| House Training Bush
Rob Kall
OpEdNews.com
It's time to do some House Training, Pooper Scooping and Flushing Bush
and His Lock-Step Congress
Rob Kall
OpEdNews.com
If my dog poops on your lawn, it's my responsibility to clean up. If I
don't, then I'm being a bad neighbor. If my kid takes out the dog,
then it's either his responsibility or mine. Even when I walk my dog on my
own property, I want to clean up after her. Otherwise it starts to stink,
and I don't even enjoy my own place.
When our president shits all over the planet and leaves a mess, I guess
it's our job as the people of the nation to clean up after him. But with
dogs, we can put them on a leash and decide where they roam. That
minimizes the offense to neighbors and makes it easier to clean up the
messes we expect them to make, normally, as dogs do.
But George Bush has a unique ability to turn just about every thing he
touches into shit. That means he ought to be on a short leash. Certainly
in our own country he's making a huge mess just about everywhere he
goes. And this dog does not clean up after himself. He just expects
the people he shits on to live with it.
There's only so much that can be done about this since his mindless
republican minions (except for a growing handful of courageous patriots
who have stood up as independents, like John McCain and on rarer
occasions, Arlen Spector) control the congress. But the Democrats in
congress should be doing much more to rein Bush and his goofy neocon
policy theoreticians in. They've been allowed, by Bush and his team of
partisan policy driven advisors, to do experiments on America--
multibillion dollar experiments with their neocon theories of empire and
middle east hegemony and militarism.
So we don't just have Bush leaving stinking piles of shit wherever he
goes. We have his loser, egghead, neocon intellectuals, brazenly doing
brain surgery and transplants and gene splices on huge chunks of US policy
and infrastructure, particularly the military.
Not surprisingly, just as genetic tampering raises risks in the
biosphere, all the neocon tampering has led to a situation in which we
have a bunch of freakish Frankensteins running around the planet now.
Wild, more deadly and hateful terrorism than ever before has expanded and
grown far beyond its previous reach and activity levels. We have our
troops spread out so thin they have to use their own hard earned funds for
basic supplies. An administration that is working and using the military
harder than ever is cutting funds for veterans, cutting programs for
military families and their children. Our allies find our calls for help
laughable or repugnant. This is a freak show-- the Bush / Neocon freak
show.
The art of diplomacy has been relegated to the toilet-- where Bush's
policies should actually be. Without diplomacy, the US, which could really
use help from its old, reliable allies, is finding itself all alone. And
thus it should be. Why should old allies who have been so badly treated
come around to help the Bush administration? Right wingers might accuse me
of siding against the US by my stating that we don't deserve help. But if
my child misbehaves or doesn't make the grade in school or with an
athletic team, then I realistically, as a parent, must face the facts that
he doesn't deserve the position or class. And that's the reality in
the world now.
For the US to get help from the world community, we're probably going
to have to wait until the voters of the US flush the toilet on the Bush
team. Hopefully, many of those lock-step republicans who have utterly
failed to "house-train" their president, will also find
themselves flushed down the toilet by voters who realize that it takes
courage and independence to be an elected representative.
Rob
Kall rob@opednews.com
is publisher of progressive news and opinion website www.opednews.com
and organizer of cutting edge meetings that bring together world leaders,
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