Dropping the ball on 9/11 warnings, ignoring PDBs, fallout from Hurricane Katrina, rumors of stolen elections, Harriett Meirs, John “Anointed with Crisco” Ashcroft, Alberto “Abu” Gonzalez, torture at Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, and unnamed points east of the Oder River, thousands upon thousands of dead in a useless war in Iraq, a busted Treasury, massive tax giveaways to millionaires (and most especially to himself,) a doubling of the price of oil in the last 18 months, and now the NSA electronic wiretapping which was set up to “listen in on the bad guys” – all 200-odd million of them living inside the US…...

All these things have consequences, according to Steve Soto at The Left Coast:

With his base in disarray, the market suddenly concerned over inflation and oil prices, and another NSA scandal threatening to undermine his party heading into the 2006 midterms, it must be time to send the aircraft carriers to Iran and hope that no one notices. Except that our friend, retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner, who has already run a simulated Iran war game for the Atlantic magazine back in 2004, has heard the rumblings as have others, and says the pre-positioning of assets for a June attack may have begun.

Time for another distraction, one that will once again put the swagger in Mr Bush’s haggard, timid step and a manly sock-bulge in his trousers as he resumes the mantle of “War President.”