MORFORD: "President Bush's Hail Mary Bet." Great read!

[Atman]

Chips down, Bush prepares a Hail Mary bet

It's just like playing blackjack in Vegas.

<snip>

He is suffering. He is playing terribly, grumbling, sneering at the dealer, talking to the cards like they were his personal slutty harem, complaining to his very angry God who is apparently no longer coming through for him. He is getting desperate. He is sweating, glancing around, wondering where all his drunken fraternity friends scurried off to.

<snip>

He then does what every miserable, lunkheaded gambler does at this point: In a fit of alcoholic rage and demonic encouragement, he says, "Screw it" -- and digs into his pocket, pulls out his last remaining crumpled $1,000 bill and slaps it down on the table in one big final gesture meant to turn his fortunes around all at once, damn the wife at home and forget a decent meal and forget every ironclad rule of gambling because damn it the gods owe him and he's long overdue for a change in fortune. Yes. Right. Sure he is.

Sure enough, the lug loses his big Hail Mary bet. He is broke. He cannot believe it. He curses the table, curses the whore cards, swears at the dealer for not treating him better, slams the rest of his drink and his face contorts and his hands shake and he stumbles off into the night, railing against his lousy luck, the gods, all of humanity. Same ol' situation, happening all over Vegas. And, of course, Washington, D.C.

<snip>

What's to be done? Why, do what any grumbling, furious, confused, underqualified alcoholic gambler does: reach down deep and say, "To hell with the nation and to hell with the odds and to hell with the rest of the planet," and pull out one more desperate, crumpled war from deep in your pants, slap it on the table and hear the world moan.

More ===> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/19/DDG9EIAGN61.DTL

(edited for formatting/four-paragraph rule.)

[ShortnFiery]

1. If Republicans are NOT completely braindead,

they'd do well for the health of their, once half way decent party, to IMPEACH NOW.

[PATRICK]

4. Barring many brain transplants

massive numbers of clear visions of the appropriate deities, they simply do not have it in them. They have nothing to gain politically one way or the other and the coward's bet is to weather the Bush storm until 2008 and keep taking his vote fraud and money.

[endarkenment]

6. yes but of course they are.

They are wallowing in their own god-besotted bullshit. They are true believers. The mullahs and their cronies in Iran are a mirror of our Theocons here in the US, only the mullahs are much less dangerous than our asshats are.

We are in a terrible situation.

[global1]

2. Let's Hope *'s Hail Mary Play Ain't Nuking Iran........nt

[Atman]

3. Read the article...that's exactly what it is saying

Morford does a great job in this one. It's worth reading all the way through.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

5. Yeah . . .

. . . with three years left, his squirming brain may very well get us all killed. And where is the leadership that is supposed to put the brakes on, assert the authority of the Constitution?

Maybe they have a bunker to hide in too?

Why do I suddenly want a beer/joint at 9am?

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. Seeing the open opposition of the retired generals, something

I don't remember from VietNam (caveat: I was a military brat and only got my news from the Stars & Stripes - but I think I would have heard rumors) I wonder if * did pull out another war if there would be a silent mutiny in the high command - the joint chiefs pass on the orders from * and Rummy, but the field generals quietly say 'no'.

Has it gotten to that point yet?

[yurbud]

8. If the Democrats retake Congress or White House, it would be nice to

see them go to the mat for good ideas the way the Bushies do for bad ones.