Bush Dubya goin' down

There is a favourite song of mine by the Zen Blues Masters Led Zeppelin called "When the Levee Breaks". Of course, they were not the first to sing it, nor the first to write the words. But there are several lines that are appropriate for our fearless leader, George Dubya Boosh.

Let me start by giving the short of it: Basically, this "Wire Tap Gate" is going to be big. I think it could turn into a Lewinsky. No, not a big, fat, ungainly, stupid whore. It could turn into a huge deal with potential impeachment implications. I honestly believe that we're going to be sitting here a year or 18 months from now watching congress count votes on TV.

I don't think it has to do with abuse of power (which it does), nor denial of wrong-doing (which he does deny -- not that he didn't do it, but that he did it legally), nor with the hunting down of leakers (leaker-s, n. one who leaks). I think it has more to do with the fact that Boosh uses terms like "evildoers" and "suiciders". I think the use of the term "suicider" is punishable by impeachment. Imagine the trial transcript:

Justice: Do you understand the charges brought before you, Mr. President?

GW Boosh: Do I understand the charges? Of course I do. When I spoke to the speech to the union... er... nation... I mean, the speech to the nation... or whatever you want to call it...

Justice: Can you please just say something clearly so the court can understand it?

GWB: Well, hell, we are on the right side. I mean, not on the left side. You can't take the left and do the right thing. That's what we say around here in Texas. Maybe Tennessee, but usually in Texas. Um... Fool me once?

Anyway, I'll stop with that. But honestly, how do you stand on one foot, tell us that the Weapons of Mass Destruction do not exist, wave your hands, tell us that our intelligence was wrong, and then scream but we MUST PERFORM WIRE TAPS TO FIGHT THE WAR ON TERROR. In the mind of the religious right and their leader, Pat Robertson (backspace backspace) Dubya Boosh, all that is required is religious fervour and belief.

Well, I am a goddamned hyphenated American. And I say, Fuck Belief. Show me the facts. Let me decide, asshole. This is not the Evil Empire nor the Doers of Evil, Inc., nor Suiciders Anonymous. I do not blindly follow an intellectually inferior creationist former alcoholic's blind charge into the gloom. We're in this mess (read: Iraq) and we'll fix it. That's shame on me. Wire taps and continued WAR on TERROR which necessarily begets terror at home? That's um... well... you can't get fooled again.

And that brings us back to Led Zeppelin:

Cryin' won't help ya, praying won't do ya no good.
When the levee breaks, mama you got to move.

Goin' down, goin' down. Goin' down, down, down, dowwwwwwwwn...