable to save itself was of no concern to Hitler. In his mind, Army Group Steiner was the solution to the desperate straits of the German Army.

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Now, the GOP would rather debate Dick Durbin's logical argument that we are slipping down into totalitarian practices, alienating our allies, instead of facing that reality.

A quick look at the WaPo in the last week or so would show the unravelling of Bush's war. Parents are facing off with recruiters and winning. The Iraqis refuse to fight. The Kurds provoke the Turks, Gitmo is now a recruiting tool for our enemies and decried by our allies. Pirates boarded an oil tanker.

So what dos Dick Cheney say? The insurgency is in it's last throes. And Army Group Steiner has stopped the Russians.

We are reaching a crisis point in Iraq. And Bush keeps pretending it isn't happening.

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As long as Bush pretends Iraq is OK, it will only get worse.

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All roads lead to Iraq.

And whether directly (lying about Pat Tillman as a part of the larger effort to keep us in Iraq forever, or handing no-bid contracts to Regent Cheney’s friends to make sure all the right people got fat off the blood that was being spilled) or indirectly (stealing elections…to hang onto power… to keep us in Iraq forever) virtually all Administration crimes – high and low -- were Mothered by the Conservative's bone-deep, sneering contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law, and Fathered by the exigencies of maintaining their Forever War in Iraqi.



And as always, even from beyond this vale of tears, Steve Gilliard has the last word.

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