There's Something About Bushy

What is it about Bushy that makes the establishment regard him with dead seriousness no matter how blatantly he fucks up?

People used to refer to Ronald Reagan as The Teflon President and he got a free pass too, but his blunders were at least mitigated by an undeniable sense of glamour and a seamless, though pedestrian, speaking style honed from a lifetime in show business.

Bush has none of these atouts.He’s an idiot, as are all his appointees.You would have to go back to the sixteenth century Scottish court, the model for Shakespeare’s Macbeth, to find a more hapless group of maladroit, blathering butchers than the current collection of freaks and geeks who are running the country off a cliff with the mindless zeal of drunken lemmings.

Americans are comfortable around idiots.They find them loveable, like Ralph Kramden and The Beaver.When I was an adolescent, I had an uncle who berated me, “Why can’t you be a kid like on ‘Ozzie and Harriet?’Yeah right, Ozzie and Harriet!

Go in any house in the country and you’ll find a family trying, and failing, to shoehorn itself into a stereotypical mold cast by the producers of a television sitcom like The Simsons: the irrepressible dolt of a father, the all-controlling, nurturing mother and the wayward but essentially decent children.These Norman Rockwell stereotypes were invented to sell detergent.Ideally, people should be aspiring upward, not downward.

But who am I talking to?Nobody!I’m like a nut job yelling at people from atop a soapbox in Hyde Park.Fuck you, you morons!Do whatever you want!

In any event, what we have in George W. Bush, and in his father, and in Clinton, Reagan, etc. are comforting father figures who are dutifully adored by their idiot children.It’s interesting to note that the only two adult figures to achieve the presidency were Nixon and Carter, who are perfectly reviled by history.Nixon was insane.Bush is also insane, but he’s cute.He’s a loveable moron.He falls off his bicycle; he doesn’t know the difference between Austria and Australia; he high-fives people when he says something stupid and when he fucks up he forgets about it and moves along to the next fuckup.Just like Homer Simpson.

This bodes ill for Hillary Clinton in the long run because she’s a serious woman and will probably be ground to dust by the inexorable public longing for an idiot grandfather who throws fits at the breakfast table and pitches a box of cornflakes at the head of his body-pierced granddaughter, like in every house in America.

People respect brains when they’re utilized in commerce, but it ends there.I was explaining to my girlfriend, Magpie, how Al Gore let his voters down in 2000 when he failed to mobilize millions of voters to march on Washington to protest the Republicans stealing the election.She said, “Gore had bad advisers.”I responded, “Ultimately the decision rested on Gore.He didn’t act decisively like a leader.”

She glared at me with malevolence.“If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”She’s right.In terms of this society, I stink.I haven’t devoted enough of my efforts to chiseling and stealing like her ex, Adolph, who had a house in the Hamptons and a cigarette boat until they locked him up for running a ponzi fraud.Money talks, and meantime I am writing worthless nonsense.

I know a bond trader who was addicted to Beaver and Butthead.How many billions of dollars worth of sub-prime mortgage backed securities was this guy authorized to buy?People long for a fantasy world of bullshit.Whatever you think of Dan Rather, he is a serious person.He reported what everybody knows, that Bush was a Vietnam draft dodger.For this CBS threw him off the air in disgrace and replaced him ultimately with Katy Couric, who is an idiot, whom they are paying almost three times as much as much as they paid Rather, and who is tanking in the ratings.

I never watched Dan Rather.His downhome country style bored the shit out of me.I preferred Peter Jennings, who was an airhead too, but he was more European.If ABC News had tried to force Peter Jennings to apologize for reporting a story that he knew to be true, I believe he would have known that he had played out his string there and left, instead of caving in like Rather and getting the boot anyway.Rather can’t get a job anywhere.Peter Jennings could have at least returned to Canada and gone back to work for the CBC, which is where he started.

Meanwhile, like baboons, people are still not coming to grips with the concept that Mr. Mission Accomplished was a full-blown draft dodger like Cheney, like Giuliani, Romney, the whole Republican leadership.They had a chance to vote for a genuine war hero, John Kerry, but he was ripped to shreds by jealous Republicans and now he is a national joke, while the Republican girly men are running around all puffed up like heroes.Kerry got what he deserved because he was guilty of pandering to the asshole national audience with that “Reporting for duty” shit instead of playing it straight, which is what he should have done.Win or lose, you ultimately have to live with yourself.



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Posted on 9/21/2007 ( Permanent Link )
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