Nearly everyone who hasn't been hiding under a rock must have heard about the firing of attorney general Alberto Gonzalez. The firing was called for on all levels, but the Bush administration fought against it every step of the way.
They continue to fight against the Justice Department even now, with President Bush trying to ignore subpoenas handed down on June 13 calling for the white house to hand over internal communications from former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor.
If you'd like to read a bit about this before my rant then it can be found here
Who does this bastard think he is? He's not a king. His word isn't law. I'm inclined to agree with Patrick Leahy by saying that this kind of presidential flaunting of the judicial system hasn't been seen since the days of Richard Milhouse Nixon.
The question that burns in my mind is how exactly did the GOP leadership decide that this ass clown, this chunder monkey was the one who should get their nomination seven years ago. On one hand we had a decent, honorable and well spoken war veteran (John McCain) and on the other we had a gibbering baboon who went AWOL from the national guard and can't seem to get out a few sentences of a prewritten speech without murdering a piece of the english language.
There are times when I wonder about Bush. Is he really a stupid puppet with Cheney's hand up his ass squeezing his prostate to make him talk, or is he in fact a very canny fellow pretending to be a moron so that people will expect less of him and let their guard down? It's really up in the air.
Next year chances are good that we'll be handing a Republican's war to a Democrat who wants nothing more than to balance the budget (who was the last president to do that again?).
There are people out there still who are blaming Bill Clinton for 9/11 and yet I get the feeling that few of those same people are going to recall who got us into our current situation in the Middle East, which I would describe as a very sandy Vietnam.
But I've strayed from the original subject of my outrage and gotten into why I generally hate the president.
Simply put I think that this whole presidency is a bunch of crap. The white house has already closed its eyes (prior to 9/11) to terrorism to concentrate on missile defense (Reagan's ridiculous Rube Goldberg "Star Wars" system), wiped it's ass with the bill of rights by suspending habeas corpus for terrorism suspects, now it's just generally pissing on the constitution by pretending that checks and balances, written as a mainstay of our political system, don't really matter.
In America nobody, not even the president, is above the law.
This kind of crap is almost enough to make me wish the 747 that hit the Pentagon had gone for the White House instead.
If I don't post again in the next week then you'll know the secret service tracked me down and shipped me to Guantanamo for that last remark.
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I'll disagree (at least somewhat) with your assessment of Bush's speech abilities. While prone to public foibles, I'd argue that he can at least be a very powerful speaker in person.
I saw Mitt Romney speak just a few months ago, and it was pretty standard fare. On the other hand, I remember GWB speaking back when he was running, and believe it or not, he lit the crowd on fire. Best speaker in the history of U.S. presidents? Not even close. But he obviously did something right at some point in time.
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