GEORGE BUSH’S DREAM IS COMING TRUE People with a Memory for the Absurd Will Recall how the Bush Administration and its Flacks Have Called for Communicating with the People Directly Without a Filter. Bush is coming through unfiltered now, but it is a nightmare. All across this administration voices are speaking up loud and clear and with every utterance more clear is just who these people really are. Karl Rove totally shot himself in a painful place when he accused Democrats of offering treasonous therapy for terrorists when own lies do more to hurt this country. Dick Cheney’s throw away lines on last throes and the like don’t fly anymore. The last questioner at the White House Stenography Session Press Briefing yesterday, a reporter mentioned the word treason. New Supreme Court nominee John Roberts avoids questions on how he “is” not a member of the Federalist Society at the same time he serves on a steering committee . . . for the Federalist Society. Were the geniuses boy and otherwise thinking the facts would not come out and they would not matter?
Facts matter. Scott McClellan may go out daily and with the assistance of the WHITE HOUSE RAPID RESPONSE PROPAGANDA SQUAD build up walls of words for the Bush Administration to hide behind. But everyday those walls get knocked down. Fooling all the people all the time is hard work. As Bush said, “Fool me twice. Won’t get fooled again.” The Dark Fairy Tale of the Boy President in the White House is now being put in a larger context Bush cannot control. Everything said now comes through clearly. Every word is looked at through the lens of such gems as Bring ‘Em On, Mission Accomplished, and worse. The scrambling to build up more walls will continue, but truth now marches over the rubble toward the Oval Office where one man will be held accountable for what he has done at home and abroad.
QUESTION OF THE DAY: List the Top Ten Stupid Things the Bush Administration has done that will come back to haunt them. If you have been burnt out by the flaming flood of infamies, just offer what you can. Those who can’t think of anything can use the name for Karen Hughes’
Heretik, I am too burnt out on the infamies to go back and list any (or all).
Hey, I'm just waiting to see what kind of crisis develops in the next month while Dubya is relaxing in Crawford. I'm really interested in seeing if anything hits the Schiavo Threshold for him to return Washington. A quarter million brown people gone dead in a tsunami didn't make it (he was on Christmas holiday in Crawford, if you'll recall). So I'm wondering exactly where the threshold is.
Posted by: Richard Cranium | July 26, 2005 at 08:25 AM
I got nothing to say, but that picture made my morning.
Posted by: Lauren | July 26, 2005 at 08:29 AM
How about "Natural Bolton Killers", for when he goes postal...
"The Whores", about Jim "Mr Mojo Risin" Guckert...
Posted by: zencomix | July 26, 2005 at 09:37 AM
Tangling with Joe Wilson was dumb.
Declaring war on the CIA was dumb.
Getting openly involved with Schiavo was dumb.
Standing by DeLay was dumb.
"Bring 'em on" was criminally dumb.
"You go to war with the army you have." criminally dumb.
Ignoring "Osama determined to attack in US." dumb.
Deciding to wage war on Latin America, again - dumb.
Firing Iraqi army - criminally dumb.
Al Qa Qaa - criminally fucking dumb.
Posted by: eRobin | July 26, 2005 at 11:00 AM
OMG that has got to be the best damn thing you've ever done (and you've done some pretty incredible stuff)! You need to get an award for this!
Posted by: ol cranky | July 26, 2005 at 11:01 AM
In no real order:
1) Being unprofessional about Clinton's impeachment
2) Wearing a wire during the debates for 2004
3) Allowing Rove to talk to the media
4) Blaming Democrats for obstructionism
5) Starting an air war illegally before declaring war illegally
6) Those 16 famous words of the SOTU 2003
7) Allowing the neo-cons to over-ride fiscal responsibility and limitations on government
8) Giving Halliburton a no-bid contract in Iraq
9) Bolton - nominating him, defending him, pushing the issue on him
10) Dismantling Social Security
Classic lines that bite back: "Mission Accomplished"; "Last Throes"; "Karl Rove had nothing to do with the CIA leaks. That's ridiculous"; "Cheney's office had nothing to do with the CIA leaks"; "I have political capital and I'm gonna spend it"; Those 16 famous words from the SOTU; The speech in France where his "ear voice" is overheard by microphone saying what he hadn't said yet, but then said; "If I learn that anyone in this Administration was involved in these leaks, they will no longer be in this Administration".
Posted by: Karen | July 26, 2005 at 07:07 PM