Tuesday, June 06, 2006

I Underestimate the Shallowness of Ayatollah Bush

The bulk of American armed forces are bogged down in losing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with no end in sight; the price of oil is higher than it has ever been and out of control; New Orleans, going into a new hurricane season, is still a disaster area; a network of home-grown terrorists has appeared on our Northern border; American prestige in the world has never been lower; and, at home, the Bush administration has lost the confidence of the vast majority of American voters.

So what does Ayatollah Bush do to correct these most pressing problems? He decides to attack a small, defenseless minority of citizens who happen to be homosexuals with the most powerful legal weapon in our country – the Constitution. Does our Ayatollah really believe same-sex marriage is such a huge and pressing threat to the “American Way of Life” that we have to amend the Constitution? And we have to amend it now? I doubt it.

Ayatollah Bush is first and last a politician of the old school which means that when he’s not kissing babies, he’s giving a crony a Federal job. Bush is the worse sort of mean-spirited cynical pol. Since he and his appointees are incapable of solving, or even ameliorating, the nation’s most pressing problems, he moves to placate the religious right and, in so doing, diverts media attention from his failures.

Hopefully, the Congress will see through his shallow ploy and hand Bush another resounding defeat. After all, by this time he should be use to it. For his entire administration can be characterized as being “a dollar short and a day late’ when it comes to good ideas.

I will never forgive the Republicans for leaving me standing alone in the middle of the conservative road wondering where the party of my youth disappeared to. Some religious nuts seem to have run away with it.

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