American Realistan

It occured to me observing all those brave “knights errant” rushing to the defense of Ann the C after that “horrible attack” from Elizabeth Edwards over the last several days that the neocon chansons de jest are nothing more than brash cubs. Wolf cubs, to be exact.One of the reasons I equate The Followers of The Wrong with wolves (apologies to Canus lupus) is the means by which young wolves are fed. According to Wikipedia, wolf pups eat regurgitated food, very reminiscent of the manner in which the followers spew the regurgitated sayings of their GOP pack alphas like Coulter. If one of The Followers ever came up with an original idea not previously approved by the Republican National Committee, they would be sacrificed on the Altar of The Cult of Uniform Individuality.

The membership of the 25% of Americans who slavishly follow the Cheney-Bush cabal like to think of themselves as self-made, and yet actually doing something to prove it is beyond their capabilities. For one, it requires independent intelligence, and I submit that particular quality is lacking in them. Anyone who thinks that The Followers are intelligent should read their words in the comments of my latest blogcritics post.

Lest these whining howlers think that equating them with wolves is an honorific, I remind them to note that the wolf would now be extinct except for the efforts of a few humans to save them - something being reversed under Cheney-Bush - but said protection isn’t likely to save them for very long. Not even the national symbol - the Bald Eagle - is under federal protection anymore, so who is going to care about a few mangy political mutt packs?

Wolves have always been seen as dangerous to profitable animal husbandry and those involved in that industry cheered when the Cheney-Bush cabal tells them they can again hunt and kill their competition.

Said elimination, hopefully only in the metaphorical sense, could also happen to The Followers. Certainly, with the clear understanding around the world that the Cheney-Bush cabal is finished, one can understand why eliminating the threat of the neoconfidence packs would be seen as a vital necessity.

The first step, now underway, is to limit their range. The rest of the process will follow as the new leaders emerge to replace those without brvery and those without sense.

The Onion this week offered up a satirical view of the growing opposition by having Retired Gen. George Washington criticizing Bush’s bungling of the Oil War to NBC’s Meet the Press:

“This entire military venture has been foolhardy and of ill design,” said Washington. “The manifold mistakes committed by this president in Iraq carry grave consequences, and he who holds the position of commander in chief has the responsibility to right those wrongs.”

Sure, that was satire, but after U.S. military deaths in Iraq passed 3,500 this last week, Sixty-three percent of the American public want the United States to set a date for withdrawing troops from Iraq by 2008. Erin Flanagan, whose brother died in Iraq last year, sought an answer from the Republican candidates at the most recent “debate”, but was brushed off, as CNN reports:

Not only did no one answer her question,
many gave glowing reviews of the Bush administration
and advocated staying in Iraq longer.

An informed source testifies for the contrary position. Far too late to save his historical soul from eternal damnation, Colin Powell admits that Bush went ahead with “the Surge” despite warnings to the contrary from his top military advisors. Powell appears to have decided to bolt the Republican party, taking up the role of foreign policy advisor to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

So let Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson announce support for a total withdrawal of U.S. forces in Iraq. It will come to nothing if he and the rest of the Democratic Party fail to heed the warning issued by Democratic party chairman Howard Dean during the weekly Democratic radio address:

“The American people hired Democrats last November to ensure that we end this war,” Dean said. “So let me be clear, we know that if we don’t keep our promise, we may find ourselves the minority again.”

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