In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
An Excellent Edition of: The Top Ten Conservative Idiots, No. 150
4. Robert Novak
Mind you, Bob "Traitor" Novak went one step further than Bill Frist last week, desperately trying to inject racism into the Richard Clarke story. On CNN's Crossfire, Novak asked Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Illinois), "Congressman, do you believe, you're a sophisticated guy, do you believe watching these hearings that Dick Clarke has a problem with this African-American woman Condoleezza Rice?" Uh, what? Clearly confused by this brazen statement, Emanuel asked Novak to repeat himself. So he did. "Do you believe that Dick Clarke has a problem with this African-American woman Condoleezza Rice?" asked Novak. "No, no. Bob, give me a break. No. No." said Emanuel. As John Stewart said later on the Daily Show, "I didn't even know this deck had a race card." I mean, for goodness sake, is there anything the Republican Attack machine won't try to pin on Richard Clarke? Look for next week's NewsMax exposé, "Richard Clarke: I wore women's clothing while picking up young boys on the Internet." Seriously, look out for it.
5. Zell Miller
Once the first and only Democrat to ever appear on the Top Ten, Zell Miller could have a permanent spot from now until November if he keeps going at this rate. Last week the proud Bush supporter announced that we should stop investigating 9/11 immediately because it could "energize our enemies and demoralize our troops." That's right - according to Miller, finding out why 3,000 people were killed on September 11 so that we can make sure it doesn't happen again is the same as giving aid and comfort to the enemy. See, on Planet Zell, it's Richard Clarke who's really to blame for 9/11 because he was in the "catbird seat" for ten years. Never mind that Clarke was practically begging Bush to pay attention to al Qaeda and Bush ignored him - has everyone forgotten that Our Great Leader is absolutely not responsible for anything at all that happens under his watch? Said Miller, "It's obvious to me that this country is rapidly dividing itself into two camps - the wimps and the warriors." No Zell, if this country is dividing itself into two camps it's between people who want the truth and people who've got their noses so far up Bush's butt that they've lost their minds.
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9. George W. Bush
Despite the Richard Clarke controversy, George W. Bush is still trying to portray himself as a no-compromises, tough-on-terror kinda guy. Funny then that last week the White House denied an IRS request for 80 more criminal investigators to add to the 160 it currently has tracking down and disrupting al Qaeda's financial networks. And why was the request denied? So Bush can save a mere $12 million. Ah, there's nothing like frugality when it comes to stopping al Qaeda. Sure, we can spend $150 billion making things worse in Iraq, but $12 million to actually do something useful in the war on terror? Not a chance! That reminds me, isn't it about time they fired some more gay translators?
10. The White House
And finally, guess what? The White House is going to vet the 9/11 Commission's report line by line before it is publicly released, to make sure that it doesn't, you know, "compromise intelligence," or "jeopardize national security," or "make them look bad." So first they try to prevent an investigation into 9/11, then they try to delay it, then they try to prevent its deadline from being extended, then they try to prevent any members of the administration from testifying - and now the last ace up their sleeve is to redact half of the final report. According to Reuters, "Commission vice chairman Lee Hamilton vowed not to let the White House 'distort' the report." Ha, good luck with that. If there's one thing the Bush administration is good at, it's distorting. Expect to see a large consignment of black magic markers arriving at the White House sometime this week.
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