I too was a bit confused when the neo-con trolls offered not one example of where the idiot son of George Bush had been successful or inspired confidence. Even I, being a Broke Back Mountain Hollywood liberal faggot, can list several things the isoGB has done that inspired my confidence in him.
1. Did not choke to death on the pretzel. This makes me confident that, even though clinically brain dead, he still has a gag reflex.
2. I am confident that the pretzledent does not have enough of a gag reflex to keep Jeff from being pleased.
3. I am confident that he will fall off that fucking mountian bike at some point in the future.
4. ......did I mention he has a gag reflex?
Posted by phidipides at July 22, 2006 09:43 AM
I was watching Gonzales testify in front of committee this past week and was struck by his personification of what Hannah Ahrendt called the "banality of evil."
Posted by susan at July 22, 2006 10:08 AMYou know, it's really hard to follow Phidipides. That said, if I were a Republican still clinging to my raggedy ann doll, and calling myself a centrist and determined to stay the course with the Party, I'd have to look at myself in the mirror one morning, as I'm guessing George Will is, and say who made the NeoCons and the Evangelicals into George Bush's and now my party's base? And why am I hiding in my duct taped house, too cowed to come out and live my life? Do these people speak for me? Point is, it's not just the Dem leadership that has been cowed, it's the centrist oldtimer Republicans and I miss them.
Posted by mainsailset at July 22, 2006 10:16 AMGee, Duckman, you spell president bush with a small "b". You make him sound so.......small that way.
Posted by Hank at July 22, 2006 10:31 AMWhat has bush done to merit our respect, you ask?
Well, how about when bush gave the German Chancelor, Angela Merkel, a back rub at the G-8 last week? I kind of thought that was pretty respectful as well as serving as an example of the level of American statesmanship.
Posted by Joe Sixpack at July 22, 2006 10:43 AMSorry Duckman - no OT yet, hijacking this thread.
Brilliant timing for this docu.
I hope that the media gives it the attention that it deserves.
The trailer is fabulous - it is the reminder that today's Americans need.
Posted by Anjha at July 22, 2006 11:24 AMSorry, I missed the first question, so I'll answer it here.
What Bush has done is shovel unprecedented wealth to the top 1-2% of the population. This small group has so much wealth and power that they have been able to fool half of the population that this is a "good thing". A battery of think tanks, craven pundits, and prostituted politicians have provided the propaganda barrage.
For some nice charts on how this has worked visit this site:
101 Questions
It's not radical, being run by the Catholic Diocese of St. Paul. The point is "you can't fool all of the people all of the time, but you can fool enough of them, and that's what matters."
This is actually an impressive accomplishment, nothing on this order has been seen since the days of the robber barons and represents one of the most radical reallocations of wealth and opportunity this country has ever seen. That's not "nothing".
Come on, wasn't the National Do Not Call Registry his idea? That was a good one. And don't forget,umm, well, uh... I guess that was it.
Posted by CG at July 22, 2006 12:12 PMI stole this from LEFT is RIGHT.
"He has energized the Progressive base like no one else in history."
Posted by Seven of Six at July 22, 2006 01:07 PMCG - and here I was thinkin that the DoNotCall list was an easy out for all of us because Bush had sold the list the NSA wiretaps made up for him to the highest bidders of the "please buy something" folks. It was all a bushjoke on the American people. Are we laughing?
Posted by mainsailset at July 22, 2006 03:05 PMYou nasty liberals are so nasty nasty; even your not-nasty bits are nasty.
You're all forgetting the HUGE Hawaiian marine reserve Bush announced he would create just last month. It's HUGE. Almost the size of California. He decided to create it after watching a Jacques Cousteau documentary (WATCH MORE DOCUMENTARIES, MR PRESIDENT!!)Did I mention it was HUGE?
I think this act alone balances out all the bad stuff he's done. What are the killings of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, the rampant corruption, the unconscionable neglect of New Orleans, the unprecedented executive power grab, the indifference to foreigners and America's image abroad, the disdain for science and all those other incredibly petty and trivial things (missteps, really, I mean who doesn't talk with their mouth full?) -- what is any of that worth to the freedoms of all those fishies? Nothing, that's what!
You damn liberals are always going on about the natural world, but Bush -- he delivers!
Posted by plum at July 22, 2006 05:13 PMToday on C-Span2 I watch the “2006 Harlem Book Fair”.
http://www.booktv.org/misc/harlem_072206.asp
One panel including Greg Palast, was explaining in detail how 2 elections were stolen by the Neo-cons and that they will do it again.
What has bush done to merit our respect, you ask?
He has done nothing in his life worth mentioning. And his staying the course on the Israeli attacks on Lebanon brings rage and loathing.
Here is a site that our corporated medias won’t show you.
http://fromisraeltolebanon.info/
7 said the no call list didn't work, and after being cold-called for a "free vacation" today, I must admit he is correct.
I respect Bush for the stemcell veto. It ensures that I will not have to live in the Hell that he has created any longer than normal.
Posted by TIKI AL at July 22, 2006 09:11 PMDuckman,
As a Spaniard, I find myself in the position of feeling bad about pointing out to my respected North American friends the obvious (and widely notorious) failures of your President—though must confess that, in the particular case of George W. Bush, my pointing finger has plenty ammunition.
So, sometimes I may dare utter something in this respect but, usually, I defer the honor to those who, at the end, can do something to rid the world of the likes of Bush—his constituents.
Yet, as another human being afraid to the bones by any threat (however miniscule) of the specter of fascism, I find myself sending to the LC what anyone can usually see. Yeah, some of the stuff that my being a product of a Civil War and growing up under the shadow cast by the dirty boots of a dictator have impressed in my very being, and all done in the hope that it may alert those who can do something to stop more madness before it is too late to do a bloody thing.
“The field has retreated,
seeing man's
convulsive charge…” Miguel Hernandez
PAZ
The probem with the Democrats not taking on the right wing and Bush is that they are empty headed.
They have no ideas. They have no concept of the US as a country.
This is an Animal Farm situation:
The part where the humans and the pigs look at each other and it's hard to tell them apart.
As far as Bush being the worst President ever, Congress will also go down as the worst one ever.
And, psychopaths are incapable of changing their behavior patterns.
Maude