Burning Bush

Bush Left With Few Supporters

So states todays Washington Post (dot com). Therein lies the now familiar tale told by Perle, Hass, Muravchik, Adelman and company that the basic idea (off Saddam, install puppet government, grab oil, scare Arabs, protect Israel) was sound but the dumbass Bush couldn't pull it off. If they had only known that he was an inept doofus, they would have come up with yet another way to off Saddam, etc.

This denies the precise reason why they and other Repubs nominated and got Commandante El Busho elected in the first place: he's an empty suit. He was the almost perfect blank canvas that they could use to paint their personal Utopian notions on. The son of privilege (not trailer trash like Clinton) who came off as a born again Joe Everyman.

Regan once was their best hope but in the long run he proved a disappointment, moving off script into improv and unfortunate compromise. Besides he was given to astrology induced actions or confusing life with movie plots, and that was before the shooting took a terrible toll and Alzheimers started to creep in. That gave him a genial, grandfatherly, goofiness that you could dismiss. Nope, they needed someone single minded, shallow, combative, who'd stay with the program.

So they ignored the bald facts of Junior's life, marked by subterfuge, failure, the fratboy jock. They went for the Mayberry Machiavelli because they knew he'd keep hands off while the real men (and Condi, female but into sports and fitness) took care of business. As long as it made him look good, he'd go along and be the cheerleader. The CEO who wouldn't be detail oriented but the "big picture" guy in the corner office. Of course, they would draw the picture.

So rather than recognize the completeness of their failure, the neoCONS now have their knives out for Bush and will go off seeking another champion. Meanwhile, they sit safe and secure in their think tanks and councils, well compensated for hatching plans that have resulted in the debacle known as Iraq, GWOT, the long war.

Why the Post, or anyone else, continues to listen to the bleating of these losers is beyond me. They've demonstrated that they are morally and intellectually bankrupt. Enough already.