Senator Zell Miller still has moments of 'zombie-like' thinking.
A Madness of King George Special Report
by investigative reporter Quake Babylon
With the Bush administration still making baby steps in the infancy of its term, many of those who voted for former vice president Al Gore are wondering what has happened to their party. It began with the now infamous D.C. 8, whose votes cemented the nomination of John Ashcroft for attorney general. The seemingly traitorous Senators broke rank faster than the notorious Texas 8 disappeared into the night after their prison break.
So why would they do such a thing, especially for such an idol of the far right as Ashcroft? Certainly they weren't taken in by George W. Bush's talk of ceasing all partisan politics. Sure, some thought, Bush might dupe the state level Dems of Texas with his I'm-just-a-likeable-dufus act, but not those jaded, inside-the-beltway warriors of Washington. Not after the election debacle, and most assuredly not after the eight year witch hunt during the reign of Teflon Bill. Wasn't it time, their constituents cried, for a little payback?
"I wanted to vote against Ashcroft, I really did. But I just couldn't do it," claims Zell Miller (D-Georgia), tears streaming from his eyes. He was one of the eight Democrats that gave thumbs up to the nomination. "I really hate Ashcroft too. I once saw him beat a blind man senseless with his own seeing-eye dog because John suspected him of 'gaymongering', whatever that means."
Miller claims that an hour before he left to go cast a negative vote, the president called him on the phone, under the pretext of just getting to know one another. According to the Senator, what seemed like a short conversation lasting only a few minutes actually proved to be nearly three quarters of an hour.
"I've heard about the phenomena known as 'missing time', but only in cases of alleged UFO abduction, so I never put much stock in such tales. But sure enough, it happened to me! And what's worse, the next thing I know I'd cast my vote for John Ashcroft. I think I was hypnotized."
He isn't the only one to feel that way. A highly respected Washington insider, who wished to remain anonymous, had this to say about the 43rd president: "(He) has this way of looking at you, his eyes unfocused like a person who just took a quick shot to the head, or a dog waking up from anesthesia. It sort of draws you in, as you look for some sign of intelligence. Then he starts to sway back and forth, like a cobra trying to lull a bird before the lethal strike."
