Apre's le Deluge, Tois (Revising Down Bush)

(What did you see at the empire, oh Peggy dear?)

Uber neo-con "statesman" John R. Bolton just came out (on the pages of the Murdoch's WSJ, of course) as the first, in a very long line, of Righties waiting for the freedom to flay George W. Bush.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122385733887027383.html

Once the term is over the great Bush Cheney loyalty-of-message gag order will no longer apply to the average Republican's free speech. They will scatter in the night, like wounded coyotes, cackling and darting about, nipping now at each other and now at the flames of media spotlight, as they sort through their own bones and ash to seek a new leader for their pack. (More on that later - it is not Newt but he might be from Arizona.)

The moment W. leaves office a new mass movement of revisionism will flood the Republican message machinery. Culpa W., Culpa W., Culpa W., will be the new slogan.

"He was the decider" they will chant,

"He was the blue-urined fool named George. Lead him astray? Mais Non, Monsieur! T'was him, and him alone who dragged us all off this guano-laden sea-cliff.

"We tried." They will claim:

"I tried, don't you see? I tried to warn them to change their course; to proclaim a less certain victory, to reign in the greed. "

"It was him, not us and certainly not me." They will rise again chanting. " W. and the others, they alone attain that terrible tragedy of our failed promise to America.

"Oh yes," They will start wailing soon enough: "HE was flawed and destructive, but THE IDEOLOGY was perfect in every way. It was just misinterpreted, and mis-directed."

A parade of has-beens desperate to stay in the relevancy game are about to start begging off ethical responsibility and establishing political distance from their once proud king. They will say that they were noble but W. was the sole cause of their burn-it-to-rubble failure. The most arrogant among them (and Bolton is number two on that list) will actually argue that they failed because there was not enough zeal, not enough power-taking, not enough elitist manipulation and not enough force in their empirical agenda.

"I was there, yes," they will say, "... but it was not my fault. Neo-Conservative ideology was not to blame it was just ... somehow ... that man, and ... his hypnotic fiddle playing... as the smoke wafted in. "

I can hear it already, a pathos-driven army of weepy eyed false repentants, crying the devil's inexhaustible excuse for failed humanism:

"We didn't know, we didn't know, we didn't know and we couldn't have stopped that madman if we wanted to anyways."

That's all well and good, but drinks are double priced and you'll be buying a LOT of rounds for the house here at the No Name Saloon if you want to become an expatriot Bush loyalist, after-the-fact. Spare me the blah -blah - blah, there's work to be done and whiskey for the survivors, which is you, and you, and you and me together now bub. We were all victims then, and we are all survivors now...

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