THE Beach Book of 2008: Black Coffee, Staring at the Walls

I know what I'll be reading, aside from horrid style manuals, sunning myself in the Grand Caimans...

Actually, with the price of gas, I can't even get to the Grand Vic Riverboat for under a twenty, and that's only 45 minutes a way. Closest I'll get to a beach is if I quit eating, I might be able to make it to The Beach Water Park-in August. But I'll be reading in the simulacra :

Among the most explosive revelations in the 341-page book, titled “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” (Public Affairs, $27.95):

• McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.
• He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.
• He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”
• The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them — and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.
• McClellan asserts that the aides — Karl Rove, the president’s senior adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff — “had at best misled” him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.

Oh sure, it was the liberals that did this to our country:

“If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.

The collapse of the administration’s rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. … In this case, the ‘liberal media’ didn’t live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.”

It's instructive to,of course, remember the culpability in perpetuating this lie, these rationale, which did not shock this magic user, but did, evidentally, shock Senator Clinton, the smartest woman in the world, fooled by fools. Balls deep in this culpability, but not shocked, is John McCain, who was just happy to be able to claim ostensible balls after he cowered before this doofus.

The culpability, of course, spreads out to every chickenhawkin' dittohead, every dipshit choosing flag pins and stickers over reason and sense, everybody who ignored Blix and the Goddamned No Fly Zone, which had strangle Iraq to the point of needing humanitarian relief, and backpedalling sociopaths who were too stupid to plant WDM's. (Really. We have an army there, and nobody thought to plant the fucking things. Every crooked beat cop knows to have a plant gun. This, alone, should be instructive. If these geniuses couldn't even plant evidence for their case, how the hell were they gonna handle some "unplanned for"?)

Pull your head out, people. You elected criminals and incompetents. Learn from your miskakes. The best part is the satisfaction of the nyah nyah nyah nyah to every asshole who, with no remorse (or sense), still proudly sports a Bush/Cheney bumpersticker. Except that I'll probably cry at what's happened to the country, and the dream, and desperately try to get it back.

You, of course, will watch Fox and give your self a vicarious stroke for WarHero McSame. Or perhaps you'll lose yourself in the kind of knee jerk bigotry that can only come from a dittohead's love of Obamaslander.

Who knows, maybe you'll just head off to Panera and rant about the misogyny of it all with your "Designing Women" Fan Club...

Wait. You seem to be dripping blood from your hands...