Foundations of Neo-Republicanism

Paraphrasing Shakespeare, from Measure for Measure:

"Bush, proud Bush, dressed in his little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assured, his glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep; who with our spleens would all themselves laugh mortal."

Neocon bigots are truly the pot calling the kettle black when they accuse Democrats of not wanting to hand over the store because of "anti-Arab bigotry." The real racism is in the Neocons themselves, in their arrogant assumption that the Iraqi "savages" [as Ann Coulter calls them] would flock to Western Ways the second we got rid of Saddam. Neocon hubris and racism drove us into this disasterous situation.

Dubya started a war he couldn't finish, and when he tells the threadbare lie that "they attacked us on 9/11 so we're taking the war to them-" he's just mouthing Dittohead pap - and showing that "them," to his dimwitted bigotry, just means all those people running around in their pajamas over there. [The 9/11 Commission stated definitively that Hussein did not have WMD and was not working with Al Qaida. It's Bush-Limbaugh-bigotry to assume "they're all in cahoots with each other."]

Neoconservative 'thought' derives from among other things a childish idolization of Ronald Reagan, and for the pinheads, the novels of Ayn Rand, with their survival-of-the-richest economic Darwinism.

Ronald Reagan's Hollywood bravado impressed the Neocons, but their sentiment blinds them to the fact that Islamic Jihad, or "terror" as Bush so clumsily puts it, cannot be swept away as easily as were the cobwebs of failed Socialism that Ronnie brushed aside. Reagan was not the "Greatest President of All Time," as O'Reilly droned during the funeral, he was a B-movie actor portraying the Greatest President of all Time.

Ayn Rand, that girlish romantic, also captured the narrow eye of the Neocons, and their surface analysis of her message has them John Galt-ing the United States into oblivion. Her adolescent fantasies about a Republican Shangri-la don't hold water, and don't forget either, kids, that Galt's Valley was entirely powered by a generator the size of a suitcase. Ayn's superheroes had sense, and didn't take their "Virtue of Selfishness" to mean they were entitled to trash the world in an angry, ham-handed tantrum.

Bush has painted himself into a corner. He has driven the ship of state into the rocks. He has squandered the position of strategic advantage that he was entrusted with. He has betrayed the trust of the American People in a bewildering array of stunts, from Terry Shaivo and Mike Brown, to his degradation of our Military, his decimation of Medicare and to the ocean of Red Ink that surrounds us. Not only are WE not safer, the world is not safer, thanks to George Bush and the Neocon rabble that run him.

In the adored "business model" of Republicans, does a CEO that bankrupts the company, bungles his management duties, and "loses" hundreds of billions of dollars [see: Halliburton] get to keep his job? When the company's jugular vein is being handed over to its arch-enemy, and the President says: "I hadn't heard about it-" do we sit by and do nothing? [This one was written 2/26/06, just after the Dubai Ports scandal, when they were getting ready to hand our ports to a potentially hostile Arab country.]