George Bush Still ROCKS!!!

[meganmonkey]

I love you, Mark Morford :loveya:

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Everyone is slamming poor Dubya. Everyone is saying, oh my God, he's more inept than we ever imagined, he has no idea what's really going on, he's oblivious and in denial and he pretty much let all those poor black people die in filth and misery, and he basically ignored the massive Katrina disaster for days before finally being pressured into cutting his umpteenth vacation short and actually taking action.

---snip---

But it's so unfair, isn't it, to attack poor Dubya like this? Just a little misplaced? After all, Bush has always been the rich white man's president. He is the CEO president, the megacorporate businessman's friend, the thug of the religious right, a big reservoir-tipped condom for all energy magnates, protecting against the nasty STDs of humanitarianism and progress and social responsibility.

He has always been merely an entirely selective figurehead, out of touch and eternally dumbfounded, a hand puppet of the neoconservative machine built and fluffed up and carefully placed for the very specific job of protecting their interests, no matter what. Repeat: No. Matter. What. Flood hurricane disaster war social breakdown economic collapse? Doesn't matter. Corporate interests über alles, baby. Protect the core, reassure the base, screw everyone else unless it begins to affect the poll numbers and then finger-point, deflect, prevaricate. All of a piece, really. Because Bush, he was never actually meant to, you know, lead.

So maybe it's time to stop with the savaging of poor Dubya. He is, after all, doing a simply beautiful job of kowtowing to his wealthiest supporters while slamming the poor and running the nation into a deep hole and creating the largest deficit in American history, all while his cronies in oil and industry and military supply and Big Energy gain immense and staggering wealth and pay less and less tax on it. This is what he was hired to do. This is why he is in office. Hell, the day after Katrina, Bush flew right by Louisiana and headed straight to San Diego to party with his Greatest Generation cronies. Reassure the masters, first and foremost, eh Shrub? Understood.


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2005/09/09/notes090905.DTL&nl=fix

[Triana]

1. Wooo! Nominated....

...I LOOVE Mark Morford! :applause:

[no_to_war_economy]

2. I heart morford

[SidDithers]

3. heheh...

"a big reservoir-tipped condom for all energy magnates, protecting against the nasty STDs of humanitarianism and progress and social responsibility."

Wonder if Bush has ever been called a condom before?

Sid

[jo35042]

10. Actually he looks more like ...

a tiny talking penis.

[IndyOp]

13. Let's not denigrate penises by comparing * to one --

;-)

[AtomicKitten]

4. It's hard work

being Dubya.

[LiberalinNC]

5. Dubya was taught by his mother, Barbara!

After her comments about the folks in the Astro dome last week, that pretty much says it all!

[blackcatpgh]

6. almost like having HST back for a moment:

snip:

"Here, then, is the new American motto, as reimagined by BushCo: Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, and we'll let them die in a filthy and decrepit storm-ravaged American football stadium while our president languishes on vacation and ponders his oil futures and fondly remembers his good ol' days of getting drunk at Mardi Gras before going AWOL from the military. God bless America."

[Catfight]

7. excellent article. nt

[William Seger]

8. "hand puppet of the neoconservative machine"

My own theory for *'s sluggish response to Katrina is that, for whatever reason, no one told him what to do, so he did nothing.

[rodeodance]

9. rather funny but makes me mad--cause it is the truth. It is what he was

hired for.

[Octafish]

11. Conserve the Compassion: Indict, Impeach, Imprison.

Wow. Thanks for the heads-up to a great column, meganmonkey.



"No. No, lady. I haven't seen your purse."

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

14. Impeach, Indict, Imprison

Otherwise, perfect.

[Freedomfried]

24. LOOK, he's got "girls hands"

All soft, slender and pink, you can bet callus free.

[bigbrother05]

12. POLITICAL BREAKDOWN

OF our society,very true ,very sad.

[AmBlue]

15. This is funny...

...and smart and well-written and expresses to perfection the mounting anger and frustration that we all feel. It even makes me laugh. But mostly, I feel another big, ugly sobfest coming on. This all so terribly sad. The death of America as we knew her.

[ananda]

16. Bush rocks just like..

.. the syphilitic chancre on the diseased organ of corporate Amerika.

Sue

[BlueJac]

17. Good One...

I hate the fuck....:kick:

[glitch]

18. What went wrong? - W. nt

[FredStembottom]

19. The last paragraph is an angry gem.

"Here, then, is the new American motto, as reimagined by BushCo: Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, and we'll let them die in a filthy and decrepit storm-ravaged American football stadium while our president languishes on vacation and ponders his oil futures and fondly remembers his good ol' days of getting drunk at Mardi Gras before going AWOL from the military. God bless America."

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. Woot!

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Ditch Bu$h and save the Gulf: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=106&topic_id=22507&mesg_id=22507

Then save the nation!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/electionreform.htm

[O.M.B.inOhio]

21. And such rapid response and glee in suspending Clean Air Act

so his bosses can get profit on their high-sulphur coal, etc.

You
hit
the
nail
on
the
head.

[EVDebs]

22. Dirty Harry once said "Improvise, adapt, overcome"

http://www.bushville.org/

Just like the Bonus Army of 1932, an army of dispossessed will take the Mall this coming weekend. The 'shock and awe' of a non-violent march and encampment in Bushville, DC, will be a tempting target for the neocons to do as the Red Chinese did in Tienanmen Square.

That day of prayer Bush announced should be in your thoughts for the success of this March and Encampment.

Camp Superdome, anyone ?

[meganmonkey]

23. kick

[Mich Otter]

25. Don't forget to mention the neo-cons support for Israel.

The neo-cons are so happy to use Saddam's campaign against Israel as an excuse to go to war and send lots of profits to the military supply companies.
Oh, wait. They used non-existent WMDs as the phony excuse. They never have told the truth about that one, have they?

[ComerPerro]

26. That's true. Nothing has really changed

He is just trying not to be a "flip-flopper"

[qanda]

27. This was sobering

[Gabi Hayes]

28. has anybody ever seen him on a gasbag show?

compare him to all the far right lunatics that infest the airwaves

hows come he never gets an opportunity to go against the likes of Michelle Malkin, say, or Ann the Man, or Laura Ingraham?

why is that, do you think?