A discussion of how
this century has gotten off to such a bad start.
In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
- Wednesday, June 30, 2004 -
Times the are a changing (continued):
From a report on last night's Yankees game:
You bet Cheney got booed while Ronan Tynan sang "God Bless America." Cheney - close to the action for a change - had been down in a box seat next to the Yankee dugout with Rudy Giuliani and Gov. George Pataki. Now Cheney was upstairs in George Steinbrenner's box, and when they put his face on the big screen in the outfield, there was plenty of booing. It was about the only thing that stopped the real cheers for the Yankees at Yankee Stadium as they kept pouring it on against the Red Sox.
Real game story last night? Cheney got booed. Emphasis mine.
Saw Faherenheit 9/11 last night on a Tuesday night. The theater was backed, it was almost sold out. On a Tuesday. I think the movie will make number 2 next week (but with Spiderman II coming out today number 1 is way out of reach). It certainly helps that the movie will go to a wider release of 1,710 screens by Friday (wow!).
Letterman getting even more obvious about his distaste for Bush, Here's two bits from the last couple of nights.
Top Ten George W. Bush Complaints About "Fahrenheit 9/11" 10. That actor who played the President was totally unconvincing
9. It oversimplified the way I stole the election
8. Too many of them fancy college-boy words
7. If Michael Moore had waited a few months, he could have included the part where I get him deported
6. Didn't have one of them hilarious monkeys who smoke cigarettes and gives people the finger
5. Of all Michael Moore's accusations, only 97% are true
4. Not sure - - I passed out after a piece of popcorn lodged in my windpipe
3. Where the hell was Spider-man?
2. Couldn't hear most of the movie over Cheney's foul mouth
1. I thought this was supposed to be about Dodgeball
Excerpts from the: IRAQI HANDOVER TIMELINE 9:00 AM - President Bush congratulates "Iraqi President what's-his-name and Prime Minister Blah-blah-blah."
10:00 AM - Iraqi officials inspect damage, refuse to return United States' security deposit.
11:00 AM - Inspired by President Bush, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi leaves for a month-long vacation.
12:15 PM - Every member of the government automatically goes on Halliburton payroll.
12:30 PM - President Bush asks President Ghazi Al-Yawer to change his name to something easier to pronounce like "Jeb."
3:00 PM - Bush goes to see "Fahrenheit 9/11." Enjoys a good laugh at what a dolt he is.
4:00 PM - Donald Rumsfeld provides United States ground commanders with plans to invade and conquer the new Iraq.
6:00 PM - President Bush begins process of handing over control of the United States to John Kerry.
This is a "team" blog. We are a bunch of
Americans, whose rising distress
in our leader's decisions brought us together to make this site.
As Bush said, he's a "uniter." Many of us have never even met.
That's the internet for you.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the
president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the
American people."
- Teddy Roosevelt
"Government has a final responsibility for the well-being of
its citizenship. If private cooperative endeavor fails to provide work
for willing hands and relief for the unfortunate, those suffering
hardship from no fault of their own have a right to call upon the
Government for aid; and a government worthy of its name must make
fitting response."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions, but laws must and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."
"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain
degree."
- James Madison
"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas. It is, I believe, the faith in our fellow citizens as individuals and as people that lies at the heart of the liberal faith. For liberalism is not so much a party creed or set of fixed platform promises as it is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man's ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves." - John F. Kennedy
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are [a] few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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