Torture & Hobbes

Christopher Hitchens: nasty, British, and drunk.

Gotta love this one, Hitch, you pompous fuck:

It is the events of Sept. 11, 2001, that explain the transformation of George Bush from a rather lazy small-government conservative into an interventionist, in almost every sense, politician....

We are never invited to ask ourselves what would have happened if the Democrats had been in power that fall.

If President Gore had behaved exactly as President Bush behaved that day and in the aftermath, he would have been impeached, with shitheads like Hitchens blowing the trumpets cheering the wingnuts on.

I mean, please.

UPDATE. George W. Bush, it turns out, was the greatest president in the entire history of Narnia. (No, really. I'm completely not kidding. Click the link.)

Some time ago, writer Andrew Klavan wrote a compelling review of the movie "Batman," comparing the caped hero to George W. Bush. Both figures gave of themselves on behalf of good in a knock-down, drag-out battle against pure, unmitigated evil, and neither was appreciated -- quite the contrary, they were often viewed as the bad guys by an ungrateful public. Klavan's analogy was right on.

My mind, however, for several years now, has raced back to another movie when I think about George W. Bush -- actually, a scene in the movie, based on a scene in a book by the same name. These final days of the Bush presidency seem an apt time to share it.

The scene is from C. S. Lewis's classic, "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe." It takes place when the Christ figure, the lion, Aslan, is led like a lamb to the slaughter at the Stone Table, where he is killed by the White Witch and every ugly hobgoblin of the netherworld. Aslan knows this is what he must endure for the larger good.

Check please!