Dark days lie ahead of us…

I’ll be the first to admit when I’m wrong. For the last year or so… I’ve been questioning whether or not George W. Bush had the ability to respect the rule of law and would step down after two terms as President. He’s pretty much stompted on every single article of the constitution so far since he’s been in office, the two term limit is pretty much the only one left his goons hasn’t spit on. After much thought and debate with my political buddies, we are not starting to think he actually will step down at the end of the year and make way for a new President. Like Michael Moore has stated in a few interviews I’ve watched in the last few weeks, the last eight years have been very dark for the US and I couldn’t agree more. Bush’s ‘regime’ will be considered a dark time by the history books, something that could have been avoided but also a time that will be started with a lot of ‘what ifs’ rather than a lot of ‘I rememeber whens’. Using tragedy to wage wars for oil that were purposed half a decade in advance, torture, wiretaps without warrants, Camp X-ray, freedom fries and non-existant weapons of mass-destuction. That is how history will remember the legacy of Boy George, regardless of how he tries to delusionally picture his presidency. The good news is there is a light at the end of the tunnel, the tenure of King George is almost over.

Baring some attempt to stompt on the twenty-second ammendment, Boy George will step down and hand the crown to the new President, whether it be a Clinton, Obama or McCain. Unfortunately, as much as we all are counting down the days until January 21st, 2009 (only 260 left), some of us have to realize there is a chance things are going to get a lot uglier before they get better. How ugly? Let’s just say all those secret meetings and memos are going to surface and burn us shortly and long after Cowboy George rides off into the sunset for his one hundred acre non extradition ranch in Paraguay his family recently purchased. Why would a sitting President by a huge chunk of land in a country that currently doesn’t have an ironclad extradition and recently granted war-immunity with his nation? The answer is simple, cause there is a strom a brewing and he is gonna bolt. On January 21st, which by the way is still 260 days away, I’m sure Bush is already going to be packed and ready to go, will sign his last executive order which will likely be to pardon his as much of his staff as he legally can, and then bolt for the nearest plane out of Dodge. He’ll smile with his wife Laura, and wave the cameras as he gets onto the helicopter for the last time and everyone will be too busy crying tears of joy as the door hits his ass on the way out to notice that he’s running. People will be too busy enjoying the fact that there is a new sheriff in town to give a rat’s ass what the old sheriff is doing as he boards a plane and leaves the nation as queitly as he can while the new president celebrates and parties victory like it’s 1999. The nation will be celebrating as well, but the party will not last for long.

The newly pardoned staff will do their job well, and will make it a nice slow transition. And I’m thinking about three or four weeks into the new Presidency is when it’s all going to hit the fan. The costs of the war on terror and more than that, the real cost of the war in Iraq, and I mean the costs that haven’t been added into the budget yet are going to avalanche onto the new President and blindside him like a bad episode of Survivor. How bad are these books going to look, take Enron and multiply it by about ten or twenty and that might give you a small idea of what’s in store for the staff that takes over the White House next year. This will be the first scandal of the new President, having to clean up a massive spending scandal, that will sink his/her first budget and inflate the deficit and debt ten fold.

If the books are half as cooked as I think they are, when all these costs are finally tabled into a budget of some sort, the are going to lay a massive smackdown onto an economy that already is being called a recession. I don’t mean to scare people, but if this mess resembles that of Enron, the mess that follows could plunge the US economy into a full blown depression. If George W. and his people are pulling a Enron with the budget with regards to the war and it’s no bid contracts, that would be your motive for his land grab in Paraguay and his eagerness to leave dodge after January 21st of next year, once again in 260 days. Under law, Bush can’t pardon himself and can and would be prosecuted if something like this broke out. King George is preparing himself to flee possible prosecution, which is why some of us fear the worse with regards to his willingness to step down after two terms. He may be stepping down, but he’s got some lovely parting gifts for the next smuck who plans to take over next year. Do you think the nominees to be would fight as hard as they are if they knew this kind of ambush might be waiting for them to pounce? Bush has never been a very big McCain supporter, don’t think he would love to leave the mess on his lap and enjoy him waste four years cleaning up that mess? As for the Dems, a depression like that would sabotage the first term and even set up the repubs for a good counter attack in 2012. Think Obama and Hillary would fight this hard to be nominated if they knew this kind of legacy was waiting for them? To be the person who cleaned up someone else’s mess rather than paved their own way?

I’ll be the first to admit that my political predictions haven’t always come to fruitition. While some have been spot on (no WMDs in Iraq, guerilla war in Iraq, more soldiers dying during occpation than during war) some of them have been wrong (Bush calling draft after winning 2nd term). I’m starting to think that my prediction that Bush would attmept to defy the election and the new President might be wrong, but I part of me still thinks the man would try something if he really thinks he could get away with it. One reason why I don’t think he will do it is because the people and the turnout for the primaires are so high. The people support the process and numbers are high for the vote, so to defy the election results would be a bad idea.

Yet with a head of state possibly making plans to flee to another nation to avoid prosecution, that has many people thinking what could be brewing. What we are going to discover once someone else takes over and finally declassifies a lot of information that this corrupt admistration has been hiding for the last seven years? How angry will the people get when they find out what Cheney said during those secret energy meetings? Will we ever find out much or will a lot of documents be destroyed by the time a new President takes over? That’s very possible as well, but one thing you can’t hide is receipts. Money is spent and wasted, you can’t hide that forever and that could be the one scandal that finally bites President teflon in the arse. If you can explain another reason to why Boy George would purchase a hundred acres of land in a South American nation (besides wanting to produce his own coke supply), I’d be glad to hear it.

He may be stepping down, but getting over the last eight years isn’t going to be that easy. Finding out what’s secretly been going will be one nightmare after another for the next few years, and the media will have a field day with it. A lot of people will say ‘I told ya so’ while others will just live in denial and refuse to believe it. Taking over after the Bush regime is going to be like taking over a frat house the night after an all night party. Do you have any idea how much it’s going to cost to clean this place up? You have no idea… but we’ll all find out one way or another in 260 days.

Peter