Letters to the Editor
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He came to praise the Constitution
You didn't expect him to read it too, did you?
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George W Bush: Comedian
So I guess now we know he kind of "public speaking" he'll be going into after leaving office.
"So, where you folks from? Is that a blue state? Security! I'm kidding". pa-rum-pum.
As covered by the "modern press" he gets his fabulous sense of humor from his mom.
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Surgically removed, I believe it has been.
Their sense of irony, that is.
BTW: "These are the still-valid premises that led the Constitution-revering President Bush to spend the last six years ignoring statues whenever he wanted to"
"statutes", you mean. But thanks for the laugh, as I pondered ol' GW blithely ignoring that pesky statuary.
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Good Grief
A 42 page single spaced memorandum? 42 pages? Single spaced?
Already this thesis is in trouble. First, they tortured logic. Then, they tortured the language...
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Deficit Spending Democrats
tomorrow night he will speak out against the immorality of deficit spending;
-- Glenn Greenwald
He already made that speech the other day when he called the Democratic Congress irresponsible "teenagers with credit cards".
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Uh-oh
I'm especially dismayed that W is now ignoring statues. Unforgivable! Typo on aisle 9.
What's next? Unflattering pubic relations?
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Gotta watch the dark side
"Tonight the President will give a speech warning of the evils of torture; tomorrow night he will speak out against the immorality of deficit spending; and on Sunday he will vigorously condemn those who preemptively attack other countries."
Perhaps those "speeches" should be spaced out over several months to allow the disturbances in the force to die out in between.
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statue
Oh, you mean the one that former attorney general (what was his name?) covered up?
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Does this
person Bush exhibit brazen contempt for us all or is he abysmally unselfaware (and thus a tool for those who hold us in brazen contempt, etc)? Either side of the dilemma is terrifying for us all. I don't know how you get the gumption to keep on writing about this, Glenn. It just makes me want to go back to bed.
On the other hand, it somehow puts me in mind of Samuel Clemens and his marvelous satiric comments on the politicians of his day during the Gilded Age, which has apparently returned to us with a vengeance.
Ah, well: as Bebop-o might point out: the sun is shining here and the air is crisp and cool. And my morning oatmeal was tasty.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAH!HH!H!H!
He already made that speech the other day when he called the Democratic Congress irresponsible "teenagers with credit cards".
TEN TRILLION IN DEBT FROM YOU STUPID REPUBLICANS! AND IT'S ALL PORK! I HATE YOU ALL SO MUCH!
How the [extremely bad word, worse than the one you're thinking of] does absolutely NO ONE in the media call them out on this?! It's not exactly secret information! Every single day since 2000, it's been nothing but spending with both hands and talking about "low taxes" with the mouth!
Is there a word for the deep, deep, center-of-the-earth level of mendacity that supercedes plain ol' baldfaced lying, that develops and nurtures it into a career choice, lifestyle and philosophy?
Is that word "Republican"?
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What's the problem?
Bush knows each branch has powers. His power is to do whatever he wants. Congress's power is to write his checks; the courts' power is to fix things if the voters mess up.
See? Clear, consistent, logical.
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Junya does snark?
Now we know what Junya has been working toward all these 7 long years; he's planning to unveil his new "refill the coffers" occupation upon leaving the White House, as a Stand-up Comedian.
Look out Robin Williams! There ain't nobody who does "dead-pan" like Junya: "We don't torture".
Irony? Who could outshine Junya's ability to deliver a punchline with such ironic subtlety as he did recently with regard to the Iraq War: "We're kickin' their ass".
Just consider the moronic mockery of his words "Ah'm the Decider".
Who knew that Junya was so full of beans?
I wager that Junya has a long, fruitful career ahead of him. Prison comedians are all the rage at our institutions of life-long incarceration.
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Winning all the way
As long as the MSM continues to repeat what Bush says rather than do some real work to find out what he's doing, he can continue to praise the constitution while at the same time ignoring it. I just can't wait until the FCC lets Sir Rubert buy up Viacom and GE and Disney. That will pave the way for a Rudy presidency. What fun we'll all have hiding from Blackwater patrols and trying to stay 'off the grid' to evade capture. I hope everyone has seen Red Dawn.
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Rich frat boy or president of the United States?
Glenn: The surrealness of this story prompted a memory...
I was a student (on scholarship...that becomes important) at the University of Southern California in the 1980s. USC was then and still is considered by many a "party" school, in particular for spoiled rich kids. The fraternities and sororities dominated the student population, which largely disappeared on weekends as the many Biffs and Buffies fled central Los Angeles for Palm Springs and Bel Air where they could be among their own.
Anyhoo, one evening as I was walking past Frat Row to get to campus, I was nearly run down by a carload of drunken frat boys weaving their high-end BMW down 28th st, laughing uproariously and tossing bottles from the open window. As they spun around the corner, the driver was either too drunk or too stupid to slow down. He skidded to the side and slammed into a parked car. The rear axel of the beamer neatly snapped, leaving one of its back wheels splayed out like a lame foot. The boys, still laughing, fell out of the car, shouted expletives at no one in particular, and proceeded to angrily empty the remains of their beer onto the parked car.
I happened to be walking right by at this moment, and as I stared at them the driver looked at me - first with a hint of fear, then very quickly with practiced, angry righteousness. He shouted, "Somebody stole my car! Look what they did!"
By then a sizable crowd had spilled out from the surrounding fraternities and sororities, and very soon the driver and passengers were being comforted and consoled by an equally righteous crowd, ready to "get" whoever it was who had perpetrated this crime on the young man's car, which he and his friends had just "discovered."
Flash forward a couple of days...the campus newspaper duly reported the "crime" with a cautious story warning all to take extra precautions lest their own expensive cars be trashed by joyriding thieves.
The long-winded lesson? People of privelege who are brought up to believe they are above reproach, who never have to deal with the consequences of their ill-thought out actions, whose messes are always cleaned up by others with the power and connections and money to do so, and whose accomplishments are as grandiose works of fiction as their pen-for-hire biographers can produce, do not "get" the issues many of us have with George W. Bush.
President or drunken rich kid...or both. The end result, and George's own impression of that result, is going to be the same.
Oh, and BTW, I reported my eyewitness account to the campus police officers who arrived on the scene shortly after the crash. Presumeably my statement was contradicted by countless other "witnesses," as the crime was officially blamed on an unknown car thief.