A hopeful comparison between the last Stuart and the last (please baby jesus please, please) Bush in the White House.
Not only did the Catholic House of Stuart get overthrown in a coup d’etat sponsored by Parliament (using a protestant dutchman to do the deed) –the more conservative Catholicism, the more rigidly hierarchical catholicism, etc. was overturned FOR GOOD as the underpinning of state power.
The liberal Church of England became the club you had to belong to, and succession could not happen otherwise…BUT more importantly, the overthrow of the House of Stuart ended ANY claim to the divine right of kings and reduced the king to a constitutional monarchy with Parliament gaining even more power.
And that’s why it was called The Glorious or Bloodless Revolution, because William of Orange let James slip out of the country and go into exile and then could claim he abdicated. But at least he kept his head.
Then the English were all pissy about the French b/c they couldn’t do it the same way a century or so later…
Wouldn’t it be great to see BushCo flown out of America by another dutchman…say a bailer at the international criminal court in Den Hague?
sigh. I think I’ll go to sleep tonight and try to dream about just that very thing… Dubya in handcuffs. Condi in her dominatrix get up, and Cheney wearing one of those weird black masks with his gut hanging out above his leotards… all pleading down their sentences by paying back money to American taxpayers in those offshore shell cos…
hey, I can dream at least, can’t I?

Posted by: fauxreal | May 11 2006 1:55 utc | 3

Have I Got Your Attention Yet? Bush To Ask
Wednesday 8 November 2006
API – New York
Across the nation today, poll counters
were sent home early due to an historical
low number of midterm ballots cast. In
nearly every state except Delaware and
New Mexico, voter turnout was below the
25% of registered voters threshold often
considered to make up a valid election.
Voters seemed to have no preference for
Republicans or Democrats, although there
was an overwhelming trend to incumbents.
Republicans kept their hold on the House.
Disappointed poll-watcher blog dKos says
the widespread low voter count is a huge
disappointment, but not unexpected, after
the Democrat-aligned website brought in
only a small fraction of normal campaign-
fund donations from its blog subscribers.
“We were outspent by nearly every Fortune
500 corporation. You just can’t fight the
US system,” a spokesman for dKos whined.
Asked if it was just voter exhaustion, the
moribund US economy, tanking US greenback,
impending collapse of the housing market,
soaring cost of gasoline and commodities,
widespread layoffs by union manufacturers,
or deliberate digital-vote sabotage, most
political pundits agreed it was neither.
“The President got tired of all the namby-
pamby’s, so he slapped the reins hard on
his team of Wall Street brokers and Fed
Bank moneymakers, then threw up his hands
as the stagecoach raced towards a cliff.
It didn’t take long for all the petrified
liberal Democrats and lily-livered Greens
to scream their little hearts out for Bush,”
Bill O’Reilly laughed out loud, grinning.
The President is expected to address the
nation tonight at 8:30PM ET on the final
vote counts, and on Republicans maintaining
their control of all houses of government.
His speech will be from the Oval Office,
with his doppleganger puppet on his knee,
entitled, “Have I Got Your Attention Yet?”
After his speech, Attorney General Gonzales
is expected to hold a special ceremony, to
bestow the title of King and Emperor of the
Universe upon President Bush, then declare
martial law and burn the US Constitution on
the White House lawn.
Due to an unscheduled media blackout, the sheepskin burning will not be televised,
although it’s expected to be widely felt
by all the sheep, who were asleep anyway.

Posted by: Harold M Scroft | May 11 2006 4:17 utc | 5

Bush family paintings.
One can only imagine how much of Thomas Kincaid’s oeuvre they’ve managed to hoard.

Posted by: American | May 11 2006 12:23 utc | 7