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fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)
And we’re all out of bubblegum.
š¶ Those boots were made for mockinā šµ
They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.
The GOP couldnāt organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.
Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.
This blog will pay for itself.
He really is that stupid.
JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?
You can’t love your country only when you win.
A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.
Damn right I heard that as a threat.
Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.
Hot air and ill-informed banter
Iāve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesnāt seem to do any good.
Todayās GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?
Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they donāt ask for more? Great plan.
A democracy canāt function when people canāt distinguish facts from lies.
Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.
Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?
It may be funny to you motherfucker, but itās not funny to me.
Optimism opens the door to great things.
This fight is for everything.
If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.
Rome Again
I’m wondering what choice words you’ll have John.
cd6
6 pm:
State of the Union
OR
Law & Order: SVU rerun
well I know which one I’LL be watching
TenguPhule
Lame Duck!
Richard 23
As long as the President presents his bold health care plan, I expect a surge in his poll ratings.
Tax people on their employer provided health insurance and provide tax breaks for the uninsured so that they spend some of their vast quantities of disposable income on individual policies == brilliant!
Accentuate the positive and ignore the depressing crap (like Iraq and post-Katrina).
His immigration riff oughta be good too.
I fully expect The Corner and right thinking blogs everywhere to loudly celebrate President Bush’s home run!
That will make it all worthwhile!
I expect to be fully drunk before it’s all over.
chopper
yee-ouch.
Paddy O'Shea
The only intersting thing about this nonsense for me will be seeing how the esteemed members of Congress react to some of Shrub’s statements.
I’m hoping for catcalls and mooning.
ThymeZone
Yep. I really want to hear boos when we talk about the stupid surge.
The Brits do this right. When the Prime Minister sticks his foot in it, they hoot and holler from the other side.
Bordoni
Two questions:
What do you folks recommend using to cover my TV screen in the event of projectile vomiting caused by Dear Leader’s rhetoric?
Anyone have any good SOTU drinking games?
TenguPhule
SOTU Drinking Game (Booze Lite Version)
Work Together: 2 Sips
Terrorism: Long Sigh, then take a Sip.
Secure Borders: 3 sips.
Unfair subsidies: Finish the glass.
Democrat Party: Extend middle finger at TV, 1 long sip to cool off.
Victory in Iraq: Finish the bottle
Generational Struggle: 2 sips
Bipartisan: 1 sip
War on Terror: Finish the glass
Iran: 3 sips.
Syria: 3 sips.
Any mention of Osama Bin Laden: Finish the glass
Any mention of Afghanistan: Finish the glass
If either of the above mentioned includes ‘making progress’: Finish the bottle for good measure.
Energy Independence: Move on to something with a higher alcohol content, like bourbon.
Spork
So what are the rules for the drinking game?
Spork
Bah, nice timing TP
Pb
Bush’s health care plan? Lead. Balloon. You heard it here first.
P.S. No, of course I’m not going to waste my time actually watching that idiot. Of course I’ll see what people say about it, and maybe I’ll read the transcript later, but that’s about it.
Rome Again
I’m just hoping they stay in their seats and don’t feel the urge to loudly slap skin together.
Dave
HA! HA!
Headline on MSNBC “Bush to plead bipartisanship amid opposition to ‘surge'”
HA!
I guess that might be true, if by bipartisanship he means: You can discuss the merits of my ideas, but not in a negative light, and I won’t listen to anything you have to say”.
I’ll donate my next paycheck to Pelosi, if she nails him in the back of the head with a spit wad.
Rome Again
You know, when news media have to map out the route he’s going to take through Washington to stand at a podium and lie his ass off, they’re obviously braindead.
But, I guess we already knew that.
All hail the king of fuck-ups!
TenguPhule
SOTU drinking game continued:
Health Care: 1 sip
If he actually mentions taxing the benefit: 2 sips and have a good laugh at the tax cut Republicans.
Immigration Reform: 2 sips
If Fences are mentioned: Finish the glass.
Any time Bush mispronounces a word: 2 sips
If it’s ‘nooclear’: finish the glass
If that’s in context of Iran: Just get stinking drunk and call it a night already.
Dave
Jeez Teng, even if I start with near beer, I’ll be hammered before his second paragraph if I use those rules!
Rome Again
Good thing I’ve been holding some Corona in the ice-box for the last few weeks. I only have about 4 bottles though, think I’ll run out?
TenguPhule
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Richard 23
Drinking game:
Drink heavily throughout.
Benefits: rules don’t become more difficult as the game progresses.
Drawbacks: Blearghhhh!
Rome Again
“nooclear”? No drinking on that one, it’s “nookuler”
Richard 23
A garbage bag. Preferably opaque.
TenguPhule
Speech Bonus Word:
“Civility”
Automatic Chug.
demimondian
Non-alcoholic form (for those of us who don’t drink, or who have to drive home after the speech): substitute orange juice for the lower-proof stuff.
Substitute Tabasco sauce for the high proof stuff.
When the president makes a joke, have a corny chip.
When the president discusses Iran, have a pistachio.
When the president discusses Nyuculer North Korea, have some kin chee.
At the end, show proper respect. The nausea you’re feeling isn’t due to the speech or the man.
Dave
I’m actually betting he’ll extend a true bipartisan gesture the the congress and the country. Maybe, rethink the surge? Maybe single payer health care…
HAAHAHAHA!!! Sorry I can’t keep it up, I’m no good at this spoof thing…
Rome Again
Anybody got nerf balls? I want nerf balls.
TenguPhule
Kimchi or Kimchee. No ‘n’.
Also I’ll give Vegas odds that North Korea never shows up in his speech.
demimondian
By the way, John, love the category for the post: “Site maintenance”. Why not “Democratic stupidity”, though?
Pooh
“9/11” – Long Pull. If it “changed everything” chug, refill and chug again.
demimondian
Yup — an m, not an m. Tpyo. However, Kim chee (two words) is completely acceptable.
demimondian
Non-alcoholic form of the game — if the president commits to capturing bin Laden, take two sips of water.
AkaDad
Can non-drinkers take bong hits instead as a substitute to the inevitable hangover?
I’m not saying that I am, I’m just wondering. =]
chopper
i just prefer to drink heavily until his presidency is over.
Pooh
I would think that this would involve grain(s) of salt rather than water.
demimondian
That’s a personal decision, to be made by the non-drinker and his loved ones, as he or she expresses his wishes. I’m assuming, for the purposes of the rules, that the goal is to play along but remain sober.
The only part of the experience one can then share is the puking at the end.
CaseyL
I want to know what the Dingbat Idea is going to be this year.
But I don’t want to know badly enough to tune in. I’ll follow the speech via this and other live-blogging coverage.
Bold prediction: Lieberman (Asshole-CT) will leap out of his seat to applaud wildly every time Bush draws a breath, like a Syncophantic Joe-in-the-Box.
demimondian
Per Pooh’s suggestion (and the goal of the non-alcoholic version of the game): if the president commits to capturing bin Laden, take a teaspoon of salt, and chase it with two sips of water.
rā¬nato
the only thing that’s going on in Washington that I care about tonight:
Suns beat Wizards to make it 14 straight!
Pooh
Exactly – Mars and Manimals will be tough to top though…
demimondian
He’s going to propose sending all the Manimals to Mars.
KC
Hey, he looks pretty good.
CaseyL
They got his meds adjusted, then?
KC
Weird. Pelosi and Cheney, sitting next to each other. I’m used to seeing Hastert. Weird.
demimondian
By the way: for once, Talking Points Memo is actually covering a real talking points memo.
AkaDad
A PILF?
ThymeZone
Props. He’s being gallant, and gracious so far.
Smart move.
Rome Again
“To spend the people’s money wisely”
ROTFLMFAO, that’s a good one George!
cellar door
I keep expecting to look up and see Cheney and Pelosi fighting like siblings in the back seat of the family car.
Rome Again
Hubby decided to retire to bed after the first five minutes. “I’ve seen enough…”
Dungheap
Again with that “Democrat majority” nonsense. The embargoed text used the correct “Democratic majority.” I guess he just can’t help himself.
Rome Again
a plan to eliminate the federal budget in the next five years?
Lies, Lies, DAMNED LIES!
cellar door
And the look on Hillary Clinton’s face is priceless…
ThymeZone
No props. There’s a war on, and he’s pimping his tax cuts.
If I were in Iraq, I wouldn’t mind hearing about the war first.
ThymeZone
Bullshit time. “Save Social Security.”
Sure. CATO Institute’s whore. Get rid of it, is what they want to do.
demimondian
“defend America from all evils” — what’s Cheney doing there, then?
Rome Again
What war?
cellar door
Is he seriously trotting ot No Child Left Behind like it *did* something? Like it wasn’t a hollow sham of a bill that wasn’t funded at all?
Seriously?
Rome Again
‘Let’s fix my fucked up NCLB idea.’
Rome Again
Here it comes, tax and spend George!
Pooh
Atrios has the text, FWIW, and I just LOOOOOOVE the use of the passive voice…all these things “happened.” Who did them, Smirky?
ThymeZone
“All citizens (should have) affordable … health care.”
“We will meet those responsibilities.”
“Private insurance is the best way to meet those needs.”
Okay, your corporate buddies like Billionaire Frist are taken care of. Thanks so much.
Do you want to take advice from a guy who calls it “IN-surnce?” Two syllables. In-surnce.
Ugh.
ThymeZone
“Expand health savings accounts.”
Right. Defund insurance and give a revenue pony to the bankers.
“Pass liability reform.”
Fucking liar.
Rome Again
“medical liability reform” – Hmm, I do not think that means what he thinks it means.
cellar door
Here comes the work program…
Pooh
Love this nugget
Just not in the form of taxes. What a &*$^%*#
ThymeZone
“Guest worker program.”
Gotta agree with him there. Somehow, he sorta gets immigration right. Compared to the rest of his party of demagogues.
He tosses the Dems a bone.
Keith
Bush is wearing the same tie as John Kerry. W. might as well be taking a shit in Hugh Hewitt’s sink (although HH will surely say that the brown complements the marble and chrome in an earthy, austere way).
Rome Again
Oh, is he going to actually introduce clean energy?
An OIL MAN is going to do that?
Hmmm, why don’t I believe that?
ThymeZone
“Clean, safe noocular power.”
Pony.
ThymeZone
“Ethanol.”
Archer Daniels Midland thanks you.
“Reduce gasoline consumption by 20 percent.”
Okay. Trade in the Bush family Suburbans for Honda Civics.
cellar door
Even Cheney can’t keep a straight face during this energy independence nonsense.
ThymeZone
I think I heard that on Queer Eye.
Pooh
Disagree. A “guest worker program” is almost certain to amount to indentured servitude. So his business buddies get the good part of immigration without having to worry about little things like treating their employees like people. Want to organize a union in the shop? Back across the border you go. Want better pay or hours? Look! It’s la migra…
ThymeZone
“Global climate change.”
blublublublublublublublublubla ….What?
Pooh
Well, he was a shitty oil man, so maybe he was a plant the whole time?
The Other Steve
What he’s finally realizing Guest Worker Program is the equivalent of legalized slavery?
cellar door
9/11! 9/11!
The Homeland!
Horrors!
Be scared! Be very scared!
Rome Again
“September Morning” – he must be listening to Neil Diamond these days.
ThymeZone
“To win the war on terror, we must take the fight to the enemy.”
If only we could find the motherfucking enemy.
Is that him, over there?
What a crock of shit. Fist through tv screen.
ThymeZone
If he’d call it that, the GOP might vote for it ….
Rome Again
The evil that inspired and rejoiced in 9/11 is YOU George!
Pooh
To quote Robin Williams: “We ask ‘are you the enemy?’ and if we say yes, we shoot them.” It worked in Vietnam, or at least it would have except for the Dirty Fucking Hippies.
ThymeZone
“Al Qaeda … bad!”
I’m glad I recorded this part. I might forget.
Rome Again
Fear, Fear, Fear!
Oooooh, I’m scared.
Pooh
CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG
demimondian
Agree with Pooh. Look at Germany’s Gastarbeiter program for a historical parallel.
ThymeZone
“Iran … scary!”
Again, the DVR is my friend. I can review this later.
Pooh
Party of Lincoln…
Rome Again
Ever lawful and proper tool of intelligence… does that include waterboarding at Gitmo?
ThymeZone
“Protect the American people.”
He’s resigning?
Dungheap
Iraq? Anyone?
ThymeZone
“19 men got on airplanes to come and kill us!”
No fuckin’ way. When?
Rome Again
Yeah, show them how much they suceeded George!
Richard 23
Did he ever say “the state of our union is strong?” I thought that was a given in these sorts of speeches.
Pooh
Again with the passive voice re: Lebanon…bombs were dropped, hezbollah got stronger. The buck stops over that way…
SPIIDERWEBā¢
Actually, the first half of Bush’s speech was very good. He said the right things and pushed the right buttons, but then he got to energy…
From there on the speech was pure horse shit and I couldn’t watch any longer.
Rome Again
Gee George, if it takes you this long to enumerate our problems, perhaps you should step down?
ThymeZone
“I can say Shia and Sunni in the same sentence!”
Let’s hear it for the White House speech coach.
Pooh
Wait for it…
ThymeZone
“Iraq reinforcements.”
“Ally in the war on terror.”
“Stop the sectarian violence.”
“Secure neighborhoods.”
“Chasing down the insurgents.”
“Find the terrorists and clear them out.”
Pony, pony, pony, pony, pony, pony, pony.
More ponies than a goddammed rodeo here.
Rome Again
If you think the first half wasn’t just horseshit, just wait and watch. He didn’t mean any of it, of course. He’s just massaging anyone whose stupid enough to believe it.
CaseyL
“The state of our union is strong. And while I am President it will stay strong. I call upon Congress to fund a program to monitor the plate tectonics which run beneath our homeland, especially along the Continental Divide, to ensure that the State of the Union is never endangered by rogue subduction activity.”
Pooh
And it was more like the first third, but who’s counting?
(and anyone who thinks that claiming NCLB is a success is pushing the right buttons is pretty suspect…)
Rome Again
Whoops, don’t mess that one up George!
Yeah, we knew what you meant!
ThymeZone
“Withdrawal, bad!”
“Safe havens!”
“Harm America!”
“September 11!”
“Spare the American People!”
A little late, George.
Rome Again
Okay, my beer is gone.
ThymeZone
Iraq Study Group? What Iraq Study Group?
cellar door
Bipartisan council on the War on Terror –
Is that the Iraq Study Group I heard so much about? No?
ThymeZone
More troops! We shall always be at war with Eastasia!
demimondian
Oh, that’s right — you live in Seattle.
ThymeZone
“No nukes in Iran!”
Duh. Before this, we all thought it would be a good idea for them to have them.
Andrew
I really like how Pelosi is so much more sprightly than Cheney and so she can totally pop her ass up way faster for the important pro-‘Murican applause lines.
As for some of the Congresscritters, this standing up crap is the most exercise they get all year, so I suppose it helps hold down healthcare costs.
ThymeZone
Bipartisan council on the War on Terror?
That’s two guys who live in Crawford, I think.
CaseyL
Yes! We fight the subduction zone here, so you don’t have to fight it there!
Rome Again
Oh, now he’s scaring me. Let’s take on the entire world, with 92,000 new reserves who don’t wear the uniform, in Iran/Russia/China/Cuba…
Andrew
“Darfur”
BAM!
Pelosi’s up!
Wait for it… wait for it… Cheney struggles to care about black people… wait for it… okay, he stood up too.
ThymeZone
“Fight AIDS!”
Condoms for the Bush twins?
(sorry, had to)
Pooh
Easy, Kanye…
Dungheap
Dikembe!
Pooh
FWIW, my “WTF?” moment is his first “Hero”
ThymeZone
He should have had Dikembe go in for a layup in front of the podium.
Rome Again
“Children’s videos in her basement” – hmmm, that sounds suspicious.
Perhaps Julie shouldn’t present it that way.
demimondian
Cascadia — it’s not *just* a Community College any more!
Pooh
Dude, this speech sucked. He didn’t propose anything at all really.* Not even anything monumentally stupid.
* In actuality, probably a good thing for us as Americans and humans of this world…
ThymeZone
Wes Autry …. a true hero. Props.
demimondian
Poppy Bush? I’m scared of thuh manimals, poppy bush. What are you doing to protec’ me fwum them?
ThymeZone
Alaskans, too.
Heh.
cellar door
I watched this whole speech, and there was not a single mooning. I want my money back.
Now, for Webb.
Andrew
It would have been cooler if Bush had ripped his human skin off, revealed his true half-goat manimal hybrid-self, and yelled, “You bitches should have listened!”
ThymeZone
Wait a damned minute … you mean our comments weren’t shown on the screen in front of him as he spoke?
Fu…………
demimondian
Anybody wonder about Katrina? Like, why didn’t he say *anything* about it?
Pooh
Who wants to Sex Mutombo
Rome Again
Katrina? What’s that? That’s just a figment of your imagination. Don’t you know it’s impossible for a president to lose an entire city?
Richard 23
Strange. I heard that Michael J Fox was attending and I heard that he was going to “go off his meds” to demonstrate how necessary stem cell research is. And that the cameras were going to show a shaking MJF during this speech to make fun of Bush, but he never mentioned STR and they never panned to MJF.
So what’s the deal?
No mention of how great the recovery is from Katrina though. Interesting.
demimondian
I always read that use of the word as the verb form of sex, as in “to sex chickens” — which has nothing whatsoever to do with bestiality, Herb, so stop it right there. It means looking between a chick’s legs to find the animal’s gender.
Rome Again
Actually, that’s my second to worst nightmare, no thanks!
ThymeZone
“We are proud to call this big strapping black boy our fellow American.”
jake
Yes we all know how Bush hates to pull out before he’s finished.
Rome Again
You read that on Drudge, right?
ThymeZone
If you think you can bait me with a straight line like that, you are wrong.
I had a response, it was right on the tip of my tongue.
{ lightning bolt strikes two feet away }
Sorry! Heh heh!
Rome Again
Okay, I’m going to hold him to his word to eliminate the federal deficit in five years. Any ideas how he expects to do that?
Paddy O'Shea
Anybody catch that shot of McCain snoozing? Bye bye Johnny!
Rome Again
Webb uses props, I like it.
ThymeZone
He was just silently counting troops, trying to get just the right number ……
jake
The first step is to eliminate presidential elections so he can stay in office and make his plan work.
Then, he’ll think of a plan.
Then, he’ll make it work.
Sorry, I find it a little odd when a President talks about what he wants to happen well after he is out of office. Is he going to come back and check?
No. One. Cares. What. You. Want.
In Quackn Bush’s case, we care even less.
But I suspect this is a lame-ass attempt to build a legacy. If the federal deficit is eliminated in five years [whaahahaa snort!] he’ll take credit.
Rome Again
Son of Cain can afford to catch some beauty sleep while his minions do the hard work. Watch out when he wakes up though.
ThymeZone
Webb would be my ideal candidate in ’08 … but the timing is off.
ThymeZone
Besides, he is older than me and looks like a million bucks.
I do too. But in Canadian dollars :-)
Rome Again
I could have done without his reference to TWOT.
jake
“We will be showing him the way.”
Leading him by the goolies if necessary.
Rome Again
Heh, my thoughts exactly.
ThymeZone
Well, all in all, a perfectly good evening of tv shot to hell.
Rome Again
That bad, huh?
LMAO, j/k
Pb
Step 1: build time machine.
Step 2: travel back to 1993.
Step 3: thank you, Bill Clinton!
.
Or, alternatively… maybe he just unwittingly endorsed the Democratic candidate for President in 2008? Because, you know, at the moment that’s the only shot we have at getting America remotely un-screwed at all–and I think it’s going to take longer than 5 years, especially if Bush is in office for two of them.
Punchy
Anyone else subconciously read “SOTU” as “STFU” and instantly think the President is giving a Shut The Fuck Up Speech tonizzle?
SeesThroughIt
I managed to dodge this pointless exercise in political onanism, but I learned from my favorite wingnut, Mark Noonan, that:
And, to sum up, that:
Well. That settles that, then.
Pooh
How Shall We Fuck Off Oh Lord?
ThymeZone
Danged discount rate ….
Krista
The SOTU should really allow for heckling. I mean, really. It would make presidents think a little harder about what they say if they knew that their twaddle would not go unchallenged. (You guys should watch a session of Parliament sometime…it gets DAMN nasty, and everybody tears a strip off of each other, from the Prime Minister right down to the lowliest backbencher from Buttmunch, Manitoba.)
demimondian
He’s too old to serve in Iraq. Besides, tours are more than six months long.
Rome Again
::puke::
demimondian
I was imagining Pelosi with little Wiley Coyote signs, flipping them up a choice moments in the speech: “Bullshit”, “Look! A pony!”, “Where’s Osama?”, “Oh, by the way, where’s Osama?”
ThymeZone
He was talking about Eisenhower, right?
Andrew
I declare this to have been the BABY MOTHER FUCKING EINSTEIN STATE OF THE UNION(tm)(r)(c).
demimondian
No, Webb was talking about Einstein. Noonan was talking about Webb.
Pooh
Fixed
Krista
Ooh, or like “The Word” on the Colbert Report. That would have been great to have had Bush delivering the SOTU, with “The Word” providing delightful little tidbits of snark.
Rome Again
Aww, it’s okay, I have a tendency to take in ugly mutts. With the exception of my Stormy I mean, he’s no mutt, he’s my pretty kitty! But, yes, I have taken in some danged ugly mutts in my youth.
Andrew
Look it, you get Baby Einsteins by sexing Mutombo. Everyone knows that. But what you didn’t know is that Mutombo was sexing the entire gallery, including the First Lady and the Baby Fucking Einstein lady for the entire speech. With his eyes. And huge penis.
Sorry, now I’m channeling The Superficial.
ThymeZone
Okay, but I won’t eat out of a bowl on the floor.
Okay, I will, but only if there’s hot food.
Okay, the food doesn’t have to be hot, but it has have meat.
Okay, it doesn’t have to have meat.
Pb
Edit them in and put it up on YouTube because that would be awesome. I’d watch it for that.
Or especially that!
SeesThroughIt
Krista, if there is anything that happens in this country that is positively screaming for the Statler & Waldorf treatment, it is the SOTU.
Krista
That would be so, so delightful, that it’s bringing tears to my eyes…
Punchy
So Webb was–in theory–relatively speaking…or in general? And did Noonan mention Charlotte, or just Webb, because these things get sticky and I dont want to become entangled in such things.
Tsulagi
Count me among the impressed with Bushās SOTU address. Itās taken six years, but you almost had the sense he made it through high school. Not one gaffe like his being a small business growth or terrorists seeking new ways to harm Americans and his following their lead. Impressive.
Far, far more impressive was Jim Webb afterwards. Someone who can think, someone who could lead. What a concept. The complete opposite of the guy on before him.
Jimmy Mack
Whoa, that’s a bold statement. I still think Jeb would have been better. But I’m glad there’s still two people standing between Madam Pelosi and the White House. (Ducks…)
ThymeZone
Is there any way we can set up a Clark – Webb – Obama ticket in ’08?
Clark for foreign policy, Webb for defense, and Obama for domestic policy.
Okay, nutty, sure, but the GOP is trying to figure out how to run Arnold Shwarzenegger for crissakes.
CaseyL
Is that “gaffe” as in, “accidentally say something true”?
demimondian
Look, I’ll try to explain, but…no promises, no strings, OK? I’m really not much of a brane.
You’ve heard of the Black Hole of Calcutta? Well, Rove’s really that sucker, but it’s uncertain — you don’t know where you are, but you know where he’s sending you.
Rome Again
Jimmy Mack, uh, 2? Care to name them?
Dreggas
Hmmm just got done watching and I promised my wife I would not offer opinion during his speech…now I just want to laugh my ass off maniacally and point while doing so.
McCain Asleep during talk of Iraq = The Sleepwalk Express
Bush talking about fuel efficiency = many much laughing at the court Jester
Bush talking about Iraq saying we are in a fight we didn’t ask for = he’s right we just erected the steel cage and invited all comers.
I could go on and plan to fully dissect tomorrow.
ThymeZone
Let’s see … Jesus, and Peyton Manning?
Rome Again
I think they’re both going down together, and I think once Cheney’s taken out the other’s mouth will close permanantly.
I do not consider Bush himself to be more than a wooden puppet, sorry. He’ll spend his life somewhere in a box in a closet, in Paraguay.
Richard 23
Pooh Says: Wait for itā¦
R23 sez: I owe you a beer.
ThymeZone
Dikembo, and Regis Philbin?
Punchy
I’ve rented movies like this…Honestly, oftentimes I think our gov’t is wickedly inefficient simply because of all the decorum and niceties the reps and sens have to follow. If Webb was allowed to just shorten his response to “Hey Bush! Scoreboard, scoreboard, scoreboard, bitches!!”, he’d be able to get more done.
Richard 23
SeesThroughIt Says:
Mark Noonan is plagiarizing William Kristol here. I prefer his screeds on beastiality and “Fun for the whole family – if, that is, you are a family of degenerates.”
jake
Lesee…
1. Cheney.
2. Cheney’s big fat ass.
I for one am glad that God didn’t stomp the Capitol flat in an attempt to get at Bush. We’d have Abomination Gonzales for a leader. The horror! The horror!
Rome Again
Exactly!
That’s some scary shit!
Dave
Energy: recycled from last year.
AIDS: recycled from last year.
9/11: Recycled from every previous speech.
Over all: warmed over TV dinner.
…and the excellent intro and cordial chord he struck with congratulating Pelosi in the beginning all were shot down with the “Democrat” remark.
Webb, was excellent, however. Dems hit a home run with him.
Rome Again
Even Mrs. Alan Greenspan said it was more of the same. I was sort of amazed at that.
tBone
I’m sure the new Democrat Congress will fully fund the sickening, immoral manimal research that will allow that happen.
TenguPhule
Friend Computer has detected that your neural interface has been damaged. Please report to Reprocessing to get that Fixed.
Seriously though, were you listening to the actual speech?
It was full of hot air and bullshit.
ThymeZone
On Fox, the audio just had:
“Don’t worry, you’ll get your pony.”
Over and over again.
That’s probably what he heard. Except for the constant repetition, it sounded very realistic.
Tsulagi
Watching and listening. Of course it was full of hot air and bullshit. Hell, even Cheney was giggling when Bush said he was targeting a 20% reduction in gasoline usage in the country. Speaking of Cheney, notice when he reached for a glass of water and started drinking Bush was doing the same? I knew he was Cheneyās sock puppet, but I didnāt know there were actual strings attached.
As far as any lying that may have been in the address, well this is Bush. Iāve come to the conclusion he doesnāt have the capacity to differentiate between truth and lies. Keeps it simple for him. That way he doesnāt have to keep track of his lies.
No, what I was lauding Bush for, at least on this night, was being able to read from a teleprompter what was written for him without butchering it. Plus, I donāt recall him stuttering on any two syllable or less words. In fact, I think he was actually quite close in pronouncing nuclear correctly. Impressive. For Bush. Only took him six years to get to this point. I gotta give credit when itās earned.
Krista
Then I must be the kindest person in the world, because I’m willing to give the President an entire lifetime in Iraq.
I’d even help him pack.
GOP4Me et al
So, what was up with this Civilian Reserve Corps? Are they our new mercenary army? Can my buddies and I grab a couple sixpacks and some shotguns, and hitch a ride to Iraq as volunteer civilian security personnel? Will the US gov’t pay me $50k a year to hang out on a street corner in Baghdad, drinking beer and pointing my shotgun at anyone who walks within 6 feet of me? Did this idea make any sense to anyone at all?
jake
Here is a bill for a civilian reserve corp that Rangel introduced back in 2005. I’m sure President has something completely different in mind that is not at all a rip off of Rangel’s idea.
Based on this bill it looks more like you’d grab your computer repair kits and go to Iraq as volunteer information services personnel.
skip
A great bellows. blowing up and making emptier.
ChristieS
LMAO! Oh, the entertainment value! I’m going to chuckle about that sentence all day long. My vote for POTD.
Punchy
So they’ll hire you to do in Baghdad what locals in MS and AL do everyday?
PeterJ
Wasn’t there a rumor or something a while back that the Bush clan was buying lots of land in Argentina?
PeterJ
Argentina has a long history as one of the favoured vacation spots among war criminals.
I think things have changed though. But perhaps if you bring along enough Haliburton money and bodyguards you probably could set up your own posh Bushtown down there with enough KoolAid for everyone.
dreggas
So I’m not the only one who noticed that…I thought I saw an ephemeral glimmer of perhaps 100lb test fishing line attached to them.
Bombadil
I recall watching “Commons Question Time” on C-Span one night back in the days of Maggie Thatcher. One HoC member was railing on about prison reform, and started off his question with something along the lines of, “If the Prime Minister had spent any time at all in Her Majesty’s prisons…” when a back-bencher bellowed, “As she should!”.
The rest of the question was lost in the hooting and laughing that followed.
SeesThroughIt
Oh yeah, [i]Commons Question Time[/i] is a little slice of awesome. Can you imagine if our president had to sack up and face his opposition like that? None of this spokesperson/lackey bullshit. You get up there and defend yourself. Obviously, Bush wouldn’t last five seconds in such a situation. Which is part of why it’s great: It exposes/weeds out the inferior.
Krista
That is one thing I definitely like about the parliamentary system. The Prime Minister is elected in much the same way as your Speaker of the House of Representatives is elected, so he/she has to be there for House sessions and wade right into the debates with the rest of them.
Tsulagi
Yeah, I saw one of those sessions on the BBC. Tony Blair was just getting ripped. So much for British decorum. But to his credit, at least during the session I saw, Blair handled some of it with humor, sometimes acknowledging their point, and a few instances giving back as good as he got.
Bush? If he had to face that he wouldnāt last five minutes. Heād be in a fetal position calling for daddy.
Rome Again
No, but there was a rumor that the Bush clan is buying lots of land in Paraguay.
Google: Nuevo Germania, Chaco region, Dr. Woodward and “cleft” (inbreeding among the Nuevo Germanians apparently left them with a cleft lip that the good doctor is going to paraguay to fix. Also, Jenna was apparently also there recently visiting a Unicef operation. Can say it’s true, but last night I saw a diary on Kos where it looked like official letters from the White House were included giving the good doctor Woodward permission to go help the people in
Paraguay (can’t find it now). Plenty of links with the search terms I give you, not sure whether to believe any of it, but the letters from the White House on Kos last night certainly looked real (letterhead, discoloring, fold in the paper). Who knows if it’s true. Paraguay as I understand it though, does give Bush diplomatic immunity. Apparently he is safe from extradition there.
From Wonkette:
The Bush twins recently however got kicked out of Argentina for running through a hotel lobby naked. At least that’s what the press was reporting, before the SS hushed it up.
Another from Wonkette, she handled this extensively
Is it true? I can’t say, some interesting coincidences there.
Rome Again
Sorry, typing too fast.
jake
Oh suuuure. Just like I can imagine him fighting in Vietnam.
Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.
The Other Steve
That’s just absolute bullshit.
Everybody knows George is momma’s boy.