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31 de Marzo, 2007
Leaving the Dubya Bush Happy Freedom Kill Kult Club
Categorized under When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: Hope, war on terror
I GUESS IT WOULD BE TOO CRASS for Michael Dowd, Bush's old Chief Campaign Strategist, to come right out and say "Man. I helped a madman gain power and he went and unleashed stupidity and insanity and preemptive bomb droppings and fomented civil war and made popular mass graves and he was supposed to Restore Civility but I was so swept up in that "Evil Cock-sucking Clinton" thing that I bought Dubyas Whole Bag o' Bullshit® and now...now, I'm partly to blame for all the blood in Iraq."
But he comes close. Although...he never says he regrets the Iraq invasion, does he? Only that Bush is not who he thought he was. I'm not sure how to parse the man's statement, given only a two page article. But it is interesting to see the painful awareness process bloom in those who helped Bush do all these terrible things that he has done. I'm so used to feeling anguished and furious over knowing how wrong the Simian Thronestealer is, knowing, and yet helpless to stop his maniacal actions.
I had finally come to the conclusion that maybe all these things along do add up. That it’s not the same, it’s not the person I thought."—Matthew Dowd, Bush's Ex- Chief Campaign Strategist
But what about if you are finally coming around, and on the Right? How would it feel now, having cheered on and abetted such a nightmare that grows only more unwieldy and disastrous by the day....? You would either have to bend your mind to a more and more egregious degree as you went mad justifying your misplaced allegiance and past stances, or...face the fact that you have been a helping and harmful hand in a heinous, historical, and perfectly avoidable tragedy.
I certainly can't say I envy those disillusioned of and excommunicated from the George Dubya Bush Happy Freedom Kill Kult Club.
“I’m a big believer that in part what we’re called to do — to me, by God; other people call it karma — is to restore balance when things didn’t turn out the way they should have.”—Matthew Dowd, Bush's Ex- Chief Campaign Strategist
Okay, I applaud the sentiment regarding taking care of biznass. But please. "When things didn't turn out the way they should have..." Excellent way to keep the onus off of your own back, my friend. Of course we're talkin' one steroided mutant of an onus, so I understand the impulse. But..."The way they should have"? I mean come ON and SAY IT. Have the courage! Own what you believed in, what you tried to do, and how you failed, and how you personally contributed to the consequences today. Keep shying away....it's what got you here, that fear. Too much shakin' in tha boots about the Swarthy-cheeked Boogeyman. Not enough brave staring down the scary alleys. The ones that lead back home.
Schadenfreude? No. Not over here. It's way too late in the day to feel good about any of this anymore. (Well now, the Decider stammering in the witness box...or unshaven in a cell?...you may just yank a grin or two out muh neck with that cream-cheese in the sky-pie.) But conflicted? Yeah.
Because I am glad, as a human, to see these types grow. It is better for all the world, the more we all grow, see how wrong we can be when we are convinced we are dead right, become more thoughtful, search out "gentler" ways, as he now advocates. Become wiser. It sounds like this man is wiser. (Is he really? I can't say.) So that is good. And it sure beats the amazing intractability of the Idiot-Scion Bush, whose knuckles are whitewrapped 'round the shrinking scraps of his "legacy" quickly unraveling like a sweater sleeve caught on a trolleycar that took a wrong turn down Hell Street.
On the other hand, I must admit that it is but with a cold level of interest that I regard this benumbed and ashamed parade of disenchanted co-conspirators; this quiet gaggle of no-longer-believers staggering bleary-cheeked away from the charred plastic temple, away from the fallen, stinking, smoking, bleeding neocon dream. Because yeah. It's great that you now see the light. But that dark clutch of spotted spider legs scrambling up to serving speed in the sand? Yeh. It's fools like you who helped bring that one to life. So forgive me if I restrain my back-patting hand right away.
I do feel a calling of trying to re-establish a level of gentleness in the world.
—Matthew Dowd, Bush's Ex- Chief Campaign Strategist
I bet you do! Hell, here's a man with a mission. Another mission, that is. And I'm not completely surprised. I bet when a man (with a conscience) sees his hands darken with the rank stain of such complicity, it might lay him low. Perhaps he would feel as "gentle" as a Catholic caterpillar crawling up the side of a confession booth. Well right on. Go to it, my good man. Go to it. Sow gentleness. I wish you much power in that pursuit.
Hell, I readily admit that I'd rather see at least these minimally required qualms of conscience in a person who is to some degree culpable than watch a goofy grin on a light-hearted, dancing pig. I don't mean to overlook the truth I feel in statements like "Just being quiet is not an option when I was so publicly advocating an election.” I agree with the notion of making good through action, this idea of redeeming yourself. At least we can still favorably compare Dowd to the slogan-stuck and sneering Bush, who renders the crow-nibbling ex-aide sympathetic, as any such comparison to he of the political and patriotik priapism must.
Not so unexpected, though interesting, is how Dowd describes his initial getting on with the Dubya Bush Happy Freedom Kill Kult Club. He describes it, twice, as "falling in love."
It’s almost like you fall in love. [...]When you fall in love like that, and then you notice some things that don’t exactly go the way you thought, what do you do? Like in a relationship, you say ‘No no, no, it’ll be different."
—Matthew Dowd, Bush's Ex- Chief Campaign Strategist
Wow, that's some glare bouncing off the codpiece, I guess. But okay, sure. Let me try. Just normal reactions like when you love someone and things don't go exactly the way you thought they would. Something like...this?:
Yeah, baby...I'm really sorry I freaked out and rushed to quick judgment and well...hell, that I lied, yeah, I lied about our old friends having chemical weapons in their garage...and I'm sorry I wouldn't listen to reason, and that I bombed their entire block in the middle of the night and well....I'm sorry about all the kidnapping and secret prisons and torture and stuff. I'll change, I promise. I mean, I'll still tap your phone n shit. But...well, do ya forgive me?
Sounds like Matthew has had some interesting relationships! And even better revelations as of late. Which is, I repeat, good. Welcome to reality, Mister Dowd. Glad you could join the rest of us. Those of us still alive, you know. This Iraq thing has already taken quite a few lives.
In the end, I am happy the man seems truly affected by what he has helped unleash. But I cannot say "it's all good." Not on principle. It's not all good. Not even close.
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Comentarios (15)
OZinWisconsin dijo:
Nice work Nez.
Trying to recover from a darkened heart, eh Dowd? Well maybe Nez is being too nice this fine evening. I'm not. FUCK YOU Dowd.
Palabras por OZinWisconsin spat forth on el 31 de Marzo, 2007 at 06:55 PM
Donna dijo:
I'm still amazed that there are so many out there who haven't come around, who don't see what they have helped to unleash on the world. One conservative friend I haven't heard from in months, he used to like to poke me about Bush, and I assumed that those pokes had dropped off because he wised up. Nope, just recently I got an email forwarded to me about this great Christian nation and our dear leader, and he said something like, "I just had to forward this one to that Bush hater, Donna". Now I know he just took me off his 'send all' email list but still sends this crap to all his Bush cheerleader friends.
I'd like to know how they sleep at night. How they manage to convince themselves that the hundreds of thousands killed and maimed is equivalent to justice/vengeance for 9/11 and the 3000 dead on that day. I do believe these people are still deluded into thinking that Iraq had something to do with 9/11. But Christian? Even if you are an old testament vengeance Christian, I don't recall that part where it says 100 eyes for an eye, or anything about wiping out multitudes of innocents to get one guilty person.
How can people be so stupid, uncaring, and unwavering in the face of all the death and destruction is beyond me.
Palabras por Donna spat forth on el 31 de Marzo, 2007 at 06:57 PM
L.G. Fucktard dijo:
The Malkin post you linked (…archives/007190…) doesn't seem to exist.. There's a "007189" and a "007191", but no "007190". Still, 007191, "A message to the techblogging elite", fits quite nicely. I'd link it, but I don't seem to be able to ( "The requested URL /archives/00**91.htm was not found on this server").
Anyway… I feel like paraphrasing the Beatles, for some reason:
If Dowd wants to set things right, he's gonna have to get all "Fatal Attraction" on Dubya's ass.
Palabras por L.G. Fucktard spat forth on el 31 de Marzo, 2007 at 07:42 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
odd, LG. worked for me. it should point to an article by malkin commented on here. that shit is so funny i didnt even bother doing a satire.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 31 de Marzo, 2007 at 08:02 PM
L.G. Fucktard dijo:
My browser is choking on something at Malkin's site. I can't open links to individual posts. So I went to the main page to find the post you cited, and missed it because it is listed out of sequence ( …88, 89, 91, 92, 93, 90, 94…).
Palabras por L.G. Fucktard spat forth on el 31 de Marzo, 2007 at 08:53 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
well, i'm glad you finally made your way to the proper article.
sincerely,
Nez
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 31 de Marzo, 2007 at 09:32 PM
darkblack dijo:
Fuck this Beltway rat deserting the S.S. Bushtanic, and fuck all his rodent brethren to come.
It's the first wave of the rehab and rebirth scheme, so they can come back to further pursue the program of conquest and destruction that they have been hell-bent on for decades.
Dick Cheney...Donald Rumsfeld..Elliot Abrams...On and on. Will America ever get tired of this little game?
Palabras por darkblack spat forth on el 31 de Marzo, 2007 at 09:49 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
yeah...you're right, darkblack. little creep now tryin to dance his way out of complicity.
and, no. america will never tire of this little game. she will never stop voluntarily. of that i am sure.
and..."decades"? really?
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 31 de Marzo, 2007 at 09:59 PM
L.G. Fucktard dijo:
Proper article? Why be so picky? Malkin's every post requires you to "bend your mind to a more and more egregious degree".
With Love for All Humanity,
Fucktard
Palabras por L.G. Fucktard spat forth on el 31 de Marzo, 2007 at 10:11 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
a very good point, LG. (altho i did want to highlight her latest bout of inanity and insanity, the John Doe Paranoid Stalker Creed).
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 31 de Marzo, 2007 at 10:22 PM
darkblack dijo:
Decades, mon ami.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss
One of several roots, and as the tendrils spread...
In the 70's the Unitary Executive theory takes shape, as "If the President does it, it cannot be illegal".
The 80's sees Reagan, and the first act of treason, selling arms to a rogue state in order to finance an illegal secret war that in turn exports poison to the streets of the nation. Then, in 1992 a pardon going out the door to save one's own hide...Possibly a family trait.
Throughout the 90's, the termites feast from within, placing their agents and pawns into Media to effect message control while using that access to help subvert the functions and public perceptions of government, as they cynically perform base sins and preach sactimoniously about the moral turpitude of others.
In 2000, an opportunity to hijack the highest office occurs and is taken...And here we all are.
It did happen here
Palabras por darkblack spat forth on el 1 de Abril, 2007 at 01:10 AM
Sylvia dijo:
I am not the only one who read this as a rat being relieved he could swim (or that the coastline was only about three feet away)!
While all this talk about being in love and wanting gentleness is pretty, I'll pray for that man because he has a lot of soul searching to do about what he would have said "if things went the way it should." *smh*
Palabras por Sylvia spat forth on el 1 de Abril, 2007 at 04:50 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
i just meant that conquest and destruction has been on the menu longer, even, than decades. but i do not disagree, nonetheless, with your timelines.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 1 de Abril, 2007 at 05:07 AM
RickB dijo:
Fascism is so seductive to the weak of mind, I wonder if he sat on a hotplate how long it would take him to realise his balls were burning, 'Hmmm who's cooking pork?'
Palabras por RickB spat forth on el 1 de Abril, 2007 at 06:11 AM
Blackamazon dijo:
They wo uldn't care a damn if it wasn't failing spectacularly as all psuedof fascism does.
Fuck em it's win or sin for them. And they NEED to be nailed to teh walled.
I don't wonder how teh slee p at night.
I laugh as tehy supprot people who hate them an d openly despise tehm
Fine go ahead sympathy I have none
Palabras por Blackamazon spat forth on el 1 de Abril, 2007 at 08:38 AM