Day of reckoning for the Current Occupant-By:Garrison Keillor

[kpete]

Day of reckoning for the Current Occupant

Garrison Keillor, Tribune Media Services
Published March 15, 2006
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Over the course of time, the Chief Occupant has been cruelly exposed over and over. He sat and was briefed on the danger of a hurricane wiping out a major American city, and without asking a single question, he got up from the table and walked away and resumed his vacation. He played guitar as New Orleans was flooded. It took him four days to realize his responsibility to do something. When the tsunami killed 100,000 people in Southeast Asia, he was on vacation and it took him 72 hours to issue a statement of sympathy.

The Republicans tied their wagon to him and, as a result, their revolution is bankrupt. He has played the terrorism card for all it is worth and campaigned successfully against Adam and Steve and co-opted whole vast flocks of Christians, but he is done now, kaput, out of gas, for one simple reason. He doesn't represent the best that is our country. Not even close.

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Let's bring the boys home. Otherwise, let's send this man back to Texas and see what sort of work he is capable of and let him start making a contribution to the world.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0603150024mar15,0,2631553.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed

[babylonsister]

1. Terrific! So many good points! nt

[wakeme2008]

2. IMHO Bush will not see a lot of Texas once he is out of office.

Also, I think he will dump that show ranch and move to someplace out of Texas, and maybe out of the US, the UAE comes to mind first.

[Dhalgren]

6. No, he will have to stay somewhere in the US, because he could

not be protected anywhere overseas; too many people hate him with a white-hot passion. He wouldn't survive six weeks in a foreign country - no one could afford the protection costs. He'll get some sort of mansion in Palm Springs or Orlando or some place where there are enough old fascists to say, "Hello, Mr. President" when he goes from the club to his limo - instead of, "Eat shit, you murder-monkey!"- which is what he would get most anywhere else...

[HamdenRice]

10. Please let's not call it a "ranch"--call it what it really is, "pig farm"

I understand that it really wasn't a ranch before he bought it, it was a pig farm. And bush himself is terrified of horses. So it is not a ranch, it's a pig farm.

Let's call it what it is.

[mcscajun]

16. Chimpy and Pickles already have plans to dump Crawford

and move to an upscale residence near Dallas as soon as he's out of office.

Crawford was always just a backdrop, a Potemkin village.

[AuntiBush]

19. Wish they'd go there now

Retire, just resign and take his croonies with 'um. I'd help them pack.

[Infomaniac]

3. Proud to give this the 5th vote

[rox63]

4. Superb article - K&R

It's nice to see such a talented writer as Keillor slamming *. :)

[terip64]

5. I love this man!

[mdmc]

7. PHC fan here also

[QuettaKid]

8. K&R. nt.

IT IS TIME.

[nevergiveup]

9. "Slam Dunk"

Nothing more needs to be said

[Frustratedlady]

11. I think the "Garrison Keillors" of our country

will get more mileage out of their words than all the politicians and/or major columnists, because he is trusted and down-to-earth enough that the common folk will follow him. When he is angry, it will be fashionable to also be angry.

The rest of us, who have been banging our heads against the wall for so long, should send this article to our senators/reps to read over their morning cuppa. God knows they aren't listening to any of us.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. One reason they will get more mileage out of their words is

because their words are the truth!

[Just Me]

13. Well, Bush is like a picture of the kid on a cereal box.

He's a facade. The machine consists/ed of the neoconsters and the fuel is/was the Republican party. At least, that's my perspective of how this horror of a leadership has operated.

Moreover, I still don't see any impactful Republican movement to reign in the neoconsters. The Republicans seem entirely too self-absorbed and loyal to maintaining power than they do preserving the Republic EVEN with Bush's popularity slipping into oblivion, EVEN in face of criminal activities by his administration.

That's the only disagreement I have with this particular opinion piece: the writer gives the Republicans too much leeway rather than nailing them with the responsibility of protecting this nation against abuse.

[IndyOp]

14. Republicans are making some of the old ideas look awfully good

Nice one, Garrison:

Democrats are accused of having no new ideas, but Republicans are making some of the old ideas look awfully good, such as constitutional checks and balances, fiscal responsibility, and the notion of realism in foreign affairs and taking actions that serve the national interest. What one might call "conservatism."

:kick:

[texpatriot2004]

15. Garrison the Great! nm

[Tommy_J]

17. A very good read!

I admire Garrison Keillor more all the time. Thanks for the link.

[JohnnyLib]

18. wise words

What an eloquent way to speak the obvious. I hope this is on the airwaves somewhere. How about a debate between G.K. and Limbaugh?

[Burried News]

20. And that's the way it is in lake woebegone.

Geebush ain't the savior. So sayeth the "vast flocks of Christians": co-opted and otherwise.

[Hailtothechimp]

21. Kick Ass!

And George's ass needs kicking. Every single day until he's removed from office.