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Temper, temper And It Was All Going So Well!By Rick Horowitz
It's not like he wants to yell at us -- it just comes out that way. Anyhow, that's the way we figure it. Me and the missus, we're watching the president throw another tantrum. It isn't pretty -- and like I said, it isn't the first time either. Every time you watch the guy lately, he looks like he's going to blow a gasket. Somebody asks him a question he doesn't like, or sends a letter that criticizes something he's doing, or doesn't want to do something exactly the way he wants them to do it or as fast as he wants them to do it, and he sounds like he's ready to bite their head off!
"Poor Laura!" -- that's what the missus says. That poor lady must be getting an earful. Is he frustrated? Of course he's frustrated! Who wouldn't be? He thought he had it all worked out and everything going his way, except that little by little, it started going back the other way, and he keeps trying to say the words that'll stop it, but so far, no dice -- it just keeps going. He acts like he's the only one who knows anything -- him and that Cheney, and Rumsfeld -- and if he just tells us the way he sees it, we'll all see it exactly the way he does. Only when we don't see it right away, he says it again, only slower, and louder, and sometimes he looks totally ticked off, and other times he's got this exasperated grin on his face like he's thinking, "I can't believe how stupid you are! How can you possibly not understand what I'm telling you?" Which isn't really what the problem is, if you want to know the truth. The problem -- this is the way me and the missus see it, anyway -- isn't that people don't understand what he's telling them. They understand it. They just don't buy it. Not anymore. Not on Iraq, anyway. So then he must have figured, "Well, at least I can change the subject and talk about terrorism and who's tougher on the terrorists, me or the Democrats?" Which you can't really blame him for wanting to talk about since there's an election coming up in a few weeks and it's always worked for him before, just like Karl Rove always said it would. Anyway, he must have figured he had it all set up going into November -- "Who's tougher? Me or the Democrats?" -- but look who he winds up arguing with instead: with Republicans! It's Republicans who've been disagreeing with him on what you're allowed to do to prisoners, and whether they can see the evidence against them when you bring them to trial, and about trying to change the Geneva conventions. The Democrats have been off in a corner somewhere biting their tongues, but instead of that making it easy, it's twice as hard, because the biggest criticism is all coming from his own side! And not just anybody on his own side either. Not from some nobodies where you could say, "Well, they don't know what they're talking about." How do you tell John McCain he doesn't know what he's talking about when he's talking about people being tortured? How do you tell John Warner he doesn't know what the top brass is thinking? John Warner always knows what the top brass is thinking, and if he says he's worried about the president's proposals making things more dangerous for our own troops, then you can bet the top brass is worried about it, too. Those two -- McCain and Warner -- and Lindsey Graham, who's actually been a military lawyer and had to deal with stuff like this, and who pretty much said the president's plans are un-American. And then Colin Powell chimed in, too -- another good Republican -- and he didn't like the president's ideas either. Is the president really going to say he knows more about fighting a war than Colin Powell does? So even if they work out a compromise -- the president and McCain and Warner and Graham and the rest -- it still means it wasn't just Democrats against Republicans, which is what the president was probably hoping for. What the president was probably counting on. No wonder he's throwing tantrums. Posted 9/19/06. To
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Rick Horowitz
