Bush League

In a twist on the old axiom, "The more things change, the more they stay the same," life in America under the Bush administration more closely resembles, "The more things stay the same, the more they stay the same."

Will the real President Bush please stand up?
Are we even certain who the acting POTUS is? Dick Cheney seems to think it's him. Of late, the news crawl lines across the bottom of the TV screen often reveal a quote from Tweedle Dee, of the foreign policy duo Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dee, who seems to be making an increasing number of public statements about anything and everything. Many of the comments concern his continued efforts to poke at Iraq . . er, . . .Iran with a sharpened stick.

Anyone over six remembers when the job of the vice president was to sit phantom-like in a back office and wait for something to happen to the president. Apparently Dick Cheney never got the historically traditional memo that contained this job description.

Closing the Wrong Border
Is there an unrevealed reason the American public should fear Canada? Then why now require Americans and Candians to have passports at the northern border while illegal aliens of all stripes roll in daily, unchecked, under the radar, and in droves, across the Mexican border? To heroically save Karl Rove's son from picking tomatoes is probably not the right answer. Could the right answer loop back to Dick Cheney's continued poking Iran in the eye with a sharp stick?

To fight Iran openly mano-a-mano would require something America hasn't seen for a while. A draft. Given that a recent poll conducted by the AP-Ipsos revealed that 61% of Americans consider the Iraq War a mistake, it's likely that forced conscription of Generations X, Y, Z, and maybe even Me, for an expanded war in the Middle East is not going to be well received by the electorate. Some draftees might even try to run across the border to . . . . . Oh!

George Bush Bikes While the Cabinet Practices for Disaster
From a story in today's Washington Post comes another possible indication that George W. Bush is not really the acting POTUS. He rode his bicycle Saturday while top-level administration officials practiced for disaster. Or was the disaster riding his bicycle while top-level officials practiced governing?

The report did not indicate if Dick Cheney was present at the drill. He may have been otherwise occupied using his Iran poking stick to practice his war drums. But if George W. Bush is not concerned about potential disaster on the streets of America, then Americans should just relax.

John McCain and the '08 Election
The 2008 election will be Senator John McCain's third attempt to get himself elected president. He was a viable candidate in 2000 until he got KO'd in Round 3 by the Rove-Cheney political machine. In the interim, he has been busy being for Bush's war but against a small war, against a surge unless it's a big surge, against conservative Christian "agents of intolerance" until he remembered he had to tolerate their intolerance to get elected.

Mr. McCain appears confused about what he believes, so he may finally be ready to hold the highest office in the land. He has snapped up into his campaign's employ every political machinator and swiftboater that muddied the issues in '04 and got President Cheney . .er, . Bush re-elected.

Now that McCain has gone Bush League, his will be an interesting campaign among '08 presidential campaigns.