I think many of Bush's circle are still very, dangerously religious, David Kuo's book and Tucker Carlson's revelations notwithstanding.
I think Bush, Cheney, et. al., resent their religious constituents, mock them in private, etc., but for the same reason any elite holds their base in contempt. The Pres. of Hungary was scandalously discovered to have a pretty contemptuous attitude toward his public, but I don't think that means he doesn't think he is acting upon some high statesman-like principles regardless.
In other words, Bush & Co's contempt for their evangelical base, for the Pat Robertsons of the world, is a separate issue than whether Bush & crew are themselves religious. I think a lot of the Bush gang are religious and are partly driven by religious goals.
Bush and Co. aren't seclar humanists waiting to bust out of their Christo-fascist chains so that they can be who they really want to be, if only they could shake those annoying Christers off their backs -- not any more than Ahmadenijad is waiting for the right cue to come out of his socialist closet. Bush and cohorts resent the little people regardless, whether they're their own important nutball sector of the public base,
or not. They probably also make fun of environmentalists and union activists. Basically, their contempt is "fuck the American public in all its stripes,"and when they're not being outed by Kuo or Carlson, they're cting that way anyway int he kinds of wars they start and the draconian bills they sign.
So - Fuck them.
-B.
Joanna wrote:
"The leading threat to world peace right now is not religious. The people who surround Bush are not religious, and this regime is the leading threat to world peace.
Carl Remick wrote:
"But there you are: Bush and his crew of Mayberry Machiavellis wouldn't be in power now if not for the tractable legions of the nation's faithful, history's most numinous useful idiots, who were perfectly willing to believe GWB & Co.'s claim to be doing God's work."