Profiles in Impotence

Our Dear Leader Kim Jong Bush, Barbarian-Quelling Generalissimo and Purveyor of the Pax Americana Upon Undeserving Brown People Whether They Want It or Not, has a bit of an impotence problem.



And it's not the kind of thing you can fix with a dose of Certain Patent Medicines.



This is political impotence - the impotence of a President who is only months away from handing over the keys to the Oval Office Executive Washroom to another. His approval ratings have been hovering around Suck for so long that few of his attention-deficit-addled followers can envision a time when he was (and he was, inexplicably) wildly popular.



His support for the Republic of Georgia has, since its invasion by Russia, proved to be largely rhetorical. Our military is hamstrung like Gulliver by the military adventurism of Bush, Cheney and the neocons to the point that we couldn't intervene militarily even if we wanted.



(I'll be discussing why it'd be stupid to try even if we were capable in another post.)



So here's Bush, his chance at vicarious manhood mired axle-deep, the economy in a shambles, our Constitution used as toilet paper, and his one and only hope at this point is to be able to rest in peace without long lines of people queuing up to violate his grave.



So what to do?



Simple - take the savage mauling he's done to our civil liberties and cast them in legal concrete!



He wants to codify into law all of the provisions of the Patriot Act and expand them, then allow local law enforcement to spy on ordinary Americans even if there's been no actual crime committed. Further, it allows the local police to share this info with the Federal agencies (shades of the old Silver Platter Doctrine) and retain the information for 10 years.



Yes. Ten years. Your emails, phone conversations, etc. kept by the police (not even the FBI) fo ten years.



The ACLU's already up in arms about this, and so should be the Democratic leadership in both houses of the Congress. This disgusting wastrel who's failed in everything he's done in his adult life now wants to swing for the fences and screw everything in this nation up for decades to come.

So what we need to do is to take his proposal, roll it up nice and tight and lube it up with some heavy Caspian Sea crude, and ram it up his -

But no. He might like it too much, in a Jeff Gannon sort of way.