Amazing, the loose coalition formally known as the Republican Party is slowing corroding and falling into disrepair.  Formed of social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and security conservatives the party previously owned and controlled by the social conservatives has been hijacked by the so called neo-conservatives.

The religious fringe of the Republican Party started out being tolerated by the rest of the party, then courted by them and now it seems they are demanding the affections of a party that has simply lost interest in them.

Dick Cheney, in 1994, made it clear that he was completely against going into Iraq for exactly all the reasons we are now stuck in the middle of the worst mistake this country has ever made.

The Republicans thought they knew Dick, but as it turns out … not so much.

If Republicans think so little of our children maybe they’d be in favor of converting them into bio-fuel instead of providing them with health care.  Rather than caring about S-CHIP and making sure that this nation’s next generation gets health care.  Maybe we could look at our younger folks as a solution for our nations dependence on  foreign oil.

Consider for a moment that meat contains about 1,300 calories per pound.  Given that the average child might weigh between 50 to 100 pounds, that is up to 13,000 calories per child if we can figure out a way to convert children into bio-fuel!  Who knew children were so valuable in the Republican view of the world?

Now, please do not misunderstand here, in no way shape or form is this a proposal to violate the sanctity of an unborn fetus’s right to life.  No sir indeed, until they are born it is well understood that George Bush is 110% in favor of protecting children – it’s the already born for which he has no compassion.

So, why not kill two birds with one stone?  We could even bring our troops home from Iraq because we wouldn’t need to worry about he flow of middle eastern oil if we had a steady supply of bio-fuel converted from the children to whom the Republican’s don’t want to give health coverage.

How would the plan work?  Easy, actually – all children have parents according to Republican think.  So, therefore their parents should be responsible for paying all their medical bills.   If the parents are so irresponsible as to not be able to afford the medical costs of childhood cancer, an automobile accident, or some horrible life threatening disease then - again according to Republican Think - the parents are to blame for having had the children in the first place.

So, if Senate Republican staffers e-mails are to be believed our society has no obligation to help children with such idiotic parents.  Taking this logic one step further shouldn’t we as a nation even be able to benefit from the situation?

If we take these children and turn them into bio-fuel the S-CHIP issue is resolved, our dependence on  oil is over and Republicans can even claim this is the ultimate extension of being “Pro-Life”.

What do you want to bet that the Republican candidates all made just a little bit of pee in their pants when they heard that ‘Lil George was going to be paying a visit to South Carolina to shore up support among Republicans?  With friends like George supporting your party who needs Democrats to trash talk it?  This is the same Bush that went around the country selling the same message just before the midterm elections and voters didn’t buy then either.

Every time Bush opens his mouth about Iraq, 70% of Americans scream at their TVs, “What part of YOU WERE WRONG does The President not get”?  He was wrong about WMD, he was wrong not to send enough troops to secure Iraq after the fall of Baghdad, he was wrong to disband the Iraqi army weapons in toe, he was wrong to order the army to drive right by munitions caches on their way to Baghdad, and right now - this very minute - George W. Bush is wrong when he says staying in Iraq will keep America safer.

Staying in Iraq is making America more exposed.  Our military is stretched to the breaking point, the troops are not rested and the President is oblivious to all of this.  With our troops out of Iraq we could concentrate on a three-point plan to make America in fact safer:

1. Implement real counter terrorism measures here at home.
2. Move more forces into Afghanistan and Pakistan and take off the head of al Qaeda – the real al Qaeda, not the one in Mesopotamia.
3. Bring our National Guard home with the equipment needed to help Americans in disasters and to help secure our southern boarder.

Instead, our troops are stuck in Donald Rumsfeld’s “long hard slog” going nowhere and accomplishing nothing.  Well, they are acting as great recruiting agents for al Qaeda, Hezbolah and Hamas.  Leaving Iraq to the Iraqis to sort out would make for a better Iraq and a safer America.

Leaving George W. Bush at home and out of South Carolina would make for easier campaigning for Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and John McCain.

Just when you think George W. Bush must have run out of outrageous claims to support The Bush Iraq War, the Bush administration attempts to pull yet another fast one and lay the blame of this failed miserable little Bush War at the feet of Senator Hillary Clinton.

According to the Bush Administration, the terrible state that the Bush Iraq War is in isn’t the Commander and Chief’s responsibility at all, it’s Senator Clinton’s fault.  Huh, come again?

Let’s take these one at a time:

• It was the Bush Administration’s fault that the claims of WMD were unfounded.
• It was the Bush Administration’s fault that the Bush Administration sent 150,000 troops to fight a war whose plan called for 500,000 troops.
• It was the Bush Administration’s fault that half the administration was planning to leave Iraq in 2002 and the other half was resolved to stay for decades — that the right hand didn’t know there even was a left hand.
• It was the Bush Administration’s fault for failing to predict the sectarian violence in Iraq, even though there were CIA reports that that is exactly what would happen after the fall of the Hussein government.
• It was the Bush Administration’s fault for failing to send our troops to war with the equipment and training they needed.
• It was the Bush Administration’s fault for declaring “Mission Accomplished” almost 1600 days ago, when in fact the “mission” isn’t even defined.
• It’s the Bush Administration’s fault for not letting the Iraqis split their country into three separate countries and to get al Qaeda Mesopotamia out of the country.

So, what then, according to the Pentagon, is Senator Clinton’s fault?  She asked a question that her job requires her to ask!   George W. Bush is a desperate man, who’s been backed into a corner and is slinging mud in the direction of anyone who looks like a good target.

It worked in the 2004 campaign against John Kerry because the country was still largely in support of the Bush Iraq War.  However, now that it is evident that The United States would be safer leaving than staying, this smear tactic will not work again.

Has the President substituted one addiction for another?  Addicts frequently substitute sex, shopping, gambling or food when their drug of choice is denied them.  Has George Bush just changed his drug of choice to waging war?  He openly admits to abusing drugs and alcohol in his younger years.  Even if he didn’t the videos of him drunk combined with his DUI arrest would be enough to convince almost anyone he has an addictive personality.

Now, this post is not about unfounded gossip that Bush is drinking or using drugs; in fact there is no way to know that.  However, you can’t turn a pickle back into a cucumber and the President’s personality isn’t going to transform just because he has the will power to abstain from drugs and alcohol.

Twelve Step programs use the following 20 questions to “test” whether someone is an addict or alcoholic.  Depending on which Twelve Step program is giving the quiz, the questions will substitute the word “alcohol” for “cocaine” or “gambling”, etc.  The idea is the questions are universally able to tell if someone is addicted to an act or substance.  The following 20 questions are taken from Gamblers Anonymous’ website with the words “gambling” and “gamble” substituted with “waging war” and “wage war”.   According to Gamblers Anonymous http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/ answering yes to seven questions is an indication of a problem.

1. Did you ever lose time from work or school due to waging war?
2. Has waging war ever made your home life unhappy?
3. Did waging war affect your reputation?
4. Have you ever felt remorse after waging war?
5. Did you ever wage war to get money with which to pay debts or otherwise solve financial difficulties?
6. Did waging war cause a decrease in your ambition or efficiency?
7. After losing did you feel you must return as soon as possible and win back your losses?
8. After a win did you have a strong urge to return and win more?
9. Did you often wage war until your last dollar was gone?
10. Did you ever borrow to finance your waging war?
11. Have you ever sold anything to finance waging war?
12. Were you reluctant to use “waging war money” for normal expenditures?
13. Did waging war make you careless of the welfare of yourself or your family?
14. Did you ever wage war longer than you had planned?
15. Have you ever wage war to escape worry or trouble?
16. Have you ever committed, or considered committing, an illegal act to finance waging war?
17. Did waging war cause you to have difficulty in sleeping?
18. Do arguments, disappointments or frustrations create within you an urge to wage war?
19. Did you ever have an urge to celebrate any good fortune by a few hours of waging war?
20. Have you ever considered self destruction or suicide as a result of your waging war?
Now, some of those questions only Mr. Bush himself can answer; but clearly he scores a positive hit on at least 10 and most likely more of the questions.

When any addict’s behavior becomes out of control it is time for an intervention.  Normally a family member or the courts intervene and force the addict into treatment.  However, only the Congress has the authority to get involved in this case.  No other person and no other legal body has the authority to force the President to stop this addictive behavior.  It is time for the House of Representatives to do something, anything to make the addict in the White House stop.

George W. Bush’s addictive personality is responsible for his unwillingness to leave Iraq. He is convinced that victory is just around the corner. He believes that the next military raid will produce great results.  He sees great logic in that taking $400,000,000,000.00 and sending it to that sink hole known as Iraq to be followed by even more billions.  His behaves as a child told he couldn’t have his ice cream when the congress attempts to put even reasonable restrictions on his ability to wage war.

If George Bush is the addict, then the Republican Party is his enabler.  Having control of the congress for the first six years of his Presidency, the Republican leadership did nothing to temper Bush’s addictive conduct and now time is running short; and only the threat of impeachment or a trial on the house floor will get the Addict in Chief’s attention.