Day of reckoning for the Current Occupant-By:Garrison Keillor

Day of reckoning for the Current Occupant

Garrison Keillor, Tribune Media Services
Published March 15, 2006
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Over the course of time, the Chief Occupant has been cruelly exposed over and over. He sat and was briefed on the danger of a hurricane wiping out a major American city, and without asking a single question, he got up from the table and walked away and resumed his vacation. He played guitar as New Orleans was flooded. It took him four days to realize his responsibility to do something. When the tsunami killed 100,000 people in Southeast Asia, he was on vacation and it took him 72 hours to issue a statement of sympathy.

The Republicans tied their wagon to him and, as a result, their revolution is bankrupt. He has played the terrorism card for all it is worth and campaigned successfully against Adam and Steve and co-opted whole vast flocks of Christians, but he is done now, kaput, out of gas, for one simple reason. He doesn't represent the best that is our country. Not even close.

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Let's bring the boys home. Otherwise, let's send this man back to Texas and see what sort of work he is capable of and let him start making a contribution to the world.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0603150024mar15,0,2631553.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed

Also, I think he will dump that show ranch and move to someplace out of Texas, and maybe out of the US, the UAE comes to mind first.

not be protected anywhere overseas; too many people hate him with a white-hot passion. He wouldn't survive six weeks in a foreign country - no one could afford the protection costs. He'll get some sort of mansion in Palm Springs or Orlando or some place where there are enough old fascists to say, "Hello, Mr. President" when he goes from the club to his limo - instead of, "Eat shit, you murder-monkey!"- which is what he would get most anywhere else...

I understand that it really wasn't a ranch before he bought it, it was a pig farm. And bush himself is terrified of horses. So it is not a ranch, it's a pig farm.

Let's call it what it is.

and move to an upscale residence near Dallas as soon as he's out of office.

Crawford was always just a backdrop, a Potemkin village.

Retire, just resign and take his croonies with 'um. I'd help them pack.

It's nice to see such a talented writer as Keillor slamming *. :)

IT IS TIME.

Nothing more needs to be said

will get more mileage out of their words than all the politicians and/or major columnists, because he is trusted and down-to-earth enough that the common folk will follow him. When he is angry, it will be fashionable to also be angry.

The rest of us, who have been banging our heads against the wall for so long, should send this article to our senators/reps to read over their morning cuppa. God knows they aren't listening to any of us.

because their words are the truth!

He's a facade. The machine consists/ed of the neoconsters and the fuel is/was the Republican party. At least, that's my perspective of how this horror of a leadership has operated.

Moreover, I still don't see any impactful Republican movement to reign in the neoconsters. The Republicans seem entirely too self-absorbed and loyal to maintaining power than they do preserving the Republic EVEN with Bush's popularity slipping into oblivion, EVEN in face of criminal activities by his administration.

That's the only disagreement I have with this particular opinion piece: the writer gives the Republicans too much leeway rather than nailing them with the responsibility of protecting this nation against abuse.

Nice one, Garrison:

Democrats are accused of having no new ideas, but Republicans are making some of the old ideas look awfully good, such as constitutional checks and balances, fiscal responsibility, and the notion of realism in foreign affairs and taking actions that serve the national interest. What one might call "conservatism."

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I admire Garrison Keillor more all the time. Thanks for the link.

What an eloquent way to speak the obvious. I hope this is on the airwaves somewhere. How about a debate between G.K. and Limbaugh?

Geebush ain't the savior. So sayeth the "vast flocks of Christians": co-opted and otherwise.

And George's ass needs kicking. Every single day until he's removed from office.