Emperor Boosh Speaks Again, and Again, and......

How many times and how many ways can a man, (or woman, for that matter) say, "stay the course" without using that exact phrase? The meaning stays the same, the only changes are the verbiage and tone. Saturday we heard the angry, defiant, childlike potentate, shouting down all critics in a way that we have become accustomed to. Then last night, it was the begging, pleading imbecile that we have seen on occasion. It seems that there are only two choices. Either he forgets to take his medications or he is refusing them, neither of which is particularly appealing to me.

Boosh is not legally insane, court cases all over the nation show that the burden of reaching legal insanity is nearly impossible to achieve, but he certainly falls into the severly disturbed category. In other words, should he commit a capital crime, one would not lack for very compelling mitigation to present in his defense. Outside of the state of Texas, a good defense team could almost certainly get him LWOP (Life Without Parole) instead of a date with the gurney and needle.

Beginning Friday and continuing through the weekend, Boosh spent the majority of his time attempting to justify his undisclosed decision to allow for the surveillance of the American people. Yes, the American people whose very lives and liberty that he holds in his hands. He was in total schizophrenic mode, all the way. Let's look at a few quotes from the weekend.

In an attempt to justify the illegal wiretapping and email spying, he began with this.
"This authorization is a vital tool in our war against the terrorists. It is critical to saving American lives. The American people expect me to do everything in my power, under our laws and Constitution, to protect them and their civil liberties and that is exactly what I will continue to do as long as I am president of the United States."

A mouthful. A mouthful of bullshit. First, I must trust his judgement that he is indeed looking out for me and my civil liberties. I, for one, am unwilling to do that. In fact, I think that my life and my civil liberties are the last thing that he has on his mind. Since Boosh has been in office, I have witnessed nothing but an erosion of my civil liberties, and there is no doubt in my mind that he would prefer me dead over alive and writing about him. I am also to "trust" his judgement that spying on Americans is a vital tool in our war against the terrorists. A war that I believe is made up in the mind of a psychotic moron, a war that even he cannot explain. Terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and some field in Pennsylvania. I'll give him that. But the rest of these terrorists that we are in a "war" with, are too abstract for me to understand. They also must be too abstract for him to understand as well, given that I am smarter than he is. (as is my 13 year old daughter, and probably one or two of our pets) He then mentions our laws and our Constitution. He got the go ahead to go with this secret plan from our attorney general, Alberto "I owe you everything" Gonzales, who assured him that he was acting within the law. He also asked "White House counsel," who I assume is Harriet "gosh you're the greatest governor ever" Miers. Sorry Boosh, I need a little more reassurance than that. Virtually every lawyer that I know and every lawyer that I have seen quoted, when asked about the legality of this activity, has had rather strong things to say about it. And they DO NOT say that this activity is legal, in fact most say that Boosh likely broke the law. Further, like a 10 year old defiant kid, he finishes with "I will continue to do so as long as I am the President of the United States." So, the Potentate has spoken. He will continue to trash my civil liberties and break the law by spying upon my overseas correspondance. No further argument needed, just trust Boosh when he says that he has my interests at heart. No thanks.

"I intend to do so for as long as our nation faces a continuing threat from al-Qaida and related groups." This is scary. Related groups could mean one hell of a lot of people. Does this include the AARP group of war protestors that Homeland Security successfully penetrated in Florida, as reported in the press within the last week or two? They are doing me a great service if they can infiltrate a group like that. Or the un-patriotic group of folks that dare question any move that Boosh makes? If so, this sounds awfully similar to a "permanent tax cut" to me. And al-Qaeda? Does that include all of the tortured thousands that we have holed up in secret prisons around the world? Do these people have al-Qaeda membership cards or something? Boosh has no more idea who members of al-Qaeda are than I do. Nor do the CIA or anyone else. Sure, we know who the alleged leaders are, but we have no clue who might be willing to strap explosives to their bodies and blow up a New York subway. And, we damn sure won't find out by reading my email or listening to my phone conversations with friends overseas. And I doubt that they will learn much from yours either. And, finally, in a scolding to those that dare let out the secret that these things were occuring, albeit a year too late, he says:

"As a result, our enemies have learned information they should not have. The unauthorized disclosure of this effort damages our national security and puts our citizens at risk." Are we now at more risk than we were before we learned that Saddam didn't have any weapons of mass destruction? Probably so, but that is the fault of Boosh and the Neocons rather than the result of any terrorist activities. The fact that this information has become public does nothing other than to expose Booshco as the fear mongerers that they are. Does anyone actually believe that if a terrorist was stupid enough to plot terror plans on a cell phone that they will now be smarter and stop? Or, if they were to email bombing stategies back and forth to one another that they will discontinue doing so, now that they know that the NSA might be reading their emails?

Boosh wants to pretend that his cloak and dagger approach to foreign policy is somehow effective, yet it fools few. In reality, it is absurdity at its best. From the beginning of all of this, from the mushroom cloud line to present, it only gets worse. Boosh is the Chauncey Gardener of American Politics, and we are the laughingstock of the world.

Cyclone