Cornered animals are dangerous

I must say Bush looks more and more like a cornered animal. His monstrous lies have been exposed, his "war" is a dismal failure, the American people (at long last) are aware of his incompetence, virtually no one believes anything he says anymore, even the neocons and the religious right are deserting him, and the new Democratic House and Senate are serving notice that he is to get no more blank checks for his trophy "war." He is expected to announce sometime this week what his new plan is for Iraq. It is expected that he will demand further troops, perhaps as many as 20,000 more, for his "war without end."

Will he actually do this? He has run up against an absolute wall of resistance. Most of our Generals are opposed, the American people are overwhelmingly opposed, Democrats are opposed, and many Republicans are opposed. Even long time professional hawks like Oliver North are opposed. In the face of this ubiquitous opposition will he really have the chutzpa to stand in front of the American public and insist that it's his way or the highway. I doubt that it is in him to do anything less. I believe he is absolutely unable to even consider that he might be wrong about anything. After all, he talks to God (but obviously does not listen). Is he unbalanced enough to actually pursue his delusions of victory to the point that he succeeds in destroying our military, our financial security, even our vulnerable planet?

Perhaps he will postpone his speech once again, waiting for further consultation. Maybe he can find a coalition of the completely delusional, like McCain and Lieberman and a few others, to back him up. And so - what if he does? This has all the makings of the greatest Constitutional crisis since the Civil War. All because the American public wanted a president they would like to have a beer with instead of one who was, shall we say, a thousand times more qualified. Could we not have, this time, please, someone who is actually fully qualified for the job? For me, Al Gore is the only possible candidate who would meet this description. I sincerely hope he will run. I will feel sorry for him if he does. Who would want to clean up the filth left by this current administration?