WTF?

I'm going to type something here that is totally out of character for me, or at least on the surface I think it is. Now before you jump on my side or start berating me, read the whole thing and make your judgments after the fact. Ready?

President George W. Bush is on a direct collision course to be considered an abject failure as the President of our country. Now - now - all my liberal friends out there stop getting excited, because as you read on you'll see I'm going to jam it to you as well. But to stay on topic, let me present this to you. For starters, the President has increased the national deficit from 3 trillion to 8 trillion...and yes...I said trillion with a 'T'. What we have to show for this deficit is home prices laughably high, a war in Iraq that has the most hardened conservatives like myself scratching their heads, crap-ass border control, and gas prices soaring - then dropping by a matter of pennies only - then going back up almost imperceptibly unless you're really paying attention.

I am paying attention.

We have no exit plan for Iraq, we're threatening Iran for some God-awful reason that is unclear to me, we allow people like Zacharias Moussaoui to potentially escape the death penalty he probably deserves, we have allowed the wonderful men and women of the Armed Forces to be unilaterally embarrassed by the actions of the very few at places like Abu Graib and Gitmo, and not one single believable explanation has come out of the small group that comprises the President's tight inner circle in a long, long time. As a matter of fact, what does come out of there is nothing - silence - nada! Even well-respected and honored republicans across this country are starting to become restless and demand answers publicly. For whatever they're worth - and I don't give them as much weight as some do - the polls have this particular President and his administration at what could be the all-time low in our history if it continues. The average Joe and Jane - the middle class men and women in middle class America - are drifting away from this administration. Why? Because this administration isn't doing a damn thing to try and keep these people in the fold. They maintain their silence; they maintain their arrogance; and they continue to disrespect and ignore the people who put them where they are today.

Even in the face of this negativity, nothing verbal comes out of the inner circle. The President's daily radio show skips over the confusion and anxiety in this country, and subsequently what he plans to do about relieving it. It is so obvious at this point the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense have absolutely no concern what anyone thinks; and it's frightening. It is my belief that no one in that circle of 4 is listening to anyone right now, even their previously most trusted confidant's. Where are we going as a nation and who the hell is taking us there? I think that is a fair question, especially coming from a guy who has a blue spandex suit on under his clothing with a big red 'C' on the chest, for conservative.

Now, the flip side. Never in the 5 years of this administration have the democrats had a better opportunity to take the reigns and show everyone they can right the ship, but you know what? They can't. Wanna know why?

Because Howard Dean is the chairman of the democratic party. Because Ted Kennedy is once again the face of the party, even if that face is squarely planted in his salad at the dinner table. Because Nancy Pelosi is the minority leader of the party, that's why. The "leadership" (and I say that with all the sarcasm I can muster in print) is a total whack job, an alcoholic, and an ultra-liberal big mouth from San Franfreak-o. A blind - deaf - mute Ortangutan with brain damage can see the simplicity of the democrats opportunity to take over the whole deal, but unfortunately being blind drunk or metaphorically brain-dead in California is different from being just sightless or clinically stupid. Instead of jumping on the deficit, we hear about terrorist prison reform. Instead of staying on the who's, what's, and why's of the potentially disastrous ports deal, the dem's want to keep bad-mouthing the military and its role in the war against terrorism. The entire country is up in arms about illegal immigration - especially those who went through the arduous and exhausting procedure to earn their citizenship properly - and the democratic party (along with Senator John McCain) insist on being the apologists for this influx of illegals, and is consistently trying to pass laws to make it easier to sneak in and stay in. I think it's interesting that the democrats and liberals are so "into" human rights, when liberal judges twice in the last 45 days in this country (Vermont and Ohio) have let confessed rapist/child predators walk with probation because they're fighting back at the system they've hated their entire lives - and the law said they could. Where are the "human rights" of the little girls raped and preyed upon? Where is the liberal democratic outrage when the perpetrators of these crimes walk?

Nowhere...trust me on this...nowhere.

The liberal left is as silent on these a-hole judges as the current administration is on their own issues. The dem's have the opportunity to take charge and spearhead manifest change in this country, but instead of working the real issues, they want to talk about insignificant crap like gay marriage and gay adoption. Screw railroad security, let's talk about why we won't let Bill and Bob get married. Hey look....Bill and Bob, I now pronounce you man and husband. Go down to city hall - sign for your kid - and take good care of him.

Can we get on with the important shit now???

Finally, last night I watched a former Rhodes Scholar named Rachel Maddow on Tucker Carlson's MSNBC show say "the difference between the liberal left and democrats (her distinction by the way) and conservative republicans (notice she made no distinction) was that liberals try to make the country better while conservative republicans think about ways to take advantage of every situation." When Tucker asked her to explain what she meant - get this now-

She was silent.