Saturday, September 30, 2006
The Idealist in Chief
Oh Nelly! Mark Foley, Republican Congressman from Florida, resigns over a scandal involving him in sexually explicit instant messaging conversations with pages. Apparently one or two of them felt like they were being harassed and so came forward, although the situation isn’t entirely clear right now.
I’m not big on guilt by association, but it’s hardly an anomaly that Karl Rove was buddy buddy with Jack Abramoff. Nor is it an anomaly that the Administration lied about how many meetings Abramoff had with White House staff: Scott McClellan said three meetings. There were really 13. This is not shocking seeing as the administration repeatedly intervened on behalf of Abramoff’s clients.
It makes financial sense for GM to hire Sean Hannity as a spokesman for a new ad campaign they’re coming out with, as he’s the second-biggest radio talk show personality in the country and has 13 million listeners. Morally, however, it’s the equivalent of hiring Joe McCarthy.
More on the cover-up at HUD about illegally giving contracts to political supporters.
Bob Woodward dishes the dirt on the Drinky Administration’s lack of effort in prosecuting terrorists before 9/11.
The President of Kazakhstan is meeting with the White House today. He is a dictator who has recently crushed the democracy movement in his country, which has led our idealistic president to strengthen ties to the autocracy as part of his never-ending quest to spread democracy around the world. In Iraq, his personal democracy project, the Iraqi government has seen fit to crush free speech in an effort to strengthen the democracy.
But our idealistic president won’t stop there. In his quest to save people from brutal tyrannies he has decided that tough language will suffice to stop the genocide in Sudan.
It’s hard to be idealistic and to fight a War on Terra. That’s why the president needs the right to torture indefinitely-detained suspects. Thank God the Congress helped out and passed the recent detainee act.
The Administration’s idealistic quest is also made more difficult by the left-leaning mainstream media. Katie Couric interviewed Condi Rice recently and harassed her with such hardball questions as “Is it hard for you to have a social life?” and “How does one go about asking the Secretary of State out on a date?” This is important because one of the burning questions on all our minds is “How much action has Condi Rice been getting lately?”
More sexism from Michael Savage. There’s a healthy dollop of raging, unconcealed xenophobia in the same fricking paragraph. I would like to remind the world that MSNBC recently hired Savage despite his long history of mind-bogglingly unambiguous bigotry, only to have to fire him when (shock!) he unloaded on a gay caller with epithets.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 2:42 PM 
