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(with apologies for repeat material) So the Republic of Cheneystan, population one, has come to the fore once again with a pithy yet torturous 'I'm neither in nor out' proclamation about proximity to the executive branch of government.
Yes, there are so many imponderables but the foremost question that begs to be asked is has a vice-president ever had a lower approval rating than his boss and just how has this been achieved? It really takes diligence and extraordinary effort to find oneself alongside Paris Hilton in public favorability. Ease off Dick, take a little break -- the pollsters will be jumping off tall buildings if forced to try and explain a 117% unfavorability rating for the Man from Beezlebub.
Of course, The Decider-ist (what does that make Cheney, Decide-rist Absolutist?) if asked about the recent claims by his (in)subordinate would probably say: 'It's hard work doing all this hard work so when Dick works hard alongside my working hard, we have two hard workers working hard.'
Sometimes it seems this duo is in a sprint to the bottom.
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Ah, the Michael Gerson's of the world, we love your sense of evangelical humor:
Pushing the Envelope on Presidential PowerThose merry band of evangelicals, what can you say? You get someone whose spiritual leader was crucified commenting about a colleague's steadfast principled-ness for torture. Priceless!
Barton Gellman and Jo Becker
Washington Post Staff Writers
June 25, 2007
"...If Cheney advocates a return to waterboarding, they said, they have not heard him say so. But his office has fought fiercely against an executive order or CIA directive that would make the technique illegal.
"That's just the vice president," said [Michael] Gerson, Bush's longtime chief speechwriter, referring to Cheney's October remark that "a dunk in the water" for terrorists -- a radio interviewer's term -- is "a no-brainer for me."
Gerson added: "It's principled. He's deeply conscious that this is a dangerous world, and he wants this president and future presidents to be able to deal with that. He feels very strongly about these things, and it's his great virtue and his weakness."
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Then there's The Torturer In Chief letting the darkies know their place. After all, an invite to The White House must come with some strings:
dept. of blacks should know their placeYuck, yuck. What a card! But, after all, The Torturer In Chief has a duskish complected Secretary of State who he allows to rub his feet after a long day and a Sancho Panza sidekick who deposits enormous piles of excrement all over the Department of Justice -- so dare accuse the TIC of appalling taste at the risk of an all-expense paid vacation to Gitmo. But hey, you'll see it before it closes and have memories to cherish.
George W. Bush Would Like the Negroes To Clean Up
Wonkette
June 20, 2007
Congress joined the Bush Administration for a nice little barbecue on the South Lawn last night. The theme was Mardi Gras, so everybody could enjoy memories of New Orleans being destroyed by the Bush Administration and then pretty much left in that same condition years later.
Famous NOLA chef Paul Prudhomme catered the picnic and New Orleans jazz band Kermit Ruffins and the Barbeque Swingers played Dixieland.
And then Bush told the black musicians to clean up after the politicians.
THE PRESIDENT: Kermit Ruffins and the Barbeque Swingers, right out of New Orleans, Louisiana. (Applause.)
MR. RUFFINS: Thank you. Thanks for having us. We’re glad to be here.
THE PRESIDENT: Proud you’re here. Thanks for coming. You all enjoy yourself. Make sure you pick up all the trash after it’s over.
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This followed our impish Chosen One's attempt to liven the spirits of the families whose sons and daughters died because of his Iraq fantasy. It's from Dan Froomkin's June 1 column in The Washington Post
A Caring Person?C'mon, the Chosen One just has an equal-opportunity humor streak -- see the above item.
NPR's Michel Martin yesterday interviewed Elaine Johnson, whose son, Army Spc. Darius Jennings, was killed when a helicopter was shot down by Iraqi insurgents Nov. 2, 2003. Not long after her son's death, Johnson met with Bush.
"MARTIN: So when you left that meeting, did you leave with a determination to do something, or did that happen over time?
"Ms. JOHNSON: ... [I asked the president,] what's the mission? He couldn't give me an answer. I said well, I'm going to tell you what. I'm on my mission now. My mission has just begun. And my mission is to fight, to bring these troops home, to take care of these troops when they get home.
"Then he gave us a presidential coin.... And then after that, he told us 'Don't go sell it on eBay'. Now you tell me how insensitive that can be? What kind of a caring person is that?"
From the Never Say You're Sorry Department:
TBogg put it ever so eloquently on June 5 -- feel free to admit the last couple of lines are absolute killer -- with a column about the various pleas for a Scooter Libby pardon. After commenting about the death and destruction the neo-cons have wrought TBogg wrote:
"...These are the consequences of the actions and chest-thumping policies of people like Scooter Libby, Bill Kristol, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Doug Feith, etc. They play a game where only other people lose, but never themselves. Then they just move on to think tanks and visiting professorships and book contracts where nobody ever points out to them that they fucked up. They fucked up really bad.Amen.
If there was a shred of decency or an ounce of courage in any one of them, take your pick, they would each be making an appointment with Mr. Heavy Rope and Mr. Stout Overhead Beam, and their last act on earth would be to pin a note to their shirt that simply states: "I'm sorry. I was wrong."
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