I suggest that Bush be sentenced to three days in Mr. Vidal’s stomach . He would probably emerge deaf , dumb and blind - which will hopefully be the fate of Mr. Vidal sometime in the near future . Ashes to Ashes , Dust to Dust .

I much admire Mr. Vidal, but I believe this analogy is incorrect.

After all, wasn’t it Bill Clinton, not George Bush, who was swallowed by a whale?

Poor George he is truely cursed and has allowed himself to be used like a mere pawn in the game designed by Cheney and Sponsors.
If Poor George really had a clue- he’d sing a little song for All of US, before he rides off in the sunset. In fact that is the only way he will ever get the chance to do so. George is an ignorant fool, who has placed US in harms way through his mindless self indulgence.
Let US not be distracted by the Court Jester, the Village idiot, while the real culprits slip away again. Cheney is really only a mere ‘moral’, he has such weaknesses. What we fight is an Entity. A mass conglomerate brokering in necessary Natural Resources and human trafficking past,present and futures. Bush & Cheney et al have not been their first minions, nor will they be their last.
Even as an Atheist I see the Four Horsemen have long since arrived, the crescendo to their Masterpiece may not have been achieved just yet.
We have been enslaved by Religious leaders- Then We were given the words and the ability to read the Word
WE have been ruled by corrupt ‘Public Officials"- So we developed a Constitution of Laws and Principles
WE have been betrayed by the Corporations our ancestors built with their blood sweat and tears- now we think of the Global Market
We have caught ourselves in the reflection of the mas Media- and have shuttered at the sight and have joined the WWW instead.
Brick & mortar- only powerful if we deem them so, only wealthy if we see their paper or gold as valueable.
these entities have committed the most heinous of crimes against God,Nature and mankind.

John Hanks wrote: “Americans learn enough stupid things by the age of 14 to be susceptible to every crook that comes down the pike.”
Often they elect these crooks to the highest offices of government.

As a result, we have the perpetual class war against the American people, (commentt 506): 

Bush is requesting a 3 trillion dollar federal budget. One trillion dollars of this proposed budget is ear marked for the Pentagon.A figure that does not include emergency appropriations for the War of Aggression Against the People of Iraq, the ultimate social cost of the Bush administration’s assault on the Bill of Rights, or the operational economic liabilities of an authoritarian police state that accompanies the waste of American wealth on the Military-Debt-Complex and on economic inequality. Chalmers Johnson looks at the fiscal crisis and threatening bankruptcy confronting the American Empire. http://www.countercurrents.org/johnson080208.htm

Bush’s proposal, if this attains Congresszional support, will be used to cover exiszting tax give-a ways to the highest income strata, and for his continuing, unnecessary, PNAC driven war. The current federal debt is now at $9 trillion dollars and will increase dramatically under this new budget. The Military Debt-Complex will soon request an additional “emergency” expenditure of $700 billion dollars (or more) that is not contained in this “class war” budget, and that emergency request will dramatically add to deficit spending, if ( or szhould I say, when) Congress passes that “request” using patriotism as an excuse. (This ‘emergency appropriation” will be gobbled up by war profiteers, racketeering Corporate Contractors, and will quickly disappear into Bush’s “nation building” sink hole in Iraq.

The trade debt has now surpasses the federal government’s debt by an additional two trillion dollars: the stock market is in decline; and there is a looming “currency crisis” in the value of the greenback. Bush is counting on China, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Russia to purchase U.S treasury notes and his administration is counting on U. S. taxpayers to cover their mounting interest liabilities on these “market to government ‘investments’”.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18832.htm

Twenty years of intentional deceit and public ignorance about “Trickle Down Economics” has ended objectively in total economic failure. The conservative myth about “deregulation of the market” has objectively intensified, an sppeed-up global monopolization, and theses policies( during both the Clinton and Bush administrations) have accelerated the outsourcing of capital, industry, and jobs (That is, Capital flight in search of a slave labor force.)

New job growth in 2007 (lower paying service sector jobs) is but half that of the 2006 --a 50% decline in one year.
The rising price of fuel, food, heating and shelter has blown the top off the charts. And there is the circus spectacle of Bible beating politicians that preach “creationism” and that seek to subordinate the United States Constitution to a retarded fundamentalist theology. Science research is in decline and accompanied by a “brain drain” to nations with greater respect for free scientific inquiry such as Japan, New Zealand, Ireland, China and Sweden.

Since “misery likes company,” our Congress is proud of having joined Bushin these fcollies, and it too has allied itself with the warmongering Neonazicons and in Bush/Cheney’s efforts at trashing the Bill of Right, impossing secret government, eavesdropping on American citizens, and rationalizing the torture of prisoners of war.

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/76388

~A. Z. Arrow

That was meant for the person known as “defyungodlyvidal”

What!!??

I’m glad to see the vicious traitors get jinxed once in awhile.  But the crook media will protect its own.  I think they have already rigged the Democrats for a bogus rescue.

Gore Vidal has long offered theamericanpeople an antidote to the steady diet of toxic pablum most of them mistake for “information” about the condition their condition is in.  He has been candid, as well, in conceding that those who need it most are the least likely even to be aware of it, nevermind actually going so far as to down a dose.

This old Indian has observed the same suicidal incapacity, in Vidal’s countrymen and -women, and over a considerably longer time.  Now here in the terminal phase of a project aimed at nothing short of the total subjugation of our Mother Earth and all Her natural Children, those perpetrating the great gangbang no longer even pretend otherwise....evidently confident their subjects are too demoralized to raise even a token resistance to their ultimate degradation.

This “global” stress-to-destruct test, with six-and-a-half billion involuntary human guinea-pigs as the designated crash-test dummies, is no more the work of feckless two-legged power/fear-mongers than a Kansas feedlot is the work of its bovine inmates and the hapless human crew who abuse them.  Our Mother Earth has been under murderous assault by a “race” of insane fools from elsewhere in the Living Universe for over ten thousand years now. 

These tormentors (everything we know about them we’ve learned the hard way) have finally come to the end of their rope here.  Their last desperate ploy is the threat of taking us all with them, if we don’t let them go, and help them on their dirty way.  That simply isn’t in the cards.

So get ready, Boys and Girls, because we’re going all together through “The Eye of the Needle.”

HokaHey!

WE truly have a sociopath in the White House, an illegally seated ‘president’ who is just a puppet for the neocons and the corporate interests who now rule our country.  We are no longer a republic but an oligarchy, ruled by the rich corporations who make the laws to fit their greed.
“A land of laws, not people”? ludicrous, when the crooks make the laws.