Let's talk about replacing GWBush in 2004.

Here's my reply to a coworker's observation that "Boy, you really seem to have problems with Bush."

Aside from the fact that he's a drunken, coke-snorting frat boy who partied his way through life, never doing a damned thing except trading on his family's name…

And he deserted (stopped showing up, that is) from his cushy National Guard post during Viet Nam after the flight physicals started including drug tests…

And every business he ever owned cratered right into the ground…ditto the Texas state budget…

And a group of truly evil polluters from the petrochemical industry recruited him to run and financed the effort…

And that he was selected into office by clear vote shenanigans in Florida, on a 5-4 vote of a partisan Republican majority on the Supreme Court, in a decision that will go down with Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson as among the court's worst ever…

And that despite having no mandate, he persists in ramming through a hyperpartisan extreme right-wing agenda, weakening pollution laws, financing tax giveaways to the rich, cutting veterans' benefits and education assistance, walking away from already agreed upon treaties and appointing judges who will force desperate women back to the back alley butchers…

And that his attorney general says those who dare question the Bush Junta are traitors (well, he said "give aid and comfort to terrorists," but close enough)…

And that if you are deemed an "enemy combatant," with that decision left solely up to the authorities, you can be arrested without warrant, detained without lawyer or trial, held incommunicado indefinitely, and executed on the sole order of the president…

And that we've gone from having a president who was lionized overseas, got standing ovations in foreign parliaments, who brought peace to Northern Ireland and was "this" close to achieving peace between Israel and the Palestinians, to having a president whose arrogant, bellicose speeches have him almost universally despised, to the point where he dares not travel outside the U.S. for fear of historic, massive protests, except for quick photo-op trips to U.S. military bases…

And that the economy is completely in the dumpster…

And that he's so inept he lost a PR battle with Saddam Insane…

And that despite claims of being "born again," and that the Iraq war was a last resort, Time magazine reported that he stuck his head into a meeting not long after Sept. 11 and shouted, "F*ck Saddam, we're taking him out," which doesn't sound like someone born again OR considering war only as a last resort…

And that a wave of ignorant nativism topping the Alien and Sedition Acts of the early 1800s, the Red Scare of the 1920s and the McCarthyism of the 1950s is now sweeping the country, with people being beaten and having their homes vandalized and losing jobs and being arrested simply for asking questions about invading another country that has not attacked us, with all this applauded by the crowd in Washington…

Well, no, other than that, I have no problem with Little George at all.

The Supreme Court is not just another political branch, but nor is it as ideologically, morally, culturally, socially and politically removed from the substance of the issues as the traditional reputation assumes. The Supreme Court is not just an umpire calling balls and strikes with no concern about larger social consequences -- including the position of the Court itself -- and it may be a good thing for a bit of the myth to be punctured.

George W. Bush is at the epicenter of the moral, ethical, and criminal corruption of this administration. If Clinton was hounded into impeachment over oral sex, how can Bush escape unscathed for betraying a nation and the world?

How did we ever come to enter this parallel universe where no one is willing to say that we have Fredo Corleone running our government and that crimes have been committed against this nation, including the ongoing use of strategically activated terrorist alerts and duct-tape farces to cow Americans into submission? Isn't it a crime to scare a nation half-to-death to achieve political goals and launch a politically motivated war?

How did we get to the point that we have a media that daily bombards us with Orwellian dispatches and images that are crafted in the Pentagon and White House offices of disinformation?

How can the daily outpouring of lies from this administration, even when they are unmasked, make no dent on the image of Bush's "infallibility" nurtured by the White House and disseminated by the corporate press?

If Bush were a Democrat, he would have been impeached a year ago and then indicted, prosecuted and sent to jail.

So why are we at a point where a disastrous war sold, packaged and launched on the basis of lies, disinformation, propaganda, greed, bullying, bribes and madness should be continuing with the press and the Democrats not blaming the CEO of the criminal enterprise who has caused the deaths of our soldiers by putting them unnecessarily at risk?

The answer lies in a six-fold strategy championed by those individuals who have propped up the reign of the Madness of King George:

1) Disciplined control over the image of the Dim Son.

2) Control over television news through the status quo interests of the corporately owned media.

3) Unrelenting bullying, threats, smearing and intimidation of anyone who gets in their way.

4) Use of lies and truth as equally valid propaganda currencies.

5) Selling Bush and the war as "branded" products.

6) Understanding that the Democrats won't aggressively challenge their assault on democracy in America; in fact, they will generally support it because they are too cowed to speak out.

How has Karl Rove, the real most powerful man in America, accomplished this? How does Bush escape any blame for the daily lies, ongoing betrayal and being the front man for the most radical, extremist agenda this nation has ever seen? How does Bush get away with saying things that you would think were nutty if a drunk said them to you in a bar?

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The Supreme Court is not just another political branch, but nor is it as ideologically, morally, culturally, socially and politically removed from the substance of the issues as the traditional reputation assumes. The Supreme Court is not just an umpire calling balls and strikes with no concern about larger social consequences -- including the position of the Court itself -- and it may be a good thing for a bit of the myth to be punctured.