A VIEW FROM DEEP INSIDE THE FAR FAR RIGHT-- DESPAIR AND A SINKING FEELING

THE SPECTATOR is a lame right-wing propaganda rag. You can pretty much count on finding all the wackiest neo-fascist clap-trap, overwhelmingly lies and distortions, on it's Melon-Scaife-funded pages. They've been watching the Bush Regime fall apart and the principals are in a state of despair. Today one of their most paranoid and shrill columnists, "The Prowler" (and believe me, if you wrote the kind of garbage he pukes out, you wouldn't use your name either), bemoans the fate of a Bush Regime exposed in all its inglorious ineptitude, greed, selfishness, bigotry, and sheer incompetence in a piece appropriately called "That Sinking Feeling-- Dead Agenda."

Funded by Melon-Scaife, of course they have to try to connect every negative thing to Bill Clinton, and this imbecile makes a half-hearted stab at it (rumor has it that Scaife bonuses every writer for every negative mention of Clinton). His pathetic attempt is to call Bush's disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina "Clintonian," which is ironic when one considers how well FEMA was working for the 8 years Clinton was in charge and how Bush destroyed its viability for an ideological (and cronyistic) agenda. Anyway, from there he goes on to lament that "at this stage of the game, barring some imaginative political moves that bear some resemblance to the Bush Administration circa 2002, Republicans on Capitol Hill and even some longtime Bush team members in various Cabinet level departments say this Administration is done for. 'You run down the list of things we thought we could accomplish and you have to wonder what we thought we were thinking,' says a Bush Administration member who joined on in 2001. 'You get the impression that we're more than listless. We're sunk.'"

And the pessimism doesn't stop there. He claims that "rumors are flying through various departments of longtime senior Bush loyalists looking to jump, but with few opportunities in the private sector to make the jump look like anything more than desperation. Almost daily, complaints from Cabinet level Departments come in to the White House about lack of communication coordination on even basic policy matters." He points out that politically connected but incompetent BushCheney retainers were promoted way over their heads, depressing more able people who couldn't get out soon enough. And the feelings of despair-- soon to turn to panic-- aren't isolated in the White House. The Prowler goes on to bemoan that "congressional committee sources on both sides of Capitol Hill predict tough slogging on anything of policy consequence. 'Social Security is dead as far as my chairman is concerned. So are the tax cuts,' says a Ways and Means staffer of Chairman Bill Thomas."

No mentions of suicides yet. Have faith.