Letting Go of the Anger (keeping the sarcasm)

I wish I were a listmaker and had kept count of the grievances I've had about the Bush administration over the years. It would be interesting, in these heady first days of lame duckacy, to revisit and reflect on it over a nice bottle of wine for a few hours. Most certainly it would have been a long list.

If I had to choose just one, I think it's the rudeness that has always peeved me the most. All of them, with the exception of Condi Rice, are appallingly lacking in the social graces.

Below is a link to video of George W. in 2000 on the David Letterman Show. In it, he is taking his customary liberty with peoples' personal spaces to a ridiculous end by wiping his glasses on a show staffer's jacket during a commercial break.

He doesn't ask permission, let alone even acknowledge the woman. And the blank look on his face indicates that there was absolutely no consideration whatsoever that this woman might consider an oily patch of George Bush DNA on her jacket repulsive. Which, I shudderingly hasten to add, it is.

Classy guy!


And here's cuddly old Dick cheney waiting to catch the bus to a Bears game:



Wait, no, I'm sorry. That is Dick Cheney while he is REPRESENTING AMERICA at a ceremony of international leaders gathered to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of AUSCHWITZ. Somber and oozing with respect, huh?

To be fair, though, his fancy knitted cap is embroidered: "Staff 2001". Siiiiigh. You'd think, wouldn't you, that at least Lynnn would have had some innate sense of decorum to take Dick aside and tell him that he was dressed a bit innappropriately. And like an asshole. But clearly not. For fuck's sake, what is wrong with these people? Oh, and I would be remiss if I didn't add that shooting one's friend in the face is also a bit of a faux pas.


In the latest example of Bush Admininstration rude thoughtlessness, we have Donald "Mr. Condescending" Rumsfeld from a few days ago. These are his parting words to us about the Iraq war during his deliciously uncomfortable farewell press conference:


"It is not well known, it is not well understood, it is complex for people to comprehend"


Oh Donald, now that's just plain mean. I'll grant you that we were dumb enough to elect George W. Bush twice, but it's unfair for you to take the next leap and assume that average citizens are a bunch of window licking retards. If you'll recall, you creeps gave us at least 4 different reasons for going to war in Iraq and most of them turned out to be absolute lies. And the one that you've decided to stick with is proving to have a rather lofty and unnatainable finish line. Yet whenever we ask you to explain to us once again, pretty please, why we're over there, you get defensive and irritated and insinuate that we must want the terrorists to win.

What nerve you have to blame the American people for failing to understand the war when it's your fault that we don't. How can we possibly understand when we've never been told the truth?

You, and the rest of those barnyard animals you call an administration, have a very bad habit of blaming everyone but yourselves when things go badly. And it's for that very reason that voters came out in droves and you were so deservedly stripped of your power. 'Cos, see, we may be stupid, but we're not that stupid.