Cursed Times
Last week"our" President joked loutishly on camera about Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction.
This week five American soldiers, dispatched to that wretched desert hell hole to FIND said weapons, were blown sky high in a roadside bombing in Faluja.
Good God I'm gonna have a stroke if I read any more "good news" from out Iraq!
My disgust with George Bush has at last reached nigh critical mass.
He is proof positive that one can descend from the best families, go to the best schools, dodge all of life's worries and woes and still end up a tasteless graceless asshole.
What do people think of this oaf as he jokes gruesomely about WMDs whilst his beloved soldiers are shot dead by ones and twos??
But oh I can just see the President's reaction to today's massacre-what a performance that will be!
He will narrow those beady little eyes drop his voice down to that ominous growl and snarl threats like a tourette's syndrome victim.
It will be a jubilee my friends, Bush promising blood death and destruction like he was Heliogabalus gone mad on crystal meth.
Anything to divert the public's attention from his own appalling cynicism.
Meanwhile he and Cheney are scheduled for a "joint appearance" before the 9-11 Commission.
Joshua Micah Marshall has several possible theories for this set up...the most convincing being that the President can't be relied upon to get his story straight over the course of a three hour interview.
His wits do wander very easily as you all know.
This is a disgraceful state of affairs for a once proud republic...the President cannot speak extemporaneously in an interview without "help" from his allegedly subordinate.
I think it is truly time for Bush to resign...he hasn't acted as President since that fateful day three years ago when the airliners took out the World Trade Center.
He flew away and hid at NORAD Headquarters until Cheney, Karen Hughes and Mary-effin' Matalin got things squared away in the White House Situation Room.
Mostly since that terrible day Bush has been a conduit to enact the plans and schemes of his malevolent Vice President.
The best thing Bush can do is resign.
Either he is unwilling or incapable to discharge his office...the constitutional remedy for this is simple-resignation.
Let President Cheney try to function in the light of day as a full time Commander in Chief, I don't think he could hack it!
It is time George, you have tarried too long for the good you have done, and in the bowels of Jesus Christ our savior you must go!
God will decide the issue between thee and us.
Meanwhile by all means enjoy "clearing brush" on your "ranch".
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Voids, Stays and Governors:
Well... the anti gay marriage and pro-civil unions amendment passed the State Legislature yesterday.
With consummate churlishness Governor Romney vowed to request a stay of the SJC's original decision legalizing gay marriage until the amendment can be voted on in 2006.
One problem though, Attorney General Reilly won't sign off on the requested delay in implementation...meaning the Kolobian Viceroy may have no legal recourse in the matter.
Well bully for Reilly I say, he has finally grown a pair!
Of course this matter is in part mired in gubernatorial politics, Tom wants to run in 2006 and has figured out that agreeing with Mitt Romney on a crucial issue is no way to acquire an edge.
Alas, the Great and General Court had to do something...something both progressive and restrictive at the same time. My understanding is, the lege as a whole couldn't countenance Massachusetts being the first state to all-out legalize gay marriage...hence the current amendment and all it's manifold confusion.
Meanwhile there is the tantalizing prospect that gay marriage may become legal by default in the Bay State come May 2004...at least until the electorate can vote on the proposed amendment come 2006.
That loophole is the only hope for the matter in the near term...that after two years of gay marriage the public may become used to the idea and disinclined to revoke anyone's rights on the say-so of a bunch of out-of-state wowsers and their pet governor.
Otherwise it is gonna be a hard slog to get this issue dealt with fairly in the Bay State I doubt any single politician or group thereof can do much on behalf of gay marriage.
It is up to he gay community to dig in and take a stand.
***
Tom Reilly though, wants to be governor, I wish him well...I doubt he can win though.
Frankly we've sent nominated main-chance state wide pols and they've both gotten beaten soundly.
We need someone new and someone who can self finance the race...who that person I do not know.
Well... the anti gay marriage and pro-civil unions amendment passed the State Legislature yesterday.
With consummate churlishness Governor Romney vowed to request a stay of the SJC's original decision legalizing gay marriage until the amendment can be voted on in 2006.
One problem though, Attorney General Reilly won't sign off on the requested delay in implementation...meaning the Kolobian Viceroy may have no legal recourse in the matter.
Well bully for Reilly I say, he has finally grown a pair!
Of course this matter is in part mired in gubernatorial politics, Tom wants to run in 2006 and has figured out that agreeing with Mitt Romney on a crucial issue is no way to acquire an edge.
Alas, the Great and General Court had to do something...something both progressive and restrictive at the same time. My understanding is, the lege as a whole couldn't countenance Massachusetts being the first state to all-out legalize gay marriage...hence the current amendment and all it's manifold confusion.
Meanwhile there is the tantalizing prospect that gay marriage may become legal by default in the Bay State come May 2004...at least until the electorate can vote on the proposed amendment come 2006.
That loophole is the only hope for the matter in the near term...that after two years of gay marriage the public may become used to the idea and disinclined to revoke anyone's rights on the say-so of a bunch of out-of-state wowsers and their pet governor.
Otherwise it is gonna be a hard slog to get this issue dealt with fairly in the Bay State I doubt any single politician or group thereof can do much on behalf of gay marriage.
It is up to he gay community to dig in and take a stand.
***
Tom Reilly though, wants to be governor, I wish him well...I doubt he can win though.
Frankly we've sent nominated main-chance state wide pols and they've both gotten beaten soundly.
We need someone new and someone who can self finance the race...who that person I do not know.
Monday, March 29, 2004
Deaf and Dumber
Shutmouth Condi is stayin' dummied up no matter what it seems.
Condi will happily talk to "Sixty Minutes", she'll editorialize in the New York Times, and she will rail at the donkeys of the White House Press corpse.
But she won't say word one under oath...a better courtier couldn't be found outside the Corleone Family quite frankly.
Suddenly all of GOP DC is in an uproar claiming executive privilege and other royal prerogatives...
This is hilarious to watch as these are the same puritanical windbags who subpoenaed the First Lady in 1994 over a bad land deal and impeached the President in 1999 over a blow job.
But of course Whitewater and Monica are much more important issues in the grand scheme of things...far more important than a mere suicide attack on the World Trade Center.
Nope Condi won't sing, the Clinton rules have been retired and that is that.
***
The radio tyrants are in full cry against Richard Clarke today, Imus was squealing like a stuck pig calling Clarke a "gutless weasel" and other gruesome epithets.
Clearly the I-Man needs to creep back onto the Bush reservation after several weeks of mild criticism aimed at the Admin.
The funny thing is, Clarke's book confirms pretty much Imus' insistence that Bush used the terror war as an excuse to shut down Saddam.
Well if that is what Imus is saying today, one can only imagine the excesses Jay Severin and Sean Hannity will indulge.
These yankers are all screaming so loud and incessantly that I'm beginning to think they are all scared.
You can always tell when they've gotten a fright, they start yelling treason,conspiracy, dementia and the like...they haven't read the book and probably don't have the time either but that doesn't stop any of them from throwing deafening public tantrums.
I'm starting to think Bush and his henchpeople can dish it out but they sure can't take it...the slightest criticism and the next day Don, Rush, Sean, Bill and Laura start howling like someone shot their dogs.
Sadly Bush may come or go at the pelasure of the electorate but the rest of these ass-holes are with us like a bad case of melanoma.
Shutmouth Condi is stayin' dummied up no matter what it seems.
Condi will happily talk to "Sixty Minutes", she'll editorialize in the New York Times, and she will rail at the donkeys of the White House Press corpse.
But she won't say word one under oath...a better courtier couldn't be found outside the Corleone Family quite frankly.
Suddenly all of GOP DC is in an uproar claiming executive privilege and other royal prerogatives...
This is hilarious to watch as these are the same puritanical windbags who subpoenaed the First Lady in 1994 over a bad land deal and impeached the President in 1999 over a blow job.
But of course Whitewater and Monica are much more important issues in the grand scheme of things...far more important than a mere suicide attack on the World Trade Center.
Nope Condi won't sing, the Clinton rules have been retired and that is that.
***
The radio tyrants are in full cry against Richard Clarke today, Imus was squealing like a stuck pig calling Clarke a "gutless weasel" and other gruesome epithets.
Clearly the I-Man needs to creep back onto the Bush reservation after several weeks of mild criticism aimed at the Admin.
The funny thing is, Clarke's book confirms pretty much Imus' insistence that Bush used the terror war as an excuse to shut down Saddam.
Well if that is what Imus is saying today, one can only imagine the excesses Jay Severin and Sean Hannity will indulge.
These yankers are all screaming so loud and incessantly that I'm beginning to think they are all scared.
You can always tell when they've gotten a fright, they start yelling treason,conspiracy, dementia and the like...they haven't read the book and probably don't have the time either but that doesn't stop any of them from throwing deafening public tantrums.
I'm starting to think Bush and his henchpeople can dish it out but they sure can't take it...the slightest criticism and the next day Don, Rush, Sean, Bill and Laura start howling like someone shot their dogs.
Sadly Bush may come or go at the pelasure of the electorate but the rest of these ass-holes are with us like a bad case of melanoma.
Friday, March 26, 2004
So...
Having blamed the current job hemorrhage alternately on high housing costs, traffic, taxes, unemployment insurance, the war in Iraq, "the bureaucracy" and having done nothing about any of these things...how long before Mitt revives the notion of legalizing balls-to-the-wall casino gambling in the Bay State?
He has noodled around with the issue since taking office...the easy assed revenues have to be a temptation to our famously unheroic uncreative governor.
I'm thinking that roulette and blackjack are Mitt's next panacea for Massachusetts' chronic job losses.
However, aside from the inevitable fagbashing Mitt will build into the fall campaign how in the hell does a bunch of video store night clerks, creepy little bastards fresh out of college, and retired barbers recruited by the Kolobian Viceroy to run for the legislature, put over casino gambling?
I mean do these hapless ne'er do wells really wanna run on a platform that proposes a low cost utopia based on video poker?
Having blamed the current job hemorrhage alternately on high housing costs, traffic, taxes, unemployment insurance, the war in Iraq, "the bureaucracy" and having done nothing about any of these things...how long before Mitt revives the notion of legalizing balls-to-the-wall casino gambling in the Bay State?
He has noodled around with the issue since taking office...the easy assed revenues have to be a temptation to our famously unheroic uncreative governor.
I'm thinking that roulette and blackjack are Mitt's next panacea for Massachusetts' chronic job losses.
However, aside from the inevitable fagbashing Mitt will build into the fall campaign how in the hell does a bunch of video store night clerks, creepy little bastards fresh out of college, and retired barbers recruited by the Kolobian Viceroy to run for the legislature, put over casino gambling?
I mean do these hapless ne'er do wells really wanna run on a platform that proposes a low cost utopia based on video poker?
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Condoleeza "shutmouth" Rice won't talk...
She has dummied up nicely and won't nark under oath to the 9-11 Commission.
This hasn't stopped her from replying to the proceedings through the press...but she will keep her trap shut otherwise.
Does anything else perfectly illustrate the mobster mentality that infects La Famiglia Arbusto?
And not fro nothing though, but Bush, Cheney, Rummie and Colin Powell...the cream of the whole useless gang are testifying...why does Condi get a pass?
I suspect that Wolfowicz etc know something we do not....like maybe National Security Advisor Rice has the spine of a chocolate eclair and can be counted upon to fold up under strong cross examination.
Anecdotal evidence supports this thesis when you consider that Cheney and Wolfie basically brushed past Rice without getting their hair mussed on the way to talking GWB into invading Iraq.
She screwed up prior to 9-11-01...she probably signed onto the invasion as a means to obscure her own ineptitude.
In which case Condi's conscience might be bothering her...which could prove troublesome if she is put under oath and under pressure from even a half-bright interlocutor.
On the other hand, Condi is a prize trophy appointment right up there with Colin Powell...a black woman republican in a serious position of power does much to deflect criticism of her President's racial policies.
Besides, Bush would love to appoint her Secretary of State in his notional second term....her ability to handle the job (which is quite frankly, nil) is unimportant, it is the symbolism that counts.
Someone up there must be afraid that if Condi gives a poor performance in front of the 9-11 Commission her value to the President as a future marker might be undercut.
Such is the inherent disposability of a courtier and flatterer.
But it's worth it to the President to at least try and keep her out of the witness stand...although if she comes in for much more grief look for Condi to exit by way of an ambassadorship to some out of the way spot like New Zealand or Argentina.
She has dummied up nicely and won't nark under oath to the 9-11 Commission.
This hasn't stopped her from replying to the proceedings through the press...but she will keep her trap shut otherwise.
Does anything else perfectly illustrate the mobster mentality that infects La Famiglia Arbusto?
And not fro nothing though, but Bush, Cheney, Rummie and Colin Powell...the cream of the whole useless gang are testifying...why does Condi get a pass?
I suspect that Wolfowicz etc know something we do not....like maybe National Security Advisor Rice has the spine of a chocolate eclair and can be counted upon to fold up under strong cross examination.
Anecdotal evidence supports this thesis when you consider that Cheney and Wolfie basically brushed past Rice without getting their hair mussed on the way to talking GWB into invading Iraq.
She screwed up prior to 9-11-01...she probably signed onto the invasion as a means to obscure her own ineptitude.
In which case Condi's conscience might be bothering her...which could prove troublesome if she is put under oath and under pressure from even a half-bright interlocutor.
On the other hand, Condi is a prize trophy appointment right up there with Colin Powell...a black woman republican in a serious position of power does much to deflect criticism of her President's racial policies.
Besides, Bush would love to appoint her Secretary of State in his notional second term....her ability to handle the job (which is quite frankly, nil) is unimportant, it is the symbolism that counts.
Someone up there must be afraid that if Condi gives a poor performance in front of the 9-11 Commission her value to the President as a future marker might be undercut.
Such is the inherent disposability of a courtier and flatterer.
But it's worth it to the President to at least try and keep her out of the witness stand...although if she comes in for much more grief look for Condi to exit by way of an ambassadorship to some out of the way spot like New Zealand or Argentina.
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Poor Mitt,
In the midst of a campaign to elect more republican's to the state legislature, Romney is taking time out to host a one million dollar fund-raiser for his patron President George Bush Jr.
That is another million dollars squeezed out of the fast withering local GOP money base and sent off pell mell to parts unknown to buy adverts in states far far away.
The Kolobian Viceroy will make the best of the situation never fear, trying out his latest and lamest zingers on John Kerry and otherwise comporting himself in a disgustingly servile fashion.
La Famiglia Arbusto demands nothing less of it's gubernatorial thralls and vassals.
The problem with Mitt is, he won in 2002 and this has given the Man from Kolob an inflated and delusional belief in his own skills as a political strategist.
How can he not believe in his own omnipotence?
What with toadies like Scot Lehigh praising him every day and in every way.
It is enough even to turn a Bishop's head.
Mitt really thinks he has to get on the good side of the Bush machine in order to clear the decks for his own presidential run in 2008 or 2012.
On the surface, Mitt has a lot going for him as a presidential prospect, he is decorously condescending, has a full head of hair and record of inertia to put the Statue of Liberty to shame.
What is not to like ?
Moreover, fanatical GOP activist Grover Norquist is predicting the demise of the two party system within the next eight years. This means that a well positioned conservative candidate need only sweep the N.H. primary in order to carry the day.
And a republican governor of Massachusetts is well positioned to do all this...very well positioned indeed.
Alas it will all blow up in Mitt's face...it truly will.
Count on it.
When the time comes to jump into the race, Mitt will find himself under relentless bitter attack from his former patrons.
Willard will be down on his knees screaming for mercy before the first vote is cast in Franconia Notch-he can't hold up under that kind of attack.
After all Florida Governor Jeb Bush hasn't had his turn as President...and after him there is Marvin, Neil and young Noelle Bush to be considered.
No room for a bootlicking Governor of Massachusetts in that line up no matter how impeccable his movement conservative bona fides may be.
Count on it, come 2008 or 2012, the Bush Clan will do to presidential candidate Mitt Romney what they did to John McCain.
Mitt's past services to the President will mean nothing, the overseership of Plantation U.S.A. is at stake and nothing will prevent La Famiglia Arbusto from retaining it's hold on the old homestead at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Least of grinning phony jerk off from Belmont Mass.
The damn fool really thinks that he is piling up useful political I.O.U.'s for his own race...they will be as valuable as Enron stock when the time comes.
If Willard had a lick of sense he'd cancel this fund-raiser, pull in his horns nationally, cut GWB dead and hope like hell that Kerry wins in November.
With the Bush's gone to smash for a second time in ten years, Romney can credibly claim that the time has come for new leadership from a new family of telegenic overseers.
Kerry quite frankly is Mitt's only hope to get anywhere NEAR the White House come 2008.
In the midst of a campaign to elect more republican's to the state legislature, Romney is taking time out to host a one million dollar fund-raiser for his patron President George Bush Jr.
That is another million dollars squeezed out of the fast withering local GOP money base and sent off pell mell to parts unknown to buy adverts in states far far away.
The Kolobian Viceroy will make the best of the situation never fear, trying out his latest and lamest zingers on John Kerry and otherwise comporting himself in a disgustingly servile fashion.
La Famiglia Arbusto demands nothing less of it's gubernatorial thralls and vassals.
The problem with Mitt is, he won in 2002 and this has given the Man from Kolob an inflated and delusional belief in his own skills as a political strategist.
How can he not believe in his own omnipotence?
What with toadies like Scot Lehigh praising him every day and in every way.
It is enough even to turn a Bishop's head.
Mitt really thinks he has to get on the good side of the Bush machine in order to clear the decks for his own presidential run in 2008 or 2012.
On the surface, Mitt has a lot going for him as a presidential prospect, he is decorously condescending, has a full head of hair and record of inertia to put the Statue of Liberty to shame.
What is not to like ?
Moreover, fanatical GOP activist Grover Norquist is predicting the demise of the two party system within the next eight years. This means that a well positioned conservative candidate need only sweep the N.H. primary in order to carry the day.
And a republican governor of Massachusetts is well positioned to do all this...very well positioned indeed.
Alas it will all blow up in Mitt's face...it truly will.
Count on it.
When the time comes to jump into the race, Mitt will find himself under relentless bitter attack from his former patrons.
Willard will be down on his knees screaming for mercy before the first vote is cast in Franconia Notch-he can't hold up under that kind of attack.
After all Florida Governor Jeb Bush hasn't had his turn as President...and after him there is Marvin, Neil and young Noelle Bush to be considered.
No room for a bootlicking Governor of Massachusetts in that line up no matter how impeccable his movement conservative bona fides may be.
Count on it, come 2008 or 2012, the Bush Clan will do to presidential candidate Mitt Romney what they did to John McCain.
Mitt's past services to the President will mean nothing, the overseership of Plantation U.S.A. is at stake and nothing will prevent La Famiglia Arbusto from retaining it's hold on the old homestead at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Least of grinning phony jerk off from Belmont Mass.
The damn fool really thinks that he is piling up useful political I.O.U.'s for his own race...they will be as valuable as Enron stock when the time comes.
If Willard had a lick of sense he'd cancel this fund-raiser, pull in his horns nationally, cut GWB dead and hope like hell that Kerry wins in November.
With the Bush's gone to smash for a second time in ten years, Romney can credibly claim that the time has come for new leadership from a new family of telegenic overseers.
Kerry quite frankly is Mitt's only hope to get anywhere NEAR the White House come 2008.
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Laura "hollow leg" Ingraham on Imus today...
Normally Laura is as boring as a bill of lading....a booze fueled fembot locked in sarcasm mode and programmed with the latest Rovian talking points no matter how inane and mendacious.
Today though, her vaulted composure cracked a bit.
Maybe it was the timing or maybe she is building up a tolerance to her hangover cure.
Ingraham was pressed into service at the last minute to replace Lesley Stahl, who interviewed Richard Clarke on CBS last night.
For those of you just tuning in, Richard Clarke is a former civil servan with a counter terrorism portfolio who has just published a scathing critique of the Bush Admin's "war" on terrorism.
Surprisingly, Laura got off on the wrong foot, suggesting that Stahl and Clarke were having an illicit sexual affair of some type or another.
I have to give Laura Ingraham credit, given her slanderous utterance, it is clear she fears nothing from the F.C.C.
Nice to see that kind of courage these days.
Boy oh boy when those morning bells start ringing in Laura's booze battered brain watch-out no-one is safe!
But then, Laura has nothing but daggers for her feminine competition no matter how remote they may be...anyone else out there recall her irritating "impression" of Faux Network straw liberal Susan Estrich?
Laura then drew a shuddering breath and went on to call Mr. Clarke "unhinged" and a "drama queen".
***
After that it was the usual stuff, boring and repetitive and even less effective than usual owing to the obvious fact that beyond the excerpts published here and there, she hadn't read Clarke's book.
Clearly these revelations scare poor Laura, she sounded frantic and confused hence the heavier than usual character assassination.
When in doubt kill the messenger and all like that.
Poor Laura, her head was pounding and all she could do was blather on about Clarke's mental incapacity and such like.
Couldn't address a single point of fact as she wasn't really familiar with any of the facts at hand.
Nor will she be any time soon.
Then she started ranting and raving insisting that the 9-11 Commission was going to "rehabilitate" Bill Clinton...anything less than a criminal indictment of the former president would be evidence of appeasement and liberal bias to her.
At this point I started to fade out, it is pretty safe to say that when Laura gets to her Clinton fixation during these Imus call ins, the informed listener can safely turn off the radio and listen to the sound track to "Evita" with no fear of missing anything.
Such is the Kingdom of Heaven
On the congressionally licensed public airwaves
and elsewhere
3-23-04
7:50 am EST
God save the commonwealth
Normally Laura is as boring as a bill of lading....a booze fueled fembot locked in sarcasm mode and programmed with the latest Rovian talking points no matter how inane and mendacious.
Today though, her vaulted composure cracked a bit.
Maybe it was the timing or maybe she is building up a tolerance to her hangover cure.
Ingraham was pressed into service at the last minute to replace Lesley Stahl, who interviewed Richard Clarke on CBS last night.
For those of you just tuning in, Richard Clarke is a former civil servan with a counter terrorism portfolio who has just published a scathing critique of the Bush Admin's "war" on terrorism.
Surprisingly, Laura got off on the wrong foot, suggesting that Stahl and Clarke were having an illicit sexual affair of some type or another.
I have to give Laura Ingraham credit, given her slanderous utterance, it is clear she fears nothing from the F.C.C.
Nice to see that kind of courage these days.
Boy oh boy when those morning bells start ringing in Laura's booze battered brain watch-out no-one is safe!
But then, Laura has nothing but daggers for her feminine competition no matter how remote they may be...anyone else out there recall her irritating "impression" of Faux Network straw liberal Susan Estrich?
Laura then drew a shuddering breath and went on to call Mr. Clarke "unhinged" and a "drama queen".
***
After that it was the usual stuff, boring and repetitive and even less effective than usual owing to the obvious fact that beyond the excerpts published here and there, she hadn't read Clarke's book.
Clearly these revelations scare poor Laura, she sounded frantic and confused hence the heavier than usual character assassination.
When in doubt kill the messenger and all like that.
Poor Laura, her head was pounding and all she could do was blather on about Clarke's mental incapacity and such like.
Couldn't address a single point of fact as she wasn't really familiar with any of the facts at hand.
Nor will she be any time soon.
Then she started ranting and raving insisting that the 9-11 Commission was going to "rehabilitate" Bill Clinton...anything less than a criminal indictment of the former president would be evidence of appeasement and liberal bias to her.
At this point I started to fade out, it is pretty safe to say that when Laura gets to her Clinton fixation during these Imus call ins, the informed listener can safely turn off the radio and listen to the sound track to "Evita" with no fear of missing anything.
Such is the Kingdom of Heaven
On the congressionally licensed public airwaves
and elsewhere
3-23-04
7:50 am EST
God save the commonwealth
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