Plan C — Choke!
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In the aftermath of Benazir Bhutto’s killing, Decider George is still at a loss for action. What can he do about his old buddy and terror-fighter Pervez Musharraf? Apparently nothing.
As the new year quickly approaches, now only a matter of hours, Decider George is relaxing on his no-cattle, big-spread ranch in Crawford, Tex., and probably strumming away on his guitar like he did during Katrina.
Back in Washington, his handlers are quickly trying to forge some kind of reaction to the boiling-over of events in Pakistan. There is no alternative, no secondary approach to the current mess.
- “Plan A still has to work. We all have to appeal to moderate forces to come together and carry the election and create a more solidly based government, then use that as a platform to fight the terrorists.”
– Washington Post (12/30/07)
Decider George loves his vacations — he can’t get enough of ‘em. Since taking office, he has made 69 trips to Crawford for a total of 418 days of vacation time. (thanks:beggarscanbechoosers.com) And ready to beat out Ronald Reagan as the laziest president on record.
And like Forrest Gump’s momma said, Vacation is where you go and never come back.
Even as Pakistan erupts in total shit as national elections are scheduled for next week, news reports reveal election records in several places around the country have been destroyed during chaos and rioting. No way the election will stand, even if held.
Decider George’s ties with Mush-mouth Musharraf make it impossible to have a Plan B as millions of dollars in military aid have been squandered in Pakistan: Al-Quada and the Taliban have re-emerged in strength.
The disastrous war on terror has made a even-more disastrous turn.
And what does Decider George do? Lie about the economy.
- “Some of you worry about your ability to afford health care coverage for your families. Some of you are concerned about meeting your monthly mortgage payments. Some of you worry about the impact of rising energy costs on fueling your cars and heating your homes. You expect your elected leaders in Washington to address these pressures. My resolution for the New Year is this: to work with Congress to keep our economy growing, to keep your tax burden low, and to ensure that the money you send to Washington is spent wisely — or not at all.”
– Decider George in his weekly radio address Saturday, recorded at his Texas ranch, of freakin’ course!
Yet with the housing slump, the defeat of any kind of health care for uninsured Americans, the shrinking dollar, the $700 billion spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the actual slow down of money spent. Please, don’t count the millions and millions actually lost in Iraq, that’s a war zone; how about Katrina and FEMA, and the quiet billions spent on a real-stupid, long-running war on drugs, and let’s really not deal with the intangibles, like the Constitution and the US legal system. Tons and tons of money just whiffed away.
Decider George is the perfect ‘let them eat cake’ posterchild;
The bullshit doesn’t include dire warnings about the credit paralysis the world’s banks are trying to dislodge.
- “The central banks are rapidly losing control. By not cutting interest rates nearly far enough or fast enough, they are allowing the money markets to dictate policy. We are long past worrying about moral hazard. They still have another couple of months before this starts imploding. Things are very unstable and can move incredibly fast. I don’t think the central banks are going to make a major policy error, but if they do, this could make 1929 look like a walk in the park.”
– Peter Spencer, chief economist for the ITEM Club, telegraph.co.uk (12/29/07)
Happy New Year!
Cover Up the Curveball
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As in the recent disclosures on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Decider George has been lying out of his ass for a long time. Probably once he discovered Santa Claus was a lie, he understood the need to continue the effort.
- Asked if an inquiry would be held after British troops withdraw, David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, replied: “I am obsessed with the next five years in Iraq. And I think the best ‘inquiry’ is putting the best brains to think about how to make sure the next five years in Iraq get that combination of political reconstruction, economic reconstruction and security improvements that are so essential.”
– news.independent.co.uk (12/26/07)
Although it’s been reported the Brits would launch an investigation into what made the UK follow Decider George into the inferno of Iraq, UK head Gordon Brown has backpedaled.
The Brits have moved this month from a fighting force to a support force. The UK has now about 9,500 troops in Iraq, mostly in the south and that total is supposed to be down to about 2,500 by this spring.
Decider George flunkie Tony Blair can sleep better (and as new Catholic, to boot!) now that the ugly mess of the Downing Street memo, other tibits of UK intel failures and the whole sordid mess would be eventually swept under the rug. Shades of Vietnam: No Being Accountable.
And if the UK don’t want to truth be told about Iraq, what about the US? The first half of the “Senate Report of Pre-War Intelligence on Iraq” was released in July 2004 by the US Senate Intelligence Committee. Pretty quick as the invasion was only a year earlier.
Now much later in the story, there’s still nothing about Decider George, his VP, Dufus Dick Chaney, and a retarded, but bloodthirsty host of others, who cooked the books.
- “While it’s perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began.”
– Decider George, Veterans’ Day speech, 2005
Rewrite history? We don’t think so. What the US peoples demand is the truth. Not a lying curveball.
‘Mr. President, You Are Such A Man’
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Frances Townsend, Decider George’s homeland security advisor/mouthpiece is quitting. And it’s the same old bullshit, the same old line.
- “I find it offensive and crippling. When both career people and political people are worried about getting subponaed, it’s hard to get a lot accomplished.”
– Interview, The Washington Post (12/22/07)
Well, hell, Frances (can we call you, Fran?) as a hard-nosed, spit-in-your-eye, former mob prosecutor what happens when anyone attempts to break laws, defy Congress, circumvent the Constitution, lie about such things as Iraq, Katrina, global warming and a host of other things? Don’t you believe someone would want to find out the truth?
And when that someone continues to lie, pardons criminals and displays an arrogant disregard for anything resembling common decency, what is to be done?
Damn, Fran, that dog won’t hunt!
And in the three years Fran has been with Decider George some of his bullshit has clogged her mind, caused her to become another zombie, another power-lover, and another asshole who can relocate all kinds of words and redefine them.
- “Well, I’m not sure — it’s a success that hasn’t occurred yet. I don’t know that I view that as a failure.”
– CNN December 2006, on the ‘failure’ to capture, or even find Osama bin Laden.
One wonders if being around the most powerful asshole on earth can warp the sense of truth.
- “In 1937, the playwright Maxwell Anderson wrote of President George Washington: ‘There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, til all men walk on higher ground in their lifetime.’ Mr. President, you are such a man.”
– Townsend’s resignation letter to Decider George (12/19/07)
Yes, Fran, my dear, men will be walking on higher ground, but it won’t be by choice.
Dollars, Dollars, Where Them Dollars
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On Wednesday Congess approved an additonal $70 billion for the horror in Iraq and Afghanistan, knocking the total up to $700 billion.
- “Using inflation-adjusted dollars the total cost of those wars has now surpassed the total cost of the Vietnam War (which ran to $670 billion). It’s also more than seven times larger than the Persian Gulf War ($94 billion) and more than twice the cost of the Korean War”
– Travis Sharp of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Poliferation
Of course, the same old stories of the National Guard and other entities being used in the Middle East when they would come in handy fighting tramua in the US. The money goes further:
- This year alone, US taxpayers spent $137.6 billion on the Iraq War. For the same amount of money, the government could have provided more than 39 million million people with health care, built one million units of affordable housing, or outfitted 142 million homes with renewable electricity sources.
– National Priorities Project
And even more. The Pentagon is increasing the number of people at its Baghdad office of arms supply to the Iraq, from a squad of six, now to more than 70, including a couple of generals. This is the same outfit that allowed 190,000 weapons to come up missing two years ago. This is the same outfit that can’t keep books, can’t keep up with is dangerous inventory.
- “For countries that are struggling with corruption, with internal violence, with threat of diverson or theft, is it the best policy to be funneling as many weapons to that country as possible? Or are there other things the United States could be doing first to strengthen democracy rather than just fueling the cycle.”
– Richard Stohl, senior analyst, Center Defense Information
And what about Decider George, the creator of all this horror and all this mismanaged warfare:
- “There is a funtioning government. Are we satisified with progress in Iraq? No.
They’ve got a lot of work to do. Don’t get me wrong, you know, I mean, I’m not suggesting that we shouldn’t, as a government, continue to press them.”
– Decider George on Thursday
The asshole said it right. It’s the government, not the people. An overwhelming majority of US peoples want the US out of Iraq yesterday. And in the latest polls from Iraq, on the Iraqi people, there is even a much greater desire for the US occupation to end, maybe like last week.
As Decider George said: “Don’t get me wrong, you know, I mean…”
‘Storm clouds and concerns’
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- “I hope you can tell I’m an optimistic fellow. We’ve been through a lot over the last seven years, we really have. But I’m absolutely convinced this country is strong and vibrant.”
– US President George W. Bush on Monday
Decider George was blowing acrid smoke up some business asses as he blubbered to his kind of people: A Rotary Club gathering in Fredericksburg, Va.
The dipwad! As of early today the National Debt was at $9,177,254,271,467.77: Each US citizen’s share – $30,204.60
And continues to increase at $1.51 billion each and every day!
And he blubbers about “We’ve..” Decider George, of course, knows this whole situation is his making and he knows there’s no skin rubbed off his ass.
And off the collective asses of his friends. In a report by The New York Times earlier this year, families earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop.
And the study, by the Congressional Budget Office, revealed tax rates for middle-income earners edged up in 2004, while rates for people at the very top continued to decline. The reason: Two measures, tax cuts on investment income and a steady reduction of estate taxes “overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest households.”
And along with the rich, human slaughter also is added to the bill. Last Friday, the Senate passed a defense policy bill for 2008: $696 billion for military spending, including $189 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan.
Decider George, despite all that, whined it won’t pay the bills: “It is time for Congress to support the troops with actual funding.”
Cost for the Iraq war: $1.2 trillion and climbing.
- In the days before the war almost five years ago, the Pentagon estimated that it would cost about $50 billion. Democratic staff members in Congress largely agreed. Lawrence Lindsey, a White House economic advisor, was a bit more realistic, predicting that the cost could go as high as $200 billion, but President Bush fired him in part for saying so.
– The New York Times (1/17/07)
So who are we going to believe? A natural-born liar?
- “This economy is pretty good. There’s definitely some storm clouds and concerns, but the underpinning is good, and we’ll work our way through this period.”
– Decider George’s speech to Rotarians on Monday.
We all can look forward to some real-bad shit hitting the fan real soon.
All of us: Be concerned, be very concerned.