Sorry for shirking my responsibilities, but I am behind today. For fun, you could go read the transcript of Bush’s lame attempt to blame the Democrats for all the military readiness issues which have been known for the past few years. My personal favorite:
f Congress does not act, the Army may also have to delay the formation of new brigade combat teams, preventing us from getting those troops into the pool of forces that are available to deploy. If these new teams are unavailable, we would have to ask other units to extend into the theater.
In other news, it appears Henry Kissinger has a book to sell.
The Other Steve
I’ve decided i don’t mind corrupt.
It’s fucking incompetent that I can’t stand.
Bubblegum Tate
Well, corrupt is, sadly, pretty much unavoidable. Fucking incompetent? That can be prevented. It’s pretty embarrassing for America that it wasn’t.
Chad N. Freude
I like
Translation: If I refuse to sign the bill, THEY are responsible.
Subtext: I’m not responsible for anything. Ever.
Why won’t he just sign the funding bill with a signing statement that says he’ll ignore the schedule?
ThymeZone
I listened to the whole Bush comedy show this morning.
It’s grotestque to hear a guy who never cared a whit about the fortunes and well being of our servicepeople talking now as if it all hinged on what the Democrats do. And one who never cared a whit about porcine spending habits by a republican congress now pretend to care about the hygiene in a spending bill.
The man is a pathetic joke. It’s party comforting to know that only about 25% of Americans put any stock in what the fucker says, but then it’s scary to think that one out of four Americans actually puts any stock in what the fucker says. Can one in four people actually be that stupid?
If the asshole really cares about the troops “having what they need” then he’ll sign the spending bill he doesn’t like and pull away from the Iraq disaster like his daddy told him to last year, for crissakes. He won’t use the fighting men and women as props in his acting out a Washington power struggle.
Tom Hilton
Corrupt, incompetent, and authoritarian are inseparable in this case because they all feed on each other. The authoritarian insistence on executive infallibility shields corruption and incompetence from accountability. The corrupt view of government as spoils (or as an arm of the political effort) puts incompetent partisans in key positions. The incompetence and corruption reinforce authoritarian efforts to resist acountability. It’s a perfect storm of everything you don’t want in government.
Zifnab
He’ll sign it. And he’ll probably toss the signing statement afterwards. You just have to remember that Bush is a notorious liar who doesn’t mind flip-flopping any which way and to hell with his party.
He’s just playing poker with Congress, banking that they won’t have the balls to hand him a bill he doesn’t want because he can veto it and the media will make this out to be the Democrats’ fault.
But by the time the bill finally hits the table, Dick Cheney will pull him aside, show him the cut they plan to rack in, give the man a loli, and send Bush off to sign the bill while claiming this is a validation that the surge strategy is working.
Chad N. Freude
Easily. I’m not very sanguine about the other 75% either. Quoting myself from another thread:
One problem is that the Democrats don’t have a noise machine like the Repugnicans do, and whoever shouts their repetitive slogans loudest gets the prize.
Chad N. Freude
Excellent sentence. I wish I’d said that.
The Other Steve
Interesting comments by Kissinger.
I have always respected Kissinger. He is largely hated in America by the extremes. The left for his involvement in Chile, and the Reagan fanboy right, who accused Kissinger of capitulating to the Commies in Vietnam.
Paul L.
This greatly amused me. The Swiftboating of Al Gore.
craigie
At this point, wouldn’t it just be easier to treat it as news when Bush doesn’t say something preposterous or deranged?
Chad N. Freude
Newspapers would be blank. TV News would be silent (except for Fox).
Paul L.
More outrage.
Drudge is now Swiftboating a true feminist icon Nancy Pelosi .
Mike S
I had to get up early today to load my two sick cats up for my wife to drop off at the vet only to see The Decider’s presser. After a few minutes I figured it would be a more fun to clean up after the 15 year olds incontinence.
At least he can’t help pissing all over me.
Pb
Why does that sound strangely familiar:
Of course, there’s much more where that came from, sadly:
So how’d that work out, again?
Incidentally, did anyone figure out who said my mystery quote yet, in the previous thread? Hint: it wasn’t George W. Bush.
Darrel, D'Souza, Delay and Strauss
Actually, it was his ingenious policies in Cambodia and their aftermath that really won the left over. But let’s not forget the personal contributions made by Novak and Noonan.
Mike S
I love the right wingnuts like Paul and Drudge. According to them our leaders should never show respect for another country’s religious traditions.
And those idiots wonder why we are hated more each day by people around the world.
Zifnab
How much more ANS do you really want to see on your TV screen? Besides, the man is comedy gold! The shit that comes spewing out of his mouth is worth a million sexed interns.
gex
Alternate translation:
“I refuse to budget for a war that has been going on for four years in the regular budget, because now that the Democrats are in control, I am going to make a big show of wanting to balance the budget. Then I am going to ask for emergency funding for this little thing that came up suddenly. How was I to know that I would need money for this thing?”
“Obviously the Democrats are do not support the troops by passing this bill for funding I did not even bother to allocate in the annual budget. The nerve of some people.”
gex
Notice the extra “are” in that translation. I’d be ashamed of my grammatical/typographical error, except that it makes the bit seem more authentically Bush-like.
Perry Como
I once wore a yarmulke in a temple and I’m not Jewish. What exactly is Drudge’s (and your) point?
Andrew
Look, Mike, just because they’re gayer than Elton John doesn’t mean that they’re going to gay marry you in Massachusetts or Waziristan or whatever just because you love them so much.
Chad N. Freude
I could tell that from the use of the phrase “intellectual rigor”. Textual analysis suggests that it could be Dick Cheney, although the sentences are kind of long for him.
Andrew
You are now, Perry! Mazel tov!
Paul L.
Did you follow the link?
It contains this story.
Pb
Except, of course, that Gore never said this, like practically every other quote you’ve ever attributed to him. Feel free to try again, but just don’t lie again, mmmkay?
ThymeZone
Paul L is the David Helfgott of BJ commenters. The notes sound as if they are in the right order, but there is something really goofy about the guy at the piano …..
Pb
Chad N. Freude,
Ding ding ding! Dick Cheney, in October of 1993, talking about evil Bill Clinton and our troops in Haiti. More:
Now there’s a thought. Where was that Dick Cheney when we needed him?
Moll Slanders
I’ve noticed that too. (Hmmmmm)
Chad N. Freude
From the way the question was posed, it was apparent — well, it seemed very likely, that the administration being referred to was Clinton’s. Assuming that to be the case, the question became which lying, history re-writing hypocrite in the Bush43 administration is (a) prominent enough to warrant the riddle, and (b) talks like that. Elementary, my dear Pb.
Do I get a prize?
Zifnab
Digging through Monica Lewinsky’s panty draw in search of “evidence”, I believe.
Moll Slanders
He was banking on oil contracts and Halliburton stock options?
Jake
When the fuck did Shatt Fudge become a feminist? Would he be quite so excited if Pelosi entered a Christian house of worship with her head covered?
Wait, I can answer these on my own:
Never.
No.
Fucks to the both of youse.
Pb
Err… you get to pick the next mystery quote!
Perry Como
Yeah, nothing offensive about calling someone’s religious garb a “stupid, medieval rag.” While I agree with Fallaci’s sentiment, saying it in front of an Ayatollah seems a bit tactless. It would be like going into the Vatican and telling the Pope he’s a cannibal for partaking in communion.
Chad N. Freude
But there are so many to choose from, I can’t make up my mind. Wait! I know what to do — I’ll ask the Decider.
Hey, Pb, has anyone ever commented on how leaden your screen name is?
Tom Hilton
Are you being snarky or sincere? Because I reread it and think ‘good lord, what a clunky sentence that is.’
But I do think the sense of it is pretty reasonable.
Paul L.
IMHO, I think it is like telling the Pope that the Catholic position on abortion and birth control is old-fashioned.
HyperIon
yes…several years ago.
Chad N. Freude
Definitely sincere. It incorporates (I almost said “crams”, but that’s not the right tone) no fewer than five serious ideas (authoritarian, [false sense of]infallibility, corruption, incompetence, accountability) that describe the Bush League in a single sentence. I don’t think it’s clunky at all. And I often write like that myself.
Chad N. Freude
Adjusted.
chopper
you, sir, are worse than hitler.
chopper
actually, it’s like telling the pope that the catholic position on abortion and birth control is ‘stupid and medieval’. true enough, but you’re talking to the pope FFS.
Tom Hilton
Well then, thank you kindly. I appreciate it.
And I might use ‘crams’, but who’s quibbling? ;-)
lard lad
Call out the waaaaaaahmbulance and break out the world’s smallest violin for far-right rottweiler Glenn Beck! He’s ruptured himself.
From the April 2 edition of Premiere Radio Networks’ The Glenn Beck Program:
Mmmmmm… yeah. Right-wing jackasses identifying themselves with Rodney Dangerfield. Hopefully, we’ll be tuning out many hours of similar whining from Beck and his ilk over the next few decades.
Andrew
Shorter Glenn Beck: “I am a huge dickhead. Waaah! P.S. The only way I get women is with roofies.”
Chad N. Freude
He spelled that with one too many “m”s.
Chad N. Freude
My previous post on Glen Beck’s religious preference was not directed at all Mormons. For example, consider Mitt Romney … Oh, wait.
Krista
Oh, poor Glenn Beck. That’s truly pitiful. We should get in touch with charities in Darfur to see if they might be able to find a foster parent to sponsor him, and to offer that poor wretched soul a ray of hope that someday, somehow, he’ll have a better life.
Chad N. Freude
How can one person belong to so many despised minorities?
AkaDad
10 Reasons to Support Giuliani
http://dailykos.com/story/2007/4/3/183526/1030
Tulkinghorn
I’ll bite: Bob Dole, in reference to Clinton’s sending troops to Haiti.
I will now go google to see what it is…
Tulkinghorn
oops, this was already solved. no ceegar.
jake
Alas poor Glenn. How he longs for the days when a white man could lynch a black boy for walking on his shadow. How he pines for the dear departed days of torching the local synagogue for shits n’ giggles and then off for a bit of sexual assault in Chinatown! Those girls like it rough, I read it on the bathroom wall don’tyouknow? On the best days Glenn and his chums would espy a chap who was less than 100% masculine and then Tally ho! Time for a spot of jolly [email protected] bashing!
Ah those happy golden days of yore, will they ever come again?
Or will someone stick a sock down Beck’s gullet?
Pb
Not everything is on Google, sadly, but if you find it, let me know!