OUT OF TOUCH

With the sour after-taste of failure over the Immigration Reform Bill that crashed and burned last week in the US Senate, Mr. Bush, seemingly oblivious to the politically astute circles danced around him at last week's G8 jumbo cluster by the agile Mr. Putin, sought to deflect and counter the prevailing view that Iraq continues its relentless dis-integration apace (add to that the ominous brief armed incursion into Kurdish terrain in northern Iraq by more than saber rattling Turks) by avowing US troops would still be stationed, ala South Korea, somewhere in Iraq decades from now-- One is reminded of Klaus Kinski as Aguirre, The Wrath of God, who from his imperiled raft madly and loudly layed claim to thousands of square miles of Amazon forest as his fatigued and disillusioned soldiers suppinely incapable of even steering his errant boat off river refused to pay any heed--


Not exactly a good week for the Decider who sought a boost to his sagging morale by groveling a photo-op from The Pope whose Christian charity refused to allow him to suffer further embarrassment on the flagging leader of the free world by deservedly chastising him over the ongoing debacle in Iraq-- Nonetheless the lukewarm welcome at the Vatican signaled lame duck to insightful analysts of the long DC/ Vatican relationship while over in Albania Lame Duck seemed to morph into a rock-band fronted by a commander guy replete with uplifting ovations--How the world turns.....?--


Clearly the Surge is not having the intended effect of tamping down sectarian violence despite rampant optimistic pronouncements from US higher-ups regarding the risky new tactical overture of arming disaffected Sunni insurgents to battle elements of Al Qaeda in Iraq-- This might be the fourteenth tide-turning milestone to obligate itself to the ever indefinable victory note delusional think-tankers still cling to inside the bunkered air-conditioned fantasy-maelstrom of their mahogany foxholes-- More term-papers, so sorry to impugn, will not save the day--


Obviously, all this sudden metaphorical transference of model-like stability from South Korea to Iraq will require a devilish amount of preciously disappearing time, easily exceeding the September deadline the malodorous pundit-ocracy apprenticed to the complicitly feeble congress accorded the President and his generals as a temporal framework for adjudicating success or failure on behalf of the Surge-- The Iraqi Parliament decided to take the entire summer off, an obviously unearned vacation the visionary US Congress appears inclined to furtively emulate-- Call it leave without absence-- The leave of sense happened a long while ago--


The ineffectual paralysis engulfing the DC Beltway has driven the American people's confidence in its national legislature to a decade-low approval rating of 27%, a 9% fall in the last five months-- Speaker Pelosi's political capital continues its fall from grace as she merits a 36% approval nod, a mark 10% shy of Newtie's comparable ratings in 1994-- Harry Reid's number apparently wasn't worthy of publication-- The internecine disarray among the repo-men goes on invisibly unabated, but, at any rate, these demie numbers convey serious credibility deficits with the American people whose frustration and angst grow more palpable daily-- True anger, like $4/gal gasoline, cannot be too far away when 75% now say the American ship of state is completely off-track--


The intensity of the groundswell that spelled doom for the Immigration Bill may have surprised Mr. Bush who seems increasingly desperate, almost beyond measure, for some kind of magic rabbit he can pull out of his disheveled hat and call it victory but the defeats and failures ramping up on world scorecards everywhere only pick up more speed-- The War on Terror, de facto, does not include secure borders-- Where is the nuts-and-bolts efforts on shipping containers at ports around the country??-- Raging debate pro or con against the ill-defined 'Amnesty' of another poorly generated immigration bill will not alleviate the acute porosity on the borderlands or the ports-- Homeland Security has failed its own mission statement despite Hillary's cabalistic endorsement of an America now safer than pre-9/11--

Only those from the backseat of a perpetual limousine cruising away their careers could have such runic perspicacity-- Comic relief of the unintentional kind comes from the regally imperious banty-boy Blair, equally out of touch, who bellicosely, from his world stage exit, rants against the press as a 'feral beast'????-- Feral weasels, perhaps, but not....????--

Stay tuned and Keep it Light!!!!!

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