Jackassery

The president of our nationa is some sort of jackass. I just wanted to point that out to everyone. He uses all sorts of double speak, and double standards, and double entendres. Ok, probably not double entendres, at least not intentionally, but I wanted a third thing to finish off that sentence.

Today he challenged the Democratic Congress on spending in some sort of opinion column in the Wall Street Journal.

Now, call me crazy, but didn't the Republican Congress fuck up the national deficit when they requested $3 trillion? Hmm, yes, I think they did. And, wasn't it President Bush's idea to go to war with Iraq? While not explicitly so, whose idea is it to still be in Iraq?

This is crazy! War costs money. The Iraq war has to be costing us the most money out of any of the ventures the American government is undertaking, but Bush is challenging the Democrats to fix the budget? I don't understand how that even makes sense.

Also, Bush said he wanted Congress to grant him line-item veto power. For those of you who don't remember high school government class very well (and I don't) the line-item veto would allow the President to cut specific spending from the bill without vetoing the whole thing. "Oh, you want to cut spending on all of these things? Well, we can take money from education, and state agencies, but not the Iraq War."

So, you know, letting the President do what he wants. Fuck that. That's what the Supreme Court would say to that too hopefully.

Bush also said that he is worried that the Democratic Congress is in danger of a stalemate if it resorts to 'politics as usual' when trying to 'pass bills that are simply political statements'.

So, when he says 'politics as usual', is her referring to the past 6 years under the Republican Congress when he's been able to do whatever the fuck he wants and Congress just rolls over and lets him do it, while the Democrats are unable to do anything? Yeah, fuck politics as usual. Unless it's Repbulicans.

And what is a political statement? Gay marriage, yes. Ending the war in Iraq? No. Balancing the budget? No. Reducing emissions and improving the energy situation, while searching for alternatives (viable ones, not the shit he talked about last year) to oil, which we also restrict the sale of (fuck those oil fatcats)? That is most definitely not simply a political statement.

I don't think the Democrats are entirely stupid. Sure, they're incompetent when it comes to running elections, which may or may not be directly related to Howard Dean. But I think they realize that if they want to get things done, they need to work with the president.

However, I do think the President is pretty much entirely stupid. I don't know if he understands that he can't strong-arm Congress into doing what he wants.

Democrats are wary of the president, and I think that proves they're not entirely stupid.

One more note: Bush says that there is now the opportunity to build a bipartisan consensus to win the war.

The supposition made here of course is that it was IMPOSSIBLE before. I hate how those lousy Democrats are always trying to lose the war for America. I also can't believe that anyone actually thought that it would be possible to win the war with something like 2 people making decisions on how to do it (and those two were Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld). Or even the entire cabinet. Of course, it's easier to get the job done when you have fewer people to disagree with you. But just because it's easier doesn't make it better.

I'm really hoping that once this Congress is in session, the president will stop talking about how he's going to be different or open to opinions or whatever and that he will actually just fucking do it. But until then I'm going to make fun of how stupid everything he says is because of how he's acted exactly opposite of that in the past.