SMIRKING, SCREAMING and SINKING FAST!

BY
MICHAEL CADDELL
FIGHTIN’ COCK FLYER, NORTH JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS,
United States of Amnesia


MAYBE, to bastardize Sen. Hillary Clinton’s book title “It Takes A Village” (insult intended) it will take a worldwide pandemic of “bird flu” and $10.00 per gallon gasoline in Kansas by December to shut down this damn Bush/Republican Jugger – Mart.


Lord knows Hillary and her fat cat Democrats have not done a single damn thing to stop the mad plunge toward national chaos and misery. A paltry handful of Democrats have decided to attempt to impeach him and hundreds seem to have fled the September 24th anti – war demonstration.


Joshua Frank wrote of this recently when he called them out for “fleeing Washington.” And during the demonstration where Ralph Nader’s appropriately titled recent piece that slammed the Democrats with all manner of accurate punches into their soft lobbyist bought bellies.
Alexander Cockburn and Jeffery St. Clair wrote of the "Ooze" the Dems ignored that Nader addressed:: “Nader pointed out that Rep Lynn Woolsey's ‘homeward bound’ resolution to begin the immediate withdrawal of US troops is cosponsored by two Republicans, Walter Jones of North Carolina and Ron Paul, whose Texas constituency stretches south west of Austin down to the Rio Grande.”


Yet while this national betrayal was going on a man who had given his all since well before the last “election” wrote:


“An hour into the march, I had to drop out for a bit- I sat down on the street, and through misty eyes, I beheld the throngs, heard the thunderous clamor, and I could do nothing else but bury my face in my hands, and cry.


Yes- call me a pussy - a weak, liberal pansy - but I wept like a baby.

First, I wept in shameful mourning, at the thousands who have died in pursuit of a war that never should have been - a war that has claimed so many innocent lives, in pursuit of profit, greed, hubris, and an abominable neoconservative ideology that is willing to squander the precious blood of our fellow man, for a sick dream of empire.

Then, I opened my eyes, and cried anew, but this time, the tears were borne of joy, and hope.As I raised my head, a child, no more than seven or eight years old passed by, looked at me, and gave me the peace sign, with a smile that broke the clouds above with a ray of sunshine, which I will carry with me, to my dying day.

The tears departed- I got back to my feet, re-joined the march, and for the first time, in so many years, I felt pride. I looked to the right, and saw a battalion of decorated veterans. I looked to the left, and saw a group of college students from Colorado - looking about me, I saw the young, the old, the black, the white, the Asian, and the Hispanic - and then, my vision blurred...And suddenly- we were all Americans.

Loud, angry, and proud Americans. Here we all were - the good, the better, and the best, patriots all, determined to make our voices heard. It was a beautiful day - a day in which the true conscience of the long-dormant majority took to the streets, and reclaimed our dignity, as a people, and a nation.”


And this man is a total artist of flash media and should be supported while he rebuilds his web site.


“BREASTS NOT BOMBS!”
“ARREST BUSH, ARREST BUSH!”
And yet the following day at the gates of the White House. One would never learn of such from the talking heads that Sunday on the talk shows and like so many who fought in the Iraq war who said that great day, “nothing seems to be working.” But it did.


Even the callers into Rush “lint brained, lard – butted” Limbaugh’s are coming at him for not criticizing the Bush administration from a conservatives point of view! And all Rush can do is crybaby the criticism and threaten his co – dependent junked out audience with his “retirement.” Good riddance and f**k you for screwing up so many of my fellow Kansans brains over the last ten years. If ever there was such an opportunistic war pig of the last century such are the likes of the fat cheerleader from Overland Park.

And the holiest of holies of news magazines “60 Minutes” Andy Rooney (no liberal by any measure of the word) slams the Bush war with the facts and finishes off with another Republican president's immortal words. It makes me want to get on the phone to all my Republican relatives (and friends) to scream, “just how much more do you want before dropping your support for the Moron – in - Command? And can you get off your selfish asses and on the bandwagon to IMPEACH THIS BASTARD?”


I loved it so much the piece played on a continuous loop on my media viewer for a half an hour.
When conservatives like Paul Craig Roberts, a former Reagan administration economic official and Gen. William E. Odom (retired), a second term N. S. A. Reagan chieftain talks against Bush’s imperialism some of my Republican friends should listen.


If anything most everyone I know out here in Kansas have stepped along in the dance and supported more militarist adventures in the world.


But something is developing and from quarters where many would least expect it.


THE MUTINY IS SPREADING!
Insiders at the West Wing are telling reporters that life there is similar to life in a “hellhole.”
Could working there be as bad as all that? Considering the MSM mentality of most producers it is doubtful.


“It’s like working in an insane asylum,” says one White House aide. “People walk around like they’re in a trance. We’re the dance band on the Titanic, playing out our last songs to people who know the ship is sinking and none of us are going to make it.”
Doug's "The Rant" had it right, but nobody listened because it was too horrible to think that Bush as an untreated drug addict was cracking up in the White House.

An astounding 63 per cent of Americans in a recent Newsweek poll have expressed disapproval of Bush’s leadership in Iraq and yet many seem determined to plod along through the next three years of the regime. Yet other warnings are on the horizon! Check back for further posts.