Bush as Caesar
I can’t really add much more to this luminous commentary (click on the link — a must read) rescued from the memory hole by Digby, of which the climactic paragraph reads:
President Bush can fail in his duty to himself, his country, and his God, by becoming “ex-president” Bush or he can become “President-for-Life” Bush: the conqueror of Iraq, who brings sense to the Congress and sanity to the Supreme Court. Then who would be able to stop Bush from emulating Augustus Caesar and becoming ruler of the world? For only an America united under one ruler has the power to save humanity from the threat of a new Dark Age wrought by terrorists armed with nuclear weapons.
Except this: If Gaius Julius Caesar had been such a fucking moron he thought “disassemble” means “not tell the truth,” in those pre-heimlich days he never would have conquered eating prandium without choking to death, let alone Gaul.
If you put Bush in a Counsel’s garb and put him in charge of the legions, you get this:
