Hallucinating Bush

The next time we choose a President, it might be a good idea to elect someone who isn't being directed by the voice of God.

In the White House rose garden today, Bush lost his cool when asked by a reporter about the status of his embattled Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. Bush snapped, “I’m a decider,” and he has decided that Rummy is doing “a fine job.”

That fine job included invading Iraq without a plan for securing the peace, ignoring long-developed military plans and advice, disbanding the Iraqi Army, and not committing enough troops to secure weapons stockpiles that were looted by insurgents and used against our troops.

Aside from keeping Rummy, the horrendous stream of other bad decisions flowing from Bush (botching Katrina, failing to reform Social Security, lacking an Oil Policy, supporting torture) brings me to one conclusion:

Whatever half-baked God might be talking to Bush is not any kind of God I’m interested in following.

Bush has proven himself completely incompetent. He is inept, and incapable of changing course because he is so arrogantly certain that his course is always right. How can it be wrong if God is directing me?

Next time around, let’s elect someone who has confidence in his or her own intellect, reason and common sense, instead of some hocus pocus magical nonsense. Recall that when the Son of Sam killer confessed that a talking dog told him to murder, we tossed him in jail and threw away the key. So the next time a politician claims to be receiving the advice of God, we should take that person to the funny farm. The less superstition in government, the better for all of us.