Tide turns on Dubya's wreck

[G2099]

By Mike Carlton
April 22, 2006
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SYDNEY, NSW, is a long way from Washington DC but, even at this distance, it is clear that the Bush Administration is falling to pieces.

In recent weeks, scanning the political coverage in the mainstream US media and sampling the blogs has been to watch a flood tide ebbing to reveal a rotting, skeletal hulk. It is the George W. Bush ship of fools, stuck in the mud for the world to see in all its mendacity, its incompetence, its faith-based stupidity.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/tide-turns-on-dubyas-wreck/2006/04/21/1145344276318.html

[MadMaddie]

1. I believe Austraila just lost their first soldier in Iraq...

Great Article!!

[dermalogic]

26. Howard and W, muppets.

I do enjoy his writing, he is very well spoken and to the point.

The most disturbing trends in Australian international relation is the way Howard (our very own warmonger) paints anyone who disagrees with W as “anti-American”. Similar I suppose to how your president does much the same thing to anyone who disagrees with him.

It is worrying how receptive the electorate is to this kind of mindless slander that he throws around whenever an election is coming.

He has been in power for over 10 years now and as much as I disagree with him on almost everything as long as our economy remains strong it is going to prove very hard to get rid of the man.

[saigon68]

30. That oddly simian face is ashen, the eyes leaden

[AussieDave]

33. Welcome to DU, dermalogic

and you're right - it's going to be very difficult to prise the Old Horror out of Kirribilli House. But I think he just may have over-reached himself with the industrial relations legislation - if Labor and the ACTU can keep up a steady drip-feed of examples of bad employers, voters might at long last wake up and smell the coffee - and vote this shitbag out.

:thumbsup:

[MadMaddie]

35. The tide is turning in the US...the fatalities and injuries can't

be hidden anymore....I fear the same thing will happen to your country....I hope that it doesn't.

[Bluebear]

2. "it is clear that the Bush Administration is falling to pieces"

K&R

[napi21]

4. Well, I hope they get completely pulvarized!, swept up in a giant

dustpan, and burned on the local dump!

[0007]

20. I want them all tried for war crime and sent to prison

I want the Republican Party to be so embarrassed that they never ever talk about junior or that stupid fucking Ronald Raygun again. They can take Ollie North to the Hague with em.

[Bluebear]

14. kick

[CountAllVotes]

3. sounds like they nailed it in Australia!

>> This is a trash presidency, founded on lies and knavery, fraud and ignorant ideological crackpottery.

KARL ROVE is another faux-Texan wheeler-dealer sometimes described as Bush's brain, a courtier most often seen superglued to the presidential right ear. Pink and pudgy, he looks like one of Disney's three little pigs, although infinitely more smug. <<


:rofl:

:kick:

[cliss]

10. Knavery?

I haven't heard that word in a long time. But I love it!!!

There's another great one: crackpottery. Like in pottery.....broken.

[LiberalEsto]

5. sheer poetry

and wonderful images

[malaise]

7. Beautifully written indeed

Damn that nailed it.

[Marr]

6. That's one hell of an analogy.

Nice.

[paparush]

8. Kick!

[saltpoint]

9. Hadn't seen this piece, G2099, and appreciate very much your

passing it along.

Not much sugar-coating there in that synopsis, is there?!

Great writing from Down Under. And let it burn through cyberspace like a comet.

[chill_wind]

18. You said it!

And this passage below especially said it all when I heard him last week saying..

I'M the boss! I'M The Decider of the Universe!


It's not just all of us that find him so simian!

That oddly simian face is ashen, the eyes leaden. The voice is shrill and its tone defensive.

"I'm the decider and I decide what's best," he squawked to reporters in the White House rose garden the other day, as the screws turned tighter on his disastrous Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. Can you imagine Roosevelt, Eisenhower or Kennedy blurting something like that?

Beautiful incisive writing-- every last syllable of it!

[mark11727]

28. "I'm Yertle the Turtle, oh marvelous me...!"

"...for I am the King of all that I see!"

[Marymarg]

11. A must read nt

[Cha]

12. Mike Carlton GETS

IT..all the way over there in NSW!

This is just about me favorite part..

"It is possible, at this late stage, that even Bush himself has begun to realise something is wrong. That oddly simian face is ashen, the eyes leaden. The voice is shrill and its tone defensive."

Thank you for this Aussie's view on us and howard. Wonderfully, descriptively, BITING!

[Olney Blue]

13. "faith-based stupidity"

* has made a mockery out of Christianity to the world. How do you like that, fundies?

[Peace Patriot]

15. Hey, G2099! Thanks for this post! I really enjoyed reading it.

Nice to great a good leftist perspective on these gangsters from far away.

[Imagevision]

16. If Rove is indicted Bush's shake-up in DC. will finally begin

[Kailassa]

17. Mike Carlton has long been my favourite journalist

and political commentator. He's always been a clear thinker and what our faschsiti bush-loving gov't consider a "pinko". A very intelligent man.

Howard of the Overflow .....

I had written him a letter, which I had, for want of better
Knowledge, sent to where I met him at the wheat board, years ago.
He was chairman when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him
Just on spec, to make the point that "Howard doesn't want to know".

And an e-mail came directed, not entirely unexpected
(And I think the same was written in some Middle Eastern bar).
'Twas his CEO who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it:
"Trevor Flugge's gone to Baghdad, and we don't know where he are.

"But when he left Australia, he was going to meet with Alia,
"A trucking mob in Jordan, who were keen to grease the wheels.
"For 10 percent commission, they could swing Saddam's permission
"To get our wheat accepted; it's the mother of all deals.

"But I guarantee, Prime Minister, that there's nothing at all sinister.
"The chaps at DFAT told us that the sums looked quite okay.
"When you're selling wheat in billions, what's a quick 300 million?
"If it keeps the Nationals happy, it's a tiny price to pay."

Sitting here at Kirribilli, I've been thinking, willy-nilly,
That it's somehow reminiscent of the children overboard:
But I can handle Rudd and Beazley, as I always do, quite easily
By endlessly protesting that there's nothing untoward.

I'll tell Bush next time I meet him at The White House, when I greet him,
That I'm sure he'll understand about the wheat board's quid pro quo.
He'll forgive this minor error in the global war on terror
When I look him in the eye and tell him Howard didn't know.

Mike Carlton

This is funnier if you learn't Clancy of the Overflow" as a kid and know about the recent wheatboard scandals, but you might get a laugh out of it anyway.

[GOPFighter]

19. Bush is an embarrassment!

Bush and his mindless followers (mostly nuts in their own right) have shown the world just how low America has fallen. While Bush and his fellow "family-values" frothers slather over gay marriage, premarital sex, birth control, and abortion, they wink at invasion, torture, secret prisons, and the frickin' threat of using nuclear weapons in preemptive strikes.

It seems as though the rest of the world already sees what our MSM is reluctant to admit: this President is finished.

[Blue Belle]

21. "That oddly simian face..."

:rofl:

[Mist]

22. Sad to think that back in the day WE had reporters who would

write like this. "The trash presidency," that says it all.

[eyepaddle]

23. Wow, that was magnificent

Don't you wish we had British-style journalism in America? Pithy AND informative, instead of either: 1) Shilling, or 2) boring.

[mnhtnbb]

24. What is justice for this gang of treasonous war criminals?

I walk around the house so angry at what the Bushies have done to this country, Iraq, women, the environment, and on and on, that I can't think of an appropriate punishment for them. I doubt they'll ever be tried for war crimes. I doubt Bush/Cheney will be impeached. I do not doubt history will not be kind to this administrion. Just to see them slink off the stage of world politics after another three years is not enough, either.

Great article. Thanks for the post.

[AussieDave]

25. It helps that the Sydney Morning Herald is NOT owned by Murdoch

this piece would NEVER have found its way into a Murdoch newspaper. He allows a little latitude in his Australian newspapers, but not THIS much.

[MazeRat7]

27. Excellent visual.. there is a song there... "Ship of Fools"

oh wait.. hasn't that been done. *wink.

MZr7

[Dan from Queens]

29. the criminal negligence of Bush's energy policy

It's gratifying that world opinion matches what progressives knew long before the Bush regime got under way. One of the worst disasters, one that is not yet fully grasped, is the Bush energy policy. While admitting that we are addicted to oil, Bush subsidizes fossil fuel industries, all the while knowing full well that global oil and gas supplies are in decline. They're having a conference in NYC about it this weekend, check out the ad on DU.

[True Bleu]

31. What's in the MSM's water that they don't see this?????

Every time I read an article like this one, from a journalist OUTSIDE of the US, I get
disgusted with our MSM all over again.
When Chimpie finally goes, he needs to take Tim Russert, Chris Matthews, Andrea Mitchell and ALL OF FAUX NEWS
back to Crawford with him. They put Bush in power and they've enjoyed the rewards for having done so.

Nothing in this article is actually news to any of us, but the fact that it lays this administration bare for what it is, is what makes it news.
And the fact that NO ONE currently in the US media would have the balls to do it, makes it news.

[Flying Dream Blues]

32. And sadly eloquent on New Orleans...

"And resonating with ordinary Americans most of all, it is the loss of the city of New Orleans - not by Hurricane Katrina but by the bottomless incompetence of the feds' post-apocalypse response."

Don't you wish our journalism was just half this literate and direct?

Instead we get...well, you know what we get.

[Democracy deth watch]

34. Don't misunderestimate Mr. Bush

There's no logical reason for him to be president. There's no logical reason for him to beef up his Republican majorities this fall. But logic doesn't apply, obviously.

The Democrats can't count on Bush to lose it. We have to beat him.

[Virginian]

36. The decider.

"I'm the decider and I decide what's best," he squawked to reporters in the White House rose garden the other day, as the screws turned tighter on his disastrous Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. Can you imagine Roosevelt, Eisenhower or Kennedy blurting something like that?


No, I can't. Is decider a word? I can imagine someone saying I make the decisions or I am the decision maker, but I cannot imagine any of them saying I am the decider. They were all too eloquent.

Enough about grammar.

Can I imagine them using the properly equilivant term in that situation. NO. Again, they had more tact than to act that defensive.

Throughout the past 5 years, I have heard Bush substitute "The American people want..." in place of "I want...". Funny, he couldn't get away with that under the Rummy issue because the American people want Rummy fired. It must be awkward for Dubya to tell us what he wants instead of telling us what we want.