Sure would be nice to have a President

March to Victory: December's Dead

During George W. Bush's press conference yesterday, a reporter brought up the overwhelming opposition among the American people to continuing our military presence in Iraq and asked " are you still willing to follow a path that seems to be in opposition to the will of the American people?"

(Between the lines: are you still so fucking stupid and arrogant that you think you can get away with this?)

Said Bush: "I am willing to follow a path that leads to victory, and that's exactly why we're conducting the review we are. Victory in Iraq is achievable . it's been a tough period for the American people. They want to see success. And our objective is to put a plan in place that achieves that success.

Umm...shouldn't said plan have been in place before we went to war?? I know, having a plan before you act (especially when your actions are guaranteed to result in thousands of deaths) is a difficult concept for a mental toddler like Bush to grasp.

I'm often asked about public opinion. Of course, I want public opinion to support the efforts.

So, not only is Pretzeldent Ass-hat completely out of touch with reality, he's (once again) gotten the basic concept of our government completely wrong. The system isn't meant for public opinion to support the efforts of the president. The president, as an ELECTED official, is beholden to the will of the people; i.e. the president's responsibility is to enact policies which reflect public opinion. This is OUR country, not his. [1>

"...I also understand the consequences of failure."

No, to understand the consequenses of failure, one must first be held accountable for failure; something that, in spite of his vast and intimate experience with failure, no one has ever done. If anyone were ever to take the silver spoon from his mouth and shove it up his ass, he might begin to understand the consequences of failure. But, in Bush-zarro world, failure is success and is rewarded accordingly.

[1>In an ideal America. In real America, Bush is actually only responsible to his corporate and big-monied handlers, in which case, he's right to continue his bloody crusade: it's what the military-industrial complex has paid him to do. And it's what his End-times Christian base is rooting for.

Orwellian Shock 'n' Awe

Every day I think things can't get any more Orwellian, and every day they do. If hunger wasn't such a serious issue, the Orwellian spin BushCo has put on it would be damned hysterical.

Smile, darn ya, smile!

No one's "hungry" anymore, because the USDA can't, apparently, figure out what it means to be "hungry". People now live in "food-insecure households" or have "very low levels of food-security". "Food-insecure" being -- one must assume -- readily more measurable than "hungry".

The Bush maladmin has literally become a parody of itself. The infuriating thing is: this is no joke. And they're getting away with it.