George Bush is possibly the only credible evidence that evolution does not occur. That creature is a total idiot. And Cheney is a total lunatic, along with those involved in AIPAC. Sorry folks, but that's how I feel.
Posted by tempus at July 15, 2007 07:51 AMLobotomy Graham was beating the bomb Iran drum to death on Meet the Press today and appears to be more rabid and delusional than bush.
He kept talking over Webb like a redneck schoolyard bully and would not adress Webb's points that the troops need more time off and that over half of the foreign fighters are Saudis.
Should we bomb Saudia Arabia and Iran?
Posted by TIKI AL at July 15, 2007 08:01 AMBush is an example of the legacy often left to their children from the privileged elite: Uneducated with advanced degrees, empowered with no social goals, immature and without expectations. His world simply is black and white and that is why we observe the polarization into these two extremes in his approach to the world. Simple, unthinking minds learn to "chunk" events into these two basic categories so that their limited cognitive abilities are spared the ravages of the thought processes.
Cheney is wickedly intelligent and manipulative to control power with absolutely no social conscience whatsoever beyond his limited sphere. His world is not black and white, just shades of power and control.
Posted by phidipides at July 15, 2007 08:11 AMPhid, very well put, and I couldn't agree more.
Posted by tempus at July 15, 2007 08:19 AMParadox thanks for the review. If any of you haven't done so yet, he has another superb post up today where he absolutely demolishes Bush/Cheney/Rove water carrier Fred Hiatt's op-ed today where he claim Cheney (you know he's the one really directing this) use of state secrets really is nbd, fairly typical, and not out of the norm. Glenn just easily destroys Hiatt's claims point by point. As Glenn remarks, Hiatt must not even read his own newpaper that dispute his thoughts.
phid....that is the most succinct and apt description I have read on the two....I agree with tempus. That comment is a keeper!
Posted by emal at July 15, 2007 08:35 AMWell, now that we all agree, let's discuss what species got Nicole pregnant!!!
Posted by tempus at July 15, 2007 08:47 AM
Down in my neck of the woods Little Lord Lindsey's crazy base is up in arms because of his stance on immigration. The Repukes are tripping all over themselves to announce their candidacy to run him off in 2008.
Meanwhile, the 2 Repukes running for Charlie Norwood's post are arguing over who has the most guns. What's next? A public pissing contest?
Oh, I forgot to mention that the one with the most guns once offered to bomb UGA where all the "libruls" hang out!
h
Posted by at July 15, 2007 08:48 AMI remain convinced that Bush has Aspergers as so much of his life history and oddly disjointed behavior responses are consistent with the malady.
Babs chromosome contribution on that one was faulty.If you do a bit of research on Asperger impairment coupled to apocryphal and documented aspects of Bush conduct going back to adolescence, it all fits.
Now the MSM is interesting. Evidently the moguls gather every summer in Sun Valley Idaho for a schmooze party and their favorite keynote speaker for a run of years has been none other than Rupert Murdoch. This tells us that the entire wurlitzer is in a race to the Murdoch bottom.
Posted by Chris Rich at July 15, 2007 09:08 AMGee, and all this time I thought the chimp was defective because Barbara smoked 5 packs of cancer-sticks and drank 2 quarts of Gin per day while waiting for her heroin to be delivered.
Posted by TIKI AL at July 15, 2007 09:28 AMPeople give Bush/Cheney too much credit for intelligence. They are not smart, they are lucky.
Without 9/11 and the national orgy of hero worship that followed it, Bush/Cheney's corruption and incompetence would have been exposed by the 2002 elections.
Posted by James E. Powell at July 15, 2007 09:32 AMPeople give Bush/Cheney too much credit for intelligence. They are not smart, they are lucky.
Without 9/11 and the national orgy of hero worship that followed it, Bush/Cheney's corruption and incompetence would have been exposed by the 2002 elections.
Comment: James E. Powell
"Lucky?" I'm not so sure it was all just luck. Every warning was ignored.
Posted by Judith at July 15, 2007 10:01 AMSorry folks, wishing all the above drivel to be true does not make it so. Appears to be case of "If we say such stuff often enough....but if it makes you feel better, and less irrelevant, go for it.
Posted by jj at July 15, 2007 10:02 AMGeorge Bush's presidency is a successful beginning for the ascendency of American fascism.It has catapulted a clear rightist vision further than ever before: Much of the 'damage' his regime has accomplished will never be rescinded, but will become the permanent lingua franca of the land-such is how far and fast they have gone. Ronald Reagan may have fertilized the soil, but Bush is but the first sprout.
It has, on those grounds, been no small accomplishment. It has probed deeper, into darker regions than have been hitherto terra incognita for the American imagination, political or other.
It is not by accident that it was the right which has expanded its conception first than the 'left.'
The reason is simple: There is no 'left' in what is called American 'politics,' because America will not and cannot permit a real left to become an operational reality. Put plainly, America will always default to the right, never to the left. What is today called liberal progressivism has played itself out. There are indeed, no rules for it to break, nor sadly, does it really want to.
This is underwritten and thoroughly enabled by a centrism, which will always suffocate the left first, while it coddles the right, which it strangely mirrors. Centrist democracy dead ends itself as it disallows any true and much needed invigoration from the left.
Put bluntly the American right has room to breathe and grow, while centrism has reached a cul de sac of its own creation: It is starved for oxygen. which its history has failed to generate.
It is nothing but the dynamic curve of American history busily projecting itself into a fascist, totally militarized ne plus ultra.
It is not relevant to any discussion now or in the future to speculate whether Bush is the 'worst president of all time.' That is a juvenile way of looking at things,making the whole thing a 'contest.'
America could never have a good president for it is itself 'bad.'
Death to the Green Zone.
Posted by Jill Bains at July 15, 2007 10:13 AMjj: You have just been awarded the rank of idiot. Congratulations.
Posted by tempus at July 15, 2007 10:18 AMI'm about halfway through A Tragic Legacy and my discomfort level is rising. If the pattern of Bush responding to personal attacks by upping the ante continues, we may be looking at an attack on Iran before he leaves office.
Posted by Roy Batty at July 15, 2007 11:12 AMI remain convinced that Bush has Aspergers as so much of his life history and oddly disjointed behavior responses are consistent with the malady.
Could be Aspergers. I think he shows the results of an authoritarian parenting style. His speech patterns are highly reflective of what we would expect to see from that type of parenting. The inability to communicate stems from parents who simply want compliance and the child's words have no value. No matter what the child says it is ignored and must be deferred to parental wishes without discussion. The fashion in which he acted out with extreme rules violations after leaving for college is another good indicator. The Black/White continuum is another.
Many many conservatives have the same issue. Parents who valued no discussion -just do as you're told; absurd absolutes of right and wrong, yet those values are not consistent and change as needs change leading to an us/them "do as you're told not as I do" mentality.
For example: Sorry folks, wishing all the above drivel to be true does not make it so. Appears to be case of "If we say such stuff often enough....but if it makes you feel better, and less irrelevant, go for it.
A wonderful example of someone fucked up by authoritarian parents!
Posted by phidipides at July 15, 2007 12:06 PM
As I was reading the comment by phidipides, a possible way to describe what I find so strange about the speech patterns of Commander Cuckoo just occurred to me.
He was an odd, rather breathless way of blurting out his point, almost as if he fully expects to be contradicted.
I've always found it childish and utterly weird--almost as if he's not an adult.
God, how does Miss Laura stand it?
h
Posted by at July 15, 2007 12:42 PMI see scout hasn't been put in jail yet. And for your information, scout, you shithead, I am a male, although I doubt that would make much difference to your bi-sexual self.
Posted by tempus at July 15, 2007 01:14 PM"Bush is an example of the legacy often left to their children from the privileged elite: Uneducated with advanced degrees, empowered with no social goals..."
- (phidipides )
One could only wish this were the whole story.
Unfortunately there have been all too many of 'the privileged elite' who are not bumpkins, but viciously savage experts on working the machinery of capitalism and greasing the wheels of class war to their advantage with great style and aplomb, not to say wealth.
It's about the wealth.
Some of these highly intelligent and ruthless people certainly grew up and inherited a classic rightist political pedigree. They are not the problem; they are simply the most visible.
The real problem is the privileged elite who are nominally liberal, but partake of fascist economic victories for their own benefit- despite the fact they will always tell you differently.
These are the people who machine the American system to perfection, and destroy preemptively any challenge to its ground rules.
These are the silent beneficiaries of a system designed to leave the dirty work to others, but the class victories to the entirety of the same social class, while deftly avoiding the guilt associated with fascist brutality.
These are the people who believe that it is not necessary to eliminate all private schools because their children will go there.
Their hypocrisy is more odious than that of surly, in your face Republican culture which is more honest in flaunting class privilege.
Posted by Jill Bains at July 15, 2007 01:28 PMThere once was a man by the name of Walter Mitty....
Posted by at July 15, 2007 01:31 PMI thought it was Mitt Romney...
Posted by tempus at July 15, 2007 02:02 PMWalter..how are you?
Posted by at July 15, 2007 02:33 PM"I see scout hasn't been put in jail yet." (tempus)
...I believe in some penal institutions the inmates are allowed access to computers so they may continue committing crimes.
Posted by TIKI AL at July 15, 2007 07:19 PM"I see scout hasn't been put in jail yet." (tempus)
Tempus, doesn't matter. I think we have his replacement in the form of one Jill Bains.
Posted by Judith at July 15, 2007 07:41 PMCase in point: Jill Bains comes here and insults all of us.
"That no one has mentioned this (deaths of Iraqis) much less 'complained' to you, bespeaks of exceedingly low standards for the entire blog. Perhaps the blog is riven with a classic case of American exceptionalism? And I cannot say I'm surprised."
Posted by Judith at July 15, 2007 08:12 PMThey are not the problem;...
How would they not be the problem? You only have to look at the White House to see the problem. The wealthy elite with no social consciences are the problem. The Mad King, idiot son of George, is the unique perfect storm of no social conscience and incredible incompetence who is being handled by a VP sans scruples.
It is not relevant to any discussion now or in the future to speculate whether Bush is the 'worst president of all time.' That is a juvenile way of looking at things,making the whole thing a 'contest.'
Any cogent examination shows he is the worst president in American history, committing the worst foreign policy blunders of any president. He is unrivaled at this point in time. As an example: We are gaining North Korea and losing Russia, decidedly not a good strategic trade.
His drum beating for Iran after his mental victory in Iraq is a good case in point. As we all know, as did King Pyrrhus of Epirus, "one more such victory and we are ruined."
Posted by phidipides at July 15, 2007 09:34 PM"How would they not be the problem? You only have to look at the White House to see the problem. The wealthy elite with no social consciences are the problem." -(Phidipedes)
-Yes, I stand corrected. I should have said they are not the 'entire problem.' I appreciate your critique.
But when you confine the problem to the White House you are overlooking too much and making a mistake of simplifying something which is more complex.
The 'wealthy elites with no social consciences' is a phenomena which is not confined to the classic right in America.
The power of economic wealth in America, which encompasses liberalism and progressivism as well as the right, is in and of itself a structural given which transcends political affiliations.
It is the wealth itself, irrespective of political beliefs, which has a negative synergistic relationship, much stronger than differences in political ideology.
Failure to understand this is one of the primary reasons there is no real left in America. Wealthy progressives are not about to jeopardize their shared economic privilege with the right, to create a truly operational left which would threaten them.
The incoherence of the Democratic party is directly a result of this. In the end they are a party of class collaboration with fascism when it comes to their money.
Everyone knows that Bush is the worst of all American presidents. But so what? That has been said a billion times. It is getting old to say that. You already knew that, and repeating it endlessly becomes sophomoric.
Posted by Jill Bains at July 15, 2007 10:29 PMVery funny, TIKI and Judith. Who shall we bring to justice first? Or does it matter? They do have parallel chopping blocks these days...
Posted by tempus at July 15, 2007 10:38 PMJill Bains comes here and insults all of us.
Judith, one day at at time, is all we do.. (apologies for ripping John Lennon.) And God Bless you, John. You were the greatest.
Posted by tempus at July 15, 2007 10:59 PMWho shall we bring to justice first? Or does it matter?
That's a bit like asking who goes first at the Nuremberg trials.
Posted by phidipides at July 15, 2007 11:02 PMThat's a bit like asking who goes first at the Nuremberg trials.
Well, I think Cheney, as Goering, has a nasty poison pill in his boot. Strip the bugger, even though it would require a Class IV suit.
Posted by tempus at July 15, 2007 11:20 PMI think GWB has a combination of mild dyslexia and ADD. The two go together. This was touched on in a Vanity Fair article (I think it was by Gail Sheehy) then ignored by the MSM. His garbled syntax whenever he's not reading teleprompters is dyslexia. ADD boys stick to one idea like a dog with a bone and don't let go (ie. Iraq). It's been said they never schedule him for more than 1 hour at a time. Can't concentrate. Check out BUSH ON THE COUCH.
Posted by howard hughes blues at July 16, 2007 02:32 AM