DESPERATE TIMES
With his outrageous decision to join the wingnut effort to tamper with the Constitution because it just guarantees too many god-damn rights, Junior Bush has completely lost his mind. Apparently, Karl Rove has decided that the Pretend President is in such dire straights, he has to jump off the cliff of right wing zealotry to "maintain his base" to have any hope of clinging to his thin and diminishing claim to power.
Through the maintenance of fear, a false, calculated declaration of "war" (about which, see this amazing little-noticed revelation in the Moonie Washington Times, of all places), constant smears of political opponents through willing surrogates and the 24/7, nationwide political poisoning of wingnut talk radio and cable TV, the Bushies have managed to fool somewhere between 35 and 40 percent of the electorate to support them no matter what. After laughably claiming to be a "uniter, not a divider" in his failed 2000 campaign (an outright lie distributed as fact by the sheepish mainstream media) Bush – beginning with his minions’ fierce shutdown of the recount in Florida – has been the most divisive president in American history. Now, with issues like the massive Bush deficit and the Unnecessary War built on Lies in Iraq, Bush’s handlers have read the tea leaves and, more importantly, the polls, and decided that they need to succumb to the Lowest Denominator of the Lunatic Fringe in order to have any chance at all.
Presidential approval of the radical effort to amend the Constitution itself to try to eliminate the possibility of anything called "marriage" between two people of the same gender is an amazingly brazen clampdown on perceived Rights-Gone-Wild. The push for the amendment itself is an admission that gays and lesbians have the right to equal protection of the law and that, under the current Document that has governed the basic human rights of Americans for over 214 years, they cannot be discriminated against simply because of the partners they choose. Never before has a president come out in support of taking rights away from his citizens. Never again can Bush go crawling to the middle on this or any other issue. And forget about states’ rights, already, says Bush. Did you ever see two gays kissing? Ewww...
Even before Junior crawled out on this very treacherous, ignorant limb, the American people seem to already have their wits about them, even if they are wrong. Most people responding to a poll said they oppose gay marriage – a depressing but predictable result, even if nearly everyone has a brother or sister, cousin or friend who they know is gay and they know is a nice, normal person. But those polled were evenly split on the issue of a constitutional amendment to prevent gay marriage. They know better than to go messing with our most important Document just to molify their own ignorance. My guess is, after this craven step-out on the issue by Bush, a solid majority will be against the amendment by the time of the next poll.
Between the hysterical over-reaction of the anti-gay marriage amendment and the right-wing’s incessant promotion of Mel Gibson’s reportedly anti-Semitic and otherwise violently abhorrent "The Passion of the Christ" (which Bush "wants to see" and about which Kerry rightly urges caution), the lunatic fringe Bushies are more and more acting like they are out of touch with reality and out of their tiny little minds. Backed into a corner, squirming, looking for a way out of the hole they’ve dug for themselves, they dig deeper because they don’t know what else to do.
Look out, John Kerry. The Bush Surrogates are going to poison your political air with lies and smears so bad, you’ll need a gas mask. It's their only, sorry hope.
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