BUSH HAS TO FACE HIS MONSTER

I subscribe to a right-wing organization's e-mail list so I can keep an eye on what they are doing. Usually I get one e-mail a week on a particular issue and they ask folks to send a letter to Congress. The last message I got was about the Republican effort to kill the Senate tradition of the filabuster that allows the minority party to hold up all business by talking for as long as they can. The Republican's are calling their effort to kill the filibuster the "nuclear option." So the right-wing group sends me this e-mail on the nuclear option, not once, not twice, but three times in recent days. So putting on my organizer hat what do I think of this? Maybe they are not getting a very good response from their base on this request for action and they have to keep pushing it. A whole bunch of Republicans remember, not so long ago, that they used the filibuster when they were a minority in the Senate.

I am beginning to think the right-wing fundamentalist base is crumbling. The whole recent Gannon/Guckert porno/gay/prostitute episode at the White House appears to be driving the Christian fundamentalist base crazy. Here we have George W. Bush, who some believed was sent by God, and now we have stories coming out of the White House that the guy named Gannon/Guckert was "servicing" top level operatives in the Bush White House. Then "on top," excuse me, of all that you have Gannon/Guckert smuggled into the White House press room asking softball questions to the White House press spokesman and even Bush during his news conferences. The Christians are calling the White House wondering what is going on! There are growing rumors that high-level Bush operatives who are gay might soon be outed. Imagine the nuclear fallout from that!

I was in a restaurant in Portland last Friday night and at the table next to me were two Christian men talking about religious matters. One of them said, "At my bible study the other night we were studying revelations (the rapture) and I asked the others in the group, do you think Bush is the anti-Christ?" I was quite surprised to hear this.

But if you think about it you can begin to see where this is going. Real conservatives are beginning to wonder about Bush and his sales pitch that he is one of them -- a real moral man. How can Bush be a moral man when he is killing innocent people in Iraq? How can Bush be a real conservative when he is giving us the biggest budget deficit in history? How can Bush be a real holy man when he has a male whore getting access to the White House? In these times of high-level homeland security doesn't the FBI do background checks anymore? Do they use the internet?

Then finally, I watched Bush's former EPA administrator Whitman on C-SPAN last night talking about her new book. Basically the conservatives chased her out of the administration because she was too "moderate." She went on and on about how the super conservatives are ruining the Republican party and how they are creating policy that is out of the mainstream of America. She talked about how moderate Republicans are no longer welcome in the party of Lincoln and that they had better start to fight to take back their party -- and soon.

Bush's social security privatization plan could be his Waterloo (for those who don't know Waterloo was the place in Belgium where Napoleon was decisively defeated in 1815). Bush is bound to face a Waterloo because he has created so much negative karma, it is bound to haunt him in the end. Even my mother, a life long loyal Republican, has turned on Bush because she relies totally on social security in her retirement years and fears her economic future. She voted against Bush in the last election.

The cloth of the Bush team is coming apart. He has created his own monster and now will have to face the reality of it. Let the day come soon.