Bush Vacation: Day 4

Only 754 days since a Senior White House official identified an undercover CIA agent who was working in WMD counter-proliferation. (Dear Prez, that means keeping WMD out of terrorists' hands.)

All this loyalty stuff really is hard work.

Donald Rumsfeld: Complete and Utter Failure

I'll never forget that Dick Cheney called Rumsfeld the best Secretary of Defense EVER. Like many in this administration, you can just about guarantee that anything Cheney says, the exact opposite is most likely where the truth lies. (pun intended)

Cheney to CNN:

"As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had," the vice president said in a statement relayed to CNN through a spokesman Saturday.

"People ought to let him do his job".

Unfortunately for our soldiers, Donald Rumsfeld is still on the job.

Bush Vacation: Day 2

3 more killed - Georgia NG
1 killed by small arms fire

time to clear some brush...........

Rat Pack Democrats

You talkin' to ME?

As OBL and AaZ End Vacations; Bush Starts His

As 27 Americans were killed this week, Ayman al-Zawahri surfaces on Al Jazeera and threatens more violence in Britian and here.



Good job, Mr. President. I hope you enjoy your 5 week vacation.

Bully Bolton

John Bolton, George Bush's impetuous pick to be our Ambassador to the U.N was praised by the Gizzard - the readers disagree vehemently.

Some gems:

"The Gazette makes a mockery of real problems when it says that whiney Democrats can go on to new subjects of righteous indignation. Even Republicans such as George Voinovich realized Bolton had real problems." - Loring Wirbel

"As usual, Bush could have done better for our country, and we will regret the day that Bolton takes his office at the U.N. " - Bud Gordon

"Bush’s act will be seen as that of a petulant little boy who can’t stand not to get his own way." - Joe Bennett

Good job, fellow citizens!

(Actually, it's a major surprise the G printed 3 letters challenging it's view. Let me get up off the floor now.)

"Him no care-y"

The Daily Show eviscerates Bolton, and explains that Bush doesn't give a flying rat's patoutie what anyone thinks. This is well known.

Also well known is the fact that the Daily Show regularly gets to more truth and more substance than most "news" programs.

Just to show how much Bush doesn't care, and how he doesn't care who cares, let's run some numbers --

Number of American soldiers killed in the last 2 days: 21

Number of trips to Crawford President Bush has taken: 50

Weeks vacation he is starting today: 5

Percent of time on vacation received during presidency: 20


Having a commander in chief who is vainly blase about the status of the war, who ignores and neglects the health and welfare of the troops, and whose has yet to hold one person accountable for CIA agent outings, WMD disappearances, Iraqification failures, or anything:

priceless (more likely worthless)

Intelligent Design

Stolen from BILLMON - no further comment necessary.

George Bush - a friend indeed

If you're a friend of George Bush, it doesn't matter what you do. Karl Rove knows this, Rafael Palmeiro proves it. If he can look into your soul, your actions don't matter, just that he "knows" you have a good heart. (I'm not even gonna ask how he "knows" someone just from their body language or gazing into their eyes.)

Just remember folks, until we vote them out - IOKIYAR.

Democratic Candidiate Litmus Test

A list of questions that will help us pick winning candidates. It's clear we don't have to agree with every issue that a given candidate takes. But they can't be wishy-washy, and they can't shy away from fighting back when needed. From Steve Gilliard:

Does the candidate talk like a bureaucrat or like a regular person?

Does the candidate distance himself from the party or its leaders, or is he proud to be a Democrat?

Does the candidate make it clear that he opposes Bush and the Republicans?

Does the candidate back down when the corporate media or Republican pundits attack him, or does he stand by his words?

Does the candidate respond to the nationwide reaction of the left blogosphere, or does he assign it to a junior staff member?

Does the candidate sleepwalk through the campaign, or does he act like he wants to win?

This is a winning combination of ideas, and is a simple litmus test that will give us reliable candidates whom the public can trust.

Just win, baby!

The Peter Principle Lives

The Peter Principle thrives in the Bush Administration. For those too young to remember, it's this: the process of climbing up the hierarchical corporate ladder indefinitely until the employee reaches a position where he or she is no longer competent.

George Bush is the most highly visible example of this principle in action (couldn't he have just been happy as the relatively harmless Governor in Texas?). And though Republicans advised the President against a recess appointment of him, and he has long since passed that point of minimal competence, John Bolton is the latest example of the truth of the Peter Principle.

He perjured himself to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he lied to congress in previous testimony, misused intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war, and has had various other run-ins with our dedicated diplomatic corps, and is a possible defendent in the CIA-Leak scandal.

Bingo! All the qualities our President values and rewards. George Bush decided he was the best man to reform the U.N. (If by "reform" you mean: degrade the last remaining good will countries of the world had for us, insult the few diplomats left at the U.N. that we haven't insulted, and further distance ourselves in a world that is increasingly dangerous and where the more countries on our side, the less on the other side! Yes, that kind of reform.)


To sum this farce up, just look closely at the expressions on each of the three parties in this picture of Bolton's recess appointment. It'll tell you all you need to know about our future representative at the United Nations, and should give ample warning to the world what George Bush has foisted on its citizens.

God help us.

Perjury, Conspiracy Endorsed by the President

Excellent post at Think Progress: The key question, if these revelations are true, is why did these administration officials lie so overtly to the special prosecutor? Knowing hard evidence would come out sooner or later against them (through leaks, emails, etc), the White House officials still chose to lie. What could they possibly be trying to hide?

What I think they are hiding is culpability of the Vice President, the President, the National Security Advisor and current Secretary of State in lying us into war, then smearing anyone and everyone who tried to tell the truth about those lies.

(Well, they only had to smear the ones the press didn't ignore outright.)

Contempt

"I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors." - George H.W. Bush, April 26, 1999

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