Letters to the Editor
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And the Lying Sack of Cute Does It Again!
Even given ever-diminishing expectations for this vacuous mouthpiece for this vacuous president, Dana Perino has hit a new low of stupidity with that response.
Thankfully, it looks like a few of us aren't buying it any more.
Like the bumper sticker says:
1-20-09 END OF AN ERROR
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Burning question:
How will GWB complete the following sentence:
"My fellow Americans, tonight the state of our union is ___________!"
Or, will he skip it altogether?
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CYA - see ya!
I know better than to expect anything more that CYA statments from the press secretary, and now with Ms. Perrino I can't even marvel on how artfully it's done.
Dana,
People were frightened after 9/11 and our president intensified that fear on a daily basis, he did not try to allay it. Fear is his ally.
The number of successful prosecutions for real terrorists plots is so abysmal - as Bush would say - I can't count that low. To use his surveillance record to justify more wiretapping is akin to asking Daddy to borrow the car because you haven't really got to run anybody over yet.
I keep humming, Someday My Prince Will Come, but then I long ago became delusional.
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"Is the country better off now than seven years ago?"
I'd have to say yes, but only because the country will only have to wait 11 more rather than 96 more months to be rid of Bushit his neocon roadies and the plague they placed onto this once proud Republic. Yes Dana, skip the question. Everyone expects you and any mouth piece of that awful man to skip the question, add a reference to 911 and to once again remind us what crap we've been handed from you and your ilk oh these past seven plus years...
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[snicker]
The question is even funnier than the response -- the White House press corps is just playing with them now. This would be like asking Richard Nixon as he boards that helicopter for the last time whether he plans to visit any of his former colleagues in prison.
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JUST STUFF IT, DANA
This political junkie is going to skip the SOU address tonight. I cannot stand to look at the fool anymore, and I despise the Dems for continuing to enable the Chimp-in-Chief and all his cronies. Impeachment proceedings should be well under way at this point.
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Geez, she couldn't even manage a ..
"9/11 was a tragedy that plunged our nation into war. And war, however necessary, is never a 'good.' But our nation has come together through that tragedy and the era of divisive politics is over.
We've reformed our intelligence-gathering to put more knowledgeable agents on the ground, giving us better intel. We've stopped pushing qualified Arabic translators out of the military simply because of their sexual orientation. Our military, already the best and brightest, is better and brighter than ever before.
Afghanistan is developing into a modern democracy and ally in the Middle East, instead of turning into a narco-state to rival Colombia. And we've captured the man responsible for 9/11, Osama bin Laden.
Iraq is also becoming a solid democracy that will transform the entire Middle East. And the Iraqi people are less fragmented than they ever were under Saddam Hussein and even have more access to electricity and water than they did under Saddam's rule. And despite the dangers of war, Iraq has not descended into balkanization and ethnic cleansing with an outward flood of refugees. Iraq is paying for itself in oil revenues, bringing oil down to $40 a barrel. And we were greated as liberators."
Really, Dana, you couldn't even say this? That it's all lies never stopped you before.
9/11 might not have been our fault (although our Middle East policy played a role in it--which of course, does not justify an attack on civilians), but everything that's happened since is our fault. Our, rather, George W. Bush's fault. Rot in hell, you bastard.
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Glenn Greenwald would love to read this...
"tonight you'll hear him call on Congress to pass the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reauthorization"
FISA doesn't need to be reauthorized. It has no expiration date. The PAA is what they are trying to reauthorize. Luckily I frequent Glenn Greenwald's column. Too bad some of the White House press corps aren't doing their job...
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7 years summarized
I think Bush should skip the annoyance of showing up to stumble through a SOU address. Just run an endless loop of this little ditty: "They tried to make me to go rehab. I said no, no, no....."
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good moment in 2007 SOTU
I'll have to give the Shrub credit for the gracious way he handled a momentus occasion at last year's State of the Union address when he said:
"And tonight I have the high privilege and distinct honor of my own as the first president to begin the State of the Union message with these words: "Madame Speaker."
It was downhill from there.
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Ha ha, your headline is perfect
There is no way anybody could have answered that question with a "yes" while maintaining a straight face.
The moment Bush and Cheney leave the White House for good, millions of little Disney birds fill fly out and chirp a collective song while the clouds part, flowers grow spontaneously out of asphalt potholes, E.T.'s heart glows back to life, grandpa finally has that bowel movement he's been straining for for the past half-decade, and blog writers everywhere suddenly cry out in ecstasy.
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My very strong impression
Is that FISA does not need to be reauthorized, rather the PAA needs to be reauthorized. It will be amazing to see if Bush has the stones to stand up there and state what Perino says he's going to state...and of course I'm holding my breath, if he does, to see if the MSM calls him on it.
Turning blue here...
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In Other Words ...
"No".
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Who the fuck would listen to GWB's last State of the Union Address?
So Dana Perinon said today that "We have been successful so far in preventing another attack on our country."
Is there any statement that rings more hollow when describing the Bush administration's homeland security record? For God's sake, it took Osama Bin Laden seven and a half years (between 1993 and 2001) to successfully take down the WTC. That would give the fucking terrorists until around June 2008 to match their previous accomplishments.
Only a moron would believe that GWB has kept this country safe from terror. On the contrary, he was at the helm when 9/11 happened. It would have been more forgivable if he didn't get a fucking memo the month before saying it was going to happen. And even if Osama Bin Laden weren't still out there (which he fucking is) some other piece-of-shit terrorist is just waiting in the wings to become the leader of Al Quada.
Nobody is going to prevent another attack on the U.S. It will happen when it happens and there's nothing that John McCain or Hillary Clinton or anybody else can do to stop it. Israel has been suffering from suicide bombers for a long time. They soldier on. We will have to, as well. And I prefer we do it without invading more countries.
~ Sing on, brother. Play on, drummer ~
-- Jimi Hendrix, "If 6 Was 9" (Axis: Bold As Love, 1968)