George W Bush (2)

I see our clueless precedent continues to stake his place in political history with his comments.

Bush has revealed just how he acknowledges the sacrifices of soldiers in Iraq and their families.

He's given up playing golf.

By not playing golf, he says, he is telling families "I feel your pain, I'm not on the course"

Grip-shittingly unbelievable

George W Bush (I)

I'm sure that if I looked hard enough at what he was doing I could publish a "grips my shit" post about our erstwhile president and his useless lying cronies (Hi Dick!) every hour of every day.

Anyway, just to reiterate, George W Bush grips my shit

Not content last week with attempting to re-write history by suggesting his (in)famous "mission accomplished" banner in 2003 was misunderstood by everybody ("What? I gave the impression that the war was over? Phooey!") his administration once again put the health of the American public at risk.

They urged a federal appeals court to STOP - I'll repeat that... STOP U.S. meat packers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease (also known as Scrabble-beating "Bovine spongiform encephalopathy" or, more boringly, BSE)

The government sought to make a Kansas-based beef supplier - and others - quit conducting more comprehensive checks on its product saying that "widespread testing does not guarantee food safety and could result in a false positive that scares consumers"

Is this Mad Politician Disease (Bovine Spongibob Squarepants) or what?

I'll warrant that this had more to do with the lobbying of a Washington "Special Interest Group" than it does with the fake remarks coming out of the Agricultural Department.

What a load of old bull. Or, rather, cow.

The Shite House Pt III

Lying governmental officials like Alphonso Jackson really grip my shit.

Jackson was the (Republican, remember) government's HUD (Housing & Urban Development) Secretary, but more importantly to our lame duck Precedent Bush is a long-time friend. Fine cronyistic qualities that helped him quietly slide into a senior political position at a department which is now overseeing a housing and mortgage turmoil that is threatening to completely undermine the USA's stability.

Not that he had ANY time to deal with problems like that as they brewed. Instead, he was apparently busy giving out favors of his own, steering large governmental contracts for the post-Katrina clean-up to his own friends (Methinks he is taking the concept of "Pay It Forward" a little too far?)

Furthermore, it is alleged he used his governmental department to threaten the Philadelphia Housing Authority after they refused to transfer some valuable real estate to an individual named Kenny Gamble. That's Kenny Gamble, the music producer. One half of the famed Gamble & Huff production team recently inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Oh, and good friend of Alphonso Jackson.

Jackson was asked to resign months ago. Instead he refused to answer any questions (which is lying by default) at congressional hearing about his wrongdoings, and his good friend, Mr G.W. Bush, stood stoically by him.

Apparently, our Alphie has now seen some kind of 'writing on the wall' and resigned from his vaulted handed-to-him-on-a-plate position of authority stating "There are times when one must attend more diligently to personal and family matters," adding succinctly "Now is such a time for me"

His resignation was met "with sadness" by Precedent Bush who also said Jackson was a "great man" and "an American Success Story".

"Success" must be awfully close to "Suckiness" in W's private dictionary mustn't it?

The Shite House Pt II

Tonight is Precedent Bush's final State of the Union address.

He hasn't opened his mouth to utter a single word yet, but I already know the deceiving little turd is, somehow, going to grip my shit.