Occam's Razor and Why I May Slit My Own Throat With It

As W's approval ratings hover near lows matched only by Nixon;

--as he vacationed on his faux ranch and ignored Cindy Sheehan and rode bikes with Lance (at an arthritic sub-8 m.p.h.; the news reports simply told you "17-mile trail" and "just over two hours);

--as he says he "must get on with his life", then ignores the worst natural disaster in memory to give a speech ludicrously comparing post-WW II Japan to 2005 Iraq,, then grudgingly perused the post-Katrina devestation from a couch on Air Force One;

As Veep Cheney scowls away vacation in Wyoming and Condi Rice drops a few grand on fancy shoes in Manhattan and a Broadway comedy despite clear catastrophe at hand...

one has to wonder--what dipshit political adviser is letting this happen?

Of course, W. doesn't have to worry about re-election...setting aside for the moment the fact he was never justly elected in the first place.

But I'm not talking about the conventional, lame-duck presidency wisdom--that is, I don't think for a nanosecond that W. is permitted to act like an idiot because of the constitutional two-term limit.

No, I'm afraid it's much more sinister than that.

Only a fool could believe that Karl Rove and the rest of the real brains behind W. would allow him to act this way if it was not Part of The Plan, or at least if they thought The Plan would be negatively impacted.

Midterm elections are coming soon, and the smart money of conventional wisdom is betting that any Congressperson who brayed the pro-war line too early or too often (or too long, by braying "stay the course" today)--and those who by association and simpering sycophancy Look as Bad As Bush--may well have hopped the conveyer to the kill line of election 2006--and the Republican stranglehold on the legislature will finally be broken. Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead, and all of that.

Yes, that's the smart, conventional money. However, a mountain of evidence, as putrid as a post-Katrina sewage plant, suggests these are hardly conventional times.


Face it...W's actions and those of Halliburton and KB&R ad infinitum, ad nauseum,, with the blessing of way too many members of Congress, are so massive and reprehensible and clearly illegal we are forced to the conclusion that they believe they can do anything while in power, AND STAY IN POWER.

Occam's Razor dictates the simplest explanation is best--and I grant you I strive mightily to not leap up to exclaim bygod that's simple, they behave like idiots, because, well, they ARE idiots.

Except they aren't idiots at all. That W. is a post-coke, dry-drunk refugee who was none too bright to begin with belies the fact of the towering evil geniuses around him, like Cheney, Rove, Rice, George H.W., the new Saudi King, The Carlyle Group,to name a few--

The Bush Admisnistration and its corporate and political cronies are, to me, acting like they know they will get away with it. They know the game is rigged, because the private corporations who somehow now control proprietary (that is NOT PUBLIC, nor accountable to anyone but the, um, private company) voting software Right Here in America are owned by--you guessed it, powerful Republicans.

And sure as shit, elections are now nearly complete fictions. Anyone who denies that the 2000, 2002, and 2004 elections suffered from widespread abuse at various levels, including tampering with electronic vote totals and ensuring many liberal voting districts were understaffed, under-supplied with functioning machines, and full of GOP operatives to "challenge" potential voters, not to mention the soul-sucking chutzpah of Katherine Harris in 2000 or her counterpart Kenneth Blackwell in Ohio 2004...is simply denying reality--

And of course, now that Rehnquist has died, his soul oozing slowly to Hell, the Judiciary won't be able to help us, either--

That still isn't what scares me. OK, it scares me, it scares me shitless, because absolute control of the process has already been used to enthrone Bush et al and stack Congress and the Courts. What true American (or any reasonable folks who twigged freedom) wouldn't be terrified of this scenario?

Yeah. That first step, as they say, is a doozy. But the second step, well--

Beyond the gut-wrenching, terrifying realization that elections are wholly fictitious lies a deeper, even more sinister reality, dictated by Occam's Razor. This reality makes me go, like the rabbits of Watership Down, tharn.

As strange as it may sound at first, absolute control of the elections is not enough. It was enough to get "them" (the neocons) into power, jus' like the ol' unsmilin'goose-steppin' swastika-and-limburgher-lovin' Germans after the Reichstag. The Nazis had already assumed power through "legitimate", existing channels--then used the Reichstag fire and the Commie boogeyman to justify dismantling the very system which had empowered Hitler, to establish dictatorial control.

The U.S. elections of '00, 02, and '04 went largely unchallenged because far and away the critical mass of the population was willing to go along, willing to heal, to look forward and unite behind the leader, assuming that if the election gave us a president we didn't like we could toss him out.

That's what they always told us, eh? Heck, we tossed GHWB out like a tub of rancid milk--

Nobody wants to think their government seized power illegally, then used that power to declare perpetual war and remove all obstacles to maintaining power.

But now Katrina comes, the Morley's chain of petroleum drags hard on the U.S. economy, and the direct relationship between Iraq and the awesome, awful degradation of tens of thousands of U.S. citizens, is outlined in red neon for all to see.

The critical mass is finally calling bullshit on BushCo's tax cuts for the rich, deficits for the war, eliminating civil rights (how's that for unalienable?) cutting/denying funding for flood control in New Orleans, (not to mention the attempt to raid Social Security and the secret arrest and incarceration of U.S. citizens)...and the gloriously encapsulating, callous and indifferent Air Force One flyover--nothing has ever been more clearly stated:

We Don't Care About You, the People.

We Don't Even Care If You Realize It.

What I'm driving at here, albeit a bit circuitously, is that the display of Total Indifference, Ignorance and Even Contempt would ordinarily have consequences at the ballot box. Occam's Razor tells me first that Bushco's behavior indicates that they intend to stay in power, no matter what it takes, even if it means fixing elections-- or declaring martial law. All it will take is another "terrorist attack," like I predicted before the London bombings, but this time Stateside, where martial law will be imposed.

We are seeing the beginnings of it in the martial law imposed in Louisiana. Don't believe me? Why then is our own military, sent in to New Orleans because the Louisiana National Guard is deployed to Iraq, calling the victims of Katrina "the insurgency?" What would you call a shoot-to-kill order against looters, who loot only because the government that now shoots at them, failed them in the first place?




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