Hail and Farewell, President ____

I came up for air this morning. My little bit of contractual business on my new novel, Murphy’s War, is finished and my wife, champ that she is, came through her medical ordeal extremely well, if not without great discomfort. Still, I will be unable to write my daily dollop of medicine for the readers of this ethereal rag for another week or so. While I’m a hell of a novelist, I love being a polemicist and can’t wait to get back at this.

Let’s see, when last we passed in the night, the Republican coalition was fraying at the edges as the major member parties were turning on each other. President ____ was the subject of intra-party attacks and the GOP was doing its damnedest to forget ____ and to set itself up once again as the party ready defend us from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

In just those few short weeks much has changed. The knock down drag out fighting among Republicans has spread like a wildfire in a Santa Ana wind. No longer content with blaming the other major members of the cabal and denouncing President____, each segment is now acting like a gut shot hyena and is devouring its own intestines.

A major rift has appeared among the Neoconservatives with Francis Fukuyama – a major player and an initial supporter of the Iraq War – now saying the Neocons didn’t follow their own precepts and is in a war of words with folks like the Kristols and Charles Krauthammer. Goodness gracious, how these intellectual heavyweights can parse; they’re wonders to behold. No wonder that poor ____ bought into their sophistry.

The Christian right is splitting over issues as diverse as the war, global climate change, and immigration and many now find President ____ an untrustworthy person. Can you believe it?

But the bottom line is that the Republicans on the Hill must be fired. They bought into the ____ baloney and lashed the wimpy Democrats – at least the wimpiest of them - into going along with this war. I won’t bore you with there were no WMDs found and that Saddam had no connection with al Qaeda. Today’s New York Times (Monday, March 27, 2006) has an article describing a secret British memo detailing the prewar maneuverings of Prime Minister Tony Blair and President ______ ____. Reading it, there can be little doubt that the pre-invasion intelligence was being cooked in a super hot pre-heated oven.

Remember, the Republican coalition was waving the flags and beating the drums for this fiasco and they’ve got to be taken to the wood shed in November and again in 2008.

So just because they’ve forgotten their kow-towing and brown nosing of President ____, it doesn’t mean that we should. Remember, be strong, you’re not bringing your buddy home to Kansas you’re starting him on a new career on K Street.

Blog on!

Wild Bill