Arbusto

Why has no one mentioned that "Arbusto" is a really dumb name for a company. I don't recall anyone--anyone!--mentioning it as a joke in any way during the first presidential election that Bush "won."

Yeah, yeah, it means "Bush" in Spanish. But why not call it Bush Oil? He's an American, dammit! Why translate into Spanish? But Arbusto also sounds like a pirate blackjack dealer... "23...Arrrrr Busto" Plus it sounds like "Bust." So why is anyone no surprised that someone whose biggest business venture was named "Bust" and failed is not really that good of a businessman, much less president?

Current GOP Candidates and other comments

Science:
Gov. Huckabee was dismissive of the idea that it should matter whether a president believes in evolution. Me, I think that a president ought to be able to pass a junior high science class. I'm happy for him that he believes in God, but I'd just like to know if he believes in, you know, facts. Rudy appears to be laughing at him. I'm sure he and his gay dogwalkers believe in evolution, no problem.

Brownback says that if "faith and science are at odds with each other, check your faith or check your science." You can't really "check" faith, which is kind of the point of faith, but whatever: the world is clearly coming to an end anyway

Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Sam Brownback of Kansas both admitted Tuesday night they voted to authorize the U.S. military invasion of Iraq without reading the formal National Intelligence Estimate in advance. Nice. So I guess they admitted to reading everything else, right, even the minor legislation.

Signs of the times
Yesterday, Bush headlined a fundraiser for the New Jersey state GOP, where donors could pay $5,000 to pose for a photo with the Commander in Chief. Just a year ago for a grip and grin with Bush.GOP officials around the country charged at least $10,000 a pop for presidential photo op, a bargain compared to the $25,000-a-flash Bush commanded during some Republican National Committee fund-raisers back in 2000 and 2004. Maybe it's just a Jersey thing. Although Bush's poll numbers are low nationally, the president is particularly unpopular in New Jersey, where his approval rating is just 25 percent according to one recent poll. In fact, Bush hadn't campaigned in the state since 2005. Last summer, the GOP relied instead on other administration emissaries like Karl Rove, Vice President Dick Cheney and former President George H.W. Bush. They all campaigned for Tom Kean Jr., who ran for (and ultimately lost) New Jersey's U.S. Senate seat. For the record, a photo with Rove cost donors $1,000, while pictures with Cheney and Bush's dad were priced at $5,000. But that's peanuts. In June 2006, donors at a Kean fundraiser paid $10,000 a piece for a photo op with First Lady Laura Bush. At least President Bush can feel good about one thing: Wednesday's event took in about $675,000 for New Jersey Republicans, not a bad haul in a state where most people would rather get a souvenir pic of the president walking out the door.

Tucker Carlson: I want to impeach Bush!

And so did George Pataki. I don't have a link to it, I just watched it on TV... But their gist was this: George Bush is an idiot. At his press conference, besides threatening David Gregory, he had two main messages:

1. We must stay in Iraq; it's life or death; we will lose to Terror if we leave Iraq
2. We're outta there as soon as the Iraqis ask

Yeah, one really follows from the others. We're going to allow 200 guys who make our congress seem an awesome tool of effective, decisive action to tell us when we're going to pull out. But our congress can't tell us the same thing. Hmmn.

Oh, and a bird pooped on him during the press conference.

Our President is a Drunk

What other conclusion can be reached? He walks like someone who is pretending not to be drunk. He is completely incoherent. "Polls go poof" "There is ample time to debate this war."

He's fucking drunk. He's an idiot. He's a criminal. He has no clue what he's doing, what life is about, anything. He really believes his own shit... thinks that God talks to him. We're so screwed.

His best friend in the world is Gonzo Gonzales. That should be enough said.

The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. This is insane.

Troop Levels

I did a little research and although I am still looking, here's the deal, which won't surprise anyone (except him): There were lots and lots of trained Iraqis. And the definition of "trained" varied a lot. But the level stayed around 100,000 men for a long time. But, somehow, it had always increased to 100,000. Interestingly, the number of "fully trained batallions" went down over the course of a year, but each time was reported as a step forward by the knee-pad wearing press.

By the way, if you Yahoo! "bush liar idiot" the first link is to the White House. Google is somewhat more intuitive, and gives us something about his approval falling to 33%.

Lying

Lies and the lying liars... I haven't done any research on this, but I have a better memory than most people, and this is what I remember:
In 2004, Presnint Bush told us in several speeches and debates that there were already more than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers trained and ready to go. And when Kerry said otherwise, the Presnint chided him for being anti-American. And then we heard again that there were 100,000. And then again. Why hasn't someone (and maybe that should be me) put this into a timeline, with each time that he said it and effectively contradicted himself. Aren't those lies? Even if it was an error at some point, when he keeps reciting the number, shouldn't he have just enough brain cells to remember that he just told us the same thing and therefore it wasn't right the first time?

Just asking.