Wolcott: Turd on the Run

[kskiska]

It's the burning question failing to divide America.

Is Bush an idiot?

Is water wet?

Is Colin Farrell stubbly?

After six years in office, the first question pretty much answers itself. Which is not to say that Larry Johnson's yes vote and Taylor Marsh's (at Firedoglake) ruminative assent should go unappreciated.

Unlike other two-term presidents, Bush hasn't grown in office, become an old familiar whose irritating traits and lapses could be accepted almost affectionately, like Reagan's dottiness. He's demonstrably diminished, dwarfed by the reality that he continues to deny and repeating himself in press conferences like a robot whose wiring is on the fritz, for whom words and phrases are nothing more than pre-programmed units of sound. He's more irritating and dangerous than ever before, because he doesn't know anything, doesn't know or care that he doesn't know anything, and yet persists in a path of destruction as if it were the road to salvation. It's finally dawned on responsible minds that Bush could take all of us down with him before he and the neocons are through.

That would explain Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott's bull snort that Bush is crap. With Blair on vacation, Prescott's frustration with the bloody follies of the Bush doctrine blew like a manhole cover, expressing what so many in the Labour hierarchy have been keeping under their own lids.

http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2006/08/turd_on_the_run.php

[MnFats]

1. Hey! Watch it! "Turd on the Run" is a great Rolling Stones' song!

from Exile on Main Street. check it out.

[Demit]

2. "Prescott's frustration blew like a manhole cover"--gotta love Woolcott.

[BridgeTheGap]

3. I was around for Reagan

He sucked too! He expanded the drug war and supported the Supreme Court's rip into the 4th amendment, allowing law enforcement to seize property without due process.
Remember Iran-Contra? Remember "We don't negotiate with terrorists," while they negotiated with terrorists?
Remember "Trees Pollute?"
Anyone that says that Bush makes Reagan look good wasn't there or isn't remembering very well!
Now, Nixon, on the other hand...naw, he was a son-of-a-bitch too!

[Skittles]

5. reagan was pure garbage

just a better actor than bush

[Cha]

4. I hope this is true!

"It's finally dawned on responsible minds that Bush could take all of us down with him before he and the neocons are through."

This is funny, Wolcott!

"And in Virginia, we have a presidential aspirant who's more crap than Bush, and a bigger idiot, boggling as that may be. I speak of course of the man who henceforth shall be known as Senator Shithead."