You can't be a Washington outsider if you're already president.

[Manix]

Salon
by Bill Maher


Hearing President Bush these days constantly complain about "the politicians" and John Kerry being part of a "Washington mind-set," and saying things like "I got news for the Washington crowd" is like hearing Courtney Love bitch about junkies.

"Washington insider" is by definition a function of one's proximity to the president. That's you, Mr. Bush. You're ground zero. Ever wonder, sir, why everyone stands and they play music when you enter a room? When you're given check-writing privileges by the Federal Reserve, you just might be a Washington insider.

Lemme try to explain it to you in a different way: You're not "Mr. Smith goes to Washington" -- you're the Washington part. We need a Mr. Smith to mess with you. You're not on a mission you reluctantly accepted, like the old farts in "Space Cowboys." You campaigned for this job, and now you're doing it again.

And having been the Grand Poobah for three years, it's a little late to be selling yourself as some fish-out-of-water cowboy visiting the big city on assignment. You're not McCloud, you're the grandson of a senator and the son of a president and CIA director. For 15 of the last 22 years you've had a key to the White House. The last thing that happened in Washington without the Bushes getting a piece of it was Marion Barry's crack habit. "The Exorcist" happened in Georgetown, but Satan had to run it by Jim Baker first.





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[Wonk]

1. I beg to differ. I think they probably did get a piece from Marion Barry's

crack habit.

http://www.guerrillanews.com/crack/

[Maccagirl]

2. LOL!

I recall MANY black politicians in the '80's saying that BushCO was the biggest drug trafficer in the world. They were ignored-but were they wrong? I think time and evidence have borne them out.

[The Zanti Regent]

3. Don't you mean Oliver North?

After all, he was the capo who let Contra Cocaine in according to Gary Webb!