Charles Krauthammer trots out the same old spin . . .

[MrModerate]

In his WaPo article Friday: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/15/AR2009011503149.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter

According to him the rehabilitation of George Bush has already begun. Of course! It's not really a natural process, after all, but a concerted campaign by the "I said it three times so it must be true" crowd, attempting to warp history to their deranged unreality.

I couldn't bear his smug lies anymore (but then, maybe I'm oversensitive -- I couldn't bear to watch Schimpanski's swan song either and switched him off to preserve my television. I realized, even in my rage, that if I punched the thing out that 1) I wouldn't even touch the insufferable goniff werbling and queeping his phony valedictory and 2) I wouldn't be able to watch Battlestar Galactica the next day.)

In any case, I had to respond to Krauthammer. Here's the letter I sent to [e-mail]:

SUBJECT: Your usual spin

Sure the rehabilitation has begun. Legions of right-wing ideologues see in the utter failure of the Bush presidency the failure of their worldview – and they’re right. Reality has decisively proved them wrong on just about everything. It’s only natural to try to “rehabilitate” the decisions (if not the competence) of their front man, since those decisions were born in the fetid backrooms of their very own think tanks.

And of course Obama is playing it safe. Bush has put America so far out on a limb (meanwhile striving mightily to cut down the tree at the same time) that any sudden movements could bring the whole thing down in a tangle. Also, unlike his predecessors, he’s apparently interested in governing for the benefit of the entire population, not just those who voted for him. I realize this concept is anathema to zealots like yourself, but on a practical level it’s probably a lot more effective.

Until your discredited cabal learns that America is not in actual fact emperor of the earth, and has neither the wisdom nor the resources to plant democracies wherever it thinks they ought to go, your sojourn in the woods will be long indeed.

Hope you brought your long underwear.

P.S.: You might also want to re-examine that notion of pinning your hopes on intellectually lazy, morally shallow, corporate-tool, feckless fratboys. I’d try an actual statesman next time.

[foxfeet]

1. Apparently the switch on his power wheelchair is stuck

on "turn right."