You Don't Need To Be A Weatherman To Know How Badly Bush Blows

Gosh, Bush just makes it soooo hard to mean anything you say when you're a Republican:

WASHINGTON - It was billed as a conversation with U.S. troops, but the questions
President Bush asked on a teleconference call Thursday were choreographed to match his goals for the war in Iraq and Saturday's vote on a new Iraqi constitution…

OK, so let's just walk through this," Barber said. "Captain Kennedy, you answer the first question and you hand the mike to whom?"

"Captain Smith," Kennedy said.

"Captain. Smith? You take the mike and you hand it to whom?" she asked.

"Captain Kennedy," the soldier replied.

And so it went.

"If the question comes up about partnering — how often do we train with the Iraqi military — who does he go to?" Barber asked.

"That's going to go to Captain Pratt," one of the soldiers said.

So, he staged an informal chat with American soldiers in Iraq?  So, he staged town hall meetings during the election, and staged town hall meetings about Social Security?  So he staged his press conferences?  So what?

Anybody remember this?

Q:  Yes, Mr. Secretary.  Our soldiers have been fighting in Iraq for coming up on three years.  A lot of us are getting ready to move north relatively soon.  Our vehicles are not armored.  We’re digging pieces of rusted scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass that’s already been shot up, dropped, busted, picking the best out of this scrap to put on our vehicles to take into combat.  We do not have proper armament vehicles to carry with us north.

SEC. RUMSFELD:  I talked to the General coming out here about the pace at which the vehicles are being armored.  They have been brought from all over the world, wherever they’re not needed, to a place here where they are needed.  I’m told that they are being – the Army is – I think it’s something like 400 a month are being done.  And it’s essentially a matter of physics.  It isn’t a matter of money.  It isn’t a matter on the part of the Army of desire.  It’s a matter of production and capability of doing it.

As you know, you go to war with the Army you have.  They’re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Anybody remember the nutty right wing outrage that some reporter got an actual, real live soldier to ask a question that soldier was more than happy to ask Rumsfeld?  Remember how they all dismissed this as a staged question?

When are these people going to get it?  You can't consistently defend the...um...principles of the modern Republican party because they don't have any.  They don't believe in anything--not anything they can tell you, anyway, and still get re-elected.  They have no convinctions. 

They have propaganda.

And if you stupidly adopt one of their "talking points" today as a principle, as a conviction, as a value today, you're going to look like a fucking idiot tomorrow.

You're outraged that John Kerry said "fuck" today?  Tomorrow, Dick Cheney says it on the floor of the Senate.  You're appalled at the 82nd Airborne providing security in Kosovo today?  Tomorrow, they're directing traffic in Baghdad.  You're incensed at governement spending today?  Tomorrow, you're going to have to defend the biggest deficits in the history of the world and the unheard of increases in discretionary spending.

You're pulling your hair out at the unheard of gall of Democrats asking a Supreme Court nominee to disclose his political and judicial positions?  Tomorrow, you'll be demanding a Supreme Court nominee to disclose her political and judicial positions.

Yesterday, you're all for the "rule of law".  Today?  The world is full of prosecutors out of control!

Don't these people get it?  Or don't they care?

I don't blame them personally for the fact that they've voted for two entire branches of our government which are entirely full of shit.  Well, that's not true.  I do blame them for their votes.  But I don't personally blame them that the entire modern Republican party is full of shit.

Though, maybe that's not true, either.  I do blame them for being so goddammed gullible and easily manipulated, and so intent on their "team" winning that they haven't noticed the utterly morally and ethically bankrupt individuals they've been sending to Washington for the last twenty years.

I do blame them for being so reliably and willfully ignorant that the modern Republican party can run people like DeLay and Frist, and Bush, confidently, because they know the rubes will heel like dumb dogs if someone shouts, "abortion!" or "faggots!" or "Darwin!" at them.

But I just shake my head at people who have adopted ridiculous positions, in writing, on television, amongst their friends, in support of the modern Republican party, and who have, because of their support, been made to look like the dumbest, most hypocritical, most dishonest, most naive fools in the history of the world.

It just kills me.  If someone did that to me, I'd be furious.  The rubes, the suckers, the Red Staters?  They embarrass themselve more by defending things they denounced before.

Republicans!  Pick a thing and believe in it.  Stop believing in people--especially these people. George W. Bush is not a political philosophy.  Stop humiliating yourselves for a guy who couldn't care less how stupid he makes you look!

Nobody voted for Clinton because they thought he had a great marriage.  But the rubes all voted for Bush for a bunch of crap that, after five years, we all know he couldn't care less about.  Cut your losses.  Let's wrap this national turkey up.

Eighty percent of Republican jokers keep sticking to this clown and they're going to walk away from this administration like the investors of Arbusto and Bush Exploration, and everything else Bush ever ran--broke, embarrassed, and out of bidness.

Comments

[Tom Chadwell]

Amen! You've pretty much itemized why I spend (waste) so much time bouncing between frustrated and furious.

I agree with Reed Hundt's post today over at TPMCafe we should respond with authenticity and sincerity.

[nobody]

These suckers don't really mind being had. They're used to it. They're had on a daily basis by everyone from the tobacco companies to WalMart to their churches and schools. They only mind it when it's pointed out to them. Where's my fucking remote?

[Northern Observer]

I'd like to force fead this blog post to the pro GOP punditocracy I have to endure on my TV every week. I want to see them gag and choke on their willfull hypocracy.

[TB]

Well put. You can see the splintering happening in the GOP before your very eyes though. The conservative base is abandoning their champion because he was, um, not conservative enough.

TB
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[JFrankParnell]

Nicely done.

JFP

[Breeze]

Fantastic smackdown!

And I totally agree with the part about the red-state types having little concern beyond their team "winning." All of those people driving around with their Bush/Cheney '04 bumper stickers a year after the election bring to mind every obnoxious sports fan I've ever known--you know, the kind who refer to their team of choice as "we" and speak as though they are an integral part of the proceedings on the field, court, or rink... never realizing, of course, that beyond getting the fan to buy tickets and beers at the game, and maybe selling them a t-shirt or three, those players and teams don't give a good goddamn what the fan thinks about anything.

[edddie]

Any of you assholes who voted for Bush want to defend that vote?

I didn't think so.

[Ellen]

I always want to know some subtle way to "edit" that bush '04 sticker.

Republicans! Pick a thing and believe in it.

They have. But, as you say yourself, it's not anything they can tell you and still get elected.

What is it that they believe? They believe that they should have all the money. They believe that they should have all the power. They believe that if it keeps them in control or gets them more of same, that it should be done, and damn everyone else. They believe that they can get away with it because, on the whole, people are pretty stupid.

Looking at the state of affairs in this country, it's hard to argue with that last one.

[ams]

Well said. Amen.

[Gary]

Go man go!

I saw a good bumper sticker that applies well to this situation (a bit esoteric for you Christian Right bloggers perhaps...).

MY KARMA JUST RAN OVER MY DOGMA

[the Liberal Firebrand]

I've been saying the same stuff down here in my beloved little home town of Fort Worth, TX. Believe me, it's Bush Central down here. I pass a car with a sickening "W" sticker on it, and I try to make contact with the moron and derisively shake my head. GREAT stuff, man. Keep spreading the truth.

[JoAnna]

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.

I believe that the majority of people who vote for the Bushies are rationalizing EVERYTHING to themselves. They pick one thing to care about, usually something superficial like taxes, and then proceed to twist the facts to support their choice of whom to vote for so they can have that tax cut! At ANY cost.

They will manipulate and pick and choose what to believe and make decisions all based upon thinking to themselves... "If I don't believe in everything Bush says, I don't get to support my tax cuts." It's all or nothing for them really, and everything is black and white. The diff between conservatives and liberals has always been the observation of shades of gray, and at no time has this been more obvious.

IMO, anyways. Great post!

[BruceH]

Hey Ellen, how about a can of black spray paint? Just stay away from the pickup truck with NRA stickers next to the W sticker.

[Hamandjamandspamalot]

"Not all conservatives are stupid but all stupid people are conservative"

Hope that helps.

Great post, one thing I've noticed about Bush supporters is their inability or unwillingness to apply any critical thinking to what they see and hear from the Republicans on a daily basis. Not an ironic gene in their bodies and solid concrete between the ears. I've had the experience of pointing out some howling inconsistencies, unsubstantiated (and sometimes unsubstanciable) declarations or even repeatedly debunked notions (Sudan offered Osama to Clinton and was turned down!) in the comment sections of several blogs and the standard response is......silence. As soon as you throw any dissonance their way they just tune it out. With them, it's not what's right as much as who's right, and there's no reasoning with that.

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