The Last Chance Democracy Café Episode 39: When a Bush Falls...BuzzFlash

[Demeter]

http://www.buzzflash.com/day/05/08/day05016.html

The Last Chance Democracy Café
Episode 39: When a Bush Falls it can make for an Awful Crash

by Steven C. Day


"It happened a few evenings ago; my youngest son and I were eating at an upscale bistro near his home to celebrate a promotion he received at work. Our waiter -- a nice young fellow -- was carrying an extra large serving tray full of plates high above his head with one hand, while clutching a basket of rolls in the other hand...
What stuck me most about this situation was the complete absence of any possible middle ground outcome: This wasn't going to end up as a small fuck up, with, say, one or two plates sliding off into the abyss, the rest unmolested. No, given the interlocking way the plates were piled up on top of each other, if the tray started to go, the tray was going to go -- and not one shrimp, stuffed crab or even solitary garnish was going to survive.

It was all or nothing.

And at that moment, President Bush, it occurred to me that you're in pretty much the same position right now....You see, President Bush, it's that interlocking thing, like those plates all piled up together on the serving tray. If one starts to fall, they all start to fall. All it will take is one misstep; one bit of bad luck. Someone cutting a deal. Someone forgetting to scrub an incriminating e-mail. And it all comes crashing down.

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By the way, in case you're interested, President Bush, that waiter -- you know, the one in the restaurant -- believe it or not, he made it all the way to the table without a mishap. Not a single plate went crashing to the floor.

Everyone in the place applauded him.

Obviously, there's no way I can know for certain whether you're going to be able to pull off the same trick; but the three plus years left in your term of office is an awfully long time and that load just keeps getting heavier. I may be wrong, but personally, I think that sometime fairly soon those plates are going to come tumbling down; and when they do, it'll make for one hell of a crash.

The kind of crash that not everyone walks away from."


An excellent extended metaphor that covers everything EXCEPT the economic chaos that Bush has inflicted upon us all...probably in the interest of brevity. It should get a Pulitzer!

[MissMarple]

1. Articulate,apt description, similar to the house of cards one we have seen

before...somewhere, or the tangled web one can get caught up in when first you practice to deceive. Time is not on their side.

[katty]

2. bush can't stay put on a bicycle--stacked plates?forget it!

perfect description of this whole freakin' mess via the balancing act of waiting tables.