In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Oh, I forgot to mention... we had a Monday earlier this week:
The Top Ten Conservative Idiots, No. 163 - Democratic Underground
1. Team Bush
John Kerry picked John Edwards as his running mate last week - and the Republican attack machine immediately went into overdrive. Unfortunately Team Bush ended up spinning their wheels because they really couldn't find anything that bad to say about Edwards. About the worst they could come up with was the suggestion that Edwards was John Kerry's second choice after John McCain, and they attempted to hammer this message home all week. RNC spokeswoman Tara Wall referred to Edwards as "sloppy seconds" ([Real] video: skip to 6:30) which, in case you were wondering, is the term for the second person in line at a gang-bang. Charming. And when the RNC launched a video showing McCain praising Bush, the DNC promptly released their own video showing McCain demolishing him (funny how nobody ever calls McCain a flip-flopper, isn't it?). It should probably also be pointed out that Dick Cheney was Bush's second choice in 2000 (his first was - you guessed it - John McCain). But the dumbest thing about this whole GOP charade is the unfortunate fact that McCain was never Kerry's first choice - the Arizona senator told Tony Snow on Fox News that the VP slot "was never offered" to him. So as usual, Team Bush are just making shit up.
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Ken Lay
Unfortunately Team Bush's attacks on Kerry/Edwards were somewhat undermined last week when long-time Bush pal Ken Lay surrendered himself to authorities and did the perp walk after he was indicted with "undisclosed criminal charges for alleged misdeeds." Last week the White House attempted to distance Our Great Leader from Lay, saying that "it has been a long time since they talked and suggesting it was only a passing friendship," according to the Associated Press. Ah, a passing friendship. Well that would explain why the Bush campaign only used Enron private jets a dozen or so times during the 2000 presidential election (and four times during the recount). And it would also explain why George W. Bush sent this extremely formal birthday note to "Kenny Boy":
Source: The Smoking Gun
And I guess it would explain why Poppy Bush says in this video, "You have been fantastic to the Bush family. I don't think anybody did more than you did to support George..." And I guess it would explain why Dick Cheney had a series of secret meetings with Enron executives - including Ken Lay - in 2001, and why Ken Lay was part of the Bush transition team. You know, just the normal things that happen during a "passing friendship." In fact, this kinda reminds me of the "passing friendship" the White House had with Ahmed Chalabi. Incidentally, Bush spokesman Scott McClellan tried to suggest last week that Lay has been a supporter of "Democrats and Republicans in the past." Right. Well, I guess since in the last five years Lay has donated 91% to Republicans and 2% to Democrats, McClellan's statement is technically true...
As always read it all, its fun (and sad).
I just thought I'd like to note that though we'll never know exactly what happened in those "secret meetings" we do know that they talked about Iraqi oil fields (interesting isn't it), in fact here is something discussed at that meeting:
For more on the history of that picture, read this TCS post from almost exactly a year ago.
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