Frank Rich’s asinine lameness in 2000 helped bring us Bush in the first place. What a steaming pantload of unintentional irony he is.

I guess my wait for his acknowledgment that maybe Al Gore was actually not the same thing as George Bush will have to continue (and don’t worry, I’m not waiting up nights). His juvenile who “wouldn’t want to hang out with a cool cowboy” bullshit of 2000 will be a permanent stain on his career, and yet now he fulminates in righteous indignation.

Ass.
Hole.

“And the Democratic opposition, like weary, harried parents who live in fear of their little darling’s tantrums, eagerly give in to his every whim, just to make him stop shrieking and throwing things. Of course, it never works and he always wants more, but they’re so cowed and shell-shocked that they don’t even care any more, they’ll do anything just to make it stop – and God forbid they should ever try to discipline him when he sets the dog on fire.”

The USA IS NOT immune to the forces of history and when the depression hits the streets, it will get bloody. Unlike our grandparents and great grandparents, today’s American has little temperament for suffering or crisis. I hope I’m wrong but I doubt it.

So here goes. Bush is a bigot but not a racist. A bigot is an ‘enabler’ and the racist is a narcissist. And therein, is the difference.

Perhaps, a local example is pertinent? Republicans have been in charge of politics here in Arizona since 1980. Thus, the Arizona Department of Public Safety was sued by the ACLU earlier in this decade. The DPS eventually entered into a consent decree not to racially profile. As part of this consent decree, Napolitano agreed to establish a traffic stop committee, and last month, this committee came forward with their recommendations. As part and parcel, the person stopped must sign off on a ’search’. And if the driver refuses to sign-off, the law enforcement officer must, by either video tape or audio tape justify the traffic stop and for later review by supervisors. Consequently, the officer has to complete a form and premised on ‘probable cause’ and not on ‘reasonable suspicion’.

And this same behavior can be seen at the national level and where ‘reasonable suspicion’ has enabled a pandemic environment to be created. And who has been the target of this ‘reasonable suspicion’? Would you believe Brown People? And Gitmo is premised on ‘reasonable suspicion’ when one understands that the overwhelming majority of those detained, were subjected to a ‘bounty’ and were later sold to Americans for incarceration. Of late, even the DOD, has yet to provide factual data or incriminating ‘evidence’ that the recently released detainees/criminals have become re-engaged in terrorism.

He’s not just a narcissist, he’s a narcissistic toddler.

Wasn’t there a Star Trek episode about such a character?

Rich should have written that piece 6 or 7 years ago.

I agree. By the Mission Accomplished-codpiece fiasco, we knew a baby was not in charge.

But NoOOOO. We have this. Another exit interview, please.