The Neo-Con Artist Crashdown

I've been waiting a long time for this day.

From me personally, November 4th 2004 was where I painfully asked "What's it gonna take?"). Since then I've been waiting for the time when America would finally start to wake up and smell the decay, and it looks like that time just might have arrived and the neo-con/artist who've been in driving this country into a ditch for the last five years are finally bailing out just before the car begins to flip over.

After not getting any real traction on the Jack Abramoff Scandal and the NSA Spying (that even Grover Norquist has denounced) we have the following... (detail over the flip)

Survey USA Map of Bush Approval

President Bush's approval rating has hit yet another all time low of 34% (at least until it drops to the next all time low).

Over half (53%) of Americans now say the administration "deliberately misled the American public about whether Iraq has weapons of mass destruction."

Only Only 23 percent of our Troops want to stay in Iraq until the "Mission is Accomplished"...again.

72 percent of the public opposes the Dubai Deal and 62% percent feel that Congress should block it.

54% Percent feel the government hasn't done enough to help New Orleans recover from Katrina, and and 57% percent disapprove of how Bush has handling things.

Approval for how George Bush has handled the War on Terrorism has dropped to 43% and Congressional Democrats are polling two points higher than Bush on National Security.

Vice-President Cheney busted a cap in some old dudes dome just last week!

And let's not forget Congress, where Bill Frist is being investigated for securities fraud, Tom Delay is under indictment and "Duke" Cunningham has plead guilty to accepting bribes -- this situation is light-years beyond the House Checking Kiting Scandal of the 90's.

There's blood in the water and not just for Bush - the entire neo-con agenda is rapidally crumbling everywhere you look. William F. Buckley has come out against the war, and now you have one of the founders of the movement claiming Neo-Conversatism has failed on Keith Olberman.

From Crooks and Liars - Fukuyama: Neo-Con Failure

Francis Fukuyama, the author of "AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS," joined Nora O'Donnell on Countdown last night and discussed the failures of the neo-conservative movement.

Keith: It is just three months now since congressman and decorated vet Jack Murtha was denounced on the floor of the House of Representatives as a, quote, "coward" for having even suggested we make a quick exit from Iraq. Our fourth story on the COUNTDOWN, now William F. Buckley is saying we should get out, and fast.

Video-WMP Video-QT (hat tip Lynne)

I believe this is a watershed moment. Just a few weeks ago most Americans were willing to turn a blind-eye to Bush's illegal wiretapping and simply "trust him" -- but not anymore.

Conservative water-boys such as Charles Krathhammer have gotten great milage out of the idea that Bush's opponents and critics are somehow deranged. But now I think it's becoming plain that they should have been looking more closely at themselves, it's now painfully obvious that those sad 30-odd percenters who continue to support this President and Administration no matter how badly they perform on every level are suffering from a pathological addiction to bullshit.

They believe -- just like a junkie or a hard-core gambler -- that just around the corner is the next score that'll set them up for life. This Administration has done nothing but bow and fetch according to the whims of imperialist corporate aristocrats, while hordes of syncophantic wanna-bes who continue to deludedly dream that they too will one day be invited to sit at the grown-up economic table, continue to prop Boy King George up on their shoulders. Bush believes that if he just keeps the bribes tax cuts coming the red-state peasants won't drop him on his head.

But eventually, the luster of the lie has to wear off. Eventually, like any addict - they have to bottom out. That time is rapidly approaching. It's only after you reach the bottom will you finally realize that you have to change direction and start climbing out of the hole you've dug yourself into.

Right about now the syncophants and suckers who've bought into the neo-cons reverse Robin Hood jingoistic bullshit are starting to realize they've been had on the bankruptcy bill. Their parents have been had with Medicare Deform. Their children have been had both on "No Child Behind Left" and the Birth Tax. The Troops have been had on armor and benefits. Right now the neo-con artist Marie Antoinettes like Fukuyama are starting to book a flight to some other ideological shores. Somewhere, anywhere but aligned with being a neo-con. They haven't hit bottom yet, the term neo-con hasn't yet become an epithet, but it will - they can see it getting closer as the price tag for Bush's Iraq boondoogle begins to round $100 Brillion, or is it $200 Brillion?

The neo-cons know the truth in their heart of hearts. They know that the "crackpots and crazies" they've been feeding on to support their agenda and line their pockets with the contents of our Federal Treasury are just over the hill with their torches and pitchforks. That glow isn't the lights from the "shining city on the hill", it's the approach of the angry mob. Things are about to get ugly.

But there's no where to run. Nowhere to hide. Their bullshit is long, deep, well documented and is just about to turn into quicksand around their ankles.

I know we can't afford to become complacent. Those Conservatives who never fully bought into their nutttiness or have willfully rejoined the reality-based community such as Paul O'Neill, Christine Todd Whitman have already done so. As their numbers dwindle, the remaining neo-con clinger-ons will no doubt fight back and lash out, holding on with a death-grip to their intellectually and factually bankrupt ideology. There's nothing more dangerous than a cornered rat-fucker. They are certain to blame War Critics (none of whom had any power what-so-ever) for their failures in Iraq and the Gulf Coast. ("Yeah, If you weren't always telling us we're fucking up, maybe we wouldn't have!") We'll have to fight back, hard.

But I for one, will glad applaud as they sink and eventually succumb the truthiness of their situation. No, not because I hate them or am obsessed with Bush - because it's the only way to begin to heal the wounds they've gouged into this country and much of the world. All this pain and suffering has been unfortunate, but neccesary. The neo-cons had everything under their control, they had every opportunity to finally implement all the nitwit theories they've been harbouring in thinktank cesspolls since the Nixon era -- and they've failed. Completely. Utterly. Totally.

30 years of planning went into this - we've been infected with it for even longer - and it only took 5 years for it come crashing down.

It's about damn time.

Vyan