From Sunday’s NYT:

Under cold, drizzling skies at Boone Pickens Stadium, Mr. Bush made no mention of the war in Iraq, high gas prices or other problems confronting the nation. Instead he painted an optimistic picture of America and said that "the job market for college graduates is the best it's been in years," even in the face of weak job growth reported by the government on Friday.

This disengaged gobbledygook the president delivered last Saturday to 2,700 Oklahoma State University graduates is cause for (more) worry (than usual). It smells of a major initiative in the making, and Bushian creativity, as we all know, is rarely salutary to world order, domestic peace, small children or dogs.

Bush’s weekend speech indicated little more than a holding pattern as he waits for his indictment-dodging brain, Mr. Rove, to tell him what to do next. That normally wouldn’t be unduly worrisome -- no more than we’ve become accustomed to, that is -- but this final time around Rove’s strategic suggestion for humiliating the opposition and inspiring the base needs to be a truly inventive whopper.

All the usual politico-policy suspects -- principally that with Dems at the helm the Islamic bogeyman will get you -- have wizened from overwork. Nevertheless those are still what seem to be in the works, as the Times further reports:

Senate Republicans sent out a fund-raising letter this week seeking to use [the possibility of the opposition in Congressional control] to fire up the base, warning that a Democratic majority would put fighting terrorism "on the back burner" and that "our worst fears" could be realized….

On the other hand,

Mr. Rove has taken to traveling the country to form strategies with individual candidates and local parties while brainstorming with the president's political and policy teams on broad items the White House can pursue to help Republicans everywhere.

Broad items? The president has so broadly boxed himself in there’s precious little room in which to turn. Domestically he has virtually none, given that debt creationism is inviolable theology to Bush, climbing gas prices are largely independent of political maneuvering, his Social Security plan has already been axed, Medicare screams solely for a fiscal fix (the dreaded tax increase) that won’t happen, private healthcare accounts are a political nonentity, and on and on.

Which leaves foreign policy, the aforementioned cause for (more) worry (than usual), given the bang-up job Mr. Bush has always done in this arena. Something’s brewing, and from this crowd it can’t be good.

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[KEVIN SCHMIDT, STERLING VA]

Why is it so hard to chacterize the behavior of Bush, Cheney and the rest of their administration?

Their behavior shows they are a bunch of liars and propagandists.

[clarence swinney]

Bush in Africa.
Spoke to tribesmen in desert.
Began promising paved roads etc.
Each promise was met with loud "Moogumboo-Moogumboo-Moogumboo".

The more they yelled the more Bush promised.

After the talk the Chieftain asked Bush to walk nearby to view his herd of prize bull.

As they walked down the path in the pasture the Chieftian stepped off the path , turned to Bush and said "Mr. President, do not step in that pile of Moogumboo".

clarence swinney

A pile of Moogumboo can be read by a google search--clarence swinney + Bush Waffles. Or + Bush Lies.

[mark mywords]

well... check out the asian times on the american position as the pco brings in iran to its fold. the one thing that we actually have "going in our favor" is that the rest of the world will not allow the US rogue nation status. they are gathering and bonding-- china connecting with the middle east, and back again with russia and the --istan countries of the former USSR. the result-- they world is slapping bush on the head and saying "hey little boy-- you and your neocon bullies-- go home". check it out...

[droo]

I like to hope and think the public won't follow Bush into another war. There just isn't broad public support for bombing Iran, and that "support our troops" mantra appears to be diminishing in appeal. The optimist in me hopes the public is aware of the fact that this administration will readily lead us into disaster if they percieve it to be to their political advantage.

[ed hill]

Mr. Bush is mad.

It's a rare and infectious madness that requires the colusion of those in positions of great wealth and power. The executive branch is peopled by weak minded fools posing as a breed apart.

They see themselves as engines of history. They confuse priviledge with wisdom. William Burroughs probably drew the closest frame for their madness in "Naked Lunch". The insistant use of torcher and homoerotic humiliation. The Jeff Gannon visits and use as a fake press shill. The newer hookergate.

These people are addicted to power over and abuse of others.

I think the texts of "Brownie" calling his assistant about his dinner reservations and new shirt while citizens drowned in streets and attics awaiting his help shows what's happening. To Messrs. Busche, Rummy, Cheyne and staff it's not that they love, hate, like or dislike we the public. For them we aren't real. Hence the manic giggle when the addled drunk sends another to their death.

These people are palpably, deeply insane. I've no hope of this whored idiot congress doing its duty.

Of a balance of horrors at best we might hope for the Joint Chiefs to assemble strong enough opposition to threaten this cabal with an overthrow to intercede and save humanity from an idiots opening of the nuclear gate.

ed