rabican1
01-27-2004, 02:09 PM
More information for you right wing A$$holes
(1-24) It was called the "State of the Union" speech. Wouldn't it have been nice if the media had treated Bush's insane rant the way they treated Howard Dean's post-caucus pep rally? Perhaps if Bush had let loose with an involuntarily howl after uttering each of his outrageous lies:
Cut the deficit in half while making the tax cut for the rich permanent? AAARRRRGGGHHH!
Weapons hunter David Kay found "dozens of weapons programs" in Iraq? EEEEAAAAGGGHHH!
Jobs are on the rise? KAAAACCKKK!!
Perhaps it is the media who are insane -- deluded that if they ignore this president's lies and simply put them out there as though there were nothing remarkable about them the media will be finally be blessed by the right as "unbiased."
Let us consider the lies each in turn:
"We can cut the deficit in half over five years." There is no economist outside of Bush's circle of radical right Norquists who believe anything even close to this. Next year's deficit is on track to hit $500 billion --- by far the biggest in history. Locking in Bush's tax cuts for the rich guarantees ever bigger deficits, year after year.
"Jobs are on the rise." Bush made this outrageous claim after a month that saw the U.S. economy create a pitiful 1,000 net new jobs and after which 309,000 unemployed Americans dropped out of the official "Unemployment Rate" simply because their jobless benefits ran out and the Republicans in Congress refused to extend them. Saying "jobs are on the rise" is like saying "Christopher Reeve is going out for a walk" because he recently managed to wiggle his index finger.
"Job training is important, and so is job creation. We must continue to pursue an aggressive, pro-growth economic agenda." Bush has cut job training in each of his three years as president. And whatever his "pro-growth economic agenda" is (more tax cuts for the rich?), it has resulted in a net loss of some 3-million jobs since he took office.h economic agenda.
On weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and the imminent need to invade, Bush claimed: "already the Kay report identified dozens of weapons of mass destruction-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations. Had we failed to act, the dictator's weapons of mass destruction programs would continue to this day." A bare 72 hours after Bush made this claim, David Kay resigned and told reporters, "I don't think they existed. What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last (1991) Gulf War, and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s." Comedian Al Franken suggested that was Bush meant by "program activities" might have been a cache of coloring books.
"Some want to undermine the No Child Left Behind Act by weakening standards and accountability." Bush himself has systematically weakened the program by under-funding it to the tune of $7.4-billion as of this year. The end result is, schools in poor neighborhoods get tagged as "inferior" are are then punished with a loss of funding...but get no extra help to pull themselves up to Bush's arbitrary standards. This was the plan all along: destroy public education in America's inner cities and drive poor children into religious schools where they are to be indoctrinated in the dogma of the religious right.
Health care: "...the rising costs of medical care and health insurance. Members of Congress, we must work together to help control those costs and extend the benefits of modern medicine throughout our country." This is an especially colossal lie, a real steamy stinker of a lie. Just two weeks ago, Bush signed a Republican-designed Medicare bill that guarantees by law that pharmaceutical companies can continue to charge two, three, five times as much for prescription drugs here as they sell those same drugs for across the border in Canada. And Bush's own Health Secretary supports the current policy that makes it a crime for elderly patients to travel to Canada to buy their prescriptions at far cheaper prices.
"I know that some people question if America is really in a war at all. They view terrorism more as a crime -- a problem to be solved mainly with law enforcement and indictments...it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers." We're supposed to think of the various Democrats running against him. But note that Bush doesn't name any of these squishy-soft "some people" because there aren't any. Maybe there is a an International Law professor somewhere in France who thinks this way but Bush cannot name one elected official, just one, who doesn't support what the U.S. did in Afghanistan to directly attack al Queda and their Italian hosts. Any of the 9 Democrats running - including Dennis Kucinich - would have done exactly the same: attack Afghanistan and clean out the Tabliban. And if Bush is slyly referring to the Clinton Administration, Clinton didn't serve terrorists with subpeonas...he sent out FBI teams to kidnap them and bring them back to the U.S. for trial.
I could go on, point by point by point. Almost every paragraph is a lie or a deception or a sly bit of misdirection. But human endurance has limits. Bush had a whole team of radical right liars carefully crafting his speech. I am but a lone screed. That Bush delivered the speech without crawling around on all fours barking like a dog was, I suppose, a plus for his being "presidential." Even I have to give him that.
(1-24) It was called the "State of the Union" speech. Wouldn't it have been nice if the media had treated Bush's insane rant the way they treated Howard Dean's post-caucus pep rally? Perhaps if Bush had let loose with an involuntarily howl after uttering each of his outrageous lies:
Cut the deficit in half while making the tax cut for the rich permanent? AAARRRRGGGHHH!
Weapons hunter David Kay found "dozens of weapons programs" in Iraq? EEEEAAAAGGGHHH!
Jobs are on the rise? KAAAACCKKK!!
Perhaps it is the media who are insane -- deluded that if they ignore this president's lies and simply put them out there as though there were nothing remarkable about them the media will be finally be blessed by the right as "unbiased."
Let us consider the lies each in turn:
"We can cut the deficit in half over five years." There is no economist outside of Bush's circle of radical right Norquists who believe anything even close to this. Next year's deficit is on track to hit $500 billion --- by far the biggest in history. Locking in Bush's tax cuts for the rich guarantees ever bigger deficits, year after year.
"Jobs are on the rise." Bush made this outrageous claim after a month that saw the U.S. economy create a pitiful 1,000 net new jobs and after which 309,000 unemployed Americans dropped out of the official "Unemployment Rate" simply because their jobless benefits ran out and the Republicans in Congress refused to extend them. Saying "jobs are on the rise" is like saying "Christopher Reeve is going out for a walk" because he recently managed to wiggle his index finger.
"Job training is important, and so is job creation. We must continue to pursue an aggressive, pro-growth economic agenda." Bush has cut job training in each of his three years as president. And whatever his "pro-growth economic agenda" is (more tax cuts for the rich?), it has resulted in a net loss of some 3-million jobs since he took office.h economic agenda.
On weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and the imminent need to invade, Bush claimed: "already the Kay report identified dozens of weapons of mass destruction-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations. Had we failed to act, the dictator's weapons of mass destruction programs would continue to this day." A bare 72 hours after Bush made this claim, David Kay resigned and told reporters, "I don't think they existed. What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last (1991) Gulf War, and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s." Comedian Al Franken suggested that was Bush meant by "program activities" might have been a cache of coloring books.
"Some want to undermine the No Child Left Behind Act by weakening standards and accountability." Bush himself has systematically weakened the program by under-funding it to the tune of $7.4-billion as of this year. The end result is, schools in poor neighborhoods get tagged as "inferior" are are then punished with a loss of funding...but get no extra help to pull themselves up to Bush's arbitrary standards. This was the plan all along: destroy public education in America's inner cities and drive poor children into religious schools where they are to be indoctrinated in the dogma of the religious right.
Health care: "...the rising costs of medical care and health insurance. Members of Congress, we must work together to help control those costs and extend the benefits of modern medicine throughout our country." This is an especially colossal lie, a real steamy stinker of a lie. Just two weeks ago, Bush signed a Republican-designed Medicare bill that guarantees by law that pharmaceutical companies can continue to charge two, three, five times as much for prescription drugs here as they sell those same drugs for across the border in Canada. And Bush's own Health Secretary supports the current policy that makes it a crime for elderly patients to travel to Canada to buy their prescriptions at far cheaper prices.
"I know that some people question if America is really in a war at all. They view terrorism more as a crime -- a problem to be solved mainly with law enforcement and indictments...it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers." We're supposed to think of the various Democrats running against him. But note that Bush doesn't name any of these squishy-soft "some people" because there aren't any. Maybe there is a an International Law professor somewhere in France who thinks this way but Bush cannot name one elected official, just one, who doesn't support what the U.S. did in Afghanistan to directly attack al Queda and their Italian hosts. Any of the 9 Democrats running - including Dennis Kucinich - would have done exactly the same: attack Afghanistan and clean out the Tabliban. And if Bush is slyly referring to the Clinton Administration, Clinton didn't serve terrorists with subpeonas...he sent out FBI teams to kidnap them and bring them back to the U.S. for trial.
I could go on, point by point by point. Almost every paragraph is a lie or a deception or a sly bit of misdirection. But human endurance has limits. Bush had a whole team of radical right liars carefully crafting his speech. I am but a lone screed. That Bush delivered the speech without crawling around on all fours barking like a dog was, I suppose, a plus for his being "presidential." Even I have to give him that.