The next big White House deal was revealed today, already in the works, the details having been sorted months ago. Bypassing Congress and the usual channels through various commissions, the deal tentatively called "The Big Wham-O" is to be carried out before the dust settles on the recent trade of five top Taliban fighters for one Army deserter, and before opposition can balance themselves from reeling through a series of previous administration scandals too large and too numerous to list that would derail any previous non-racial administration. The idea is to keep opposition Republicans flailing hopelessly and making them appear hapless, ineffectual, confused, acting from anger and utterly hopeless. The plan involves characterizing opposition as "just more of the same old Washington nonsense we see too often and come to expect."
The next deal involves trading all the remaining Guantánamo prisoners clearing the place out for five billion in reparations paid directly to the Taliban over a ten year period ignoring official Afghanistan government seen as too corrupt to do business with, thus, "killing two birds with one stone, as it were" according to an unnamed high-level official* Speaking under anonymity the source elaborated, "the first trade was a test run to see how far the White House can go without collapsing, and now having ridded Guantánamo of the worst of U.S. captives held at Guantánamo, the rest will be easy-peasy lemon squeezy." Thus after having been thwarted by opponents his first five years in office Obama can finally fulfill one of his chief campaign promises and secure his historic legacy in his own way by his own methods.
* A house wren that lands on my terrace railing and speaks to me in my mind.
