Get ready to puke: "Space Cowboy"

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

Ugghhhh. I just saw a nauseating fax. I can't post it word for word, but this is almost exactly as it read:

"Your spokesmen should be excited about the President's bold, new vision for America's space program. Be sure to reference President Kennedy's landmark decision and our President's attempt to follow up on this vision. This is the 21st century, and it is one of hope. If you find the opportunity, and it's in the right forum, perhaps even refer to the President as the "Space Cowboy."

Geee, I wonder what the "right forum" is ("right forum" is a direct quote)? Get ready to see that title across your t.v. screen. I can't take this shit any more.

My friend who sent me the fax (and who gave me permission to post its gist here) thought it was the funniest thing he'd seen in awhile. He said it was payback for his hangover from last month.

God, I hope nobody attempts the cornball "space cowboy" line.

[afraid_of_the_dark]

1. Maybe we'll get some good pics

of Shrub wearing a spacesuit and a cowboy hat. Yeeee haaa!

[underpants]

2. They WANT him to be referred to as "Space Cowboy"???

I started using that as a joke when I first heard about this.

How about "Moon-unit"

[Loonman]

3. He's a "Space Cowboy", alright

But not in the way they're thinking.

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

12. I don't think they see it as an insult.

Look at that piece of crap James Garner, Clint Eastwood film of the same title. The old white dudes watching Faux will eat it up. I don't watch much t.v., so I really want to hear if anyone does it.

If Bush is the "Space Cowboy," then who's the "Gangster of Love"? Maybe Neil Bush? Ouch. That would me Jeb is "Maurice."

[Loonman]

14. Maybe a Space Cadet

I'll buy that.

[rustydog]

42. Ya beat me to it...damn your hide.

To Infinity and Beyond!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. Can W Send W and His Administration into Space?

the country would run just fine without them...

[ShimokitaJer]

5. I refuse to call him "the space cowboy"

But I could be convinced to call him "Maurice" if he devotes more of the Republican agenda to speaking of the pompetus of love.

[Cat Atomic]

6. Are they just trying to lose now or what?

In a time when our soldiers are being killed every day, the deficits are out of control, and the job market sucks, I really don't think people will embrace a loony "space cowboy".

[AP]

7. So Halliburton's getting into space exploration now?

I wonder how many aerospace companies Carlyle has bought up in the last few months.

[kayell]

8. Gee, I hope they do!

I think you've been had. That reads like satire to me. "Be sure to reference President Kennedy's landmark decision and our President's attempt to follow up on this vision. "

"perhaps even refer to the President as the "Space Cowboy."

One can only hope that some wingnuts also bite and "Space Cowboy" rolls across the Faux ticker all evening.

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

17. It's not satire. It's serious.

And, frighteningly enough, it's not half as bad as some of the other crap that gets sent to me. 90% of the garbage doesn't make it on air. Why do I have a feeling this one may get on air?

Because it's so stupid, so satirical, that the monkeys will love it. Exhibit A: monkeyboy in his flight suit doll--not satire. Exhibit B: a paperdoll book of monkeyboy and his family. Exhibit C: a dollar bill that says "There's a new sheriff in town."

This is all crap DU would make to mock the monkey (ah, yes, echoes of Peter Gabriel) but that the monkeys take seriously.

[VOX]

9. I will call * that only if *he* lands on Mars!

Any way we can leave him there? :evilgrin:

[DS1]

10. Fight Club - He's a Space Monkey

He stood at the back door of the Whitehouse for 24 hours.

His name is Raymond K. Hessel

[Aunt Eunice]

11. Some people call him the Space Cowboy..

..some call him the Doctor of love.

(Sorry, couldn't help myself)

[kayell]

13. Awwwwrrrrgghhhh.....

:puke:

[ShimokitaJer]

16. beat ya to it

Although I'm not sure that's something I should be bragging about

[Aunt Eunice]

30. you sure did!

You get bonus points for mentioning the pompetus of love.

[nostamj]

15. here he is!

[beyurslf]

18. How about Marvin the Martian? I think Bush kind of resembles him...

[nostamj]

19. I DO NOT!!!

look like that moran



tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. I said this earlier today!

They're tryng to look like democrats. Bush wants his name to conjure JFK. This is absolutely unacceptable bullshit. The fact that Bush occupies (has stolen) the seat Kennedey sat in is a fucking crime against humanity. They shouldn't even be listed on the same list of presidents. ARGH!!!!

[AntiCoup2K4]

27. If Bush wants to be JFK so damn much...

Maybe his daddy will sh**t him too? :grr:

[cheapbeemr]

21. More like Space Cadet...........

If Paul O'Neill is to be believed.......

[fernandovaz]

41. that's more like it

[AlinPA]

22. When I heard the airhead on Headline News say

"stay tuned for President Bush's vision for the future of space exploration", I threw my remote across the room after flipping the whore off.

[piece sine]

23. oh great...

so now we're supposed to decry and protest an expanded space program?! I am enthralled by the potential exploration of space, Bush or no Bush. I just wish one of our nine candidates had spoke-up about it first. Now I'll get flamed everytime I endorse space exploration because (from the signs here at DU) it's about to become politically incorrect to drea mabout exploring our solar system.

Our anger should NOT be the idea of exploring space, but rather that our political opponents are trying to seize the concept for themselves. The NEGATIVE reaction hee at DU is exactly what Karl Rove wants to see.

[AlinPA]

39. I should have clarified my reaction: Bush does not have a

vision- everything is planned for him by Rove and other PR people. So for the airhead and other headlines to say "Bush's vision" p--s me off. Space exploration is fine with me. I just hate the politicizing, especially when they make it out like that moron has a vision.

[GiovanniC]

44. It's Not Going To Happen

Just like it didn't happen when Poppy said the SAME EXACT GODDAMN THING in July of 1989 (a base on the moon, manned mission to Mars). It's one of those things that Dubya can pretend will happen, set the timeline for WAY past when he'll be out of office (2015 for the moon base, 2030 for manned missions to Mars, I believe). Those are the best kind of political promises...

"As President, I plan to fund scientific research to give every man, woman, and child a unicorn by the year 2027!"

[DinahMoeHum]

24. More like "Duck Dodgers in the 24th-and-a-half-Century" !!

Space Cadets, indeed.

"If they're our future, we're history"


:evilgrin:

[Jawja]

25. Is he trying

to upstage the rover, who we all know is more intelligent than he is?

[nostamj]

29. notice that he didn't even mention this BS

until AFTER the current mission was a success.

NOW it's HIS vision.

and remember, Poppy promised exactly the same thing and did exactly NOTHING.

[Lorien]

26. WHAT IT"S REALLY ABOUT

It's about killing the Space program as we know it and moving towards "Star Wars" type programs, if any. Mostly it's about election year politics. From AOL:

Part of the moon-Mars initiative would be funded by shifting money already in NASA's budget, officials said. The plan calls for retiring the space shuttle by the end of this decade and quickly concluding the U.S. obligations to the International Space Station. The shuttle now costs NASA about $4 billion a year and the station about $1 billion.


And from Mark Morford, who pretty much sums it all up:
This is what it boils down to, really: a big joke. There will be no men on Mars in 2020. There will be no massive, super-keen space station on the moon anytime soon. Even BushCo's own financial advisers openly cringe when the Mumbly One tosses up such an obvious and impossibly costly PR stunt, one so clearly designed to instill a false sense of hope and "America rules!" faux patriotism in a country heavily drugged on fear and false righteousness.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fgate%2Farchive%2F2004%2F01%2F14%2Fnotes011404.DTL

[LeahMira]

28. This is the part I hate...

Be sure to reference President Kennedy's landmark decision and our President's attempt to follow up on this vision.

In their dreams! Bush is NO President Kennedy. How dare they.

[DemBones DemBones]

31. So. . . He's a joker, He's a smoker, He's a midnight toker

:smoke: :smoke: :smoke:

[Plaid Adder]

33. GMTA!

You beat me to it.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[Dudley_DUright]

36. More like the gangster of

fear (not love).

[Plaid Adder]

32. So he's a joker, a smoker, and a midnight toker? n/t

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[theriverburns]

34. He's more like Dr Smith

[Generic Other]

35. Curious George in Orbit

[Dudley_DUright]

38. Thanks for the laugh

Looks like W is ready for his next "dress up" role (I actually remember reading this story as a kid).

[shivaji]

37. B4 colonizing Mars, how about stop killing 39,000 prople every year

in friggin auto accidents? THAT IS 107 PEOPLE KILLED
EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR!!! Why can't the money be spent
on making the auto safer?

And how about the 30,000 murders every year? Chicago
alone has 1000 murders every year. Clean the friggin
house before galliventing to the moon and the mars!!

[markus]

40. Bet you weren't ready for that ... n/t

[Skidmore]

43. ...and some people call him....

Maurice.

He's a joker, he's a smoker, he's a midnight toker...