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Bob Rumson: Vote For Me Or Die! Die! Die!
Oct 19th
Reprising an earlier post, here’s what I was referring to:
Dick Cheney isn’t real, people. He’s actually Bob Rumson, the evil, manipulative candidate played by Richard Dreyfuss in Rob Reiner’s and Aaron Sorkin’s 1995 film The American President, somehow enchanted and brought to life.
Seriously, now. Richard Dreyfuss made so many little choices that look so much like Cheney, I’m more than half-convinced he was slyly playing Cheney, who was already notoriously evil, if not quite so well-known. If not, in retrospect his instincts were… scary.
Yes, that’s the word.
PS — welcome to those of you clicking over from The Washington Monthly (or anyplace else who links to this entry). This site is only a few days old, picking up from my guest posts at This Modern World (where Tom Tomorrow continues to post great stuff) and not everything is organized yet, so if you’d like to see more news here, click “Home/Main Blog” on your left, not “News.” Or just click here.
Strange, yes. But if there’s anything Bush proves, it’s that there’s a fine line between vast incompetence and brilliant surrealism.
If you like the polls, they change every day, with results posted as jpgs for easy emailing. Enjoy!
Military.com
Oct 19th
My best friend in the whole wide world (not to mention a hell of a writer) wants to point everybody over to Military.com, a website which ain’t exactly a bastion of liberal anti-war activists.
And yet these are some of the top headlines over there:
Marines Show Frustration In Iraq, which begins with this:
“We are losing guys left and right,” says Cpl. Cody King, 20, of Phoenix, Ariz. “All we are doing around here is getting blown up,” he says, not hiding his anger.
Reservists Doubt Their Combat Readiness:
Check out the lead sentence of Troops Experience Difficulties In Voting:
And further down, in the featured articles, we even learn that all the high-tech advantages field commanders supposedly had during Shock’n'Awe
Dick Cheney: Vote For Me Or Die! Die! Die!
Oct 19th
Bob Rumson, er, Dick Cheney is at it again.
Only we, who ignored a daily briefing called Osama Bin Laden Determined To Strike In US, can protect you from the terrorists.
Only we, who have been so focused on Iraq — which had no WMD — and thus allowed North Korea and Iran to join the nuclear club, can protect you from the nuclear threat.
Only we, who were completely unable to anticipate that Iraq would spiral horribly out of control, have the vision to rule this country safely.
And there are actually people — about 100 million of them, apparently — who can believe this bullshit.
I say this again: AAAAAAGGGGGGHHH.
The Vision Thing
Oct 19th
Tom over at This Modern World (this site’s alma mater) points out today’s NYT piece reviewing just how not-reality-based the Bush plan for Iraq always was:
That was supposed to be over a year ago.
They had no f***ing clue what was coming. None. And we’re supposed to keep trusting them with our future.
Cut to the present, where we learn Bush has refused to allow UN Muslim peacekeepers in Iraq to help safeguard the upcoming not-reality-based elections. Why? Simply because they wouldn’t have been directly under U.S. control. Because, y’know, we’re doing such a bang-up job on our own.
At least two other countries plan to withdraw their forces earlier than scheduled.
But don’t forget Poland!
Oh, wait. Now they’re pissed off at us, too.
30 Seconds Of Liberal Pride
Oct 19th
Nice little video over at Green Towel. Not sure what they’re doing with it, but it’s a refreshing break from the current fight to remember all the others we’ve won over the years, and how much they’ve meant.
