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Sunday, February 12

The Failed Bush Presidency, or, Stay The Course

The image of a beached whale comes to mind.

The whale picks a course, which will lead it to destruction. For reasons that no one will ever know, it chooses to follow that course until it lies helpless on a beach, doomed by its own decision.

After watching the events of the past week, I cannot think of a more apt analogy.

CNN's Friday newscast had several major stories: Brownie spilling the beans on W's failures in Katrina [today confirmed by the House investigation], the revelation that Darth Cheney authorised Liebby to leak classified information, the confirmation of the Downing Street memo by none other than the CIA's top ME chief. And, the news continues to be uniformly bad, with virtually every GOP Congressman up for reelection this year opposing W's illegal domestic spying programme.

Yet, W is a man who must stick to the course, no matter how certain it is to lead to his own self-destruction. Beyond all logic, he continues to stay this course.

It is sad, in the Shakespearean sense, to watch this, and I don't think anyone can escape the sense of the harm that is being done to our country by it. But, as with the whale, there is nothing that can be done to save it, because it has chosen the course, and will not listen to any sense as others try to save it. One has to think that the person/people who told of the NSA spying as those who tried to put the whale back on the correct course. But, as often happens with the whale, it swims back to the beach and runs aground, failling to grasp the concept that it has chosen the worst of all possible courses. W continues to ignore those who point out the course is wrong, and heads right back down the course of his own destruction.

In a sense, it brings the feeling of pity. But, like the true Shakespearean tragedy, the only person who can save himself continues to head irreversibly to the only possible conclusion. And, while I predicted it long ago, it is still painful to watch W continue to swim onto the beach, from which he refuses to leave in order to save himself.