This is one dangerous man: it’s George Bush with brains

This is one dangerous man: it’s George Bush with brains | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

On Giuliani:

But forward he will charge, telling more lies with even more impunity. And immunity, because in a culture where a sense of history is largely limited to remembering certain stirring television images, he will for the most part get away with it, confident in the knowledge that the main thing most Americans will ever recall about him is the film clip of him running from the rubble of the World Trade Centre on September 11. A far smaller percentage will know that the reason he had run was because he had catastrophically decided to place his emergency command centre in the tower complex – the only building in New York that had previously been the target of a major terrorist attack.

The whole article is well worth reading. This is a scary, scary man – and I am continually dumbfounded by people who think he’s somehow moderate or liberal on social issues. Continue reading »

Holy motherfucking offensiveness batman!

Crooks and Liars » Bush taps birth-control opponent for family planning office

I can’t really say it any better than C&L said it:

But this is ridiculous. It’s as if the Bush administration is trying to find the most offensive choices possible for public-health posts.

Please take action here to oppose her nomination and confirmation to this important post. I mean, for fuck’s sake – really.

What country do we live in, when this can happen?

Sad as Hell News of the Day

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man threw his seriously ill wife four stories to her death because he could no longer afford to pay for her medical care, prosecutors said in charging him with second-degree murder. According to court documents filed Wednesday in Jackson County Circuit Court, Stanley Reimer walked his wife to the balcony of their apartment and kissed her before throwing her over.

This is a tragic story on every level. The wife’s illness, the medical bills that just mount and mount with no way to pay for them, the decision to end her life in that way rather than try to find some other solution. Of course I don’t condone what he did, but who knows how mentally unstable that would make you, caring for your wife through cancer, seeing her wither down to 75lbs, partially blind and unable to walk, knowing you’d never get out of the debt her care was creating and that despite it all, it did no good – she was dying a miserable death anyway. What is wrong with this country, when capitalism trumps the health of its people? Why the fuck don’t we have universal health care by now instead of throwing all our cash down a huge hole in the desert? Why do I even bother to rant anymore, when outrage fatigue has me just wanting to bash my head against my desk?

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The Budget Oreo Clip

Oreo Clip – True Majority

Do you people begin to realize what the fuck is happening?

Olbermann: Bush, Cheney should resign

Olbermann: Bush, Cheney should resign – Countdown with Keith Olbermann – MSNBC.com

Can I just say “ditto”?

The Dirty, Corrupt Mother Effer

Great article examining Bush’s pardon of “Scooter” Libby.

Bush and Cheney walk, too | Salon.com

White House Caught Doctoring “Mission Accomplished” Video

YouTube – White House Caught Doctoring “Mission Accomplished” Video

Bunch of fuckwit lying fucktarded asshats. Wish there was a hell for them to go to.

Can’t think of anything

I can’t even really think of a comment for this one. It’s just too sad and horrible.

Barbara Bush: It’s Good Enough for the Poor

Finally, we have discovered the roots of George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism.”

On the heels of the president’s “What, me worry?” response to the death, destruction and dislocation that followed upon Hurricane Katrina comes the news of his mother’s Labor Day visit with hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston.

Commenting on the facilities that have been set up for the evacuees — cots crammed side-by-side in a huge stadium where the lights never go out and the sound of sobbing children never completely ceases — former First Lady Barbara Bush concluded that the poor people of New Orleans had lucked out.

“Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them,” Mrs. Bush told American Public Media’s “Marketplace” program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home.

No Comment?

Ok this press briefing as excerpted by Salon was so goddamned surreal that I had to go back and check that it wasn’t satire. This whole thing stinks like donkey hell, and of course 78% of the American public haven’t even heard of the whole situation because they don’t watch the news. Karl Rove is a complete scumsucking bag of pus and should be breaking rocks somewhere for the rest of his life for betraying this country.

Seriously, have you ever heard a bigger bunch of crap?

MR. McCLELLAN: Yes, but this question is coming up in the context of this ongoing investigation, and that’s why I said that our policy continues to be that we’re not going to get into commenting on an ongoing criminal investigation from this podium. The prosecutors overseeing the investigation had expressed a preference to us that one way to help the investigation is not to be commenting on it from this podium. And so that’s why we are not going to get into commenting on it while it is an ongoing investigation, or questions related to it.

and it’s not a podium anyway, asshat, it’s a lectern.