Sleepy time time

by Jack Bruce and Janet Godfrey

I'm a sleepy time baby, a sleepy time boy.
Work only maybe, life is a joy.

We'll have a sleepy time time.
We'll have a sleepy time time.
We'll have a sleepy time time.
We'll have a sleepy time time.
Sleepy time time, sleepy time all the time.

Asleep in the daytime, asleep at night.
Life is all playtime; working ain't right.

Chorus

I have my Sunday, that ain't no lie.
But on Monday morning comes my favorite cry.

Chorus

I'm with Digby on this...it took the fucking video tape of Bush looking blankly on, as officials warned him that New Orleans was about to be destroyed, for our reportorial mandarins to finally awaken to the fact that he's a damned moron?

I can understand why people may have intially thought that the guy just had to be smarter than he appeared in public because well.. nobody that dumb could possibly be president. It just defied reason. It wasn't long, however, before it became clear that the Republican Party had insulted our collective intelligence beyond our wildest imaginings by using sophisticated marketing techniques and every lever of institutional power at their disposal to install an idiot manchild in the oval office. (I came to believe they did it just to prove they could.)

After it was revealed that he had ignored the terrorism threat until 9/11 and then he continued to screw up everything that came after, any sentient being should have been able to see that what you saw in public was real: an arrogant, spoiled inarticulate man who didn't have a clue about how to run the most powerful country in the world. Regardless of how many "grown-ups" he had around him, he was the head of the organization and the organization was a reflection of him. They always are. His staff was just as inept as he was.

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I blame the press as much as I blame the Republicans for this nonsense. If they hadn't gotten a schoolkid crush on Bush after 9/11 and had maintained even a modicum of professionalism, we might not have had to endure this horrible failure for a second term. They built him up so high, and kept him there so long, that it was impossible for the public to fully comprehend what a miserable failure he was until it was too late. Now we are stuck with this bozo for another three years because these alleged journalists took five years to realize what was evident to anyone with eyes to see: George W. Bush was unqualified by brains, temperament or experience to be president, and the party he represents treated their country with tremendous disrespect by anointing such a man for such an important job. They have failed as much as he has and they have a lot to answer for.

People like Finneman, Dickerson, Bumiller (and what do you think Carlotta Gall, who's been reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan since probably September 12, 2001, thought when she was asked to byline a story with Liz?), were so swooningly impressed with the cowboy outfit and swaggering around "down on the ranch," that it took actual footage of him acting like the rest of the townspeople and not the sheriff to realize he's a gutless and innefective fool.

Too bad their awakening happened just a little too late.