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Pres. Lame W. Duck
Looks like Pres. Lame W. Duck will spend the last two months of his presidency the same way he spent the entire eight years: royally screwing things up.
The Bush administration raced last week to relax a wide array of regulations before its time in office expires. If enacted before President-elect Barack Obama is sworn in, the rule changes could be reversed only after a lengthy and cumbersome review. Among other things, the changes would lift restrictions on commercial ocean fishing, ease controls on power plants’ emissions, relax drinking-water standards, and loosen restrictions on dumping mining waste. Consumer and environmentalist groups protested, but the White House said the proposals were in “the best interests†of the nation. “And yes,†said White House spokesman Tony Fratto, “we’d prefer our regulations stand for a very long time.â€
It could be worse, you say? At least he’s not raiding the White House for office furniture like Bill and Hillary Clinton did? Actually the Clintons got a bad rap. That’s right — lies were told about the Clintons. Shocking, isn’t it?
It was the stuff of sensational news reports and indignant commentary. Departing Clinton staffers, the reports said, had shamefully vandalized the White House, destroying office furniture, leaving obscene greetings on voice-mail machines, and defacing walls with graffiti mocking incoming President George W. Bush. The Clintonites had even trashed Air Force One, wrote the late presidential spokesman Tony Snow, then a columnist, leaving it looking “as if it had been stripped by a skilled band of thieves.â€
Except that it never happened. After a yearlong, $200,000 investigation, government inspectors said White House offices suffered only ordinary wear and tear. Nothing was taken from Air Force One. And what little intentional damage had been inflicted in the White House was trivial, such as scraping the “W†off computer keyboards. “What often happens in Washington,†Snow later explained, “is that gossip becomes news. That’s not a good thing.â€
The Bush administration is leaving things screwed up enough for Barack Obama, but as long as it’s still in office, there’s always potential for more. If history is any indicator, Bush and Cheney have plenty more depravity up their sleeves.
Don’t go away mad chimpy, just go away!
Royally screwing things up is a mild way of describing the Bush/Cheney right-wingnut years. And now we hear that Rush Limbaugh is calling our current economic situation ‘the Obama recession’, eh?
Dear Mr. Bush, Mr. Limbaugh and rabid right-wingnut fans…here’s a FYI:
Blaming the current recession and troubled economic times that are consuming our whole world (not just the U.S.!) on our new, incoming President Obama (who won’t even take office for another 60 days) is pretty eerily similar to blaming the firefighters who show up to battle the blaze for the fire you started!!
Limbaugh et al trying to do so just proves how delusional and in denial these wingnuts are. So, since they seemingly refuse to ‘take the hint’ from the election of Barack Obama, it’s time to simply be blunt:
Dear Republicans,
Consider this election to be ‘an intervention’ by your fellow Americans for your own good…as you obviously are no longer capable of making rational economic, social and political decisions for yourselves!
I live with the consolation that America will no longer have to endure this tiny-penised, categary-7 moron’s spitefully pissing in our National pool for much longer. My only regret is that Pelosi and Reid took impeachment off the table just because the Dems didn’t have a fillibuster-proof majority. Had these craven Dems collectively displayed spines, guts, and balls with all their legislative brains and common sense, We the People would have been so much better off right now. Instead, they caved into this spurious, low-grade primate, pretending to be God’s choice for leader of the free world, allowing the whole world to be launched from the apocalyptic port of oppressive perdition down the River Styx smack dab into the red hot treacled abyss of Hell in a handbasket woven by oligarchs from loose manmade waste products from inhumane imperial hegemony and military industrial corporatocratic capitolism. That godless rascal better fits the definition of an antichrist than most on whom his GOP and religio-fascist minions have pinned the tail, horns, and cloven hooves. Seeing Dumya finally out of our political picture is a Nationally welcomed blessing.
Geeze, rage, don’t hold back for our sake!
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Although, I DO agree with you!).
You have to admit, at least he’s been remarkably consistent in that regard…
I with devoutly never to have to see his butt ugly, smirking mug again UNLESS it is in the dock awaiting trial for capital war crimes.
See: US Codes, Title 18, Section 2441.