In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
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The Top Ten Conservative Idiots, No. 161 - Democratic Underground
1. Dick Cheney
There's an exciting new level of political discourse in town, and it's all thanks to Vice President Dick Cheney! For years, partisan activists such as ourselves have remained on the fringes of legitimate political debate partly due to our use of coarse and colorful language. But now it appears that Dick Cheney has blown down the barriers by dropping an F-bomb on the floor of the Senate. At a photo session last week Crashcart got into a heated debate with Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) over the Democrats' investigations into Halliburton war profiteering. When Leahy retorted that Cheney was standing by Republicans who accused Democrats of being anti-Catholic, Cheney replied, "Fuck yourself." Yay! Fuck yourself! Fuck yourself! Go fuck yourself! Thank you, Dick Cheney, for lowering the bar for all of us partisan outsiders. Because if it's okay for the vice president to tell a senator to fuck himself on the floor of the Senate, it should be perfectly okay for a bunch of political hacks on a website to say it. Fuck yourself! (In an added comic twist, I should mention that the incident occurred on the same day the Senate passed the so-called "Defense of Decency" act. Ha ha.)
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Senate Republicans
It seems that the Senate Republicans are getting a little worried that their boy in the White House might go down hard this November, so they're doing what they can to prop him up. Last week John Kerry was forced to interrupt his campaign and return to Washington in order to cast an important vote on funding health care benefits for veterans. But guess what? As soon as he got there, Republican leaders postponed the vote. Way to play politics with veterans' health care benefits, guys! But this isn't the first time Republicans have played politics with Senate business in an attempt to hobble John Kerry - the Bush Administration bashed the Democratic nominee recently for failing to return to Washington to vote on a proposal to extend unemployment benefits to jobless Americans. The bill missed passage by one vote, which sounds bad - until you learn that according to CNN, "one of the 11 GOP senators who voted for the measure would have switched sides to defeat it if [Kerry] had been there to vote for it." Well, you know what that old conservative maxim says: If you can't beat 'em... cheat 'em.
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