Monday, December 04, 2006

Very fucking rosy.


Why do you ask?


This from the AP:

Bush Accepts Bolton's U.N. Resignation

Monday, December 04, 2006

By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An unhappy President Bush said Monday he regretfully accepted John Bolton's decision to leave his temporary job as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Senate opposition, led mostly by Democrats, doomed Bolton's confirmation to serve permanently.

"I'm not happy about it," Bush said during a farewell appearance at the White House attended by Bolton and his wife, Gretchen.

"I think he deserved to be confirmed. The reason I think he deserved to be confirmed is that I think he did a fabulous job for the country."

Turning to Bolton, Bush said, "We're going to miss you in this administration. You've been a stalwart defender of freedom and peace.

"You've been strong in your advocacy for human rights and human dignity. You've done everything that can be expected for an ambassador."

...


Bolton...fabulous.

Brownie...Heckuva.

Rummy and Cheney...fantastic.

Bernie Kerik...""We have full confidence in his integrity."

Viceroy L. Paul Bremmer III..Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient

Harriet Miers...[The] one person [who] stood out as exceptionally well suited to sit on the Highest Court of our nation.

Iraq...Mission Accomplished.

The list just goes on and on and on and on and on until every Bic in the county runs dry.

For six years, buffoons and lunatics thought there was no problem they couldn't solved by giving this reckless, stupid man more unchecked power. And when that blew up in their faces, they fixed it by giving him more.

And more.

And still more.

Like trying to cure a toddler of puking, falling down and whanging off the furniture by changing his formula from beer to tequila.

And now, as we take that power away piece-by-piece and he screams and snarls like a minor demon in a Holy Water Jacuzzi, I'm sure of one thing.

The next couple of years are going to be very, very ugly.

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

"The next couple of years are going to be very, very ugly."

Yep, but we have it coming to us. Karma's a bitch.

Anonymous said...

There is a stage in all genuine psychological transformation known as "The Necessary Dis-Illusionment." This occurs when it is no longer possible to continue the pretenses of the past. Reaching this place on an individual level can be very messy, and hurtful to innocent bystanders.

It seems our Nation is working toward a necessary disillusionment in regards to certain political philosophies. Once again, it is the innocent bystanders who are hit with flying feces from the air impeller. Sadly, a good number of these bystanders have gone to meet their maker. Karma is indeed a bitch.

BitterHarvest said...

That's the best photoshop yet, D.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to enjoy watching little Lord Fauntleroy cry his baby ass off in the upcoming months.

Will Divide said...

The only real difficulty with a free fall comes at its end.

Anonymous said...

I move that we choose to make the last two years of the Bush 43 administration into an educational experience, sort of a "lessons learned" exercise so that we can remember in the future just how pathetic this futile attempt to form a theocracy has been.

Christian fundamentalists love to assert that America should be run according to biblical principles, and the last six years have demonstrated just how incredibly misinformed these idiots are. Our founding fathers knew that theocracy can't work, because they saw it in action up-close-and-personal, and that's why they gave us the Bill of Rights and the other founding principles of this great land.

Drifty's enumeration of GOP failures here can remind us that the next two years will be ugly, or it can remind us that we know how to do better than this, and that getting back to our roots, towards those fundamental constitutional governing principles that make this country great, is the best cure for the awful sickness that is our current administration.

We need a strong dose of the First Amendment, and the Fourth. We need to remember why founding-father-of-our-founding-fathers James Otis gave the finger to the last King George, so we can re-declare our independence from these latter-day idiots.

We need to embrace AMERICAN fundamentalism, of the Jeffersonian (as opposed to the Dobsonian) variety. If we choose to see the next two years as the culmination of a failed experiment in Falwellian government, we'll have something singularly valuable to remember in 2008 and beyond.

Anonymous said...

"Like a demon in a holy water jacuzzi..."

:o) :o) :o) ....

Writhe, you bloody-handed bastard, WRITHE! :o)

And, Yosemite Sam...over the lip of the Grand Canyon...6 guns firing...:o)

Not to worry; he's a sure thing to land in some 6-figured-salary rightwing "thinktank" sinecure.

(Or course, as Bill Maher said recently: "If you supported this fucking insanity, you don't get to call yourself a "thinktank" any more.")

Anonymous said...

We're all trying to skull out the ending for the "mission accomplished dream", of course, but there are so many options (all of them shitty, expensive, and bloody) that I don't think anyone really knows how the first act will end, but that's the trouble; it will only BE the opening stanza, with an undending number of verses to be "sung" by an exponentially-increasing number of people who NOW, more than ever, mean us no good.

Someone at Gilliard's speculated about goatboy being a conscious Al Queada "operative", as the current terminology goes, since his decision making has been so unspinnably beneficial to the bearded one.

Depends on what you mean by "conscious", I guess.

Anonymous said...

We're all trying to skull out the ending for the "mission accomplished dream", of course, but there are so many options (all of them shitty, expensive, and bloody) that I don't think anyone really knows how the first act will end, but that's the trouble; it will only BE the opening stanza, with an undending number of verses to be "sung" by an exponentially-increasing number of people who NOW, more than ever, mean us no good.

Someone at Gilliard's speculated about goatboy being a conscious Al Queada "operative", as the current terminology goes, since his decision making has been so unspinnably beneficial to the bearded one.

Depends on what you mean by "conscious", I guess.

Anonymous said...

Woops, sorry about the doubling down.

Anonymous said...

I don't have time to go into all the details, but Shrub is basically reduced by this point to running a doomsday cult.

Everyone else will only realize this when he breaks out a bubbling vat of purple kool-aid.

Anonymous said...

The next couple of years had BETTER be ugly for Chimpy! What a rat ba$tard!

Anonymous said...

If the Disaster Monkey is unhappy about Democratic opposition and Bolton's resignation then I'm like Snoopy in Peanuts dancing for joy.

Jenonymous said...

Hi there! Stopping by in between year-end disasters at work. Great post, Drifty!

And yeah, there had BETTER be Karma for Bush...sheeeit, I've taken more heat for a spelling error in an email than he has for all the shit he's done.

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately, all we have seen thus far is the prelude, not even the first act; it will take the devil's own abacus to calculate the death and destruction when the Chimp in Chief's monkeys all come flying through--the destabilization of Pakistan leading to an Islamicist state that does have nukes--imagine how the Indians will feel about that; the carnage when Iran comes into Iraq to support her Shiite brothers and Syria supports the Sunnis; Egypt which was stable balanced on a feather; Care for a bloody sideshow? Imagine secular Turkey radicalized and Islamicized by yet another Kurdish war. Guys, the little Monkey has blown the lid off the crapper and there's going to be enough shit to bury half the world.--Bear

Anonymous said...

Hey Jen! good to hear your voice.

:o)

Anonymous said...

OT, I see where the goddamn motherfucking bushCo state department is concerned that Leonardo DiCaprio's new flick, "Blood Diamonds" might cause some people to think twice about buying a new rock, for fear the money might be used to finance some of the genocidal wars that have been going on, and are still going on, in Africa.

I guess Foggy Bottom and junior are worried that the po'folks at Kimberley, etc., will have to go door-to-door, panhandling for canned food to make ends meet, which is why they hastened to announce that "conflict" diamonds now make up less than 1 percent of the diamonds that reach the market in the U.S.

(Kimberley, who as everyone knows, is an impartial observer, "confirms" that comforting stat. :o) )

Can any of you guys think of a better job for our state department to be doing, than defending the poor, downtrodden diamond market?

By god, it brings tears to my eyes, to think how quickly they moved to correct the vicious anti diamond-cartel propaganda that "Blood Diamonds" is fostering.

Conversely, I'm so glad that they aren't overreacting to the few glitches that "Operation-Let-Them Eat JDAM's!" has run afoul of, in Iraq. Wouldn't want the Staters to do anything hasty, like threatening mass resignations over an unending bullshit-based illegal invasion of Iraq, would we?

I'm also glad they took care of that thingy about threatening Brazil and other countries with business sanctions, because they had the callous disregard for BigPharma's profits, to buy and sell generic AIDS drugs for their dying people, instead of taking their firstborn children as indentured servants for a decade or two.

The nerve of those fucking ingrates.

Anonymous said...

"The Devil's Own Abacus" would have been an excellent name for a Frank Zappa album.

Boy, I hope the next two years are powerful ugly for W. Memo to Democratic leadership: Don't be timid. Investigate the crap out of the little bastard. He is Nixon minus the electoral legitimacy and political skills. When the Nixon investigations started, his approval was near 60, and he had recently won a landslide re-election. W is nowhere near that, and you haven't even started investigations yet. He's down. Now hit him with the chair. When he tries to get up, break the chair over his head. Then kick him. Keep kicking him. But don't impeach him. Make him beg for the sweet release that impeachment would bring. Make him long for it. Make him the poster boy for the Republican Party. Then kick him some more. Make his malfeasance so undeniable, so visible, that the 2008 Presidential nominee tries to pretend W doesn't exist. Do this, and you can run things for a long time. Be timid and business-as-usual, and you can go back to sitting in the back of the chamber, gritting your teeth and watching President Brownback giving ever more stupid State of the Union speeches.

Anonymous said...

Clete, I think one problem the dems have, is that they KNOW just how shitty the denouement of Pope George the Fuckup's lunatic's crusade is going to be, and they're afraid that anything they do to make junior responsible, will be grabbed by the repubs as evidence of the old "stab in the back".

I mean, how will it look, as our troops are hauling ass for Kuwait, and taking worse casualties than at anytime in the shitmire, if the dems are ginning up an investigation (no matter HOW needed and justified it was) into all the bogus "intelligence" that was used to pimp the war?

I think the whole shittaree is so dicey and....fraught...that it's scaring the dems off of doing much of anything.

But I'm like you. Time to take the fucking gloves off and get in some payback Rovian bitchslaps on the people who've done this to us.

Anonymous said...

tanbark...

Good question:

I mean, how will it look, as our troops are hauling ass for Kuwait, and taking worse casualties than at anytime in the shitmire, if the dems are ginning up an investigation (no matter HOW needed and justified it was) into all the bogus "intelligence" that was used to pimp the war?

It'll look awful, and that's why it isn't the best approach. But there's plenty of other topics to investigate that will generate appropriate anger at the GOP without so much risk of political blowback.

My favorite: government corruption, including this weeks' FEMA and Homeland Security scandals. With the economy heading for the toilet in 2007, the waste of taxpayers money will resonate with the 95% of us who actually work for a living.

And unlike the Iraq mess, all the important fingerprints on this scandal are of the GOP variety.

Anonymous said...

Cieran, roger that about the fingerprints.

And the initial "cut and run" will be performed by the brits. One big spike in THEIR casualties, and Blair will be mugged by his own Labour party, the next time he walks into Parliament.

The English people gave us Churchill, and whatever warts he had, and there were a few, he was a MAN, and thought with his damn brain, instead of his gonads. They are no longer very interested in sacrificing the lives of their troops to help perpetuate junior's piss-thin-gruel of an imitation of him.
We all know that the follow-up to a pullout, could be MUCH bloodier even, than what's going on now. But that miserable little fact is not going to change by our staying, or packing more IED fodder into the place.

What's going to happen, is going to happen, whether we leave in 10 weeks, or in 10 years. The Iraqis are NEVER going to take the responsibility for not killing each other, as long as we are occupying their country.

ALL of the factions know that if they settle down and make nice, it will be that much more incentive for bushCo to stick around and start the reruns of the conservative fantasies about Iraq becoming our 51st state.

If they can't get at our troops very easily, a substantial number of them are obviously willing to unload on each other.

Welcome to "Liberation Hell", Mr. preznit.

BTW; Henry Waxman wants to talk to you.

Anonymous said...

...yeah, what they said (above). and driftie, yOur photoshop work continues to be priceless.