One of those mornings
The gray skies and sounds of just enough moisture on the street to give passing tires that tape being pulled off a tabeltop sound -- they're back. This is one of those mornings where I woke up - if one can call it that - late, feeling as if I'd been drugged. One of those mornings where it would have felt perfectly in theme to have awoken in a pool of urine.
I've been awake for at least 45 minutes and am on a second 30 oz glass of icewater and I haven't pulled out of it.
I see this morning that there's a buzz involving French intelligence tracking a lead that Osama bin Laden may have died last month of typhoid in Pakistan. If true, I wonder if taking away the Big Bad Boogeyman might take some of the wind out of the GOP terrormongers' sales? Nah, they'll replay speeches by Bush and pals from back when they were starting to feel some heat for not having captured or killed him, when they downplayed him as a threat. (So they could lean on the scary threat of Iraq's then already well-crumbled little mob kingdom.) They'll declare that we and our allies dogged him to death, keeping him from more dstardly schemes, and see how much positive buzz they can get from it.
With November elections coming up, short-term buzz might just fit their bill. As far as the Bush administration is concerned, the upcoming mid-term elections are ALL. This will decide how clear a path he'll have for his policies for the following two years. He's had a free pass so far - the checks
In the longer term, though, they'll need to put a new face on the Boogeyman. Sure, a shapeless al Quaida, lurking out in the shadows, is an easy threat to exaggerate and use to maintain the fear. Maybe that'll be enough with the focus shifting to Iran. The GOP has duped enough sheep with this scam over the past six years, I doubt they'll want to give that up.
What a depressing time to live in.
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