A Confederacy of Dunces Running America Into the Ground

I am the last person on the face of the Earth that would defend or excuse any of these village idiots but it is no mystery how they managed to destroy our country.

They did not destroy it....we did. We are the enablers.

History's final commentary will be about us...not the Great Decider & Friends.

These clowns did not just beam down from the star cruiser and take over. We let them in.

You know, freedom is not an easy thing. It is easy to be distracted by the fruits of that very freedom.

It is easy to believe the lies of people in power or the wannabe's because without exception, they will tell you what you want to hear.

Turn off the TV, toss the Cheetos in the garbage, put down the cell, turn off the porn. Go to the library and read. Get online and read. Question absolutely everything. It may surprise you to discover how and why things are the way they are.

We are rushing towards the point of no return where we will no longer have the power to decide the kind of world that will exist for our children. And we do still have that power. We don't utilize it but it is still there...at least for a while longer.

We are not consumerist sheep for global corporations. You don't need and would be better off without half the crap they have convinced you simply cannot do without.

We are not cannon fodder for a criminal cartel of madmen bent on world domination. See through the propaganda of fear, it is a ruse so they maintain power.

This planet needs America, the real America and not some neo-con Fatherland where the strong prey on the weak.

Wake up already, we just passed a law that allows us TO TORTURE PEOPLE !!!! America...my America...our America...DOES NOT TORTURE people as a matter of course. The same law allows the Decider de jour to lock you up and throw away the key if he does not like your face. The real killer is that only a handful of Congressmen voted against this !!!

So blame the village idiots if you like but I have met the enemy....and it is us.

A Banker, a Lawyer, walk into a Bar:
 
“Maybe we should just get out of Iraq,” that’s what the lawyer said to the banker. They were wearing Big Business suits, letting loose over a couple Macallan on the rocks, about jobs, about golf games, and about politics. I had pulled up a stool, ordered a beer. Both of these guys were a little tense over Bush’s refusal to take Jim Baker's orders to change course in Iraq (or at least Bush's trouble with admitting so in public). The lawyer didn't like Bush's results in Iraq, while the banker had a more specific proclamation, "at least my portfolio is great." The lawyer agreed that he'd done pretty well himself. They both looked over to me for confirmation. I shook my head, neither yes or no. I was caught between thinking about my non-portfolio; about how the mortgage lending formula has increased from lending and collecting according to what would amount to 25% of a family's annual income, to the frightening level of lending and collecting 50% of their annual income; I was wondering about how the price of gas can so radically fluctuate from high prices to lower prices just before all major elections; I was wondering about how Terror warnings always appear at perfect moments to serve Bush's desires for unchecked power, yet when looked into weeks later we discover there was no substance behind the terror claims; I was wondering why the military families across the country are waiting on food lines for handouts because they can't afford a decent meal; I was wondering about the immense and record setting profits of Halliburton, KBR, and Exxon and why soldiers in battle still don't have the proper protection equipment; I was wondering about the thousands of dead US troops, the thousands more who are permanently injured, the hundreds of thousands of killed innocent Iraqi children, women, and men; I was wondering why we still have oil & gas as the nation's source for energy when new technologies are widely available and would provide the USA with a brand new industry to grow, manufacture and export around the world, along with creating a plethora of new jobs; I was wondering about what will happen now that we citizens no longer have a Constitution or a Bill of Rights after the Military Commissions Act, and why anyone in Congress would let that happen; I was wondering why the Government cites the 16th Amendment as authority to take money out our work salaries when we are clearly not working for them (the US is not a Communist state) and the fact that the 16th Amendment was never ratified by the states; I was wondering about how torture and illegal, immoral occupation has increased hatred of the USA around the globe, along with potential terrorists threats; I was wondering about the abandonment of New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina; I was wondering why we citizens were punished with the Patriot Acts which severely cut into our civil liberties when citizens were never the ones who carried out the supposed 911 attacks (the supposed terrorist received visas even though they were on warning lists, so why not fix the visa system, or at least not violate the rules of the visa system already in place at the time); I was wondering about the sudden surge of reports on vote fraud ever since Bush stepped into the race for the presidency; I was wondering why Bush was so bent protecting the nation of nuclear threats by invading Iran (the nation possessing the largest gas reserves in the world, and also the nation promising to move from trading oil & gas away from the petro-dollar to the petro-euro) while North Korea was lighting off Nukes; I was wondering about a lot of things.

"Would you cut and run?" the banker asked me. I had to laugh. The bartender took away a few empty glasses, wiped down a spot on the bar. The banker’s smile widened a bit. “So, what would you do?” he asked me. I'd gather a multinational force to support the Iraq people while they take some time to see if a democracy will form. They both laughed. We did it here the United States in 1776, I told them, where's the proof for Bush's plan. They didn't smile. The banker made a leap, referring to how to handle terrorism. I’m not an expert, I told him, there are plenty more qualified than me, but I know al quada is a small group, correction, in 2001 al quada was a small group. A small group loosely scattered in Saudi Arabia and the broader Middle East with a limited number of bases in Afghanistan aided by the Taliban and their previous and extensive CIA training. I took a sip of my beer. I wouldn't I’m go after a small, mobile, and clandestine operation unit with tanks, billion dollar jets, and space weapons. Something more in line with an extensive police investigation and apprehension would have been better than an all out assault on a random nation, and a lot cheaper, and a hell of lot less blood shed. The banker’s smile was gone. The lawyer told the banker, “He’s making sense.” Our disagreement seems to be over whose plan would have been better, I said. I asked them, how long do you give a guy like Bush with his plan? Everyone knows his history, level of inexperience. He was a cheerleader at Yale with a C average, a failed businessman. I told them that it’s been longer since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor up to their subsequent defeat and surrender than the amount of time which has passed since Bush emphatically vowed, “Osama Bin Laden, Dead or Alive” until the present. Not being one for melodrama, and hoping to settle the matter quickly, I took the discussion to the board room. I asked the two of them, what if the three of us were partners of a very successful corporation? Three Guys Inc.. Imagine we hired a guy like Bush as the new CEO to run things according to his great vision and plan which he sold us on. “Yeah, companies do that all the time,” the lawyer said. “The greater their vision, the greater their financial return,” the banker said. How much time would we give him? What if he’s put the company on the verge of bankruptcy; the company's stock price (us dollar) has been in the pits since he took over, he has not successfully reached one of our company goals in five years; he has alienated us from all of our business associates; the only thing he’s consistent at is losing business and ruining our reputation; he's also replaced our winning staff with radicalized under qualified cronies; he tells lies to all the shareholders at every turn; a few of his assistants have been caught embezzling billions from our company and having sex with our children; and for a kicker, the Special Prosecutor is knocking on the door of Three Guys Inc.. Suddenly the bartender chimed in on the conversation, "It sounds like Three Guys Inc. is heading for disaster." Nobody smiled. I chugged my beer and headed for the door. I told them I don't enjoy sharing drinks and conversation with the enemy.

Not only out but as good as impeached, after which they'll be tried at the International Court of Criminal Justice for their crimes against humanity.

Bush failed in every thing he undertook.

What on earth made anyone think that he'd do any better with the presidency?

I remember thinking the media had to bend over backwards to avoid pointing out that the guy was a moron and a wastrel his entire life.

I was trying to explain to a good ol' boy I know the real reasons behind the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan--money, oil, heroin--and he said, "I don't want to hear it, ol' Bush just invaded Iraq because he had a bug up his butt about Saddam trying to kill his father."

Lots of folks buy into the reductionist notion that Bush and Cheney and company are blundering dunces, blind to Freudian impulses that drive them, because it's easier and somehow more comforting than having to confront the idea that these guys are completely amoral and power mad. They know exactly what they are doing. They are violent gangsters, running the biggest, most dangerous criminal syndicate in the world. They won't ever pull out of Iraq because their fellow crony capitalists are making a fortune, the same way all their buddies made a killing when King George I ran shotgun for them out of the Oval Office during the S&L debacle. They deliberately kill innocent people and ruin national economies on purpose, because there's more money and power in it for them. The purpose of Guantanamo Bay is to demonstrate to the world that they are the masters of universe, answerable to no law and no authority except their own, so don't fuck with them. Don't kid yourself that they're imcompetent idiots. Their "blunders" are not mistakes at all, they're entirely calculated and premeditated, and thoroughly evil.

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All you say is absolutely true. But dunces they are not. What these men with are whom Bush associates and certainly is himself, what they all are-

1. The have no vested, financial, social interest in the USA (they made their money and are now independent of what happens to the USA);
2. They are determined to re-birth the USA into a 2nd world economy and bind us into something that is Mexico-Canada-USA in which opportunity, language, economies drop to the lowest level and Spanish becomes either the primary language or even with English- USA loses it's independence;
3. None of this group values our military men but devalues them as Kissinger says- pawns to be used and discarded.

The greatest concern resides in Camp Pendleton. How does "Bush a Christian" believe the words of the enemy during war to imprison the men he sent into conflict and contrives evidence to show guilt and then sentence to death or life in prison???

Bush and his pals are not dunces they are as evil as they come.

The democrats need two ads...one with video of bush flip flopping on bin laden, from "dead or alive" to "don't really care"...and one showing all the "stay the course" tapes followed by his recent "i never said, stay the course, i said we have to keep evolving our tactics"...we're lucky...we have all the videos showing all the arrogance, the stupidity and the flip flopping let's use them, from now 'til election day.

"IF democracy survives in the United States

Comment initially posted in wrong place, removed it. Sorry, see below.

they would constantly fill the press with reminders of Bush's challenge to the Iraqi Resistance to "Bring it on!" and then they would broadcast the Resistance's response to Bush to show how his words made America a safer place and protected soldiers' lives.

http://weazlsrevenge.blogspot.com/2006/10/ancient-history-repost-george-w-bush.html

da weaz

www.weazlsrevenge.blogspot.com

I sir do vehemently protest your use of the noble word Confederacy in conjunction with the people you describe. It is an insult sir to those of us from the South to be associated with these scoundrels. I take it as a personal affront to the dignity of those heroic ancestors of freedom to have their name, Confederacy, in any way mentioned with the current occupiers of the Executive Branch. Bush is no more than a damn Yankee carpetbagger who exploits the good name of the Republic of Texas. Those other miscreants couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if ya put the damned instructions on the heel.