Wednesday, February 1, 2006

The State of the Union is ... um ... NINE-ELEVEN!!! He's a liar.  I didn't even tune in, and I know he's a liar.  I'm totally going armchair quarterback here.  I can't stand to see his smug lying face, so I just read the Wonkette liveblog and gathered up some of the talking (head) points afterward.  Here's what I've got: The economy is strong.  See, when you have to go out of your way to tell people the economy's in good shape, you're in trouble.  I wonder what the good people of Detroit are thinking about the economy.  The ones who still have a job that doesn't involve handing programs to Super Bowl visitors, that is. Fact check:  Bush's estimate of job growth didn't include the first two years of his administration, when the economy was shedding jobs like cats on a white couch.  If we were only wiretapping when I came into office, September 11th never would have happened.  This sounds like a load of crap to me, and the Washington Post (among others) agrees with the diagnosis.  Apparently, the FBI didn't even know where some of the hijackers were until they got onto their respective planes, so how exactly were we going to wiretap them?  And look, for the 5 millionth time, what Bush was doing was illegal.  Claiming a hypothetical national security reason doesn't make it legal, any more than the black box prisons we've got around the world.  We're on the right track in Iraq.  Oh, come on, I don't want even to research how wrong that is.  The budget deficit is on track to cut by half in 2009.  Uh, yeah, if you shut down Congress during 2008, maybe.  And I'm sure that making those tax cuts permanent is going to do amazing things for the budget deficit.  Cloning, including the reprehensible (I guess) thought of human-animal hybrids, should be banned.  Or, as Wonkette put it, "Bush says no to werewolves!" America is addicted to oil.  Oh, fuck you.  The world has known this for years, but you just figured this out?  This is the president who refuses to raise mileage standards, who made his living (until he bankrupted the company) drilling for oil, who pushes and pushes to drill in ANWR for oil that'll last this country for five and a half minutes, who never met an oil company executive he didn't like.   Now we're addicted to oil?  Fuck you.  Fuck you and your bigass pickup truck that you drive all over your "ranch." Fuck your sudden conversion to environmentalism that will yield exactly zero conservation proposals.  Fuck you, fuck you, and furthermore, fuck you.  You see why I don't watch these things? 3:16:21 PM     Speak up!  []