WTF Is It Now?!?

Barry Crimmins kicks butt:

Yesterday you told us you wanted the investigation's scope narrow, its duration short and its transparency opaque. I'm sure Robert Blake feels the same way about his murder trial. But you see, Mr. Court-appointed President, alleged malefactors are not generally asked to describe the boundaries of investigations into their alleged malfeasance. And mark this well, oh son of the CIA, you are an alleged malefactor. In other words, Junior, shut up until you are asked to answer some questions.

Well get this straight you vapid, petty, shifty little man: we are not going to be distracted. If you manage to sidetrack contemporary inquiries, history will hunt you down and fillet the corrupt collection of fixers, buck-passers and thugs that make up the sorry excuse for an executive branch you have foisted upon us.

Stupidity and arrogance are a lethal combination and you, George W. Bush, have been given a family-sized portion of both. Your old man, who at least was elected, was sent packing by an electorate that grew tired of his propensity for baring his fangs whenever he was held even mildly accountable for the mess he and Ronald Reagan had created. This fall you will see the first true indication about how much the American people believe in you. I think you're in for a shock. If and when the opposition party gains full control of both houses of the legislature, you and your bully pulpit will be rendered fully incapable of keeping our elected representatives from carefully examining the most pressing issue of our time. It can't come a minute too soon.



Michelangelo Signorile kicks b@lls:

It was a scene rich in duplicity: W sitting down in the White House last week with his brother Jeb, the governor of Florida, pushing a plan for the federal government to shell out $235 million to buy back oil leases off the coast of the Sunshine State.

This is a guy who was dead set on ripping up the Alaskan wilderness to drill for oil, a president who claims we have to find alternatives here in America so we’re not dependent on foreign oil. But what does that all matter when you need to help dear brother keep the state out of the clutches of Clintonite Janet Reno, and, perhaps more importantly, shore up your own standing in the state you’d won (depending on your perspective) by only a few votes? In addition to being a grand act of political hypocrisy, this was nepotism on a scale we’ve not seen–and crassly flaunted to boot. Bill Clinton, they told us, was the guy who sold out his principles for political gain. Bush was going to bring integrity to the White House. Right. This administration will go to whatever lengths it has to–no matter how blatant it looks–to ensure its power. And that’s true whether it’s selling out its principles or covering up the events of the worst terrorist attack in history.