WTF Is It Now?!?

I'm staying home today - going to Daylight Savings Time always screws me up. And being the lazy sh!t I am, I never did do my taxes yesterday, so I'll have to work on them this afternoon, after I've had a few gallons of coffee.


Quotes of the Morning

“The Bush people came to Washington filled with scorn for the peacemaking efforts of the departing Clinton administration. On the eve of the election of hard-liner Sharon as Israeli Prime Minister, the Bush administration refused to send a peace envoy to the last-gasp talks between Israel and Palestine in Egypt. Weeks later, Bush pulled out the highly visible CIA brokers who had been stage-managing a cessation of the conflict. All the while, Bush and his people parroted the same asinine rhetoric: we'll help make peace once y'all stop shooting at each other...or, to put it another way, we'll help make peace once you make peace.” - William Rivers Pitt at WillPitt.com

“President Bush's post-9/11 political veneer is cracking. He has had his worst weeks since the terrorist attacks on America. His Middle East policy (a charitable description) is feckless: While violence raged on the West Bank and in Israel last Saturday, the president appeared clueless. U.S. goals in Afghanistan and Iraq are under siege.

"It's only a little better domestically. The self-styled apostle of free trade turned craven and protectionist when confronted by the potent steel and lumber industries. In signing a campaign finance reform bill--in the dead of the morning with few around--Mr. Bush was graceless. “ - Al Hunt in The Wall Street Journal

"Look, my job isn't to try to nuance. My job is to tell people what I think." - The Clueless Cowpie to a British television reporter.

"I believe in prayer. I believe in exercise." - the Ignorant ImPOTUS, in reply to a British interviewer on how he coped with pressure, as seen in the NY Times. Mostly.

The United States told China President Stupid had made a mistake when he called Taiwan a country in a speech last week, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. - Yahoo News

“I could blow smoke in the president's stupid monkey face and all he could do is groove on it!" - Homer Simpson on medical marijuana, 'The Simpsons', 4/7/02.




Why do they hate America?

The Israeli government and army indicated today that they intended to carry on with the broad military sweep through the West Bank despite Preznit Pinhead's calls for the operation to wind down. - Yahoo News

Nevada has stepped up its campaign against burying nuclear waste under one of the state's mountains, with the governor vetoing a presidential endorsement and activists readying a lobbying campaign to reinforce his action.
The lobbying effort is being directed by two former White House chiefs of staff — Democrat John Podesta, who worked for President Clinton, and Republican Kenneth Duberstein, who worked for President Reagan. The campaign is to include television ads targeting lawmakers in races that could swing on votes from environmentalists.
- Yahoo News

On Friday, the Florida State Legislature ended a special session called by Gov. Jeb Bush without agreeing on the only issue before them — a rewrite of the state's education rules. "This is a big blow to Jeb particularly because education is his signature issue," said Aubrey Jewett, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. "That certainly leaves him open to charges that he is not a strong leader in the Legislature."
- Yahoo News



Today in History

217 Caligula assassinated
1973 artist Pablo Picasso died at his home near Mougins, France, at age 91
1981 Gen. Omar N. Bradley died in New York at age 88.
2001 U.S. officials said George of the Bungle was sending a letter to the wife of a missing Chinese fighter pilot as a humanitarian gesture. Helping him with his spelling and grammar were Aunt Condo, Unca Dick, and Unca Karl.
2002 While the Middle East continued to burn, America’s Dingleberry toured the Citizens' Police Academy in Knoxville, Tenn., a training center for volunteers. Whee!


The Gas Oil Payback admin still playing the ‘terrism’ card on ANWR

Eager to avoid defeat on a key plank of the Squinting Squatter’s domestic agenda, Republican leaders are considering pulling the plug on a massive energy bill unless it includes a provision that permits new drilling in Alaska, GOP sources said.

One page from the Democratic playbook focuses on recent reports that the energy industry helped write parts of Enronizer Bunnypants’ energy plan. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) claimed the upcoming debate "will prove conclusively that when the administration speaks about energy, the lips of the oil industry move."

"In the last year they've tried every excuse under the sun to destroy the pristine wilderness - California's energy crisis, a sagging economy, the war on terrorism - and those excuses have failed because U.S. Senators know the difference between real energy policy and big oil's lust for our last acres of pristine wilderness," Kerry said.

A senior Senate Democratic aide warned that Republicans had best be careful if they hope to exploit troubles in the Middle East to make the case for drilling in ANWR.

- - Read more at RollCall.com


The Who Died and Left Him King? Segment

Snippy the Chimp is aware that his Thursday speech, laying out clear markers for all parties in the Mideast dispute, has put his authority on the line in ways it has never been tested in his “presidency“.

For the first time the Delusional Dickhead has issued commands that he believes sovereign nations or leaders must obey immediately, for their own good. Any prolonged acts of defiance of the “president” would call American influence into question.

- - From the NY Times