Saturday Night And The Blowtards

Katie on the Upper West near her flat on our way to Brooklyn to see the band Tortoise, which is new to me. The grandparents hosting the kids - I cannot remember that last time we had a free night out.

I've been thinking about the absurdity of the recent Obama-Cheney "debate"on terrorism that took place last week, and how irresponsible the Republican party today. Cheney suggests that Obama's efforts making the country "less safe" while the Senate craters to closing Guantanamo. The reality, of course, far more sinister in my opinion: the Retards have no counter for the economy, health-care and the financial crisis and so they use their trump card: 9-11, which Cheney mentions 22 times in his speech. Of course Cheney also lied, as reported by Jon Landay and Warren Strobel, who also held the media to task in 2002 by reporting the run-up to Iraq based on faulty information (all this and more in today's Frank Rich column). What Bush & Co. don't want us to remember or know is that they took their eye off the prize post 9-11 which was Al Queda and Bin Laden. Iraq a distraction (or worse) from Afghanistan and Pakistan, which may turn out to be the real villain thanks to A. Q. Kahn's nuclear network. India not the only ones to fear the melt-down on its border. Iraq has delievered nothing meanwhile. So here we are, new President and government, yet allowing Cheney to redraw the battledground for posterity (Dale and I have a dinner bet on the Bush legacy to be paid up in 25 years when history has passed its judgement - Dale believes it will be kind to el Presidente). It is one thing to argue a position and Lord knows we need intelligent input. It is altogether another when a failed party led by a bunch of fat blowtards, like Newt and Rush, pedal fear via an acquiescent media, to a public unwilling or unable to change its story arc. Obama, meanwhile, appreciates we are not secure while loathed by others enflamed by torture, Gitmo, Israel, drone-bombings, occupation and Al Quada. This effects me. This effects my kids. These unpatriotic fuckers should be swept aside, ignored and forgotten. Until we need them again and their party lanced of its stale leadership and disproven platform.

"The compulsion to listen to the news is to be joined to a community of anxiety."
-- Ian McEwan