Bush: "Liberals Want to Kill You, Again. And Again"

I know that all I do is talk about the Bush Theater Company's "All Terror, All The Time" PR melodrama. That I keep reviewing their endless variations on the scene where well-meaning but spineless liberals help the terrorists tie Miss Liberty to the railroad tracks just as the infernal Terror Train appears stage left. Of the Republicans' knowledge of the theatergoing public's sweet tooth for violent entertainment.

And how the Terror Train, which is one day packed with WMD and the next with anti-domestic-spying liberal wimps, is bearing down on Miss Liberty's precious, fulsome body, which by God, is also under constant threat of violation by feminists and liberal judges as well as the Islamic infidels.

Yes, I know I keep complaining about the cynical and completely implausible nick of time arrival of the Bushian hero (of Western civilization, of right-thinking Americans, of good Christians everywhere, of the Constitution, of the free enterprise system, etc.). And that we're all pretty tired of it.

But in my defense, it's the only show in town, and until it closes, we're stuck with it, you and I.

This week saw some developments that gives one hope that the Terror Train might get derailed. Hillary Clinton, reviewing the Bush/Rove melodrama, noted that the Republicans "are doing it again," "playing the fear card" to win elections. She encouraged other Democrats to question the production's creaky dramaturgy and cheap special effects.

But it was also a week that saw Ken "Sniffy" Mehlman dutifully repeat yet again the melodrama's plot synopsis (see below), a synopsis that we will be hearing until doomsday apparently, or such time as the public gets tired of the spectacle of Miss Liberty surrounded by infernal Arab men and weak-kneed liberals.

At this point, we critics can only hope that the American theater-going public will grow as tired of this melodrama as they have of every other recent production of the Bush PR Theater Company.

For instance, there was their recent failed attempt to stage the marriage of Miss Social Security and her fortune to the fortunes of Mr. Stock Market. Then there was the incompetent medical drama they mounted wherein Mr. Free Market Choice would save the old and sick American People by letting them choose freely from a free choice menu prepared by the the kindly "Mr. Big" Pharma.

And then there was their supremely bad performance in a real drama, "Katrina" where the Republicans, working from their usual melodramatic anti-Democrat, anti-poor, anti-government script, actually tied Miss New Orleans even more tightly to the tracks, then ignored her for days after she was run over and drowned.

Which all goes to show that if they can't control the script, they can't win. As more Americans refuse to be cast as an audience incapacitated and demoblized by fear, or hyperstimulated by false heroics, the better the chance we have of shutting this stinker of a production down for good.

GOP CHAIRMAN QUESTIONS DEMOCRATS ABILITY TO PROTECT AMERICANS
BY JEFF ZELENY
Chicago Tribune

WASHINGTON - Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee, declared Friday that Democrats who have condemned the Bush administration's controversial eavesdropping program may not be suited to safeguard Americans against terror attacks.
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In a speech to activists gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Mehlman suggested Republicans should make an election-year example out of Democrats who criticize the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program...

"Do Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean really think that when NSA is listening in on terrorists planning attacks on America, they should hang up when those terrorists call their sleeper cells in the United States?" he said, referring to the House minority leader and the Democratic National Committee chairman.

Here's the link to the full story.