But What About That Story In THE GLOBE?

The White House has scheduled a media event this coming Monday with planned words from the Prez about the holiness of marriage between men and women and against gay marriage. The show of White House support for holy-hetero-wedlock is an effort by the GOP to stop the Senate debate next week on a proposed constitutional amendment regarding gay marriage. However, getting the necessary 60 votes to force an up-or-down vote is not likely. Now consider the coincidence that a front page exclusive appeared in the Globe tabloid on May 25th that George and Laura had broken up and that she had moved into temporary quarters at the Mayflower Hotel. The Globe story reported that Laura had given an ultimatum to George because of escalating fights over his drinking. One more fight/drink and she’d move out. She moved out. However that story may have gotten planted in the Globe, it was perfect timing for throwing mud on the first couple and their less-than-perfect marriage. But on June 1, the online Madsen Report turned up with a story saying that Laura Bush had moved into temporary quarters because of an on-going affair between George and Condi. I am laughing so hard I nearly fell off my chair. Let me compose myself. Okay...duly composed...almost. First, is it a coincidence that the Prez is getting revved up to fully support heterosexual marriage while a frenzy to discredit his own marriage is showing up all over the blogosphere and in the tabloids? Second, how come the second media blast about the Bush’s marriage going belly-up is in fact an expose about Bush and Condi having an affair? Oops...I’m falling off my chair again. Could it be that it is more important for the White House to plant a story that both George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice are heterosexual than to refute stories of the Bush’s break-up? Could it be that Laura moved out because she’d had it up to here with George being gay? Could it be that rumors about Condi and her preferences were getting impossible to squelch? Just asking. But really, folks...one can’t help doing little mental pictures in one’s head about rumored alliances. One can’t help picturing George Clooney with just about anyone and thinking, Oh my! How nice! How pretty! And one can’t help picturing Condi and George and thinking of the revelatory scene in “The Crying Game”. Because that’s the only way that liaison is going to work. George and Condi? Please! Sooner Ken Mehlman and Mary Cheney.