LAME DUCKDOM

Mr. Gonzalez has joined a bevy of Bush insiders opting for an early departure from the rigors of Lame Duckdom but the ever repressible demies, initially beside themselves in glee, are beginning to fret that their Long Year Project for 2008 may have been dealt a damaging blow-- After having capitulated time and again to the Bush Iraq Express, the feeble demies architectured a forlorn strategery based on extended congressional investigations of Bush culprits not with a goal of holding any of them actually accountable for their palpable transgressions versus the US Constitution and/or, heaven forbid, possible violations of International War Crime statutes but instead simply to camouflage their own incompetence at enacting a viable legislative agenda that would provide an enabling uplifting vision of renewal for a desperately divided and down-spirited nation--

Indeed the demi-captain Mr. Reid hurried to the mandatory podium to hurl specious invective and promise the demies' dwindling audience that the embarrassing pile-on investigations would continue with or without the laughing stock Mr. Gonzalez or the unmentioned early-out of Mr. Rove another target earmarked for demie retribution for having repeatedly exposed their steadfast lack of conviction and fealty to duty-- That Gonzalez's self-removal might lead to an improvement of overall morale and competence at the Justice Department was actually met with customary chagrin from the weasely demies who must now purchase a fresh think-tank option on how to occupy the coming electoral-year void with political canards designed to paint themselves as leaders without having to assume the real responsibilities demanded of the role or actually design real world real-time solutions-- You know, perks before performance-- Campaign finance uber alles--

Amidst the gloom gathering around a fictive economy bent on implosion, the one million construction jobs related to the free-falling Housing Sector in dismal danger of evaporation this year, the millions more home-foreclosures gumming up the counterfeit mortgage works and the quaking credit empyre risking near paralysis on a global scale, the political vacuum now gnashing its toothless distractions in the court politics of DC is offering the weakling demies the opportunity of a lifetime that they are either simply too oblivious to apprehend or certainly too cowardly to wrestle by the horns-- The center has not the will to hold back the negative tides of history currently assailing the American echelon-- That congress had the swinish nerve to opt for opulent recess at such a grave and perilous moment is telling testimony of the self-incriminating kind--

President Bush, continuing to dwell in the fantasy of his Iraq, last week brandished a peculiarly nescient view of Southeast Asian History post-American involvement as a muddled rationale for perennially staying the fruitless course-- Meanwhile the Pentagon has informed those interested that it will offer a non-consensual recommendation to the President in September's long awaited strategy assessment-- Top commanders, three generals , an admiral and the Def Sec, will be allowed to levy their own appraisals which will, after the dust settles, result in the karmic buck being firmly stopped at the Oval desk-- Aside from placing the onus where it truly belongs, the utter realization publicly conveyed by this presumable absence of command go-along-to -get-along is that our Decider has no unified command echelon behind the disconsolate decision now thrust upon him-- Every government body and every insurgent group in the Middle East cauldron and elsewhere is more than capable of discerning the tea leaves featuring the isolated and severely weakened position, the machinations of Fate if you will, to which Mr Bush now finds himself tethered--

The once heady vilification of Europe as somehow irrelevant in the run-up to the Shock and Awe perpetrated on Iraq might explain the reticence of 'old' Europe to risk any diplomatic effort to pull the Bush bacon from the Bring It On hellfire of his own self-immolating bravado-- Euro banks and investment houses are still smarting from the sting of the sub-prime inferno and how easy it was for American bankers to sucker their investment frenzy into purchasing small mountains of worthless securities once backed by the full faith and credit of Mr. Greenspan's traveling financial circus -- Al's Bubble of The Month Club, coming soon to a foreclosure near you, probably won't draw standing room only crowds this go-round-- The Euro boys may not lift a finger to aid the economic disaster befalling Bush nor likewise the fire-sale of diminishing support for another hare-brained ploy that Mr. Sarkozy so publicly warned against this week......... bombing Iran....... but The Euro boys will not be loathe to accept help in the form of fresh liquidity doled out from the Federal Reserve-- Such are our allies--