The Grim Freeper

Would be none other than our long-lost bogeyman, Osama Bin Laden himself, who released an audiotape aired on Al Jazeera that sounded an awful lot like it was written in anticipation of filling in blanks for the upcoming State of the Union address… indeed, it certainly looks like OBL has been reading the comments on Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, or the White House web site…
I’m not going to dignify the bastard by quoting from him; I will say that he always appears at moments very convenient for the Bush Administration, last time, right before… the November 2004 election. Now, of course, seems an odd time. Could it be Alito? That makes little sense… with DINO-sellouts Ben Nelson for sure and most likely Mary Landrieu and some others… and the rest of the Democratic gang that can’t shoot straight caving faster than George W. Bush can fall off of a bicycle, Alito is as good as in. (BTW: a filibuster is a no brainer: (1) if it succeeds, Alito is out, and Bush has to go back and pick less of a maniac; (2) if the filibuster fails, we’d still have Alito, but we’ll have him anyway, and the Democrats get a freebie, as an unpopular President’s selection of an ideological extremist has to be rammed through using a procedural abuse… the perfect thing to run on in the fall… not to worry… Peter Daou’s “triangle” is broken on the left, and the party leadership is still like the guy being executed by firing squad who won’t demand a blindfold “because he doesn’t want to cause trouble”… needless to say, no one is listening to me, even if anyone was actually reading me.)
Anyway, while the Democratic Party can’t get it straight to fight for the one thing we thought it could agree on (defense of abortion rights at all cost)… and can’t capitalize in the kind of ready-made corruption scandal that helped cost the Dems Congress in 1994… the Republicans have their secret weapon back in play: OBL himself.
We knew something was up with the killing of 18 people in Pakistan by the United States under the guise of an attack on A.Q. No. 2 Ayman Al-Zawahiri (murder… or negligent homicide…? You decide…) Of course, this is precisely the scenario under which the 101st Fighting Keyboarders so effectively managed to Blame Clinton First TM for the whole OBL/A.Q. phenomenon, i.e., the unsuccessful (at killing OBL himself, though it did kill dozens of A.Q. players) missile strike on Afghanistan in response to the 1998 Africa embassy bombings. You see, the problem was that Clinton had to warn Pakistan that missiles were going over its airspace; Pakistan, evidently, in turn, warned someone in Afghanistan, who let OBL know the good news… There is no reason whatsoever not to believe that exactly the same scenario played out here: Bush had A.Q.’s top organizer– the planner of 9-11 himself– but presumably had to warn Pakistan of a Predator Drone drifting over Pakistan… who in turn warned… you know who… So… if you want to Blame Cliinton First TM… guess what? You have to Blame Bush II Too TM. You have to. Same scenario. Same result.
But why now? Just to have cute sound bites for the State of the Union seems a ridiculous reason for bringing out as potent a (domestic) propaganda tool as OBL himself. No, no. Something serious is in the offing. The poobahs musts have felt that the Abramoff thing was starting to get serious legs (even with the Dems, naturally, fucking that up with a disjointed counter-proposal… for this they have a counter-proposal!)…
So obviously, heavier measures needed to offset the cumulation of Katrina (still fresh), K-Street Korruption, Killing (our troops in Iraq, that is), Krawling up the private lives of Americans via illegal surveillance and Karl (who, I’m guessing, may be under indictment before the month is out… or not…)… so… what do we need to re-set the news cycle, and reenergize the base, and stir up those happy fearful feelings among “Sekurity Moms” (we do indeed have to fear fear itself… the GOP is counting on it)…
Exactly: Kaeda! Or, in this case, a 6’6″ Arab with Kidney problems. His timing remains… propitious. Almost as if he were koordinating it with Karl. No, no… that sort of thing would never happen…