An Ostrich for President
One of the blogs on BE (SlightlyDrunk.com) has a banner that reads: “When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”
Does this sum up the Bush administration or what? This is George W. Bush in a nutshell. When the going gets tough, the tough go to Crawford. I forget where I heard this, but one of W.’s cabinet members said that Bush works 24/7. 24 hours a month, seven months a year.
An annual report indicates that worldwide terror attacks increased dramatically in 2004. The solution? Stop publication of the report, of course.
More and more government scientists are warning of the dangers of pollution, diminishing forests, etc. What to do? Fire those godless subversives. Replace them with politically correct “scientists” who will make the proper “discoveries”: what endangered species and vanishing wetlands really need is a huge dose of good old free enterprise.
70% of the public is against “reforming” (i.e. dismantling) Social Security? No problem. We’ll just orchestrate a few invitation-only “rallies” where everyone will spontaneously cheer for Social Security reform.
We can even stage some town hall meetings (invitation-only of course) where the softball questions will be known ahead of time, and the audience screened and vetted in advance. What do you think, Karl? Would the public actually fall for something like this?
posted by Tom Harper @ 11:39 AM
13 Comments:
Pretty much sums up the modus operandi of this administration, Tom. I think I'm just about at the point where I give up reading, if you know what I mean.
Brother Kenya: Oh, it's tempting to stop reading, or just tune out current events. I try to think of the news as being a TV drama (or a sick comedy); you can get some degree of detachment that way.
OK Democrat: You're right, if they had to pay for their own trips to their private getaways, they might just work harder so they don't need to get away.
When she was "roasting" her husband (figuratively, not literally), Laura said something to the effect that her husband's way to solve a problem was to attack them with a chainsaw, like he does at the ranch. Somehow, when he's waist-deep in sh*t, I don't think a chainsaw is going to work. Maybe he needs to try a shovel...
It really is sad we no longer have Branches of Government that are anything more than a rubber-stamp apparatus, or a press that actually functions as a watchdog. Had we had these things, this cretin might be gone now.
Woodenshoe: Thanks. Yeah, we're knee deep in it all right. I just hope we can make it for the next 3-1/2 years without getting neck deep in it.
Snave: That seems to be what Bush is doing, using a chain saw when he's knee deep in shit. Maybe he could orchestrate a "spontaneous" rally where everyone cheers and says that being knee deep in shit is a good thing.
Jollyroger: Yup, those were the days: 3 separate branches of government and a press that actually got suspicious and investigated. Maybe we'll get these things back someday.
You asked for Christian discrimination over at Bring it on. Here you go
Jay777: In my comment at Bring It On! I agreed that the ACLU goes too far in things like banning Christmas decorations, etc. As far as prayer in public schools, I don't really have an opinion. But how is this persecution or discrimination? How is your day to day life affected by the fact that the ACLU doesn't want prayer in schools or religious displays on public property? Do you think this is comparable to being gay or being a minority? Are there groups of people walking around saying "look, there goes one of those Christians, let's beat the shit out of him"? Are there restaurants that say "we don't serve Christians here"?
The fact that some political organizations disagree with your beliefs doesn't mean that you're being persecuted or threatened.
I would probably eat at such a restaurant if for no reason other than to not have to hear the misguided rantings of the right wingers wearing religious frocks...
Let me run through this in my mind...
1. This country now has the largest deficit in history and it's the Democrats who want to spend our money?
2. Republicans are for a smaller federal government and yet they created an entire Department? Isn't a Department sort of... oh, I don't know... an enormous bureaucracy? No, wait... a Department is bigger than a Bureau...
3. I was starting to get on a roll, but now I'm just sad... did half the people I see out on the streets every day really vote to re-elect George W. Bush?
And I don't even know what to say to someone like Jay777. It's a bit sad that there needs to be group like the ACLU at all... but maybe if the Congress of the United States rubber stamp measures of questionable Constitutionality like the Patriot Act and people of this country were a bit more tolerant of opinions that don't match theirs, we wouldn't need the ACLU. Does the government really need to know what I read from the library? Do I get a bonus if it's the Bible?
Shawn: Yeah, Karl Rove and Co. have sure spun everything in their favor (and they couldn't have done it without millions of gullible voters). No matter how blatant the facts are, Democrats are still the Tax and Spend party of Big Government. And like you say, the saddest thing is that we even need an ACLU; not whether they're too far to the left or whether a communist founded them 80 years ago.
And of course the government needs to know what you've been reading at the library. That's two strikes against you right there: 1) you read; and 2) you went to a library. You must be some sort of intellectual communist :)
Actually... it's probably three strikes because while I was at the library I couldn't help but notice that most of the computer books were out of date... from that and the abundance of dusty, old tomes I did find, I sort of deduced that perhaps my public library was a tad underfunded. Guess it's more important to keep building nukular (sic) bombs than buy books.
Shawn: Of course nukular bombs are more important than books. We can't fight them terrorists with sissy books.
Shawn, you are truly Shawn Of The Living.
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