George W. Bush
Trying to pin their own fiscal irresponsibility on the Democrats is just one part of the GOP's strategy for 2006. Last week Our Great Leader went to the people (again) to explain how he's going to win the war in
I thank God you're our Commander-in-Chief. You're a man for our times. And I'm supporter of yours. And I think it's good that you come out and tell your story. And I think you need to keep doing more of it, and tell the story and the history of all this. And God bless you. And I thank you for your service.
And:
I want to let you know that every service at our church you are, by name, lifted up in prayer, and you and your staff and all of our leaders. And we believe in you. We are behind you. And we cannot thank you enough for what you've done to shape our country.
And:
Do you like living in the White House?
Great stuff. But the question which brought the audience to their feet was this one:
This is my husband, who has returned from a 13-month tour in Tikrit. His job while serving was as a broadcast journalist. And he has brought back several DVDs full of wonderful footage of reconstruction, of medical things going on. And I ask you this from the bottom of my heart, for a solution to this, because it seems that our major media networks don't want to portray the good. They just want to focus on another car bomb, or they just want to focus on some more bloodshed, or they just want to focus on how they don't agree with you and what you're doing, when they don't even probably know how you're doing what you're doing anyway. But what can we do to get that footage on CNN, on FOX, to get it on headline news, to get it on the local news?
And there you have the other part of the GOP strategy for 2006: blame the media (again). See, the problem with
It's not for want of trying. Two weeks ago Jake Tapper of ABC news attempted to do a lighthearted story on the production of an upcoming Iraqi sit-com called "Me and Layla." Everything was going great until the the head of the entertainment division for Iraqi TV was, uh, assassinated on his way to work.
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While George Bush and company were out invading countries that did not threaten us in any way, wasting trillions, killing tens of thousands, destroying functioning infrastructure, torturing innocents, inspiring hatred, and portraying America as a nation of incompetent, lying, torturing, illegal phone-tapping hypocrites to the entire world, what else was happening?
Bloggers and pundits pretend to know a great deal that they don't really. We’re fighting back…
1. Israeli election. I’ve spent a lot of time in Israel, I know a bunch of people there. I’ve read a few books, too. But what does the election mean for the peace process? Who knows? Why don’t we just wait and find out…
2. Immigration. About twelve years ago, I got Rolling Stone to send me to San Diego to ride around with the Border Patrol for a week and chase illegal immigrants trying to sneak across the border. I could probably spin that into a column about today’s hot-button topic, but I don’t feel like it. We can’t close the border and we need those people. But we can’t let everybody in or punish law abiding people. What to do? Hell if I know.
3. Bolten for Card. What’s the difference? Again, do these people talk to me? And the people they do talk to, do they ever tell the truth to anyone about anything?
4. New Iraqi Prime Minister. Bush doesn’t like the new Iraqi Prime Minister? That’s easy. He’s my guy. It’s not that I like him, whoever he is, or even that I hate Bush; I just play the averages.
5. Fed raises rate again. Yeah, like anybody knows… I’m sure the punditocracy has recognized, by now, the folly of trying to predict the future of the economy.
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