Saturday, April 17, 2004
"Well ... You're a 'Nother!"
Bush isn't satisfied with being merely incompetant.0 comments
He's dangerous.
The way a child being dared to toss matches into a can of gasoline is dangerous.
Throughout history, there have always been faster kids and slower kids. And the former have always preyed on the latter.
CNN.com: Big win for Israel's Sharon
Understand, this was Zubin Mehta riffing on "Louie, Louie." The player, too talented and savvy; the object, too simple and pliable.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, facing a number of major Israeli corruption scandals, needed to cover his own sizeable ass. So he came to his good ol' friend who clears brush for a living, President George W. Bush of the United States of America. He figured everyone in Washington, D.C. was running around covering their own asses, so he'd fit right in.
Boy, did he ever!
Sharon is in hot water at home for:
- An alleged case of bribery over a real estate deal
- Illegal campaign contributions
- Sharon's failure to disclose a business connection with the family of Elhanan Tannenbaum—who, along with the remains of four killed Israeli soldiers, was exchanged for hundreds of Hezbollah prisoners in January.
It seems that Tannenbaum is under investigation in Israel for drug dealing and possibly divulging classified information to his captors that came into his possession as a colonel in the Israeli reserves. That's damaging enough. But it turns out he also is the estranged husband of the daughter of a long-time business friend of Sharon's.
Israelis rightfully are asking, "Why Tannenbaum, and only Tannenbaum? For hundreds of Hezbollah prisoners? And why didn't Sharon disclose his ties to Tannenbaum's family?"
As a result, Sharon is facing plummenting support from Israelis, according to Julie McCarthy's report from Jerusalem for NPR News:
A public opinion poll published today in Israel's leading daily Yedioth Ahronoth found that a majority of Israelis say they have lost faith in the government. The rate of those who say Ariel Sharon is not credible jumped from 51 percent to 57 percent in the past month. Sharon blames the diminished public faith in him on his detractors and not his own conduct.
Sounds familiar? "Their fault!" That's D.C.'s Greatest Hit at the moment.
So Sharon comes here and cons Bush into giving him the endorsement he needs back home, in order to get angry Yakud party dissidents to pass his troubled West Bank plans.
Now, of course, our brilliant Boy King smugly thinks he's put one over on Sharon: getting Sharon to stand side-by-side with him the day after Bush gave his Famous Incoherent Prime-Time Press Conference. Oh, boy! This will—our Boy King thinks—swing major portions of the U.S. Jewish vote our way in this extremely tight election year. Yeah, that'll really put it to ol' John Kerry, boy.
[You can almost see The Smirk; rather reminiscent, actually, of the smirk perfected by Tommy Smothers whenever he thought he had put something over on his brother, Dickie Smothers. But just as we see now with Bush, reality always crashed in on poor Tommy's plans.]
Usually when people see uneven power games such as this, most will jump in and say, "Hey! Cut it out! Give the poor kid back his money! You can't take advantage of someone who doesn't know what he's doing, like that!"
We need to do that here.
Inadvertantly, George W. Bush has just united the entire Middle East, and has put the final dot in the middle of the target on the forehead of the United States.
Sharon played Bush like a Stradivarius. But, unfortunately, we'll all dance to the tune.
The self-involved Sharon couldn't have done more damage to the U.S. if he had hung a sign on Bush's back saying, "Kick me!"
And ol' Clueless George, who clears brush for a living, couldn't see it happening. He thinks he's the taker, not the takee.
(smirk)"Hee, hee...he dared me, hee, hee. He thinks I can't get this match into that little hole in that can there. Well, boy...Watch this!" (smirk)
[Sound of match lighting.]
posted by Gotham 1:27 PM
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