Eleanor Clift has a hysterically scathing piece in Newsweek about how Little Boots ruined the family franchise.
She writes how Poppy, long dismissed by neocons as a soft patrician, looks like a towering giant compared his brat son.
Posted by Christopher at December 9, 2006 05:38 AMI see that Rep. Cynthia McKinney is introducing a bill, on her way out, to impeach the president. I wonder if there's a way the Dems could just table the bill, rather than voting against it? I would love to see that hanging over Bush's head for the next two years.
Posted by Julie at December 9, 2006 06:00 AMI discovered that zipping up your pants with no underwear is a truly hazardous thing! However, necessity is the mother of invention and deviation!
Posted by tempus at December 9, 2006 06:19 AMPerhaps, if You were Indian, it wouldn't have been a problem. Just saw this over at Talking Points Memo:
"...A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men....."
Posted by at December 9, 2006 06:35 AMYou don't wear underwear? That's hot.
He does too wear underwea....uhhh, never mind.
I see that Rep. Cynthia McKinney is introducing a bill, on her way out, to impeach the president.
This will be the first of many. The republi-cons are waking up to the reality of what they allowed to happen and their impending 50 year marginalization.
Posted by phidipides at December 9, 2006 06:39 AMTempus, we women don't have that problem. ;)
Posted by Judith at December 9, 2006 06:39 AMphidipides
i agree..regardless of what pelosi is saying now..this administration is going to be under investigation for a very very long time..and the bush name will forever tarnished ..thats why the old man broke down so....
Posted by dennis at December 9, 2006 07:05 AM..thats why the old man broke down so....
Phidipides, the old man broke down because he knows that the family name is tarnished forever, and that his son is the world's most hated man right now. Babs, on the other hand, is probably proud of her bastard son.
Posted by Judith at December 9, 2006 07:23 AMDennis, great minds.....
Posted by Judith at December 9, 2006 07:24 AMjudith..think alike
Posted by dennis at December 9, 2006 07:26 AMI found Poppy's public crying jag a bit too much to stomach.
What makes these arrogant elites think the American people are interested in their emotional outbursts?
Many things are best left private and out of the glare of the camera. Even Babs the Hag understands this on some level.
She would never engage in such an embarrassing public display.
Posted by Christopher at December 9, 2006 07:30 AMI heard on NPR yesterday that Rumsfeld's attorneys were arguing against indicting him for torture at Abu Ghraib Prison. The Civil Liberties attorneys were arguing the case in court for indicting him. Anyone else hear anything about this? Can't find a word about it on Google.
Posted by Judith at December 9, 2006 07:39 AMjudith..haven't heard a thing..on the other thread you mentioned george coming in on a three wheeler..what that real or was it a skit?
Posted by dennis at December 9, 2006 07:43 AMWell, the Bush family legacy has been destroyed forever, and it wasn't that good to begin with. Let's review: two accidents where someone died, one son involved in Savings and Loans scandal, affairs, one son helping to steal an election or two, one son a drug/alcoholic. Yep, I would say those Bush kids are just models of integrity. No wonder the old man cried.
Posted by Judith at December 9, 2006 07:47 AMDennis, it was real in this respect. It was actually a three-wheeler and they super-imposed Bush's head on the kid riding it. Bush was looking at the camera and smiling as he rode the bicycle through the WH room, with Laura standing in the foreground. It was hysterical. I never watch Leno, but glad I was flipping through the channels in time to see this skit.
Posted by Judith at December 9, 2006 07:50 AMjudith... gotcha
i agree about the bush family..quite a history..was it neil bush.. who told investigators that he didn't find it odd... to answer his hotel room door..in china .. and find that a hooker was there to see him..and he didn't know how she got there..normal as hell
Posted by dennis at December 9, 2006 07:58 AMJudith, I heard through usually unreliable resources (the WH) that Mr. Rumself will be tried for torture at Abu Ghraib Prison.
And the women I know have the same anatomy as me, so I don't know what you mean. I went to a good Christian school all my ten years of edukation.
Posted by tempus at December 9, 2006 08:01 AMI heard on NPR yesterday that Rumsfeld's attorneys were arguing against indicting him for torture at Abu Ghraib Prison.
The German court is very serious about their intention to indict Rumsfeld based on Universal law for Abu Ghraib.
Posted by Christopher at December 9, 2006 08:10 AMCynthia McKinney's name has been mentioned a couple of times above. The Honorable Cynthia McKinney, Congressional Representative from Georgia's Fourth District, will no longer serve her constituents AND the rest of us in Congress. She has been defeated, for the second and last time, by the forces of evil.
McKinney has been a staunch advocate for nearly issue that a lot of us feel are important: anti-war, Palestinian rights, 9/11 truth, the environment, and many, many others.
The malfeasance of many members of Congress being recognized here make Ms. McKinney's causes and achievements all the greater, now culminating in her impeachment bill. I went to her website yesterday to thank her and to express the hope that she stay in public life somehow. I urge those of you that care to do likewise.
Posted by Don Bacon at December 9, 2006 08:11 AMTempus, you just keep believing that. Those nuns would never stear you wrong.
Posted by Judith at December 9, 2006 08:11 AMsteer you wrong.
Posted by Judith at December 9, 2006 08:14 AMDear Judith, please refer to TLC's cousin, Low and Left. You will probably never address me again.
Posted by tempus at December 9, 2006 08:33 AMDid anybody catch Digby's photo of the whole bu$h clan? 'W' was wearing a pair of cowboy boots with the pResidential seal on them!!
I haven't laughed that hard in a while!
SoS, I saw that - the boots are hideous! And he's sitting there like a little kid with a shit-eating grin. What an embarrassment!
Posted by iamcoyote at December 9, 2006 09:05 AMSeven, those of the clan of the Limp Dick will do anything to retrieve those brief moments of grandeur. W is such fookin' woos!
Posted by tempus at December 9, 2006 09:06 AMI presume Little Boots gets the best of medical care. It's obvious he has some (MANY!!!) unresolved mental health issues. Do you think sometime in the future that mental health probs will get addressed instead of pushed under the carpet? Letting insurance companies decide what's a real disease and what's a choice (so blame the victim) is getting out of hand. Goddamn president who's delusional. At least in the movie "Madness of King George" others took over while he was in the midst of a breakdown.
Posted by Sharon at December 9, 2006 09:35 AMAt least in the movie "Madness of King George" others took over while he was in the midst of a breakdown.
That is the difficulty, Sharon. I doubt that there has been a "breakdown"; I believe, instead, that the mental condition is severe and chronic. No one has been able to recognize a "breakdown" that requires "intervention". The world should have intervened upon first hint of the preznit's seeking of any office.
W's illnesses and proclivites were well documented
in more than a a few books (that were squashed by the Bush Crime Family and the willing media.)
If the 49% of the population of this Country cared to know the truth about him, they could have found out.
Posted by Anjha at December 9, 2006 10:05 AMThere is something wrong with the Blessed President Bush? I live in Quideega County, Alabama, and we have just one radio station, WJSUS, and it never mentioned anything wrong. It's bin saying Christ is Winning the War on Satan and Democrits.
Posted by tempus at December 9, 2006 10:13 AMThe 109th congress still couldn't pass a VA budget!!
This will continue the backlog of new cases, long waits for treatment, no new hires, and leaving everything frozen until the new 110h congress comes in!!
Way to treat the Veterans, republi-cons!!
In some ways, I'm glad! Because there will be plenty to remind everyone in '08' of how the repukes work, or in this case didn't work!!
Sos - but they did get $38B in tax cuts passed and the opened up the Gulf of Mexico for more drilling. As always, they have the people's interest at heart - it just depends on how one defines people. Oil companies are considered people under our current laws after all.
Posted by Mary at December 9, 2006 10:49 AMNow, now, Seven. Just because you gave everything but your life to your country, have endured years of horrible pain as a result of the injuries, years of corrective surgery, and all of the associated costs of treatment, I do believe President Bush is correct. If you didn't vote Repug in 2000, you didn't serve the country, unlike the President. He was awarded a Bronze Star last year, I believe. Who knew he was a hero, as well as a philosopher, scholar and humanist!
Posted by tempus at December 9, 2006 10:49 AMAny of these characteristics look familiar?
"...(1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
(2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
(3) believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
(4) requires excessive admiration
(5) has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
(6) is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
(7) lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
(8) is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
(9) shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes..."
Posted by Julie at December 9, 2006 10:49 AMJulie, I believe those are classic symptons of sociopathy.
Posted by ann at December 9, 2006 10:57 AMRude Pundit calls it bugfuck insane.
He also reminded me of James Baker talking about "fruit salad". In my speech pathology classes, they call incoherent speech
word salad.
President Salad
Posted by Sharon at December 9, 2006 12:09 PMtempus, Remember that militry related surgery I was supposed to have the last week of October? It got rescheduled finally, now it's for the middle of Feb.! Hey, what's 4 more months of serious pain, I mean, shit, it was only diagnosed in April!
I have to be grateful however, some of these kids returning haven't even had their cases looked at yet!
Larry Scott at, VA WatchDog dot org has the last republi-con token Vetaran gestures from Senate and Congress. And the Chairs final statements, thank God!
Posted by Seven of Six at December 9, 2006 12:13 PM‘Private Warriors’
Private contractors run U.S. military supply lines in Iraq, provide armed protection and operate U.S. military bases.
PBS 9:00 tonight
Don Bacon, thank you. That was the story I was trying to find. Interesting times indeed.
Posted by Judith at December 9, 2006 08:06 PM