“I want
rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs,
pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men,
Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers,
hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank
robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers, and Methodists!”
-----Harvey
Korman as Hedley Lamarr in Mel Brooks' comedy “Blazing Saddles”.
Caesar
Disgustus promised “only the best”. Instead he has
presented the nation with a veritable rouges gallery of
“hornswogglers, horse thieves, con men, dimwits, halfwits,
shit-kickers, and assorted desperados. Perhaps a few Methodists
would leaven the mix and bring some semblance of sanity to the bedlam
that is this White House.
As
has been previously noted in these columns, the original 'dream
team', put together by our intrepid 'leader' resembled, in the words
of British comedian John Cleese, “the crew of a pirate ship”. It is that, mixed with mendacity for good measure. Add to this inspiring incompetence and one is presented with the chaos chronicled by Michael Wolff
in his best-selling account of the first months of this
maladministration Fire and Fury.
Foreign
observers and more than a few Washington insiders have taken some
limited comfort in the presence of military brass that had been
installed in the White House, a kind of military approach that many
had hoped would bring some order to the madness. But with the recent
firing of the 'adults in the room', the prospect of this
administration going entirely off the rails presents a clear and
present danger. In the last two weeks we have lost Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson, and today it was announced that Disgustus had
fired national security advisor General H.R. McMaster, with Chief of
Staff John Kelly said to be in the crosshairs.
Tillerson
was undoubtedly the worst Secretary of State in the history of this
country; but it says a great deal that his departure was viewed with
trepidation. He oversaw the cutting of the budget by over 30 percent
and, more than a year into this administration a full 60 senior
positions including all six undersecretary position have gone
unfilled. So serious is this that Disgustus went to Europe without
this country having ambassadors in such countries as France, Germany,
and Russia. Currently the United States' diplomatic roster is so
understaffed that we send no one to important regional meetings on
energy, trade, and other international issues leaving leadership to
others. Now Disgustus is about to head to a summit meeting with the
leadership of North Korea without an ambassador to South Korea or an
undersecretary of State for the far East. This is the legacy of Rex
Tillerson as he swallowed whole the Bannonite nonsense about the
evils of the so-called 'Deep State'.
But
Disgustus wasn't finished. He completed the vandalism by summarily
firing Tillerson after the Secretary came to the support of our
British allies in their dispute with Putin over the poisoning of
Russian nationals on British soil. He did so as the Secretary was in
Africa attempting to mend fences after Disgustus, ever “Ye
Publick Ass”, had referred to countries in Africa and elsewhere
as 'shitholes'. Here was a Secretary who had been the CEO of one of
the world's greatest companies, now occupying an office once held by
Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, being summarily dismissed while far
off in Africa sitting on a toilet.
In
his place Disgustus put former tea-bagging congressman and
ideological idiot Mike Pompeo, ensuring that there will be one less
voice objecting to the madness about him.
Now
we have the dismissal of McMaster. McMaster has never worked well
with Disgustus. According to Michael Wolff, McMaster had made the
cardinal mistake of boring Disgustus by giving him lectures on the
complexities of the issues before him. Disgustus, famously, does not
like to read, and does not listen. Presentations are made with
graphics, lots of pictures, and as few bullet points as good
conscience will allow. Now, just as Tillerson in his last act as
Secretary had criticized Russia on chemical attacks, so the last act
of McMaster was to excoriate Russia for its nerve agent attacks in
Syria and Britain. Within hours the White House announced the
imminent departure of the National Security Advisor.
In
his place Disgustus has put the worst possible choice in John Bolton.
'Ol Two-Cows' had made Bolton Ambassador to the United Nations but
he did it when the Senate was out of session. Declaring that 'there
is no such thing as a United Nations' saying that if one removed the
top ten stories of the U.N. Building would make no difference.
Significantly, the position of National Security Adviser does not
require Senate confirmation.
Bolton
is an idiot; an unrepentant neo-con who has yet to see any primary
role for diplomacy and negotiation. Here is another foul smell deep
from the bowels of conservative 'stink-tanks,' fresh from Faux News,
that will only add to the stench in the echo-chamber pot that is
becoming this White House. The adults are abandoning ship and the
shit-kickers are taking charge. These are the depths into which we have fallen; this is where we have gone in the last fifty years; there are no hero's there are only villains; this is the legacy of the Generation of Swine.
Impeach and
Imprison.
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