Bouncy Bouncy

The latest news on the AOL front page is that the prez is "surging" in the polls. He's all the way up to 42 percent!

And to think that just a few months ago his competency rating was just a mere 31 percent. What a comeback!

Bouncy bouncy. I think we should celebrate. Let's all go out together and have a drink of formaldehyde, or whatever. I think I'll have the hemlock.

Also, don't believe this "Bush is an idiot" thing that started with Droolin' Joe Scarborough. It might be nothing more than a clever inoculation strategy.

The way it works is that when impeachment-minded Democrats threaten to get rid of Bush for gross incompetence, the opposition says, "Oh, yeah, Bush is an idiot, but everybody has always known that. Do you really want to impeach a guy who didn't know what he was doing? These were just innocent mistakes."

I might be repeating a paranoid fantasy. On the other hand, there could be something to it.

However, I will say for certain that I think generally we concentrate too much of our attention, energy, and anger on George W. Bush.

He's just the figurehead on the prow of the fascist vessel. Replacing him with Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden won't really solve anything, and will in fact simply prolong our fundamental problems with government in this country (government by defense contractors and oil giants).

We really need to start thinking about ways to torpedo the vessel.

Fascism, if it's to be brought down, has to be attacked at its root, in the skyscrapers and board rooms of the corporate oligarchy.