Solstice birthday greetings
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pola_bear!Dec. 21st, 2007
Bush on Putin: Pot, meet kettle
Dec. 21st, 2007 01:32 pmAt yesterday's White House year-end press conference (see story here), Our Maximum Leader paused between taking potshots at Congressional Democrat leaders for their failure to accomplish much since they took power in January—for which he and his veto pen, not to mention his GOP buddies in that same Congress, were chiefly responsible—to comment on the naming of Russian Federation prexy Vlad Putin as Time's Person of the Year:
"I presume they put him on there because he was a consequential leader," Bush said. "And the fundamental question is, consequential to what end? What will the country look like 10 years from now? My hope, of course, is that Russia is a country that understands there needs to be checks and balances." (Emphasis added.)
Ex-squeeze me?! This from the President who, in just six years of misrule, has done more than any of his predecessors over 2.25 centuries, "Tricky Dick" Nixon included, to undermine, ignore and just plain obliterate the checks and balances between his branch of government and the other two that were so wisely put in place by the Founding Fathers? "Executive privilege" stonewalling of Congress, "signing statements" cherry-picking signed legislation, usurpation of war powers under false pretenses, warrantless wiretapping and e-mail spying on citizens, packing the Supreme Court with wingnuts, political purges at the Justice Dept., gutting habeas corpus and so forth? Yeah, that guy. Naturally, no one in the feckless, gutless D.C. press corps had the presence of mind—or of cojones—to call Junior on his blatant hypocrisy.
"'My,' said the pot to the kettle, 'how black and sooty you are!'" Tuesday, 20 January 2009 cannot possibly arrive soon enough to suit me.
"I presume they put him on there because he was a consequential leader," Bush said. "And the fundamental question is, consequential to what end? What will the country look like 10 years from now? My hope, of course, is that Russia is a country that understands there needs to be checks and balances." (Emphasis added.)
Ex-squeeze me?! This from the President who, in just six years of misrule, has done more than any of his predecessors over 2.25 centuries, "Tricky Dick" Nixon included, to undermine, ignore and just plain obliterate the checks and balances between his branch of government and the other two that were so wisely put in place by the Founding Fathers? "Executive privilege" stonewalling of Congress, "signing statements" cherry-picking signed legislation, usurpation of war powers under false pretenses, warrantless wiretapping and e-mail spying on citizens, packing the Supreme Court with wingnuts, political purges at the Justice Dept., gutting habeas corpus and so forth? Yeah, that guy. Naturally, no one in the feckless, gutless D.C. press corps had the presence of mind—or of cojones—to call Junior on his blatant hypocrisy.
"'My,' said the pot to the kettle, 'how black and sooty you are!'" Tuesday, 20 January 2009 cannot possibly arrive soon enough to suit me.