Recently, Herr Oberst Karl Rove, Lord Overseer of the Republican Party, Architect of the Neo-Conservative Dictatorship, and Supreme Ruler of the United States of Amerika, rolled out for all to see a new, less bristling King George XLIII. It didn't take long for the six-guns to come out of their holsters and start blazin' away...

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"Out Of The Blue"

(This column appeared in THE LONE STAR ICONOCLAST, Crawford, Texas, and at www.LoneStarIcon.com the week of July 18, 2006.)

July 14, 2006

I don't buy George W. Bush's new façade.

No Texas gunslinger just hangs 'em up that quick.

As much as his good ol' boy routine is an affected persona, this new, retooled 'sensitive' George is yet another role from the depths of his carpetbagger's kit of chicanery.

It was obvious Herr Oberst Karl Rove needed to present a less caustic individual to the World, and especially the American voters. The stubborn George, whose "I'm the decider" and hang the cost in lives, money and suffering spoiled frat-boy attitude just wasn't cutting it any longer.

Every facet of Karl's Conservative takeover was coming unglued. George and Dark Lord the Dick Cheney's hopes for an American monarchy were melting in the summer heat more rapidly than the Polar ice caps they had denied were thawing. Herr Rove's own Republican membership began turning against the increasingly tyrannical edicts emanating from the Executive branch.

Despite the attempt to tilt Lady Justice's scales by cramming the Supremes full of Federalist activists, King George XLIII was knocked down from atop his lofty perch by the very Rule of Law he has ignored literally his entire life; laws, treaties and civilized behaviors he has proclaimed lo, these past five years, that as president he need not concern himself with.

Georgie, Dickie, Rummy, Condi and Turd Blossom are finally getting the message that there will be no Fuhrerprinzip in the United States.

Yet, they won't stop trying.

My Mother was wise enough to save a copy of the first issue of the now defunct Chicago Sun newspaper. It's dated December 4, 1941. In huge letters the headline told of a Serbian push. The sub-heading was entitled, "Hitler Faces Challenge on Third Front."

I'd venture a guess that's the same ringer our own megalomaniac with delusions of a New World Order has both his derriere cheeks in right about now.

Which will be King George's third front? Iran or North Korea? Or, possibly an impeachment hearing?

If only it were the last option... perchance to dream.

With thoughtful acuity among the voting public, and thorough independent testing of all voting machines, GOP Senators and Representatives who impart more allegiance toward Herr Karl, the Dick and King George than their Country and constituents will be looking for new employment come the 8th of November.

I'm talking Rovian toadies and "evangelicals" who are trying to speciously rush cockamamie new laws through Congress just so the prisoners in Guantanamo, Abu Graib and other hellholes may be mercilessly abused and debased again as soon as possible.

Or at least "tried" and guaranteed to be convicted, in the name of the lawd, Amen.

Why, George says over and over he'd like to close Guantanamo, but he doesn't know where to send the men now that he's made them mortal enemies of our Country.

This has been his favorite refrain since he stabbed all the World's citizens in the back in January, 2001 and reneged on the Kyoto Protocol. To paraphrase: "I wanna do it, but I haven't figured out a way t'do it yet."

Besides being spanked by the Supremes, something the White House Fascists never figured on, they and their cronies have been getting hit from all sides.

Not the first issue, but certainly one of the most outrageously contemptuous in terms of utter disregard for our military personnel and the taxpayers, was the no-bid contract slathered onto the coffers of Halliburton (the company presided over by one Dark Lord the Dick Cheney prior to the onset of the Millennium).

In the post-9/11 World, Halliburton has been paid $15 Billion for "services" rendered the Army. The original contract was a $100 Million deal over a 10-year period.

That's 150 times the business transacted in half the time the agreement would have lasted. Imagine, it all began immediately after tragic events occurred that have yet to be fully investigated or explained - less than one year after Bush, Cheney and Rove slithered into their West Wing offices, installed by the Rehnquist Federalist Supremes.

It would really be nice if all America got to see Dick and Lynne Cheney's Halliburton holdings, and the sum they will be collecting come January 21, 2009.

The possibility exists we just may get to see those holdings. Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson are suing the Fascist thugs, et al, who screwed them over as political retaliation for telling the truth about the Iraq WMD bullshit.

Something tells me that Cheney, Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby are not going to play out as sympathetic characters in front of a jury of regular folks. It still amazes me that these schmucks, along with that man among men Bob Novak, were allowed to skate away free by Patrick Fitzgerald's Grand Jury, despite George H.W. Bush's own speech denouncing anyone who would leak the name of a CIA operative as a traitor. (The Wilson's have wisely used this as the opening statement in their suit.)

At present, I'm having sincere doubts about precisely where Mr. Fitzgerald stands. Prior to the Plame investigation he was sold to the public as a straight shooter, especially since he was in charge of prosecuting that no-good Republican Illinois Governor George Ryan. Although I was never a supporter of Ryan, as a resident of Illinois I do feel the man was railroaded.

Not being a "team player" like Denny Hastert and some of the other "connected" GOPers, Ryan operated by his own rules. Hell, unlike King George he detested killing people, to the point of ordering a moratorium on executions. And this George actually cared about and got things done for the people, such as infrastructure construction and repair, schools built, etc.

From an Illinois resident's view, the likelihood is that George Ryan may have been a fall guy, sacrificed to make Fitzgerald look tough on Republican screw-ups.

Bottom line on Ryan, however, was that he didn't do anything all that dastardly or greedy. But he's now looking to spend the rest of his life in a Federal pokey, thanks to being tried in a court situated in a Democratic city.

Meanwhile, all the King's men go free. It's a pretty good scam.

Anyway, that strangest of all pairs, Jack Abramoff (Orthodox Jew) and former Christian Coalition chief Ralph Reed, now running for Lieutenant Governor in Georgia, are among those named in a suit for defrauding the Alabama-Coushatta tribe of Texas.

The others named in this case involving losses in the millions - possibly tens of millions - are former Abramoff co-worker Jon Van Horne; and, two former Congressional aides who pleaded guilty to corruption with Abramoff, Neil Volz (Bob Ney of Ohio) and Michael Scanlon (Tom DeLay).

Speaking of DeLay, this putz has so much hubris he could fill the entire Astrodome, with enough left over to power a shuttle to the space station and back.

The guy's under indictment and awaiting trial, with myriad scandals hanging over his head. He's given up his seat in the House because, let's face it, nobody wants him around there dirtying up the hallowed halls anymore. Smiler Tom dumped grade A manure on top of his constituents when he told them, essentially, I took all the money I conned out of you and stole from taxpayers everywhere else, bought property in Virginia - and I ain't comin' back.

But... as a result of a quirk in the law that might keep his name on the November ballot, because Smiler Tom was too much of an egomaniac to step aside and let the primaries proceed without his smarmy interference, the guy's now threatening America that he'll actually run.

He knew damn well what the law was, and stayed in the primary just for this very reason. Smiler even said at the time of the primary that he felt an entitlement to the seat in that district, and there was no way he was going to let some Liberal Democrat take it over.

Providing he hasn't been jailed or convicted.

As former Nixon aide John Dean's new book title states, these Neo-cons have no conscience among them at all.

Over in Georgia, the first woman to be elected state school superintendent, Linda Schrenko, attacked Democrats for corruption when she ran in 2002 as a Republican gubernatorial candidate.

Now, she's just a few weeks away from beginning an eight-year sentence after robbing the educational funds for deaf and gifted students of $600,000, half of which she used in the campaign to fight Democratic corruption.

Schrenko is unquestionably a Georgia prima donna - she spent more than $9,000 of her ill-gotten loot on a facelift; the 56-year-old showed up at her sentencing not looking demur and contrite, rather dressed like a successful businesswoman, made up as though she was on the prowl, and wearing the same "what, me worry?" smart ass smile DeLay always has spread across his mug.

In a show of total chutzpah, her attorney requested that she be incarcerated at the women's Federal facility in Tallahassee, Florida. What gall! She stole from deaf students, now please be nice to her. Warm weather, 365 days a year.

Let me see -- for someone who's used to Georgia's warm climate, true punishment would include the harsh winters of a northern Yankee state.

What is it about people like DeLay and Schrenko? Are they truly clueless, or completely void of any sense of morality?

At least in Georgia a court ruling came down, allowing that it won't be necessary to provide a picture ID to vote. Score one for the poor and downtrodden.

Traveling a bit north, can anybody tell me why Representative F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-WI) has such an anti-Mexican phobia? For the love of Mike, it's almost impossible to get any further from the southern border in the contiguous 48 than Wisconsin! Yet, he's been one nasty sombitch regarding illegals as long as this ridiculous debate has been shoved to the front of all the more important issues.

I don't know. Maybe Sensie's just frightened to death that his state's, like, going to be overrun one day by a massive invasion of Canadians, eh? Y'know, there, it's like virtually impossible to tell a Hosehead from a Cheesehead, okay, eh.

And those Canucks brew far superior beer, eh.

Thus, now that our King George XLIII has either made enemies with other world leaders (Hugo Chavez); pissed off the ones he had been pals with (Vladimir Putin); or caused those who stood by him no matter what to be screwed over (Tony Blair), he's running out of heads of state to get into trouble.

Well, over in Deutschland they have a relative novice at this game of diplomacy. In her own way, she's kind of like Harriet Miers. Yes, German Chancellor Angela Merkel does seem smitten with our Cowboy King.

His recent visit to Germany did not set well with the natives. As when His Excellency faces a crowd in the U.S., the people whom he saw were hand picked - all 1,000 of them. Of those, 300 were soldiers in civilian clothes.

All other residents of the community were instructed to stay indoors; shops were not allowed to open. Traffic was redirected. The hotel had even been freshly decorated with razor concertina wire around its perimeter.

The party of the Left, the Social Democrats, compared the scene to the days of Communist rule. One man compared Bush Regime policies to those of the former Soviet rulers. About 5,000 members of the party protested the presence of an American president whom they called "unerwunscht" (not wanted).

Isn't it eerie how the Christian Democrats are now the party of exclusion?

Chancellor Merkel really must give more consideration to whose company she keeps. It always seems cool to be accepted by the bully when you're the new kid, but hangin' with King George can be hazardous to one's political career.

And here we go again:

Because neither King George nor anyone else in the Fascist Regime has one ounce of diplomatic skill in their collective bodies, Israel and Lebanon have been sucked into his Middle East maelstrom.

How infantile, for the "leader" of the United States to take a side in fight.

This isn't junior high school. Neither is it an old time Texas town.

This is the 21st Century, and it takes far sterner stuff than George W. Bush is made of to handle it.

Damn it! We, the U.S., are not supposed to pick a side! We're supposed to do what Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, Dick Nixon and John Kennedy - what men of wisdom and vision did and do - get angry factions to talk before hell comes bubbling out of the earth!

But that's impossible with a Regime led by people who feel they have a divine right to kill.

There's not a real man among that bunch sitting on their useless behinds in the West Wing (including Condoleezza), collecting paychecks from taxpayers with one hand while robbing us with the other. The only things they're good for are getting other people's children killed and trashing our Personal Freedoms.

And now they've aided and abetted in starting a war in Israel.

What a gang of greedy, selfish bastards.

Shalom, everyone - Please.

© 2006, The Lone Star Iconoclast

Authors Website: www.lonestaricon.com

Authors Bio:
An erstwhile Philosopher and sometime Educator, Jerry Tenuto is a veteran of seven years service in the U.S. Army. He holds a BS and MA in Broadcast Communications from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. For two decades Jerry filled the airwaves with rock, roll and banter as a disc jockey -- until greed, the rebirth of payola, and de-Reaganlation ruined that medium. Depending upon your taste in political stew, you can either blame or thank Jerry for his weekly "Out Of The Blue" feature in THE LONE STAR ICONOCLAST, Crawford, Texas, www.LoneStarIcon.com -- because somebody from that community has to do the world right.