ON THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" WILL BUSH AND CHENEY DO THE DECENT THING AND RESIGN?

Today is the third anniversary of Bush's "Mission Accomplished" costume party/photo-op. His pompous, strutting, candy-assed presence defiled the aircraft carrier, just as 3 years later his continued presence in the White House defiles our nation.

Since May 1, 2003, 17,000 more American troops have been wounded and the death toll among our fighting men and women has gone from 139 to 2,400. Since these are not Bush's relatives nor relatives of people he knows, nor even from his social class, he doesn't give a rat's ass. To many thousands of our countrymen, happiness has left their beating hearts forever.

Since the day Bush stuffed a sock in his crotch to make believe he is a man while announcing his mission was accomplished, the number of insurgents in Iraq has quadrupled and sympathy for the post-9/11 U.S. in the Muslim world has gone down the toilet entirely (outside of the "royal" palaces Bush and his family and his scandal-plagued Regime are familiar with). When Bush made his preposterous statement-- confirming his sheer incompetence to any doubters anywhere-- there were an average of 8 insurgent attacks per day. These have grown under Bush's occupation to nearly 10 times that... per day.


And since Bush proclaimed "Mission Accomplished" the price of gas in the U.S. has more than doubled-- and is heading higher-- and the bill to taxpayers for the ill-planned adventure initiated by this defective and failed son of mediocrity has climbed from $79 billion to $320 billion. I have seen estimates that predict by the time the U.S. occupation ends we will have wasted close to a trillion dollars in that rat hole, enriching close Bush-connected entities like Halliburton and the Carlisle Group-- while destroying America's good name in the world and bankrupting our own country (long an actual goal of the right-wing extremist end of the Republican Party represented by Bush).

Three years later Bush's approval rating has gone from 71% to 33% and continues to sink every week. Only 40% of Americans claim attacking Iraq was "worth it."

In honor of the third anniversary of one of the 2 or 3 most famous moments in Bush's ill-starred presidency, may I suggest he and Cheney do the right thing and resign by sunset today?


6PM UPDATE: HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, CODPIECE MAN, FROM CBS

CBS News is reporting new lows for Bush across the board in terms of the esteem in which he is held by our fellow citizens. In fact, just as Bruce Springsteen was telling a huge crowd at the New Orleans Jazz Festival that the "criminal ineptitude" of the Bush Regime's response to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath made him furious, 82% American citizens were telling CBS pollsters that failed oilman Bush and his oily vice president had no clear plan for how to solve the gas crisis. Many Americans remember when the Regime was making up all sorts of lies to get the public behind their bloodthirsty invasion on Iraq, one was that gasoline prices would plummet (not double, as they have since Bush first stole the White House in 2000).


WENESDAY MORNING UPDATE: WALK AWAY RENEE GEORGE

"Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you any more. There's no more money to spend--you used up all of that. You can't start another war because you used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people. Listen to your
Mom. The cupboard's bare, the credit cards maxed out. No one's speaking to you. Missionaccomplished. Now it's time to do what you've always done best: lose interest and walk away. Like you did with your military service and the oil company and the baseball team. It's time. Time to move on and try the next fantasy job.

"How about cowboy or space man? Now I know what you're saying: there's so many other things that you as President could involve yourself in. Please don't. I know, I know. There's a lot left to do. There's a war with Venezuela. Eliminating the sales tax on yachts. Turning the space program over to the church. And Social Security to Fannie Mae. Giving embryos the vote. But, Sir, none of that is
going to happen now. Why? Because you govern like Billy Joel drives. You've performed so poorly I'm surprised that you haven't given yourself a medal. You're a catastrophe that walks like a man.
 
"Herbert Hoover was a shitty president, but even he never conceded an entire city to rising water and snakes. On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two trade centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans. Maybe you're just not lucky. I'm not saying you don't love this country. I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side. So, yes, God does speak to you. What he is saying is: 'Take a hint.'"