Dowd: A Come-to-Daddy Moment (41 spanking 43)

[RamboLiberal]

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Poppy Bush and James Baker gave Sonny the presidency to play with and he broke it. So now they’re taking it back.

They are dragging W. away from those reckless older guys who have been such a bad influence and getting him some new minders who are a lot more practical.

In a scene that might be called “Murder on the Oval Express,” Rummy turned up dead with so many knives in him that it’s impossible to say who actually finished off the man billed as Washington’s most skilled infighter. (Poppy? Scowcroft? Baker? Laura? Condi? The Silver Fox? Retired generals? Serving generals? Future generals? Troops returning to Iraq for the umpteenth time without a decent strategy? Democrats? Republicans? Joe Lieberman?)

The defense chief got hung out to dry before Saddam got hung. The president and Karl Rove, underestimating the public’s hunger for change or overestimating the loyalty of a fed-up base, did not ice Rummy in time to save the Senate from teetering Democratic. But once Sonny managed to heedlessly dynamite the Republican majority — as well as the Middle East, the Atlantic alliance and the U.S. Army — then Bush Inc., the family firm that snatched the presidency for W. in 2000, had to step in. Two trusted members of the Bush 41 war council, Mr. Baker and Robert Gates, have been dispatched to discipline the delinquent juvenile and extricate him from the mother of all messes.

[flordehinojos]

1. "the mother of all messes" ... this is what we get for allowing a Resident in diapers to

run the country and a power-and-control scumbag freak family to run the country.

[Diane R]

2. Yep. Dubya's been sent to his room.

[cornermouse]

3. Does it make me a bad person to say that for the sake of

the country and all of us who live here, I wish they had done it sooner?

[JohnnyLib2]

4. Recommended!

M. Dowd was years ahead of the curve on this whole sorry mess. IMO, she's an oracle from Texas.

[ClintonTyree]

5. An absolutely perfect analogy.........

"Poppy Bush and James Baker gave Sonny the presidency to play with and he broke it. So now they’re taking it back".

Once again Poppy's pals run in to bail out 'the little Bush that couldn't'. Everything he's tried he's failed at and Poppy and pals always came riding in to the rescue. 'Miserable failure' is the only way to describe Little Boots' life. Poppy's legacy ends here. The Bush Family Evil Empire is officially dead. Jeb will never get his "turn" now, big brother botched that big-time. It's time for history to swallow the Bush clan whole and the waste products from that swallow aren't going to be pretty. Like undigested bits of corn in your shit, the Bush clan will go down the toilet of history having never done anything of consequence, without ever doing their job to fuel the body politic, to make it stronger, more productive. They're nothing but a waste product on their way down the big sewer pipe of life. Good riddance.

[many a good man]

6. What about the puppet master?

Any overt signs Cheney is getting sidelined?

[Virginia Dare]

10. Darth Cheney was sent off to the wilderness....

ostensibly on a "hunting trip". It will be interesting to see if and where he turns up again.

[cassiepriam]

7. Will they fork out the $2 trillion owed to the American public

for the cost of the invasion?

[mom cat]

14. Hell no! They have pocketed that!

[Tin Man]

8. "Rummy turned up dead with so many knives in him that it’s impossible to say who..."

In a scene that might be called “Murder on the Oval Express,” Rummy turned up dead with so many knives in him that it’s impossible to say who actually finished off the man billed as Washington’s most skilled infighter.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Canuckistanian]

9. More like a "Who's your Daddy" moment

You are soooo grounded, Mister.

[Virginia Dare]

11. Gates is on the Baker Commission...

I believe Poppy sat back knowing the election was going to be a blood bath. That was Dubby's spanking, now he will be sent off into the corner while Poppy's minions move in. Yes, they were measuring the drapes.

[jannyk]

16. I totally agree with the premise that

'41' and his cadres let the Dems have the majority - it's the only way to save Jr's ass.

I don't mean the Dems didn't deserve to win, I mean nothing untoward was done to prevent it - hence Rummy being canned the day after the election and not before when it could have helped the Repubs.

This is not about Democrat/Republican, it's about immense global wealth and power in the hands of a few multi-nationals - and Jr., who started to believe his own empirical fantasies, was fucking it up for them all - he had to be curtailed.

[baldingrockwarlord2]

12. "Daddy's Hand"

How sad for us as a nation that this pathetic loser has ruined us a nation so badly that Daddy has to intervene.

[groovedaddy]

13. Just more New World Order shit

Lil' Bush is & always was a puppet - used by forces far greater than his intellectual capacity to understand. This rightwing extremism was intentional but not for typical reasons we think: enriching the rich through tax breaks and war profiteering, etc. Daddy Bush is just as crooked as the rest and is attempting to salvage this train wreck of an administration.
Will the Dems seize the day, issue the subpoenas and dig into just how deep the corruption goes? Will we revisit 9/11 and require public testimony by Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld & crew?
The danger of pulling the curtain back too far, is that you could start implicating a few DLC Dems in the mess too. It would be worth it, though, because the G.O.P. could be damaged beyond the repair. The Democratic party can truly be a party "of the people."

[robinlynne]

15. here's the problem. Read the threads about who Robert Gates is.

[Eurobabe]

17. BWAHHAAAHH!!! DimSon must be so humiliated now

This is RICH!!