Mole in Our Midst (A Grand, Unified Theory of...Bush Policies)

[Miss Authoritiva]

Mole in Our Midst

Finally, a grand, unified theory that explains Bush's domestic and international policies. Little did we know.

By Matthew Yglesias


Surveying the vast wasteland that George W. Bush has made of American governance, even the most sophisticated observer is driven to ask, like the simple son at a Passover seder, what is all this?

The most compelling hypothesis so far is that we have not one president but two. Or, rather, two shadow presidents. Domestic policy is the land of Karl Rove -- ruthless, cynical, malign yet cunning.

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Abroad, however, we are in Dick Cheney's world, where grand visions meet a naïveté that would be almost touching had it not gotten so many people killed. In both domains, a disregard for the facts dominates, but whereas the home front features well-crafted lies aimed at securing the president's political future, on foreign policy the administration seems to be genuinely out of touch with reality.

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But while the “two presidents” theory has some merit, it is unsatisfying both intellectually and emotionally. As in physics, where quantum field theory and general relativity coexist uneasily, we yearn for a grand unified theory of Bushism that would put the two halves of the agenda together. Now, at last, with the revelation that Ahmad Chalabi has been passing intelligence information to the regime in Iran, the opportunity presents itself to construct just such a unified theory. The truth, hard as it is to accept, is that Bush is an Iranian agent.

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http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=7799

[a_random_joel]

1. DUP

But I posted in General Discussion, for more... oomph.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1706946

Great read though, huh?