May 20, 2004


The show that never ends (or ended)

Quoth a Chickenhawk from Texas:

Then Senator John Cornyn of Texas weighed in, suggesting that Mr. Warner, a Navy officer in World War II, a Marine lieutenant in the Korean War and a Navy secretary under Nixon, and Mr. McCain, who lived in a dirt suite at the Hanoi Hilton for five years, were not patriotic. Their "collective hand-wringing," Mr. Cornyn sniffed, could be "a distraction from fighting and winning the war."

Rummy had a dozen Republican senators over to the Pentagon for breakfast on Tuesday, and Mr. Cornyn said the secretary was exasperated by the "all-consuming nature" of the Congressional hearings.

The man who David Plotz of Slate says is widely "considered one of the dumbest members of Congress" chimed in, dumbly. Following up on his inane rant defending the soldiers accused of abuse at Abu Ghraib and whingeing about "humanitarian do-gooders," Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma wondered whether Mr. Warner was trying to help the Democrats with public hearings.

About Inhofe, there's not much to say...Slate says it all. But is this the same Rummy who was part of this Dynamic Duo?
The two would-be hipsters -- Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney -- were aides to the new president, Gerald Ford. At that time Rumsfeld and Cheney were persuading Ford to veto one of the most important Watergate-inspired reforms, an enhanced Freedom of Information Act, designed to guarantee public and media scrutiny of the FBI and other agencies. FOIA, the two aides warned, would take too much power from the executive branch.
30 years of trying to remove representative democracy to the hands of their corporate-fascist 'friends', and now they're succeeding aided and abetted by morons like Cornyn and Inhofe as they begin by stifling debate. I'm sure Rummy still thinks Watergate was a lot of "hand wringing".

This is where I came in...I'm headed back to a dark room before my migraine returns full force. Jeebus.

posted by Jo Fish on 05.20.04 at 02:22 AM





Comments:

There must be something in the Texas water or air that delivers us a Cornyn and a Bush. Perhaps "No Child Left Behind" came a little late for them, except of course for family money and influence.

posted by: Shag from Brookline on 05.20.04 at 06:16 AM [permalink]



i hate gays

posted by: whoah12 on 05.20.04 at 01:48 PM [permalink]



Rummy's tired of Congressional hearings, eh? Well, if he doesn't like the checks and balances of our government he should feel free to resign from it.

posted by: SMD on 05.20.04 at 05:37 PM [permalink]



charge of the chickenshit brigade! i really am at a loss to explain anyones' loyalty to this drunken disaster of a preznit.

posted by: on 05.20.04 at 07:39 PM [permalink]



Is it any wierder than Andy Sullivan talking about how good he sounded in his address to the Nation? Personally I think they must employ a really first class sorcerer, or else one of them really is The Devil, casting a glamorie on the buffoon. Only Auld Hornie's powers really explain it. I've heard secondhand from an anti-Nazi exile who went to spy on Hitler that the old bastard really was strangely eloquent and magnetic in person, no matter how flat his words might read, but this is just the opposite.

Jo, when you recover and get back to fighting the good fight - I made some graphics in honor of your slogan, small War On Terra™ (for avatar icons) and large printable War On Terra™ poster in pdf form, with the help of Galileo and Photoshop.

posted by: bellatrys on 05.20.04 at 09:03 PM [permalink]



Cornyn, that idiot wouldn't have his seat if not for Tom Delay and his crooked Texans for a Republican Majority.

posted by: Yankee in Exile on 05.20.04 at 10:18 PM [permalink]






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