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As Slate so bitingly puts it, We’ve finally found the Leaker!

What everyone with half a brain outside of the Beltway has been talking about for the last several years has been “confirmed” inside the Beltway by Patrick Fitzgerald Court Documents saying that George Bush okayed leaks of classified information to reports regarding Iraq as a way to counter-attack critics of the War. If not direct proof that Bush ordered the outing of Plame it is evidence that Bush set the wheel in motion down the slippery slope by authorizing his attack dogs (and Cheney’s) to maul critics of the War using classified information. The Trial of Scooter Libby is just going to get uglier from here, that’s for sure. Karma can swing to and from you like a pendulum, and the truth always comes out. When it does, the pendulum lowers and so does the blade, and it’s all over for you.

Calvin Coolidge made a name for himself by letting his policies doing the talking and not saying much else. When Jimmy Carter admitted to having had “lust in” his “heart” on several occasions during his marriage, his wife’s answer was a curt, “Jimmy talks too much.” George W. Bush does, too, but in this case, he’s been caught running his mouth on something far more serious. Bush declared in 2004 that despite the War on Terror “wiretaps need Court orders”, and after his NSA program proved that to be false, the Emperor was proven to have no clothes. Bush famously declared on the Today Show that nobody could’ve anticipated that the levees would break, before it was shown that he clearly knew. Now his clothes are off with Scooter Libby, and they’re in for an adventure with Patrick Fitzgerald at the Courthouse.

It’s amazing that a Conservative Republican President doesn’t know how to keep cool like Coolidge and keep his mouth shut.

In other Bush news, he’s nominated a replacement for Mike Brown, and it’s the current acting head. Apparently he couldn’t find anyone in the Ranching Industry to replace the Horse-Breeding Brown, so he decided to go with what he had. Can’t you just imagine the questions he’ll be getting at his Confirmation hearings — “Excuse me, sir, do hurricanes mean more to you than your clothes? How much more?”

While I wonder if it occurred to Bush to offer the job to James Lee Witt, the Clinton FEMA Director who everyone has praise for, I think Paulison is a solid choice to replace Brown. At least he has experience irrelevant to breeding horses.

French people are known for two things, their cheese and their peaceful society, but I’ve never cared for either. Kraft Singles have always had a soft spot between my broad loaves while I hold a fondness for America that can’t be replaced. France has been up in flames with riots for a long time several times over the last year, and they’re rioting again over legislation that makes it easier to fire a bad worker. France is on fire, and they continue “negotiating” with those rioting in their streets. A teacher who happens to be a friend of mine once told me that the French were just going through the going pains of an emergent middle class of minorities like Americans did in the 1960s, but if that’s true, I do hope they hit puberty soon.

It’ll be nice to have an ally with a little testosterone, you know?

The French need a Richard Nixon-type leader, minus the Criminal Element. Think of Jacques Chirac as Lyndon Johnson, with good strong ideas but who is crippled by his own weaknesses, and then think of Richard Nixon and how, despite his hard line Rhetoric, he helped instill the Great Society into our Society and refined the better programs of Johnson. Nixon administered Johnson’s policies fairly well while strengthening the nation’s standing in the world (while weakening the leadership’s standing at home, I admit, although that was autonomous of his foreign policy successes) and that’s what France needs.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 6th, 2006 at 6:51 pm and is filed under Outside Retort (Current Affairs), The Politics of Sarcasm.