Shipwrecked

Check out a great article in Salon magazine by Sidney Blumenthal, 'Ship Wrecked,' which starts off, "Bush has so thoroughly destroyed the Republican establishment that no one, not even his dad, can rescue him now."

The house of cards could be coming down, and it won't be coming from the spineless dems. As they did with Nixon, the Republican leaders, to save their political asses, will be walking down Pennsylvania Ave to tell Georgie to pack up and to not let the door hit him in the ass on the way out.

Less we forget the imbecilic pronoucements of the Republican stooges, from Harper's Nov. 2005, read Lewis Lapham's "Notebook" section, an article called "Slum Clearance." Here's some recent quotes he cites, starting with the lead imbecile,"W."-

"The good news is, and it's hard for some to see it now--that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house --he's lost his entire house--there's going to be a fantastic house, and I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch."

Michael Brown, dir. of the Federal Emergency Management Agency- "Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going relatively well."

Former first Lady Barbara Bush, reviewing the condition of the hurricane flood evacuees in the Houston Astrodome- "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is that they(African Americans) all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this(chuckle) is working well for them." (our very own Marie Antoinette)

GOP strategist Jack Burkman- "I understand there are 10,000 people dead. It's terrible. It's tragic. But in a democracy of 300 million people, over years and years, these things happen."

First Lady Laura Bush- "I also want to encourage anybody who affected by hurricane Corrina [sic] to make sure their children are in school."

House Majority Leader Tom Delay, bucking up the spirits of three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome- "Now tell me the truth, boys, isn't this kind of fun?"

Senator Rick Santorum (R.,Pa.)- "I mean, you have people who don't heed those warnings. There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving."

Congressman Richard Baker (R.,La.)- "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans, he said. "We couldn't do it, but God did."

Let's remember that other dullard who inhabited the White House, Ronnie (the bad actor) Reagan, who let us know immediately of what we could expect of him when he took office- "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem".

How about ole Ronnies friend, the woman with the heart of gold, Margaret Thatcher- "Who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women; there are families? Some families make it to higher ground, others don't."

What a despicable lot, all.