19 posts tagged “bush”
California is not subsequently consumed by the Fire of Hades. Surprise! Funny how the world doesn't end when things like this happen.
Meanwhile, the country continues to be embroiled in an immoral and
illegal war, the economy continues to creep toward complete meltdown,
and our president cravenly invokes "appeasement" for the purpose of
smearing a Democratic candidate while speaking in Israel. This
fucker still has half a year to destroy America, people. Don't
lose sight of that just because there's some good news from California.
I don't know about you, but I feel VICTORIOUS AS HELL.
WOO!!
'MERICA!
"No one would argue that this war has not come at a high cost in lives and treasure..."
---George W. Bush
Treasure?
Oh, my god, people!
Bush thinks this is all a big game of Dungeons & Dragons!
When asked what advice he would give to the average person facing the prospect of gas prices hitting $4 per gallon, Bush stopped the reporter and said, "What did you just say? You're predicting $4 a gallon gas?"
"That's interesting. I hadn't heard that," he said at the Thursday news conference.
--From CNN
Ladies and gentlemen, I am more informed than the president of our country, because I read this yesterday. I READ THE NEWS. The only info this moron gets is what his cocoon of handlers and advisors decide to give him.
FUCK, IS IT NOVEMBER YET?
Blibbity blobbity terrorists, razzem frazzem 9/11, shooby dooby Osama, yakkity yakkity Congress, and in summation, Chewbacca is a Wookiee from Kashyyyk who lives on Endor, good night!
--Your Goddamned President
Bush has no regard for human life, and is in fact contemptuous of it. The reason that the mounting dead in Iraq doesn't phase him is because he honestly doesn't care. 4,000, 5,000, 10,000...no number will phase him because he is a fucking sociopath.
His Vietnam speech finally clued us all in on the extent of this man's madness. He actually believes that we should have stuck it out in Vietnam. He believes that we pulled out too early. He believes this, because to him human lives are worth about as much as a dog's life to Michael Vick. They are a resource to be expended to further the interests of him and his ideologically-aligned cronies.
He's pushing through legislation to speed up executions. He's denying medical care to children without insurance. He is sending wave after wave of our young men into a meat-grinder for NO REASON WHATSOEVER.
He will never see the light. He will never understand.
Because he is insane. Read his rhetoric and try and make sense of it, I dare you. You can't. Unless you are also insane.
Stop trying to figure out why he does and says things. He is a megalomaniac who talks to Jesus. He still exerts influence because every knows he's crazy and people are afraid of crazy people. We're all just riding this thing out and hoping that he doesn't blow up the world before his time is out.
Fuck impeachment. We should have a doctor declare him incompetent.
George--
I've read Graham Greene's The Quiet American.
Please shut the fuck up.
Sincerely,
Kevin Wolf
Bush vetoes for the third time in his presidency.
Here's a great quote:
America is also a nation founded on the principle that all human life is sacred.
The President then went on to say: "Unless you're a retard on death row in Texas! In that case, your Mongoloid ass is gonna fry!" He then laughed maniacally and snuggled with a plushy Jesus for the next fifteen minutes.
As you can probably assume by my inclusion of David Strathairn's Edward R. Murrow in my latest installment of the Badass List, I liked this film a lot. Well-performed, nicely shot shot, meticulously directed: you'd have to be a real asshole or just plain hate George Clooney with every fiber of your GOP-voting being to diss on this movie. Strathairn is titanic in the lead role, a true iconic performance, and of course the Academy was all, "David who?" come awards time, as usual (they nominated him, but gave the award to Phillip Seymour Hoffman's gimmicky turn as Truman Capote in that nigh-unwatchable piece of "prestige" anaesthesia called Capote; Hoffman also beat out Heath Ledger, but that's a rant for another day). Maybe if they'd made Murrow blind or an MS sufferer or made him gay or something he would have had more of a chance.
My only complaint is that the film is far too short. I want to live in this world and interact with these characters for longer than 93 minutes. Maybe there's more footage we can see in an extended cut sometime. That would be nice.
It's a splendid little brief history of demagoguery and bravery that we should all see. Watch it the next time Bush gives a terrorism-filled speech to the nation and see how very little has changed in this country since the Red Scare.
Here's a link to a great Disinfo article that very simply and succinctly illuminates (as if we needed further evidence) the utter contempt and ignorance with which Bush regards the broad powers to declare and prosecute war granted to our Legislative Branch by the U.S. Constitution, the document he has sworn an oath (twice!) to preserve, protect and defend.
The power granted to the President by the Constitution during wartime is basically that of a Supreme General, but Bush has chosen to define "Commander-in-Chief" in terms that are downright Palpatine-esque.
Never in this nation's history have the reins of leadership been handed to a man more disdainful of the founding principles of the country he serves.
