Sunday Morning Comin’ Down -- Part I

Steven Hadley, the ubiquitous Uriah Heep of the Bush White House –-

(No, not that one. The other Uriah Heep.

This one:

“The character is notable for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and general insincerity. … Uriah works as Mr. Wickfield's clerk and because of Mr. Wickfield's alcoholism Uriah controls most of his life and business.”)

-- was everywhere today, like an old, old, old jukebox with the same warped, battle-scarred Neocon 45s playing on and on to an empty bar in an abandoned town.

“Fox News Sunday”: Hadley and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. And Kagan.

Hadley: The Surge is a’surgin’.

He then shapes his mouth to makes a series of noises that sound a lot like this

A-well-a everybody's heard about the surge
Surge, surge, surge, s-surge's the word
A-well-a surge, surge, surge, s-surge's the word
A-well-a surge, surge, surge, s-surge's the word
A-well-a surge, surge, s-surge's the word
A-well-a surge, surge, surge, s-surge's the word
A-well-a surge, surge, surge, s-surge's the word
A-well-a surge, surge, surge, s-surge's the word
A-well-a surge, surge, surge, s-surge's the word
A-well-a don't you know about the surge?
Well, everybody's talking about the surge!
A-well-a surge, surge, s-surge's the word
A-well-a surge...

Funny, Hadley absolutely will not answer Hume’s question about whether or not al-Malaki is wildly wrong about saying that the Iraqis can take care of themselves.

And he is not interested in hearing word-one about the sober opinions of Republicans walking/loping/gamboling/slithering/sprinting away from the White House.

Like some Pontius Pilate with OCD, the cowardly regime dead-enders who run this Administration spend every minute of every day obsessively washing their hands of accountability for the Hell they have loosed on the world.

From his commutation of Traitor Libby to his giddy dismissal of the reeking criminality of his own Attorney General, the Bicycle Chief has made in clear in no uncertain terms that, in all things, the leaders of his Party of Personal Responsibly will be held personally responsible for nothing.

That it will be the “liberal media”, the “extreme left”, the Iraqi people and, “the commanders on the ground” who will be thrown under the bus for every failure.

“Out, damned spot! Out…” they cry. Believing “A little water clears us of this deed.”

And yet now you can almost see the bright red arc of Dubya's fall as it is being drawn across the scrim of merciless history by time the avenger.

See him running in blind, drunken panic from bathroom to bathroom in a near-empty, tomb-silent White House, scrubbing his blood-caked paws in every sink and toilet, with the question he should have learned from a'readin’ all them “shakespeares” pounding in his ears:

‘Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand?
No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.’

And for the Hell this disaster of President so recklessly unleashed, and all the Hell that is coming, sober history will judge…

"Here's the smell of the blood still:
all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."

Levin: The glass is not half full. The glass has a gaping hole in it. They are making zero progress on the one, key issue and they know it: The political situation necessary to moving everything else.

Hume: Well, nothing but the minimum wage has passed in the Congress. Doesn’t that make you a failure.

Levin flips Hume off and runs down a laundry list of things done so far.

Hume: Do you really, seriously believe that al-Qaeda gives a fig about this political fighting going on in Iraq?

Levin: al-Qaeda is growing in Iraq because we are there. Why the fuck don't you get that?

Levin: Every year, at least 2-3 time, the President has spoken on the subject of the terrrrrific progress in Iraq. Since 2003 we have been told at least twice a year that we are making “great” progress. “Astounding” progress. “Motherfucking awesome” progress.

Levin: The only chance is to force the Iraqi leaders to take responsibility for their own country.

Hume (muttering insanely to himself):

...
And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large American Empire?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful War!
And you may tell yourself
These are not my beautiful lies!

Letting the days go by/let the wingnuts hold me down
Letting the days go by/wingnuts cowering underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/ wingnuts cowering underground.

Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...

The Surgenfuhrer Fred Kagan -- looking every bit like a fat dog's shaved ass in a Fresnel lens -- oozed out of the Neocon bog to blat about why it will take many, many, many more Friedman’s before anyone can say shit about whether of not the Surge is merely brilliant, or transcendentally brilliant.

And of course, is wouldn’t be Sunday without Bloody Bil Kristol gleefully wallowing in the blood and misery he helped unleash, and just lying his sociopathic ass off:

(h/t Think Progress)

We’re not in a civil war. This is just not true. American troops are attacking al Qaeda. They’re attacking some elements of the Shi’a militias. They’re doing other things, helping with reconciliation. They are not in the middle of a civil war. It’s not true.

On “This Week”: Uriah Hadley, then Sens. John Warner, R-Va., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind.

Stephanopoulos: Commander Cuckoo-Bananas keeps saying that Iraq was responsible for 9/11. Why is your boss such a lying shitbag?

Hadley: Surge! 9/11/9/11/9/11/9/11.

Stephanopoulos: But al Quaeda in Iraq wasn’t there before we invaded. These aren’t the people who hit us. And, in Iraq, they’re only a sliver of the violence.

Hadley: Surge? 9/11/9/11/9/11/9/11.

Then, on to the Republican Senator Goodhair Parade!

Warner: The generals advise, but the Bicycle Chief is the Decider.

Lugar: al Quaeda everywhere is a problem. To say that we are fighting the same people in Iraq as attacked us on 9/11 is, of course, a gross oversimplification. In fact, it’s not particularly accurate.

Helpful driftglass translation: Dubya is a liar. But I can’t say he’s a liar and keep my job.

End Part 1 of 2

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