Wednesday - July 15, 2009

TWENTY TWO WEEKS AND COUNTING

Had George W. Bush made a clumsy joke at the expense of the Special Olympics (viz., helping the intellectually handicapped), would you have dismissed it as a non-issue?

If George W. Bush had given an iPod to the Queen of England containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought “how cute?”

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and referred to “the Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as the understandable slip of a Harvard law grad?

If George W. Bush had appointed people to high places whose flawed character impaired them to the extent that they had difficulty remembering to file, much less pay, their income taxes, would you have dismissed this as minor cock-up that will all work out for the betterment of the nation?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had taken a cue from Hugo Chavez and politically dragooned a Republican Congress to allocate 5.6 billion dollars for the creation of a civilian volunteer security force as strong and well equipped as the regular Army, mandating that this quasi-military force fall under his personal command and control, would you have been concerned?

If George W. Bush had proposed doubling the size of the national debt, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed doubling the national debt again over the next 10 years, would you have dismissed it with a “tsk, tsk”?

If George W. Bush pushed the passage of a $785 billion stimulus bill and promised transparent tracking to reveal precisely how monies from the bill would be spent, then postponed oversight until 2010, would you approve or would you think something was “fishy”?

If Bush had promised 48 hour advance posting of the same bill on the internet but only released it to the public two hours before congressional approval, wouldn’t you have questioned his ethics?

If Bush’s White House Staff had spent over $300,000 flying Air Force One low over New York (for a publicity photo fly-by) scaring the hell out of the city’s residents, wouldn’t you have expected Bush to make the pictures public? Would you have approved? Obama won’t give them up, yet he saw fit to release the secret “torture memos”.

If George W. Bush had been “addicted” to using a TelePrompter, and seldom gave a speech without having one, would you have approved? Would you think he was intelligent?

If George W. Bush had pre-approved/pre-picked the list of reporters allowed to ask questions at his press conferences and refused to call on the correspondent from MSNBC (FOX with Obama), would you have approved? Is that a fair and balanced news conference?

If George W. Bush and a Republican Congress had given hundreds of millions of dollars to a group (the right-wing equivalent of ACORN) after its members had been convicted of voter registration fraud, would you approve of them to doing the 2010 Census, which will determine congressional districts for 10 years? Will you trust ACORN in 2010?

Would you have approved of George W. Bush moving the census from the Department of Commerce into the White House and putting his Chief of Staff in control of the counting?

In the aftermath of 9-11, if you knew George W. Bush prohibited the CIA from water boarding Islamic extremists who possessed information we needed to prevent attacks that could potentially killed millions of Americans, would you have approved?

Oddly enough, Barack Obama has committed all these faux pas in just 22 weeks—so brace yourself, sit back and enjoy, we still have approximately three years and eight months remaining for more surprises.  Or probably seven years plus, because with the help of the press, we continue to look the other way and don’t see where we are headed!

another great find from Carol!

Posted by Drew458     on 07/15/2009 at 09:56 PM   
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