Posts Tagged ‘Bush’

Yeehaw.  Do you KNOW how hard it is to make a snow man with powder snow?  But we did prevail!  We gave him his bottle, his glass, his “I’m an important white guy” tie.  I “christened” him as George Dubya Bush with a wee bit of a vodka brand-named “Idol” since that is what he wanted to be instead of a responsible President.

Then I cursed him with my rose thorned wand to melt away into insignificance and ignominy like fading dirty snowmen do every winter all over the country.   Dwindle away you pathetic, damaging, imbecilic little man!

We have had our first frost.  I put the feather comforter on the bed.  Winter is coming, and I don’t think on tippy-toes this year.  The weather may be average, but nothing else about this winter will be ordinary.

We have a Presidential election in a few weeks and partizans for the Republicans openly post images of their opponent, Obama, with a noose alongside the photo.  They lie and call him a Muslim.  They say he hangs out with terrorists.  Gee, you know if anyone who knew a college radical in the 60’s “hangs out with terrorists”, it sure could go a long way to explaining the ever-longer no-fly list, couldn’t it?   I knew that if I looked hard enough, long enough and without my brain or glasses, that it would all make a twisty sort of sense!

We have two wars that are ruinously ongoing.  And in Afghanistan, people will be starving this winter while we get NATO troops to further make war on the opium farmers who are merely trying to stay alive and feed their families with the only cash crop they can find.  We are distrusted and hated around the world.

The financial markets of the world are tottering and bringing up mental images of the old train wreck posters produced in sepia tones with cheesy captions back when I was fresh out of high school.  Britain is so pissed that little Iceland went broke before Brit investors could get their payoff that they have invoked anti-terrorist legislation to seize assets!  So, now bigger nations will go strip whatever has worth in smaller debtor nations to make their “ends” look at each other?   Apparently, it really is impossible for nations to sit down and say “Well, we are ALL in the shit; how do we make the best of it and climb out of the crapper?”

And what are the average Americans doing?  The news around here finds it encouraging that they are going shopping for Halloween.  Are you kidding?  Yes, I went shopping for Halloween, too.  I spent $8 on colored hairspray.  I am paying off my bills as fast as I can, keeping even with repairs and maintenance and hoping we somehow make it through the shit that is coming down the pike.

Clue to America: You can’t SHOP your way out of this.  Pay off your damned debts, look up the word “stringent” in the dictionary and make it your watch word for financial matters  and general living for a while.  Keep your cabinets stocked, do your job, don’t act like a panicked racist prick, and pay some fucking ATTENTION to the world beyond your own petty damned needs for a change.

I love the fall, usually.  In spite of my apprehensions and fears of stupid people in large numbers, I WILL enjoy the season.  With simple pleasures…..a good home-cooked meal, a backyard bonfire, a glass of cheer from the long-ago stocked liquor cabinet.  It is time to keep on keeping on, but at a real level rather than on the fantastical level.  And yes, for all you whippersnappers, that is a reference to a black and white movie “The Night of the Iguana” ….because the American Stupid party is over.  It has needed to be over for good while.  Park your greed and ‘me me me” at the dumpster and join the rest of the planet.

I posted my news bitch too soon.  I’m not  a frat boy, but how much could it take to get me drunk?  Cause, ladies and gents, the shame….the shame is making me insane.  Get this quote, this is our Presidunce cracking jokes about trashing the planet as a Chief Executive.

“The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”

He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.”

I couldn’t make this stuff up, honest…he said it.  The story is in the UK’s “Telegraph” paper.  Render me unconscious please, until the shame is over?

I saw a really silly piece on the news the other day.  It claimed that bumper stickers contribute to road rage.  It seems the oh-so-scientific sorts sat in traffic and didn’t move when the traffic light changed, to judge the “road rage reaction” that they got.  And they say that the people with bumper stickers, even nice ones like fluffy kitties, HONKED at them TWO SECONDS faster than folks with NO bumper stickers.

Wow.  Two seconds while sitting still at a green light.  That isn’t road rage, you imbeciles—that is a polite notice that you should wake up and move before someone rear-ends the person behind you because, seeing the green light, car #3 won’t even slow down.  And maybe it really means those of us with bumper stickers are simply paying more attention!

So on that note, I display for you MY new bumper sticker, already ordered from Buzzflash.com.  Can’t wait, can’t wait, can’t wait.  Cause the only road rage I get from bumperstickers?  Comes from seeing the sheer number of Bush/Cheney ‘04 stickers.  I feel better now with an “answer” to that problem!

So, what does a former press secretary do to pay the bills after he leaves the White House? Apparently he writes a tell all book and pisses off folks on both sides!

But just because Scott McClellan’s book might be self-serving, does that mean everything in the book is untrue? I doubt it. Should we believe he really felt all bad about standing in front of cameras and lying to the American people on a routine basis? Probably not, but possibly he did start itching. I recall him looking less than comfortable on a number of occasions.

He has bad disparaging words to say about Bush and his (mis)Administration. These sorts of things make my little dripping fang liberal heart SING. If I have to watch Clinton savaging Obama in her quest to regain the White House, I should at least have the pleasure of watching drowning rats standing on each others’ shoulders as they try to save themselves from history’s bitter footnotes!

Some especially yummy bits from this buffet:

“Said former top aide Karl Rove, in an interview with Fox News Channel, “If he had these moral qualms, he should have spoken up about them. And frankly I don’t remember him speaking up about these things. I don’t remember a single word.”

Wow! Really, Karl? ‘Cause we know everyone would have gave a shit what the press secretary thought, right? We know anyone not aspiring to winning the Gold Medal in Ass-Kissing Yes-man-itis might as well pack and leave the Bush White House. So lets borrow a word from Frank Townsend, who called McClellan “disingenuous” and just say that is the nicest thing I can call your above statement!

And the Blondness doing the job now? She had this to say:

“Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House,” she said. ………. It is sad – this is not the Scott we knew.”

It is sad, isn’t it, Blondie? I mean, obviously just working in the emanations of the Rovian-Cheneyesque miasma obviously induces mental changes and break downs. What do you think you will turn into when YOU need another job? After all, you are still in the fog of….of, well, what can you call that foulness, anyhow?

Here is my none-too-educated, but gut-felt guess on this one. I think Scott DID feel moral qualms. But of course he knew such things would be as well received as a turd in the Presidential punch bowl, so he held his tongue and hoped things would improve. Things not only did not improve, they got worse. So away he went. Personally, I think the job is such a mind/body/soul fuck that is why Press SecretaryTony Snow relapsed into cancer. Toxic environments will do that to a person.

And the further Scott was from the White House, the more he looked around the REAL world, the more he realized how badly hoodwinked he had been. Of course the neo-con cabal doesn’t want to hear this stuff. It would be like unpacking Cheney’s lunch of grilled kittens in front of the Washington Press Corps. But I think we could McClellan the benefit of the doubt and read his book as at least partially true.

That said, I will borrow this book from the library as I don’t know as I think he deserves to make any of MY pinched pennies off of his years of depravity at the Bush White House. He shouldn’t have life too easy, should he? I personally think anyone working for Bush should have a big red letter “A” for Asshat tattoo’ d upon their foreheads; but I recognize that is my dripping fangness taking over. So, I won’t PAY to read his book: I need to pinch my pennies to pay for gasoline for the man to get to work, and to try having enough left over for Fisher House!

(An easy write up at: http://tinyurl.com/4nzx83 )