In Other Words, Nothing Like His Administration

In the 75-minute interview with his hometown paper, Bush laid out his vision for the library and Freedom Institute he'll build at first lady Laura Bush's alma mater, Southern Methodist University. He pledged that the project won't be used to promote a whitewashed perspective on his presidency.
"This is not going to be a 'George Bush Is a Wonderful Person Center,' or the 'Center for Republican Party Campaign Tactics,' " Bush said. "It's going to be a place of debate, thought, writing, lecturing."

And I told you all that "ranch" was bullshit:

Through much of his tenure, Bush predicted the couple would spend their days in Crawford after leaving the White House. The plan now is weekends at the ranch, weekdays in Dallas, where Laura Bush picked out an 8,500-square-foot home on a secluded Preston Hollow cul-de-sac.

But I can't wait for the book:

Bush's immediate plans include raising funds for the library. He'll start work on a memoir, likely to include his recollections of Sept. 11, 2001.

Which, if he's honest, will consist entirely of "Unc'a Dick, me made caca in my diaper".

An Asshole To The End

After an overwhelming majority of Americans decided in early November to send Barack Obama and his family to Washington, the President-Elect obviously had to enroll his daughters in a local Washington D.C. school.

Hoping to have his daughters start the school semester on schedule, the President-Elect asked President Bush if his family could move into the Blair House (where it is traditional for Presidents-Elect to stay in advance of the Inauguration) a couple of days early.

Ever the fucktard, Bush refused, claiming that the Blair House was previously "booked". Now, it turns out that, as with so much coming out of the Asshole-in-Chief's mouth, this was a lie. It was pure spite.

In fact, it wasn't until a few days after President-Elect Obama's request that Bush scurried out and invited former Austrailian Prime Minister John Howard to stay at Blair House while he's in D.C. to receive a blood-soaked "Medal of Freedom". No world leader had their tongue further up Bush's ass in support of the Iraq invasion and occupation than John Howard. In fact, during the 2008 election, John Howard said that Al Qaida was rooting for an Obama/Democratic victory.

So just remember that the motherfucker who promised to "restore dignity to the White House" preferred his co-war-criminal furriner to the (unlike himself) legitimately elected President of the United States.

I guess Bush can't relate to someone actually being concerned about his daughters' education, when you consider the daughters that Bush raised:

If Pickles wants to get paid . . .

I think she's going to have to give up the dope on the dope's dope use:

First Lady Laura Bush snagged a seven-figure deal to write her life story for the Scribner imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Bush is said to have received an advance of $1.6 million, according to one well-placed publishing source - although another source said it might have been "a little higher than that."
The advance is said to be far below the $8 million that Hillary Clinton received from Simon & Schuster for "Living History," which became a runaway bestseller, moving more than 2.5 million copies.

According to the New York Post,

Several publishers, who did make the trek to the White House in mid-November for the presentations, said that the First Lady gave away very little about what a book would contain and that she seemed unwilling to discuss it further.

Holy Shit, John McCain was Right!

Barack Obama would meet with violent leaders who support terror and torture:

It's Cover Your Ass Day

And it's nothing to celebrate. Rather, it's something to mourn.

Seven years ago today, a frantic CIA briefer hand-delivered to George Bush, who at the time was on the longest Presidential vacation in history, the urgent warning:

Remember that this was the culmination of what Richard Clarke described as months of red flags and flashing lights and warnings.

Bush's response to the CIA briefer: "All right, you've covered your ass now."

Bush then proceeded to:

Go Fishin'

Five weeks later:

It's time for a change.

Hop on my Straight "Talk" Express . . .

The Levitra's kicking in.

$3.50 a gallon, or, "jawbone this, asshole"

Well, it appears that we're looking at paying $3.50 for a gallon of gas soon, as the price of crude tops $100/barrel. And you know that's that "regular" piss, not the premium shit all of our SUVs say we have to use.

Which brings to mind the big talk of a certain presidential candidate:

Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality, by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude.
"I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply," Mr. Bush, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, told reporters here today. "Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot."

He further articulated this strategy:

"And," he said in direct advice to Clinton, "the president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the prices."

The date? June 27, 2000.

The average price per gallon? About $1.70, with crude at between $25-30/barrel.

Heckuva job, asshole.

But, Facially, Antonin Scalia is a shithead

I'd wager that about 99.9% of the general population couldn't tell you what a "facial" Constitutional challenge or an "as applied" Constitutional challenge are, let alone the difference. And yet the Reagan/Bush/Bush Supreme Court have been using that under-the-radar distinction to take away our civil rights.

Their target yesterday was our right to vote. You'll recall that they beat that right senseless in Bush v. Gore, but ostensibly left it alive and chained up in the basement, for Karl Rove and his politicized Justice Department to go down and ass-rape when they got the urge.

But now, in Crawford, they're bringing that poor battered right back up into the storeroom to give it the knock-out punch.

In short, it appears that there is a majority on the Court who would say that a law that unconstitutionally deprives a citizen of the right to vote cannot be challenged until after an actual voter has had their right denied. Which means after the election has been completed. When there would never be calls to "move on", "get over it", don't be a "Sore/Loserman", etc.

At that point, as Justice Ginsberg pointed out, the vindication of the right is hollow and meaningless. To say nothing of the chilling effect that these unconstitutional laws have before the election, when they have their (desired by the Republican majority who passed them) effect of scaring voters into staying home.

And this isn't the first time the Reagan/Bush/Bush justices have pulled this stunt. It's become their modus operandi when it comes to eviscerating Constitutional/Civil/Private rights. It came into play in the Gonzales v. Carhart "partial birth abortion" case, in which the Court said that a women denied her physician-recommended intact D&E procedure could just mosey over to the Yellow Pages and find a lawyer to bring an "as applied" suit. And if the State (supported as always by the Bush DOJ) bottled the case up until the women died in childbirth or through an unquestionably riskier D&C procedure, oh well. The case is moot.

It's amazing that these fuckers have any time amidst their constant fucking of us to think up new ways to fuck us harder.

But there's no difference between the political parties, right Ralph Nader? Fuck you too.

Countdown to 9/11

Now that we're in the dog-days of Summer, it's the annual countdown to the GOP exploitation of the murder of over 3000 citizens on September 11, 2001. Of course, the GOP exploits 9/11 constantly, but the anniversary is a particularly big day for them.


Sitting here on August 6th or August 7th, September 11th may seem like a long way off.


And it is.


And as each long day turns into a long week, as we trudge through August and eventually get to Labor Day, remember that it was six years ago this week, five long weeks before 9/11, that George W. Bush was told:




And instead of treating this threat seriously, he told the intelligence agents that were concerned enough about this that they felt they needed to bring it to illegitimate pResident's attention in person, "okay, you've covered your asses", and went back to this:



That. Mother. Fucker.

Alberto Gonzoles is not Fredo (and this isn't just about The Godfather

So, we know from the WashPost expose on Darth Cheney that George Bush's nickname for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is "Fredo".

Anyone who's ever seen the movie will realize that Bush is as illiterate about The Godfather as he is about . . . just about everything else.

Of course, Fredo was the hapless, hopeless, black sheep of the Corleone family, whom the family basically just tried to keep from screwing up, until his naivete and stupidity became an actual threat to the family.

Gonzales is nothing like Fredo, not least because Bush will never send Gonzo "fishing with Al Neri". (which I learned from "the Google" is what a number of knuckle-draggers are now suggesting; here, and here and here).

As Pappy Bush would say, "naaagaaanahapen".

Alberto Gonzales is not Fredo, he's Tattaglia.

Philip Tattaglia was head of one of the five crime families, but more importantly was initially suspected by the Corleones of being responsible for Sonny Corleone's murder ("they shot Sonny on the causeway").

But after a sitdown amongst the heads of all the families that results in Don Vito Corleone and Tattaglia making the peace, Don Vito tells it like it is:

Tattaglia's a pimp. He never could've out-fought Santino. But I didn't know until this day that it was Barzini all along.

And that's where we get back to the Gonzales fiasco, and why calls for impeachment are well-intentioned, certainly deserved, perhaps Constitutionally necessary, but potentially a huge red herring.

Just replace a few words in that Godfather quote:

"[Gonzales is] a pimp. He never could've [cooked up the legal argument to sanction torture, secret prisons and extraordinary renditions]. But I didn't know until this day that it was [Cheney] all along."

"[Gonzales is] a pimp. He never could've [thought to fire any U.S. Attorney who refused to prosecute bogus voter fraud cases to suppress Democratic voter turnout]. But I didn't know until this day that it was [Cheney] all along."

"[Gonzales is] a pimp. He never could've [dreamt up a scheme to get a sedated Attorney General Ashcroft to sign off on an illegal domestic spying program that he opposed when conscious by visiting his hospital bedside]. {{which has it's own Godfather analogy}} But I didn't know until this day that it was [Cheney] all along."

And on and on.

This is why the wingnuts would love to have Gonzo "sleep with the fishes". It's why the Administration can't even bring itself to make a defense of Gonzo on their house organ, Faux News.

They'd love for this to be all about Gonzales and his serial lying and perjury, and have it end there.

But it's not, and it never was. Gonzales is a pimp. Like Tattaglia, he's just the frontman taking the fall for Cheney's, Rove's and Bush's illegal and unconstitutional machinations.

It's not just that he's lying and perjuring himself. It's that he's lying and perjuring himself about the President's, Vice President's and Karl Rove's crimes, specifically to cover up those crimes.

Don't ever forget, when Micheal finally "settled all family business", he didn't stop with offing Tattaglia in bed with his hooker, he took care of Barzini on the courthouse steps.

Well

He did promise to be a "uniter, not a divider":

"I am Shiite," Ali said. "My uncles and cousins were murdered by Saddam's regime. I wanted desperately to get rid of him. But today, if Saddam's feet appeared in front of me, I would fall to my knees and kiss them!"

Call M. Night Shyamalan . . . .

If I can see dead people, does that mean, I'm dead too?!?!?

And I always knew that behind every small pathetic bush lurks a menacing cheney.

Someone unplug Dimbulb's DVD player, please,

Do you think Bush actually walks around calling Tony Snow "Grand Moff"?

Snow this morning on ABC:

"The executive branch is under no compulsion to testify to Congress, because Congress in fact doesn't have oversight ability."

And a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away:

"The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been sweptaway. . . . Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station."

Does he have a fucking poster in his bedroom?!?