Here I was, pissed-off about how Congress has been colluding with the President to dismantle our Constitution, how by all appearances a shadow dictatorship has been setup, and Congress overrides a veto. Well whoop-de-doo! Maybe if it was some issue that wasn’t overwhelmingly supported by the public, or if it wasn’t too little too late, it might have meant something. But they’ve already given the keys to the crooks and stood guard while they cleaned out the national treasury and sent the money to Lichtenstein, Dubai, and the Cayman Islands for Dick Cheney and his cronies to enjoy.
So what happens but I see this 2001 Onion article, a wonderful piece of prescience. Whoever wrote it had much more on the ball than you-know-who, our chimp-in-charge.
In case you’re unaware, the Onion is a news magazine of humor, parody, and cutting insight.
Just in case anyone is still unclear on the concept—although it does look like the concept is becoming clearer all the time, even to you-know-who and his addled brain—I’ve captioned a picture, since a picture is worth a thousand words, or so they say.
I guess dubya is still waiting for a miracle to pull that legacy into the “greatness” realm. (I can just see him in “I, Claudius”, trying to get the Roman senate to vote him into the pantheon of gods so he would not have to pay for his sins in the hereafter.) Not happening, boy, even though clearly a miracle happened to save him from being impeached, what with all his crimes: from misdemeanors to felonies to “high crimes” (whatever that may mean) to outright treason and war crimes.
Was it a miracle? Or was it just gutlessness, cowardice, and political expediency on the part of the majority party? It would be very hard to distinguish what the Democrats in Congress and the Senate have been doing from outright collusion.
Anyway… anybody who wants McCain deserves four more years of the current death spiral. But those people don’t read this blog, do they?
It may seem a bit early to be doing a film biography of the man, but in fact he is very much larger than life, except maybe when he’s crawling out from under a rock someplace.
Undoubtedly his legacy will include many biographies, only a few of them flattering. His popularity as a president may have bottomed out, but after he rejoins civilian life, he will see it go into a free fall.
How can I wait until October when the film is released? Here, as evidence: the early teaser poster.
Out pimping his book intended to set the record straight, former Bush Administration Under Secretary of State stopped in on one of the few serious media outlets for political discussion—The Daily Show on Comedy Central—and got asked the hard questions that should have been asked within the Administration sometime before this country decided to start a war. Seriously, the buck should stop with every former Administration hack who is now attempting to rewrite history as a disinterested party with no responsibility regarding what took place then and what is going on now.
I suspect that Stewart was probably the first interviewer who actually read the entire book. Certainly authors don’t expect to get grilled by interviewers who are trying to hide the fact that the notes they have in front of them were written by a staffer who may have only skimmed sections of the book.
Watch the two part video and see if you don’t agree with me that Jon Stewart would make the best Vice President we can possibly have in the Obama administration.
I posted previously about how George Bush had a reporter ask him whether he’d given up golf because of the war, and he’d said “yes”, that he didn’t want mothers of dead soldiers and marines to see him playing a game. He neglected to add that giving up golf coincided with the same knee injury that made him also give up running, while he was seen playing golf months after the August 2003 incident that supposedly triggered his action. Now, video proof that he is lying.
You can fool some of the people some of the time, especially if they watch Faux News a lot. But you can’t fool all the people, especially since most of them are a lot smarter than you are, George.
I understand that it’s tough being George Bush. Here he started us a glorious war for the honor of himself, his legacy, the Republican Party, and of course, God. And they’ve picked it away to nothing. Had to give up the religious crusade, the few Iraqis who welcomed us as “liberators” got murdered as collaborators. Now everybody’s saying that his series of excuses to invade Iraq in the first place were nothing but lies, and all those people died for nothing.
Don’t they understand how he has made sacrifices, too? Why, he gave up golf so mothers of dead soldiers and Marines wouldn’t see him playing while the war raged on. Well okay, he gave it up after they told him he ought to stop being seen having a blast when others were hurting. Well yeah, it happened right after that knee injury that caused him to also stop running. And the fact he was photographed golfing long after the event that supposedly caused him to give it up is just a little memory loss.
How fortuitous that a reporter happened to ask him outright if he had given up golf because of the war. Um, can you spell “PLANT”?
What to do about that pesky war, what to do, what to do? Shall we keep it going for generations, as Hillary and McCain have suggested? Can we “save” the world, and if we do, will there be anything left, especially of our own economy?
I have predicted almost since the beginning of this administration that history would judge Herr Bush harshly. But even before the end of his Presidency, historians have spoken: only 2% of professional historians responding to a Pew Research Foundation survey conducted through History News Network rank his Presidency a success. While the Prez himself is convinced that history will eventually conclude his has been a great leader, moral beacon, and the devil knows what else, these historians feel no need to cut him any slack. Story
