Monday, February 02, 2004
Sometimes I wish George W. Bush would drop dead of a heart attack* so that the Administration's Chief Liar & Thief, Dick Cheney, would become President, thus exposing the oozing pus in the infection. Not since Nixon has such a cynical, deceitful bunch of dickheads had control of the Oval Office. & not since Reagan has a President been such a cardboard, cartoon frontman for the agenda of greedy corporate robbers & opportunists. Bush seems incapable of telling the truth about anything. When he can't get away with lying, he panders, evades, disseminates or simply squints his beady eyes, presses his lips firmly together & offers us the "Hey Dad, I'm Presidential" expression.
Rather than tell us the truth about which programs, entitlements & social sertices he intends to cut (like the V.A.), Bush presents a whopping deficit budget that quietly starves these programs to death without him having to take responsibility. That's the Reagan Anaconda method, & it infuriates conservatives & liberals alike. As for foreign policy, we haven't suffered from this many lies since the Spanish-American War, the American Soldier paying for them daily with a steady drumbeat of Military Funerals & flag-draped coffins we rarely hear about, much less see. Yesterday's Sunday Star-Ledger front page story about an unfortunate but brave & determined soldier who lost one leg & had the other shattered fighting to eliminate Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction is a media rarity.
Bush dodged 'Nam & now presents himself as a Warrior-President. Cheney dodged 'Nam & now he's mastermind behind the Iraq Killing Machine. Feed our soldiers into it at the rate of two or three each day, give or take the occasional helicopter crash, & hopefully nobody thinks much about it except next-of-kin. Who cares how many expendable Iraqis - I mean the ones helping us - get shredded in the process? Then, just to be sure, push another button on the machine that pumps out a smokescreen issue like, oh, "Gay Marriage" to take the patriotic American's mind off the carnage. After all, the sale is in the sizzle, right?
(* Back off, National Security Stooges, it's not treasonous to wish a president dead, only to advocate it. I prefer that Bush be soundly defeated - again - come November.)
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Rather than tell us the truth about which programs, entitlements & social sertices he intends to cut (like the V.A.), Bush presents a whopping deficit budget that quietly starves these programs to death without him having to take responsibility. That's the Reagan Anaconda method, & it infuriates conservatives & liberals alike. As for foreign policy, we haven't suffered from this many lies since the Spanish-American War, the American Soldier paying for them daily with a steady drumbeat of Military Funerals & flag-draped coffins we rarely hear about, much less see. Yesterday's Sunday Star-Ledger front page story about an unfortunate but brave & determined soldier who lost one leg & had the other shattered fighting to eliminate Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction is a media rarity.
Bush dodged 'Nam & now presents himself as a Warrior-President. Cheney dodged 'Nam & now he's mastermind behind the Iraq Killing Machine. Feed our soldiers into it at the rate of two or three each day, give or take the occasional helicopter crash, & hopefully nobody thinks much about it except next-of-kin. Who cares how many expendable Iraqis - I mean the ones helping us - get shredded in the process? Then, just to be sure, push another button on the machine that pumps out a smokescreen issue like, oh, "Gay Marriage" to take the patriotic American's mind off the carnage. After all, the sale is in the sizzle, right?
(* Back off, National Security Stooges, it's not treasonous to wish a president dead, only to advocate it. I prefer that Bush be soundly defeated - again - come November.)
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