If Bush really is a puppet, and the water starts boiling, do you think

[zbdent]

that he will start squealing on the string-pullers to save his ass?

[JuniperLea]

1. Good question!

Since he has never been held accountable on his business failings, or anything else in his life, I'm betting throwing people under buses to save his own ass comes as second nature:)

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Not a chance.

He's too dim to even know that he is a puppet. He really thinks he is in charge.

[Rageneau]

3. You can't reveal what you don't know.

And Smirk is so out of the loop that for half-a-day he didn't even know his vice-president had shot a man ... because the vice-president had not bothered to tell him.

IOW, I think it's fine to lower * into the "boiling" water. Just don't expect to get anything but pleasure out of it.

(Things have gotten so bad in my formerly free country that I actually hesitated to write: "it's okay to lower * into boiling water" -- even though the metaphor is clear -- out of apprehension that Smirk's goons might pay me a visit. This, like everything else that's wrong in America today, is the fault of conservative Republicans.}

[zbdent]

4. I'm thinking about the frog, not the lobster

the old urban myth that, if you put a frog in a pan of water and slowly bring the temp up, the frog will boil to death before realizing his/her life is in danger . . . (not proven, not likely)

Not putting the lobster in headfirst into the boiling water . . .