"Bad Daddy" (...not "protecting" us?)

A must read... this whole Buzzflash editorial, excerpted below:

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
The great downfall of America is not some sort of precipitous moral decline -- unless you take into account the behavior of the offspring of Jeb and George Bush -- but rather that the "theatrical presidency" has been uncoupled from any accountability.

How Bush "performs" on television is the criteria by which the media judges him, not how he performs for the people of America. Word and deed have taken two separate paths -- and the media may cover deed for a day or two, but is always diverted back to writing reviews about Bush's dramatic reading of scripts written by Rove and Hughes -- or airing visuals of carefully orchestrated photo-ops.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to put together a pattern of Bush being unable to cope with disaster and protect Americans. There is a straight line going from Bush's paralysis after 9/11 -- sitting in a classroom for nearly 10 minutes reading "My Pet Goat" before his speechwriters could give him something to say, while Dick Cheney oversaw the response, followed by Bush's bizarre odyssey of flying away from Washington, D.C. -- to his failure to respond to the Tsunami disaster for days, to his failure to respond to the disaster in New Orleans for days. We won't even get into the bloody, bankrupting quagmire he got us into in Iraq by lying us into war.

Any corporate board would know that they have a total incompetent on their hands and send him packing. We didn't just have Michael Brown as head of FEMA. Michael Brown is our President!

The fact is Bush is just a figurehead, with the domestic President being Karl Rove and Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney sharing the role of President for foreign affairs

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This leads us to what must be a horrifying reality for followers of what George Lakoff calls the strict father protector model that Bush is supposed to represent. The tradeoff for the dismantling of our Constitution, the bankrupting of our nation, the start of an unending war through lies, the right wing social policies, the defiance of the international community -- the tradeoff for all of these for the Republican base is that Bush was to be the strict father protector, the Good Daddy who kept all evils at bay.

Ooops! Nine-Eleven, Iraqi black-hole, Osama?, AnthraxMailer, Katrina... etc, etc.
Herb.