Fraternity house president ruining America

I think our country sinks beneath the yoke,
It weeps, it bleeds and
each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds.
--Macbeth

(Second of two columns on mid-term elections)
Everything about President Bush can be summed up in a sentence: he trades fart jokes with his svengali Karl Rove.
This is not prudishness. Rather, it is indicative of Bush’s absolute shallowness, an ignorant Frat Boy who has usurped the most powerful office in the world.
At a Group of Eight summit meeting last summer in St. Petersburg, the Frat Boy gave an impromptu neck rub to the horrified chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, as if she were just another fraternity brother.
Torture? Hey, it’s just fraternity hazing. Waterboarding? Just fraternity hi-jinks.
A New York Times book reviewer, commenting on Bob Woodward’s new book, “State of Denial”: “Bush emerges as a passive, impatient, sophomoric and intellectually incurious leader.” Frank Bruni in a recent book, “Ambling Into History,” calls Bush “a timeless fraternity boy and heedless cutup.”
Maureen Dowd, New York Times columnist, strikes the same note:
“The president has enshrined his immaturity and insularity, turning every environment he inhabits--no matter how decorous or serious--into a comfortable frat house…he brings the same DKE diction, bearing and cadences, the same insouciance and smart-alecky attitude, the same simplistic approach, swearing, swaggering (and) talking to Tony Blair with his mouth full of buttered roll.”
His Animal House antics have produced a disastrous six years for America. The daily outrages are legion. Bush has made America a contemptible country in the eyes of much of the world.
The title of a 350-page report by Rep. John Conyers of Michigan sums up the Bush dictatorship: “The Constitution in Crisis, The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution and Coverups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Surveillance.”
He presides over an administration of lackeys who refuse to speak truth to power. Two of them, Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, are ignorant, purblind and crude. Cheney: waterboarding is a no-brainer if it saves lives.
Bush promotes and praises incompetents. He appoints racists and hacks to the federal courts. He goes out on the hustings to support a racist senator and a married congressman accused of throttling his mistress. (The congressman paid her $5.5 million to settle a suit.) Bush names foxes to guard the chicken coops at government agencies.
His administration Swift-boats justificable criticism. It outs CIA agent Valerie Plame, a criminal act, because her husband wrote a critical column about a pretense for war in Iraq.
Kevin Tillman, who served in the Middle East with his brother Pat, the pro football player killed in Afghanistan, cried out in anguish over the ever-shifting Bush reasons for a senseless war:
“We were sent to invade a nation because it was direct threat to the American people or to the world or harbored terrorists or was involved in the 9/11 attacks or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger or had mobile weapons labs or had WMD or stop an insurgency or stop a civil war we created that can’t be called a civil war even though it is…
“Our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with anything, secretly torturing them.”
Congress, instead of providing the necessary balance to a mad White House, has become a mere mouthpiece. Its partisanship is nasty. The Dracula Congress has brought 20 bills to vote between midnight and 7 a.m. hoping no one will notice.
As columnist Paul Krugman has written: “The Bush administration and its allies in Congress saw the terrorist threat not as a problem to be solved but as a political opportunity to be exploited.” The GOP has won two elections through fear and seeks to win still another.
The Military Commissions Bill, the torture bill, is enacted with just an hour of debate.
GOP ranks are riddled with gays in important administration positions yet its evil genius, Karl Rove, plays the homophopic gay card during Bush campaigns going back to the lesbian whispers against Texas Gov. Ann Richards in 1994.
King Bush is the worst president America has ever had. The first step to dethroning him is the midterm elections Tuesday. “Let America be America again,” as poet Langston Hughes wrote.