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Screw 'em Both

Between reinvigorating Bush's Social Security "crisis", and contemplating putting Powell in your cabinet, and pulling this kind of horseshit on a fellow Democrat in a primary...

Bleh.

These are people who've got more stomach to fight Democrats than Republicans.

Vote Edwards.

Any guy who is willing to spend $400 to make sure his fucking hair is right is a guy who'll pay attention to details.

That's a guy who is on top of everything.

And he wants everything done right.

Wouldn't that be a nice change from eight years of a President who didn't pay attention to any details? Even Presidential Daily Briefings?

Oh, and also, Edwards spent a lifetime fighting for people he represented.

And he mostly won.

Obama and Clinton?

They mostly seem to enjoy fighting Democrats and progressives, while doing their best to woo conservatives who hate their guts and will never, ever, ever vote for them.

Enough of that.

Vote for a guy who understands what "represent" means.

And "adversary".

And "win".

America's Worst Family

A government money market debacle unfolding in Florida is raising questions about former governor and presidential brother Jeb Bush's possible involvement in the mess…

In the past few days, municipalities have withdrawn roughly $9 billion, nearly a third of the $28 billion fund (which is similar to a money market fund) controlled by the Florida's State Board of Administration (SBA). The run on the fund was triggered by worries that a percentage of the portfolio contained debt that had defaulted.

A majority of this paper was sold to SBA by Lehman Brothers (nyse: LEH - news - people ). Bush, as the state's top elected official, served on a three-member board that oversaw the SBA until he retired as governor in January. In August, Bush was hired as a consultant to the bank. Lehman spokesperson Kerrie Cohen, speaking on behalf of Bush, said they had no comment and would not say when the bank had sold Florida the paper. SBA did not return calls.

While SBA wouldn't confirm, Bloomberg reported the amount of debt in default is around $900 million.

Of course! Where ever there's a Bush and public money, you can count on some sort of massive fraud that costs the taxpayers billions.

Always.

You've got George, Sr. and the S&L fiasco of the eighties, which required over a billion dollars of taxpayer money to bail out his son Neil's Silverado Savings and Loan alone after Neil's own pardners defaulted on a bunch of lousy loans Neil made to them.

You've got George, Sr., again, in the eighties with this incredibly bizarre intelligence operation run out of the Vice President's office, involving drugs, selling weapons to terrorists, and funding the worst kind of depraved murdering thugs the South American military juntas could turn loose on Central America.

Then, in the end, everyone got pardoned or sweet immunity deals, before Bush, Sr. sent in the United States military to take out Noriega for reasons that have never, to this day, been made clear to the American People.

The taxpayers got the bill. God only knows what the real point of all that was.

You've got George, Jr. making a fortune off of the Arlington Sports Authority, using the government power of eminent domain and taxpayer subsidies to seize private property for the benefit of himself and his pardners.

You've got George and Jeb defrauding taxpayers and using public property to benefit their family friends by overpaying for worthless gas and oil rights in the Everglades and pretending it's all about protecting the environment.

You've got Neil poking his ugly, greedy mug back up from under whatever rock he slithered under to cash in on his big brudder's No Child Left Behind thing.

You've got the unprecedented, inefficient, out of control private contracting of government functions under George W., basically using taxpayer money to subsidize non-competitive Republican bidnessmen.

You had George W. trying to channel your taxpayer provided Social Security to his family friends and associates on Wall Street, just like he did with your taxpayer provided Medicare to his family friends and associates in the pharmaceutical industry.

And on and on...

Basically, this is an entire family that sees the Federal gubment as nothing more than a giant, bottomless piggy bank for their own personal bidness schemes. This is a family that views the Great American People as nothing more than captive, involuntary investors for them, their friends, their families, and their supporters.

The Bush family truly is our own American Royalty--a bunch of corrupt, jug-eared, inbred layabouts making and preserving a fortune by sucking at the gubment tit.

And how do they get away with it?

By selling the ignorant rubes, over and over again, the lie that the Bush's hate taxes! By telling the gullible rubes that, even though gubment spending is going up, taxes are going down!

Watch them go down, rubes!

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Like a ticking time bomb, the national debt is an explosion waiting to happen. It's expanding by about $1.4 billion a day -- or nearly $1 million a minute.

What's that mean to you?

It means almost $30,000 in debt for each man, woman, child and infant in the United States.

Except that every man, woman, child and infant in the United States doesn't pay taxes. There are 300 million Americans. About 100 million filed tax returns last year. So that would be about $90,000 per taxpayer. Except that not everyone who files a return pays taxes. So, there's that, too.

Even if you've escaped the recent housing and credit crunches and are coping with rising fuel prices, you may still be headed for economic misery, along with the rest of the country. That's because the government is fast straining resources needed to meet interest payments on the national debt, which stands at a mind-numbing $9.13 trillion…

[I]nterest payments keep compounding and could in time squeeze out most other government spending -- leading to sharply higher taxes or a cut in basic services like Social Security and other government benefit programs. Or all of the above…

The national debt -- the total accumulation of annual budget deficits -- is up from $5.7 trillion when President George W. Bush took office in January 2001 and it will top $10 trillion sometime right before or right after he leaves in January 2009.

Yep. That's right. In eight years, Bush nearly doubled the national debt.

That's $10,000,000,000,000.00, or one digit more than an odometer-style "national debt clock" near New York's Times Square can handle. When the privately owned automated clock was activated in 1989, the national debt was $2.7 trillion.

It only gets worse…

Despite vows in both parties to restrain federal spending, the national debt as a percentage of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product has grown from about 35 percent in 1975 to around 65 percent today. By historical standards, it's not proportionately as high as during World War II -- when it briefly rose to 120 percent of GDP -- but it's a big chunk of liability.

It's a "fair and balanced" article, so naturally there's a bunch of bullshit alongside the facts. You can feel the writer straining to make this a bi-partisan problem.

The national debt was 35% of GDP in 1975, and from 1976 to 1980, Carter paid down the national debt. Then, from 1981 until 1993, tax hatin' Republicans ran up the national debt, all the while deregulatin', and wheelin', and dealin' and makin' money hand over fist with tax payer money!

Everybody got rich!

The taxpayers got the bill.

Which an ol' "tax and spend" Democrat, Bill Clinton, started to pay off. In fact, he not only started to pay it off, but he had Alan Greenspan worried that it was being paid off too fast. Clinton bequeathed a $230 billion and growing surplus to Bush that, with mild growth, would pay off our entire debt by 2012.

And Bush took that--I mean, literally took it after he lost the general election--big surplus and healthy economy and proceeded to double our national debt. In six years of Republican leadership--four years of which the Republicans controlled every branch of our government.

So, no, it's not a bi-partisan problem. Republicans spend more than Democrats. Period. It's a fact.

And when the government spends money, whether it presents you with the bill or it borrows the money, it's taxed you.

And since 1980, the Republicans have been taxing Americans into bankruptcy.

Republicans don't hate taxes. They love taxes. They might personally hate paying them. But they love spending taxpayer money. And no Republicans love taxing Americans more than the Bush family.

The only thing the Bush family hates about taxes is when taxpayer money actually gets spent on taxpayers. It seems like such a waste. When it could be spent on them.

More Grand Old Pansies

I can't tell which is worse--the rampant corruption, the unrepentant lying, or all the crying.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Interior Department's former No. 2 official was sentenced to 10 months in prison Tuesday for lying to senators in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, the highest administration official sentenced in the probe.

J. Steven Griles, who was the department's deputy secretary, had pleaded guilty to obstructing a congressional investigation, and a federal judge said he continued to make excuses about his lies.

''Even now you continue to minimize and try to excuse your conduct,'' U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle told Griles before doubling the five-month person prison term he and prosecutors had agreed on…

With family and supporters holding hands in the front row of a packed courtroom, Griles choked up and wept as he asked for leniency.

What is it with these guys?  It's like having the government run by my all time five worst girlfriends.  They cheat, they lie, they deny they lied, they admit they lied, but deny they denied that they lied, they admit that they lied about denying that they denied they lied, they admit they lied and kept on lying about lying about lying, but they blame it on the drugs and alcohol and then, finally, you.

Huvelle seemed frustrated, however, as Griles and his attorneys tried to deflect blame for his inaccurate testimony. If lawmakers had only provided Griles with documents showing the extent of his relationship with Abramoff, defense attorneys said, his testimony would have been accurate.

Or, in other words, Griles would have told the truth, if the Senate had told him they already knew what the truth was.

Then, they all break down and cry and beg for forgiveness.

What's with all this fucking crying?  What a bunch of sissies.

Gee, no wonder Ann Coulter calls John Edwards a faggot!  He's a poor boy, came from nothing, made a success of himself, lost a son, and now his wife is dying--and not one time did he break down and publicly cry or check into rehab.

What a pussy!

I don't know if the modern Gee Oh Pee has a theme song, but, if they don't, I nominate:

But puhleeeeeeease
I know that I committed perjury
But puhleeeeeeease
Don't send me to the penitentiary...

After that, maybe Graham Parker's "Slash And Burn".

Feel free to nominate your own.

Scumbags

This is what these people think about your Department of Justice.  They think it's a joke.

Name and all.

Ever Wonder What The "P" Stands For...

...In the modern Gee Oh Pee?(Hint:  it's Pussies.)

Little Rock (AP) - Former interim U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin tearily announced Thursday that public service is, "not worth it."

Griffin was named to replace Bud Cummins after Cummins was fired by the Bush administration along with seven other U.S. Attorneys.

Griffin addressed a lunchtime audience at the Clinton School of Public service Thursday, sometimes crying as he said he had no plans to return to politics.

Sometimes crying???  From the Texas swaggerin', tough guy, make your own reality Bush administration??? 

Doesn't this sniveling little bitch know that there's no crying in hardball?

Never mind that this Reagan worshipping, Morning In America, patriotic, optimistic Republican, who has been a major player in sending 3000 public serving Americans to their early graves, gets in front of the Clinton School of Public Service and, weeping for the death of his own career, tells young Americans that public service is "not worth it".

While we still have 135,000 Americans in Kevlar in the desert fighting and bleeding and dying in their public service.

This guy was a political hitman for Karl Rove.  And he's crying about being a casualty of politics???

Honestly, are there any people more pathetic or disgusting in modern American life than high ranking officials of the Bush administration?

Griffin is a protege of White House adviser Karl Rove.

Griffin resigned June 2nd. He says he wants to open what he termed a "bipartisan law practice."

Christ, what an asshole.

One Door Closes, Another Door Opens

WASHINGTON - Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz will resign at the end of June, he and the bank said late Thursday, ending his long fight to survive pressure for his ouster over the generous compensation he arranged for his girlfriend.

It's always saddening to see a man like Wolfowitz--whose almost inhuman capacity for gross incompetence, croneyism, and dishonesty rocketed him from the humble beginnings of making policy at the highest levels of our government to the dizzying heights of the Presidency of the World Bank--be persecuted, brought down and ruined for having the all too human flaws of being grossly incompetent, dishonest, and instinctively corrupt.

Shocking?  Maybe.  Enfuriating?  Of course!

The bastards destroyed him for the very things that once made them whisper his name in awe.

But what can you do?  That's life.  It's just one more sad variation of The Same Old Story.

And that story is...King Kong.

On the bright side, I know the perfect guy to replace him with!  In the same way that Bush restored honor and integrity to the White House, pride and strength to our military, humility to our foreign policy and fiscal responsibility to our government, this guy can certainly restore the meritocracy to the World Bank.

And the best part is, even now as I type, this guy is already looking for a job.

Can't Believe I Missed This One

ALLIANCE - Presidential confidant Karl Rove painted a bleak picture Wednesday of what would happen if the United States walked away from the global war on terror.

``We are foolish if we think we can turn away from this threat and draw inward, and they will not come,'' President Bush's chief political strategist told an audience of about 400 at the Mount Union Theater.

Right.  Iraq is our Minas Tirith.  Gee, where did I hear that stupidity before?  You have to hand it to Bush's Brain to model the White House's political strategy on the desperate, imbecilic blatherings of a guy who just got stomped in an election not six months ago.

Did somebody--anybody--ever really believe this evil little toad was a political genius? 

Oh, that's right!  Bush did and does.  Calls him his "turd blossom".  And he got that half right.

"If we lose, they will follow,'' he said.

Will someone please put the White House's chief political strategist in touch with the White House's CIA?  They'll be more than happy to tell him Iraq is not keeping any terrorists put.  Iraq is training and exporting them.

That's why world wide terrorism has actually increased since the Iraq War and not decreased.

In his speech, Rove said the White House ``is not about easy things. It is about making big, tough decisions.''

Actually, the White House--this White House--is all about screwing up, making things as difficult as they could possibly be, and then leaving the really tough decisions to "future presidents".

In a question-and-answer period after his speech, Rove was asked whose idea it was to start a pre-emptive war."

"I think it was Osama bin Laden's,'' Rove replied.

That's it. 

Stop.  Cut his mic.  Seize his laptop.  Take his keys.  Change the locks.  Give away his parking space.  Empty out his desk, and box up the million or so missing emails and forward them to any Federal penitentiary of his choosing.

But enough.

Do not let this little, twisted, freakishly shameless liar say one more word on behalf of The People of the great United States of America.

Seriously.

Enough is enough.

bin Laden's in Pakistan.  He was in Afghanistan.  Until the Bush administration let him go.  bin Laden hated Saddam.  Saddam hated him.  And both of them hated Iran.

So stop with the idiotic "they" thing, as well.  You're talking about a bunch of different people who've got nothing to do with each other.

I get that Rove isn't talking to the rest of the civilized world, which would just laugh at him and pelt him with garbage.  I get that Rove isn't talking to the sixty five percent of Americans who disapprove of nearly everything he does.  I get that Rove isn't talking to career federal civil servants, who think that the only reason Karl Rove has not yet been indicted is simply that no prosecutor has yet asked Karl Rove the right question in front of a Grand Jury.

And I get that Karl Rove is talking to the 32% of Americans who would still support George Bush even if he performed a partial birth abortion for Sandra Day O'Connor to dispose of Bill Clinton's love child.

On live Tee Vee.

I get that.  And I don't care.  Those people don't surprise me anymore.  They don't care about America, or the Constitution, or the Rule of Law, or Family Values, or any values or morals, or ethics at all. 

They just care about "their" team beating "Them".  Whether "Them" is Islamoseculardictatoranarchistfascists or "Them" is democrats.  In America.  Whatever.  The thirty two percenters are up for Total War.

And you can't stop it ever.  And you can't reason with it.  These people are what they are.  A virulent strain of human herpes that lie dormant for years, sometimes decades, but will always flare up, violently, in extremely unpleasant, lifestyle altering ways.

There's nothing you can ever do about it.

And that's horrible.  But it's okay.  An overwhelming number of Americans--and the entire rest of the world--reject these dead enders.

But, again, what's not okay is that an unelected, retarded little evil garden gnome who gleefully lies even to the few remaining simpletons and rubes who still trust him resides in the White House and speaks on behalf of The Great United States.

That's unacceptable.

Karl Rove is not worthy of his national heritage.  And he is far too small and despicable to be allowed to tarnish it.

Dirty Pennsylvania Avenue

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Millions of White House e-mails may be missing...

Nothing.  Don't type one more word.  That's it.  That's enough.

Millions "may" be missing.

Like Lou Reed used to say, "Get 'em out."

Ignorance Is Not A Defense

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday "mistakes were made" regarding the firing of eight U.S. attorneys and he accepts responsibility for the ordeal.

"My pledge to the American people is to find out what went wrong here," he said at a Tuesday afternoon news conference. "As we can all imagine, in an organization of 110,000 people, I am not aware of every bit of information that passes through the halls of justice, nor am I aware of all decisions."

The very Cornerstone to the Foundation of The Party Of Personal Responsibility--the "I was not aware" defense!  We can trace it back to the Sainted Ronald Reagan, the Godfather of the modern Gee Oh Pee, who wasn't aware that he was running a covert and illegal war out of the office of his Vice President, Bush the Smarter, who, himself, was "out of the loop" and, therefore, not aware, either.

Republicans have sworn by it ever since. 

Condi wasn't "aware" that terrorists might use airplanes as missiles, even though American intelligence had prepared a memo specifically warning that terrorists might use airplanes as missiles against any number of targets, including the Pentagon.  Even though, in July of 2001, real missiles were used in Genoa to protect the President against "aerial incursion during the [G8] summit".

Neither Bush, Condi, or Ashcroft were "aware" that bin Laden planned to attack the United States, despite a PDB titled "bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside The United States".

Colin Powell was not "aware" that his presentation to the United Nations detailing Saddam's awesome stockpile of Weapons of Mass Destruction was total bullshit despite his becoming "so angry at the lack of adequate sourcing to intelligence claims that he declared: 'I'm not reading this. This is bullshit'."

Neither Bush, Condi, nor the entire White House staff was "aware" that the claims regarding enriched uranium the President made to the American people in his State of the Union Address were, in the uncivil potty mouth words of Colin Powell, "bullshit" despite the fact that the CIA had already told all of them just that.

Neither Bush nor Condi were "aware" that their claims alleging the aluminum tubes Iraq had purchased were for nuclear weapons were highly questionable despite the fact that the IAEA, and U.S. and British intelligence had all told Bush and Condi that they had questions about these tubes.

And on and on.

Bush wasn't "aware" that he hadn't properly disclosed his sale of Harken stock.  And he wasn't aware that he wasn't supposed to sell his Harken stock, despite Harken lawyers writing him a letter, saying, "Whatever you do--DO NOT SELL YOUR HARKEN STOCK".  And he wasn't aware that he even had insider knowledge about Harken despite the fact that he was a member of Harken's audit committee.

No one was "aware" that Iraq might not have a single WMD.  No was "aware" that occupying Iraq might take more than 135,000 troops.  No one was "aware" that invading Iraq might cost a trillion dollars.  No one was "aware" that we didn't even have a plan to reconstruct Iraq on the eve of our invasion of Iraq.

Neither Rove, nor Cheney, nor Armitage, nor Scooter Libby were "aware" that Valery Plame was a covert operative for the CIA.  And neither Bush nor McClellan were "aware" that Rove, and Cheney, and Armitage, and Scooter Libby were running around telling every journalist in Washington that Plame was an operative for the CIA.

And on and on.

And all that "personal responsibility" for not being "aware" of things that the Party Of Personal Responsibility was personally responsible for has resulted in three medals of Freedom, a couple of promotions, some "retirements"--with benefits!--and one indictment, which everyone in Washington agrees is totally bogus!

So, anyway, it's a smart move by Gonzales to go with the old Republican chestnut of "I was not aware".

I mean, as he says, he's got 112 thousand people working for him.  How's he supposed to know what goes on with each and every single one of them?

Course, out of those 112 thousand people, only 93 of them are United States Attorneys.  And, aside from Gonzales, those 93 are the highest ranking officials in the Justice Department.  And, all 93 of them are personally appointed by the President, himself.

So, it kind of makes you think that, when nearly one out every ten of the highest ranking people, personally appointed by the President, himself, get fired at the same time, the Attorney General might be aware of that.

Or he might make himself aware of that.

And, if not, he's a fucking oblivious idiot who shouldn't get paid because he's obviously not showing up at the office Monday through Thursday.  And he's leaving early on Friday.

And, oh yeah:

Meanwhile, the chief of staff to Gonzales has resigned, the Justice Department said Tuesday, as criticism grows over the firings.

Gonzales was not "aware" that his Chief of Staff--his own personal assistant, whose job entirely consists of carrying out the wishes of the Attorney General--was firing these U.S. Attorneys for political purposes.

Exceptional circumstances of private, personal corruption aside, if you're the Attorney General or the Vice President, or the President, or the White House pastry chef and you are not aware of what your Chief of Staff is doing, you are too stupid and lazy and incompetent to work for The People of the United States.

You're not doing your job.

And taking "responsibility" means--at the least--resigning.  In any other profession, you'd be fired.  In more than a few, you'd be arrested.

I don't even care.  Who cares?  Who are these crazy people who care?

All of this proves nothing.

Because it was all self evident long ago.

These people, these Bush people--all of them--are either too stupid, too dishonest, too incompetent, or--as bullshitting, foul mouthed, vituperative Colin Powell would say--too full of bullshit to ever be entrusted to run the great government of our glorious republic. 

They disrespect and corrupt, and dishonor every proud institution that is our collective birth-right, that belongs to us, that serves us, that protects us, and that represents us.

And they do it on purpose.

They mean to.

It's in their emails.  Buried in their document dumps.

They dishonor your greatest institutions and proudest traditions to ratfuck people who cross them.

That's the high esteem they hold for The People of the great United States and the noble government which those people formed and fought and died for.

Or maybe they weren't "aware" that was important to you.

Drunk, Rich, Corrupt, Lazy, And Old

Gerald Ford struggling to overcome the unfunny perception that he was a stumbler.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - His deliberate manner of speaking, some highly publicized mishaps and a recurring Chevy Chase bit in the early days of "Saturday Night Live" helped advance the notion that Gerald R. Ford was a bit of a klutz. In fact, Ford was one of the nation's fittest and most athletic presidents…

Journalists also reported when Ford tumbled while skiing, when he slipped and fell on some metal steps while getting off Air Force One in the rain in Austria and when he bumped his head on an airplane doorway…

In Ford's memoir, "A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford," he bitterly recounted how a brief stumble recorded by a television camera turned into a national story.

"There was no doubt in my mind that I was the most athletic president to occupy the White House in years ... (but) from that moment on, every time I stumbled or bumped my head or fell in the snow, reporters zeroed in on that to the exclusion of almost everything else. ... (This) helped create the public perception of me as a stumbler. And that wasn't funny."

Well, it was pretty funny. 

But, no, Ford was not a stumbler.  He was not a clutz.

He was drunk.

Aside from the "long national nightmare" thing, the most memorable thing Ford ever said was:

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?

And he said it during a Presidential election.  That he was a candidate in.

The guy wasn't clumsy.  He was bombed.  In the early afternoon.  In the White House. 

Really!

KING: So [Betty] was drinking in the White House, and you had enabled that. You didn't -- weren't aware of a problem?

FORD: But we were not what I would call drinkers. Her problem was a combination of prescribed medication by doctors in the White House and elsewhere, plus a few martinis or a bourbon and water during the afternoon or evening.

No, he and Betty were not what he would call "drinkers".  He would have an efficient three martini lunch and Betty might have a "few" martinis in during the afternoon, but they were not what he, the President of the United States, would call "drinkers".

I mean, just because both he and his wife would throw down eighteen or twenty four ounces of gin in the  afternoon is no reason to call them "drinkers"!  Just because Jerry considered sucking down the equivalent of a case of beer over lunch "efficient", just because the guy fell off of chairs, podiums, and airplanes is no reason to call him a "drinker"!

I've got nothing against the guy, aside from him being a lifelong bag man for defense contractors who rewarded him with seats on about a thousand different boards in exchange for selling out his constituents, or for undermining our democracy by selling the Presidential pardon in exchange for the Presidency and lying to Congress about it, or for, with his stupid Whip Inflation Now buttons, trying to convince The People that public relations was actually policy.

Also, I kind of didn't like him for establishing the precedent of pardoning government criminals before they were even indicted or tried so that:
    a)  the American People never even know the truth about Their government; and
    b)  criminals, who should be in prison, are, instead, every four or eight years are right back in their old jobs.

If Lou Reed is the godfather of punk, Gerald Ford is the godfather of the Bush administration.

But the guy died today.  And so nobody should say anything bad about him.  Because it's a tragedy.  He only lived to be ninety three.  And he was fabulously wealthy.  Without having ever done anything for the benefit of anyone other than Gerald Ford or people like him, who work so little that they can drink eighteen ounces of gin in the early afternoon.

The liberal media, the guard-dogs of your democracy, can't say enough nice things about the guy--he wasn't clumsy!  He healed the nation!  Americans approved much more of his presidency than his approval ratings might suggest!  He was probably the Greatest President who was never elected, even if he was the only one. 

And we should all lament his passing so young.

Me?  My soul must have died with him.  Because honestly?  I just can't feel bad for making fun of the guy.

I'm not glad he's dead.  I don't wish he died younger.  I hope his death was painless and as pleasant as it could be.

But the guy was kind of a jerk. 

His drinking was well known among the "liberal" Washington press corps while he was a Congressman and while he was in the White House, and they're still pretending he just slipped a couple of times and Chevy Chase confused us all into thinking Ford was clumsy.

When he really was an exceptional athlete with cat like reflexes.

And bombed by two thirty in the afternoon every day of the week.

It's nothing against Gerald Ford--except for all that other stuff I have against Gerald Ford--it's that creepy feeling that the American People are either being treated like little children who are too young to hear the true facts of life or that our "liberal" media, which went to extraordinary lengths to delve into Clinton's personal life but seems to go out of its way to respect the personal lives of Republican Presidents, might not actually be "liberal".