Last Saturday I made my predictions about the US mid-term elections. I was wrong on a lot of counts and I can live with that. I predicted a Democratic Congress but a Republican Senate and a new round of political constipation.
Turns out the Dems got Congress and a slim one in the Senate, but still got the majority. President JoJo The Idiot Boy grew a set overnight and accepted Rumsfeld’s resignation, gut-shooting the Republican party, as the panic took hold at the RNC. Ken Mehlman, the Republican National party Chair resigned as the results came in, chaining his own ankles to a concrete block and jumping over the side of the boat.
Now that President JoJo The Idiot Boy is channeling Deepak Chopra, he’s making nice noises at the Democratic house. This tells me that Cheney and Rove are at the Undisclosed Location. Dubya is running his default program of "Compassionate Conservative" without Rove and Cheney to plug sound bites into Dubya’s head.
Speaking of Cheney and Rove, where are the Waldo’s? Hiding, if they had a lick of sense.
In a Nov. 20th Newsweek article, author Richard Wolffe discusses what went wrong with Karl Rove’s Magic Election Eyeglasses. It would seem that Rove didn’t have the wondrous Harry-Potter Glasses tuned up properly. More like Karl was wearing Beer Goggles and refused to listen to the rank and file who were actually out among real voters. To quote:
"Ten days before the elections, House Majority Leader John Boehner visited Bush in the Oval Office with bad news. He told Bush that the party would lose Tom DeLay’s old seat in Texas, where Bush was set to campaign. Bush brushed him off, Boehner recalls. "Get me Karl," the president told an aide. "Karl has the numbers."
This quote tells me that for starters, President JoJo The Idiot Boy was only listening to Karl and not bothering to look at those newfangled things like TV, Newspapers, or Radio. Meanwhile Cousin Karl was searching for polls that he could feed the Boss to keep him from getting all jumpy and agitated.
This speaks volumes to how isolated JoJo The Idiot Boy is. If Karl Rove or Dick Cheney said that he should go out on the White House lawn and denounce Switzerland as part of the Axis of Evil, Dubya would be railing against mountains, clockmaking and chocolate. "Those Evildoers of the Axis of Evil, hiding in the mountains of Swizzleland, trying to take control of world time standards, all jacked up on horrible drugs like cocoa and using WMD’s based on the the nookler weapons at CERN in Geneever must be stopped…."
Perhaps Dubya recognizes that he’s been misled by Rumsfeld, Rove and Cheney and might now be operating on his own script. Dubya has gone home to Daddy for new advisors. First off Daddy Bush’s Rolodex was Robert Gates from the CIA days under Daddy Bush.
Next, James Baker, ex Sec of State under Daddy Bush and the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group will either step forward himself, or prop up some cardboard cutout puppet. They’ll come up with a strategy to bring "Peace with Honor" in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I’m waiting for Daddy Bush to suggest Oliver North as the Expert for Fiscal Reform and Export Controls. Or Charles "Tex" Colson to drop the Bible and take over Homeland Security, reverting to his jackboot heritage as the political ancestor of Karl Rove.
The one last post-election twitch that made me do the happy dance was Rumsfeld resigning and JoJo The Idiot Boy lying his face off about it. Then, just to add some fun, the possibility that Donald Rumsfeld is going to be charged by the German government with various crimes. Rumsfeld admitted to personally approving ‘special interrogation plans’ for a couple of Al-Qaeda cement-heads in detention. Rummy is also up for a special award for Abu Girab, also from the Germans.
The likelihood of Donald H. Rumsfeld in orange prison overalls, handcuffed to the rail in the prisoner’s dock in a courtroom in Bonn is very slim. It does make for a beautiful mental image of a former Sec. of Defense shuffling along in slippers, hands and feed shackled, being led about by a court guard.
Schadenfreude anyone?
RoadDave 