Presidunce Bush Confirms Status as Idiot...Yet Again

Unintelligent president endorses teaching 'intelligent design,' defends Roberts and Rove — then leaves for another month-long vacation

Bush said he has no idea how Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts would vote in a case challenging the legality of abortion because he never asked him about it.

BULLSHIT!!! Regardless of whether or not he actually asked him about it, Bush would never have appointed Roberts without knowing for sure that he was no friend of Roe v. Wade.

"I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought," Bush said. " You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas (actually, they were asking if you though ID should be taught in public schools...don't change the question, just answer it), the answer is yes."

That's an unusual statement coming from the least informed, least intelligent president the country has ever seen. He thinks people should be exposed to different schools of thought as part of becoming educated? Okay. Then how about teaching Satanism -- as an opposing view with equal validity -- alongside Christianity in church? Oh wait, that's right...going to church has nothing to do with education. Alright then, how about this? How about the theory (actually reality, backed by evidence) that Iraq was never a threat to the U.S., did not have WMD, and had no ties to al Qaeda. Hmm? What do you say to that, Mr. Let's-look-at-all-sides-except-the-ones-that-don't-give-me-my-war?

"The claim that equity demands balanced treatment of evolutionary theory and special creation in science classrooms reflects a misunderstanding of what science is and how it is conducted," the academy said in a 1999 assessment. "Creationism, intelligent design, and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of life or of species are not science because they are not testable by the methods of science."

Now...isn't that one of the most sussinct, clear statements of the whole situation you've ever heard? It doesn't get any more simple than that.

...advocates of intelligent design also claim support from scientists. The Discovery Institute, a conservative think tank in Seattle that's the leading proponent for intelligent design, said it has compiled a list of more than 400 scientists, including 70 biologists, who are skeptical about evolution."

First off, it just makes my skin crawl every time the name of our progressive city is drug through the mud by the mere association with an organization as backward thinking as The "Discovery" Institute. And second, what are they "discovering"? Their own assholes? Because they're certainly not discovering reality!

The fact is that a significant number of scientists are extremely skeptical that Darwinian evolution can explain the origins of life," John West, associate director of the organization's Center for Science and Culture, said in a prepared statement.

400 scientists the world over is considered "a significant number" by these idiots?? No wonder they fail to grasp real science.

(Bush) also offered an unequivocal defense of Palmeiro, a friend from their days together with the Texas Rangers in the early 1990s. Bush was the team's managing partner when Palmeiro played in Texas.

The Orioles slugger was suspended for 10 days after testing positive for steroid use, despite his insistence that he never intentionally used the prohibited substance. ("I, uhh, fell on the needle! Yeah, that's it, I fell on a needle full of steriods...on a regularly scheduled basis. It was completely unintentional"). Bush has been an outspoken critic of steroid abuse.

"Rafael Palmeiro is a friend. He testified in public and I believe him," Bush said, referring to Palmeiro's denials under oath to a congressional committee on March 17. "He's the kind of person that's going to stand up in front of the klieg lights and say he didn't use steroids, and I believe him. Still do."

So on the one hand you have Bush' good friend Raffy-boy swearing (lying) that he's clean and on the other hand you have reality. Which does Bush choose to go with? Fantasy. Just like everything else; Social Security, the war in Iraq, faith based initiatives, evolution, global warming (reality-based science, in general), and on and on.

Let's see...Palmeiro testifies to a congressional committee on steroid use in MLB (why Congress was involved when there were, and still are, much bigger scandals going on in the White House is beyond me) that he never used steroids...and then tests positive. He's rich and he's a liar. Of COURSE Bush and ol' Raffy-boy are friends! To paraphrase a pick-up line from Beavis and Butt-head, "..you're rich, I'm rich...you're a liar, I'm a liar..." Also, Bush's complete disconnect between fantasy and reality ties back in with his position on creationism, global warming, Social Security and the war on terror -- sorry, the "global struggle against violent extremism" -- to name just a few.

Bush, who leaves Tuesday for a monthlong stay at his Texas ranch, took questions from five Texas reporters at a conference table in the Roosevelt Room, just off the Oval Office. Looking relaxed and upbeat, he sipped on cola and chewed ice as he answered, deflected or bantered his way through questions on a host of topics.

Oh. Yeah. Isn't the Presidunce just the epitome of everything a world leader should be! Hiding out, yucking it up with a hand picked gaggle of home-team reporters, getting ready for A MONTH LONG VACATION, amidst a crumbling economy, a looming oil crisis and global attacks which are the direct result of his own ineptitude. Jesus H. Christ, we are so fucked...