Bye Bye Bush!

[tampa24]

I figured I would bring up politics given the season we're in. I can't decide if I want to see Bush's last speach tonight or not. Usually as soon as I see him talking I change the channel because the sight of him gets me angry.

Can you believe the way he and Cheney are trying to rewrite history as they walk out the door? Up is down. Right is left. North is South. He had the nerve to say a couple weeks ago: "As I've said many times, there was no direct link between Iraq and 9/11." That's not the tune they were singing as they beat the war drums before the invasion. Bush was telling us how one of Bin Laden's top lieutenants was living the high life in Baghdad under the protection of Saddam Hussein. You'd have thought that Saddam and Bin Laden were hookah smoking buddies.

And the other day at the press conference where he said the federal response to Katrina was really not that bad. Please! It must be us with faulty memories. He acts like it happened 10 or 20 years ago and that we are confused about events. He says that 30,000 people were rescued from rooftops in the first 48 hours. BS! Where does he get that number? And it wsn't FEMA that did most of that work. It was the locals themselves. In fact the few FEMA people who were there were acting like bureaucrats. They told private boat owners who were out in the city streets trying to help that they weren't allowed to help. The reason? Because their boats did not have the proper FEMA paperwork and authorization completed.

I guess what happened at the Superdome and the other Recreation Center where tens of thousands of people sweltered for weeks with no food, no water, no electricity, no A/C, and no functioning toilets doesn't count. One of his top aides said recently that Katrina was the end of the Bush era. He said that the American people lost faith in him at that point and he never recovered from it politically. A majority of those who had supported him up to that point never fully trusted him again. As well they shouldn't have...

Now Darth Vader-"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." - is trying to do the same thing. Cheney says he has a totally clear conscience as he leaves office. He claims he never said that Iraq had WMD. It's that kind of ignorance and arrogance that cost them the congressional elections in 2006 and the presidential election in 2008.

And they will continue to attempt to rewrite history and try to whitewash the disaster of their near dictatorship of the last 8 years. (With the help of a rubber-stamp GOP Congress)

And yes, I know that the GOP was only in control of Congress for 6 of the 8 years. Thank God for that! The administration still acted imperially during the last 2 years. Well I have probably stirred things up enough for a lively exchange of ideas. Thanks guys for letting me get that off my chest.

Bush and Cheney! Don't let the door hit you in the #!&*% on the way out!

 

[slimvintage]

I figured I would bring up politics given the season we're in. I can't decide if I want to see Bush's last speach tonight or not. Usually as soon as I see him talking I change the channel because the sight of him gets me angry.

Can you believe the way he and Cheney are trying to rewrite history as they walk out the door? Up is down. Right is left. North is South. He had the nerve to say a couple weeks ago: "As I've said many times, there was no direct link between Iraq and 9/11." That's not the tune they were singing as they beat the war drums before the invasion. Bush was telling us how one of Bin Laden's top lieutenants was living the high life in Baghdad under the protection of Saddam Hussein. You'd have thought that Saddam and Bin Laden were hookah smoking buddies.

And the other day at the press conference where he said the federal response to Katrina was really not that bad. Please! It must be us with faulty memories. He acts like it happened 10 or 20 years ago and that we are confused about events. He says that 30,000 people were rescued from rooftops in the first 48 hours. BS! Where does he get that number? And it wsn't FEMA that did most of that work. It was the locals themselves. In fact the few FEMA people who were there were acting like bureaucrats. They told private boat owners who were out in the city streets trying to help that they weren't allowed to help. The reason? Because their boats did not have the proper FEMA paperwork and authorization completed.

I guess what happened at the Superdome and the other Recreation Center where tens of thousands of people sweltered for weeks with no food, no water, no electricity, no A/C, and no functioning toilets doesn't count. One of his top aides said recently that Katrina was the end of the Bush era. He said that the American people lost faith in him at that point and he never recovered from it politically. A majority of those who had supported him up to that point never fully trusted him again. As well they shouldn't have...

Now Darth Vader-"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." - is trying to do the same thing. Cheney says he has a totally clear conscience as he leaves office. He claims he never said that Iraq had WMD. It's that kind of ignorance and arrogance that cost them the congressional elections in 2006 and the presidential election in 2008.

And they will continue to attempt to rewrite history and try to whitewash the disaster of their near dictatorship of the last 8 years. (With the help of a rubber-stamp GOP Congress)

And yes, I know that the GOP was only in control of Congress for 6 of the 8 years. Thank God for that! The administration still acted imperially during the last 2 years. Well I have probably stirred things up enough for a lively exchange of ideas. Thanks guys for letting me get that off my chest.

Bush and Cheney! Don't let the door hit you in the #!&*% on the way out!

They're doing their best to get their spin out in the public arena since the move to charge them with serious offenses is already afoot.

 

[Jayman01]

I figured I would bring up politics given the season we're in. I can't decide if I want to see Bush's last speach tonight or not. Usually as soon as I see him talking I change the channel because the sight of him gets me angry.

Can you believe the way he and Cheney are trying to rewrite history as they walk out the door? Up is down. Right is left. North is South. He had the nerve to say a couple weeks ago: "As I've said many times, there was no direct link between Iraq and 9/11." That's not the tune they were singing as they beat the war drums before the invasion. Bush was telling us how one of Bin Laden's top lieutenants was living the high life in Baghdad under the protection of Saddam Hussein. You'd have thought that Saddam and Bin Laden were hookah smoking buddies.

And the other day at the press conference where he said the federal response to Katrina was really not that bad. Please! It must be us with faulty memories. He acts like it happened 10 or 20 years ago and that we are confused about events. He says that 30,000 people were rescued from rooftops in the first 48 hours. BS! Where does he get that number? And it wsn't FEMA that did most of that work. It was the locals themselves. In fact the few FEMA people who were there were acting like bureaucrats. They told private boat owners who were out in the city streets trying to help that they weren't allowed to help. The reason? Because their boats did not have the proper FEMA paperwork and authorization completed.

I guess what happened at the Superdome and the other Recreation Center where tens of thousands of people sweltered for weeks with no food, no water, no electricity, no A/C, and no functioning toilets doesn't count. One of his top aides said recently that Katrina was the end of the Bush era. He said that the American people lost faith in him at that point and he never recovered from it politically. A majority of those who had supported him up to that point never fully trusted him again. As well they shouldn't have...

Now Darth Vader-"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." - is trying to do the same thing. Cheney says he has a totally clear conscience as he leaves office. He claims he never said that Iraq had WMD. It's that kind of ignorance and arrogance that cost them the congressional elections in 2006 and the presidential election in 2008.

And they will continue to attempt to rewrite history and try to whitewash the disaster of their near dictatorship of the last 8 years. (With the help of a rubber-stamp GOP Congress)

And yes, I know that the GOP was only in control of Congress for 6 of the 8 years. Thank God for that! The administration still acted imperially during the last 2 years. Well I have probably stirred things up enough for a lively exchange of ideas. Thanks guys for letting me get that off my chest.

Bush and Cheney! Don't let the door hit you in the #!&*% on the way out!

Wow, great vent!!! I was a Red Crosser after Katrina trying to provide people with food, water, shelter, clothing, medical supplies, and a caring ear. Funny how FEMA , PEMA, and the EMA's always told us we were in the wrong and that we were restricted to where we could provide services.

Bush and Cheney ran a muck, amuck, amuck, a muck, amuck from the time they fixed the elections. My favorite was when Bush wanted to grant all of his staff retroactive pardons for any wrong doings under his administration.

I personally would like to see Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Rumsfeld stand trial for war crimes against the people of Iraq for breeches of the Geneva Convention. Yeah! like that would ever happen...

Ok, I am done with my vent... Now let's hope they don't shut down the Broke Straight Boys Forum. LOL

 

[LesterM]

The sight of George Bush makes me want to gag Sarah Palin comes close. I almost took this very nice man's head off in a club one night because he told me he was a gay republican. I cannot even imagine the depths of self loathing that involves. Because of Prop 8 in Cali and Prop 2 in FL and whatever the hell else they are doing to keep us second class citizens I was hopeful and appalled with a double p on election day I am holding on to hope

 

[Jayman01]

The sight of George Bush makes me want to gag Sarah Palin comes close. I almost took this very nice man's head off in a club one night because he told me he was a gay republican. I cannot even imagine the depths of self loathing that involves. Because of Prop 8 in Cali and Prop 2 in FL and whatever the hell else they are doing to keep us second class citizens I was hopeful and appalled with a double p on election day I am holding on to hope

Gay Republican isn't that an oxymoron?

 

[tampa24]

Gay Republican isn't that an oxymoron?

Yeah. Just like Bush's version of "Compassionate conservatism".

 

[tucsonjayce]

Bush legacy

Legacy of (King) George Bush:

2 Wars both ongoing with no end in sight. Dropped the ball and called it "Mission Accomplished!"

About 4 Trillion dollars of debt.

Having world travelers like me be embarrassed and even ashamed of being an American (ie Both wars and Katrina).

Allowing wiretaps w/o a warrant when one could be obtained from a "secret" court, clearly in violation of the US Constitution.

Allowing the US to commit acts that WE PROSECUTED AS WARCRIMES......
waterboarding is torture.

Curtailing civil rights in the name of national security. Either we are a nation of laws or we are not. I thought that we were.

Proving that the Reagan theory of Trickle down economics doesn't work (for the second time).

Giving away $350 billion dollars to Wall St on a 3 page application with no protections for the public who financed it.

Damaging US foreign policy for god knows how long by playing the 800 lb gorilla and not talking to our allies.

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I probably could go on....... but it's great that you (all) have given me the opportunity to rant and not just yell at the TV

I guess that's enough to get me in trouble with DHS - Homeland Security.... It makes my skin crawl, I keep having images of the "Fatherland and the Gestapo.

All my best to everyone,

Jayce

 

[slimvintage]

Legacy of (King) George Bush:

2 Wars both ongoing with no end in sight. Dropped the ball and called it "Mission Accomplished!"

About 4 Trillion dollars of debt.

Having world travelers like me be embarrassed and even ashamed of being an American (ie Both wars and Katrina).

Allowing wiretaps w/o a warrant when one could be obtained from a "secret" court, clearly in violation of the US Constitution.

Allowing the US to commit acts that WE PROSECUTED AS WARCRIMES......
waterboarding is torture.

Curtailing civil rights in the name of national security. Either we are a nation of laws or we are not. I thought that we were.

Proving that the Reagan theory of Trickle down economics doesn't work (for the second time).

Giving away $350 billion dollars to Wall St on a 3 page application with no protections for the public who financed it.

Damaging US foreign policy for god knows how long by playing the 800 lb gorilla and not talking to our allies.

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I probably could go on....... but it's great that you (all) have given me the opportunity to rant and not just yell at the TV

I guess that's enough to get me in trouble with DHS - Homeland Security.... It makes my skin crawl, I keep having images of the "Fatherland and the Gestapo.

All my best to everyone,

Jayce

Great list. You're not the one who should be in trouble with the DHS.

It takes some gall to try to morph 8 years of Failed Presidency into a patched up script for "Lasting Legacy". It also takes major desperation. They wouldn't have the balls to do it unless they were cowering, shit scared in the Oval Office, waiting to be fucking subpoenaed. Remember Enron? Those guys went out the door in handcuffs still assuring the world that the firm was in good shape.

Our empty-eyed smirking moronic bubba has just committed one more offense against decency, with luck his last, in that sad televised spin on the buggering of a nation. He's like an ape in a zoo that's so dumb that after shitting in its own water dish can't then understand why it gets yesterday's recycled breakfast stuck between it's teeth.

You guys have to excuse me. I'm the asshole who has a thing about bad grammar. Listening to our leader lose his way in the middle of a sentence, make up some dumb version of a word he thinks he's heard, and then just abandon the whole mess and start again, has made me despise him almost as much as all his cruel fuckups against humanity. But I swear it's not because I'm some prissy academic. It's because a man who sounds like he does, with the stunning mediocrity of mind that his speech reflects, shouldn't ever have been put in a position to do the damage he's done to this country. We, as a people, should have known better. At least the second time.

 

[Jayman01]

The American People Spoke Finally

Americans heard that his Protégé McCain was running for office. Everyone rallied together with a unanimous. Hell, no...not again. We went to great lengths to ensure that Obama was elected. I am looking forward to the new leadership.

 

[tampa24]

Great list. You're not the one who should be in trouble with the DHS.

It takes some gall to try to morph 8 years of Failed Presidency into a patched up script for "Lasting Legacy". It also takes major desperation. They wouldn't have the balls to do it unless they were cowering, shit scared in the Oval Office, waiting to be fucking subpoenaed. Remember Enron? Those guys went out the door in handcuffs still assuring the world that the firm was in good shape.

Our empty-eyed smirking moronic bubba has just committed one more offense against decency, with luck his last, in that sad televised spin on the buggering of a nation. He's like an ape in a zoo that's so dumb that after shitting in its own water dish can't then understand why it gets yesterday's recycled breakfast stuck between it's teeth.

You guys have to excuse me. I'm the asshole who has a thing about bad grammar. Listening to our leader lose his way in the middle of a sentence, make up some dumb version of a word he thinks he's heard, and then just abandon the whole mess and start again, has made me despise him almost as much as all his cruel fuckups against humanity. But I swear it's not because I'm some prissy academic. It's because a man who sounds like he does, with the stunning mediocrity of mind that his speech reflects, shouldn't ever have been put in a position to do the damage he's done to this country. We, as a people, should have known better. At least the second time.

Well said Slim! But don't hold back. What do you REALLY think about him?

 

[slimvintage]

Ott?

Well said Slim! But don't hold back. What do you REALLY think about him?

I willy fink he's just a pussycat wiv big long pwitty wite wiskies on his cute muzziewuzzle an' a lovely tailywailie swishing fwom side to side.

 

[tucsonjayce]

Hmmmmmmmmmm

I willy fink he's just a pussycat wiv big long pwitty wite wiskies on his cute muzziewuzzle an' a lovely tailywailie swishing fwom side to side.

Looks like Slim needs a bowl of cream Meaw! And maybe to have his claws clipped....

Love ya Slim! Keep me laughing (and thinking.....)

Yours,

Jayce

 

[slimvintage]

Looks like Slim needs a bowl of cream Meaw! And maybe to have his claws clipped....

Love ya Slim! Keep me laughing (and thinking.....)

Yours,

Jayce

Love you too, a lot

 

[tampa24]

Wow, great vent!!! I was a Red Crosser after Katrina trying to provide people with food, water, shelter, clothing, medical supplies, and a caring ear. Funny how FEMA , PEMA, and the EMA's always told us we were in the wrong and that we were restricted to where we could provide services.

Bush and Cheney ran a muck, amuck, amuck, a muck, amuck from the time they fixed the elections. My favorite was when Bush wanted to grant all of his staff retroactive pardons for any wrong doings under his administration.

I personally would like to see Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Rumsfeld stand trial for war crimes against the people of Iraq for breeches of the Geneva Convention. Yeah! like that would ever happen...

Ok, I am done with my vent... Now let's hope they don't shut down the Broke Straight Boys Forum. LOL

I love your response as well as Slim's. Of course I would like to see justice served for all the illegality of the administration. One reason we will never see full justice is because from top to bottom this administration is so corrupt that it would take YEARS of congressional and Senate hearings to get it sorted out. And the lawyers that people like Cheney can hire with all of his blood money from Halliburton can drag it out for decades.

Thanks to the mess that Dubya, Cheney, Rummy, et al. have left us, we need the government putting as much of its attention as possible on fixing things. They know that Congress won't have the time and energy to pursue anything but the most egregious offenses. And they may not even be successful at that much. The legislative branch is going to be too busy trying to keep everything from falling down around our ears.

Did you guys hear about that asshole high up in the "Civil Rights" Division who in his emails is one of the most racist people you'd ever not want to meet? He enforced a total conservative litmus test on anyone he hired. Which is illegal of course. Gasp! Surprise... He said to a fellow co-worker. "Yeah, at my last law firm me and 3 other friends formed a vast right-wing conspiracy." "I've got an interview with a lefty today. I'm not going to hire him of course. I'm just giving him the interview as a courtesy" Other emails had him berating a black woman lawyer who works elsewhere in the C.R.D. He was badmouthing her and saying that she writes in ebonics.

So if we are black, gay, bi, or any other minority we had parts of the "Civil Rights" Division being run by a bunch of racist ultra-conservative white guys. Who knew besides Bush that the best thing for oppressed minorities was to hand over parts of the Civil Rights Division to a bunch of bigoted angry WASPS from the John Birch Society?

Bush was never smart enough to be president. Then he wanted to project his ignorance onto us. When we disagreed with his awful decisions he would roll his eyes and say that WE were the ones who "didn't get it". He was in way over his head from day One. Right after he, Katherine Harris, Jeb and the GOP stole the election in Florida. (His brother Jeb was governor of Florida at the time.) Like Slim alluded to, Bush stands up there as he departs with his deer-in-the-headlights, ape-like visage and acts totally clueless that his reign has been nothing short of a disaster. Good Riddance!

 

[slimvintage]

I love your response as well as Slim's. Of course I would like to see justice served for all the illegality of the administration. One reason we will never see full justice is because from top to bottom this administration is so corrupt that it would take YEARS of congressional and Senate hearings to get it sorted out. And the lawyers that people like Cheney can hire with all of his blood money from Halliburton can drag it out for decades.

Thanks to the mess that Dubya, Cheney, Rummy, et al. have left us, we need the government putting as much of its attention as possible on fixing things. They know that Congress won't have the time and energy to pursue anything but the most egregious offenses. And they may not even be successful at that much. The legislative branch is going to be too busy trying to keep everything from falling down around our ears.

Did you guys hear about that asshole high up in the "Civil Rights" Division who in his emails is one of the most racist people you'd ever not want to meet? He enforced a total conservative litmus test on anyone he hired. Which is illegal of course. Gasp! Surprise... He said to a fellow co-worker. "Yeah, at my last law firm me and 3 other friends formed a vast right-wing conspiracy." "I've got an interview with a lefty today. I'm not going to hire him of course. I'm just giving him the interview as a courtesy" Other emails had him berating a black woman lawyer who works elsewhere in the C.R.D. He was badmouthing her and saying that she writes in ebonics.

So if we are black, gay, bi, or any other minority we had parts of the "Civil Rights" Division being run by a bunch of racist ultra-conservative white guys. Who knew besides Bush that the best thing for oppressed minorities was to hand over parts of the Civil Rights Division to a bunch of bigoted angry WASPS from the John Birch Society?

Bush was never smart enough to be president. Then he wanted to project his ignorance onto us. When we disagreed with his awful decisions he would roll his eyes and say that WE were the ones who "didn't get it". He was in way over his head from day One. Right after he, Katherine Harris, Jeb and the GOP stole the election in Florida. (His brother Jeb was governor of Florida at the time.) Like Slim alluded to, Bush stands up there as he departs with his deer-in-the-headlights, ape-like visage and acts totally clueless that his reign has been nothing short of a disaster. Good Riddance!

Tampa, pick me for your team

 

[Jayman01]

I love your response as well as Slim's. Of course I would like to see justice served for all the illegality of the administration. One reason we will never see full justice is because from top to bottom this administration is so corrupt that it would take YEARS of congressional and Senate hearings to get it sorted out. And the lawyers that people like Cheney can hire with all of his blood money from Halliburton can drag it out for decades.

Thanks to the mess that Dubya, Cheney, Rummy, et al. have left us, we need the government putting as much of its attention as possible on fixing things. They know that Congress won't have the time and energy to pursue anything but the most egregious offenses. And they may not even be successful at that much. The legislative branch is going to be too busy trying to keep everything from falling down around our ears.

Did you guys hear about that asshole high up in the "Civil Rights" Division who in his emails is one of the most racist people you'd ever not want to meet? He enforced a total conservative litmus test on anyone he hired. Which is illegal of course. Gasp! Surprise... He said to a fellow co-worker. "Yeah, at my last law firm me and 3 other friends formed a vast right-wing conspiracy." "I've got an interview with a lefty today. I'm not going to hire him of course. I'm just giving him the interview as a courtesy" Other emails had him berating a black woman lawyer who works elsewhere in the C.R.D. He was badmouthing her and saying that she writes in ebonics.

So if we are black, gay, bi, or any other minority we had parts of the "Civil Rights" Division being run by a bunch of racist ultra-conservative white guys. Who knew besides Bush that the best thing for oppressed minorities was to hand over parts of the Civil Rights Division to a bunch of bigoted angry WASPS from the John Birch Society?

Bush was never smart enough to be president. Then he wanted to project his ignorance onto us. When we disagreed with his awful decisions he would roll his eyes and say that WE were the ones who "didn't get it". He was in way over his head from day One. Right after he, Katherine Harris, Jeb and the GOP stole the election in Florida. (His brother Jeb was governor of Florida at the time.) Like Slim alluded to, Bush stands up there as he departs with his deer-in-the-headlights, ape-like visage and acts totally clueless that his reign has been nothing short of a disaster. Good Riddance!

Isn't that always the way it is... You hire a yes man to be the public face for a department that could care less about the issue. Sounds very Republican to me. Bush just put someone in the post that can find ways to oil the squeaky wheel while pulling the proverbial rug on the cash flow out from under the program.

 

[Jayman01]

Doesn't the Oath of Office say something like,...will FAITHFULLY execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, PRESERVE, DEFEND and PROTECT the Constitution of these United States, from ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC, so help me God"? The way I see it, we have him by the short grey hairs right there! I believe he took that oath with NO intention of following thru, or he would have thrown himself in prison on the second day of his administration!

Markymark,

LMAO

 

[tampa24]

This is a lot more fun than screaming at the TV set.

 

[slimvintage]

Let's get it all in before this afternoon

This is a lot more fun than screaming at the TV set.

Tampa, we should have been dissin' Bushy all this time on here! I had a ball on another site during the campaign, a gay contact site but with a politics category, literature, health, art, trivia, x-rated etc. And there were big Bush defenders!!! And a bunch of McCain fans!!! It was bliss...

I met my best friend on that site. He's in some of the photos on my page.

 

[tampa24]

Tampa, we should have been dissin' Bushy all this time on here! I had a ball on another site during the campaign, a gay contact site but with a politics category, literature, health, art, trivia, x-rated etc. And there were big Bush defenders!!! And a bunch of McCain fans!!! It was bliss...

I met my best friend on that site. He's in some of the photos on my page.

While I'm definitely glad that he is finally leaving office I'm sure there will still be things to talk about. All along in his administration we have been seeing all of these red flags of major corruption, malfeasance and just pure incompetence. Once a new team with a fresh set of eyes goes into all these government agencies I'm sure they will have some stories to tell.

Just wait until new accountants start looking at the books and new administrators look over email logs. Once they start turning over the rocks in the bureaucracies run by all these political appointees it's not going to be pretty. Then there will be all the tell all books written by people who were complicit in covering up alot of things and then claiming to be appalled by them. So this soap opera will have some legs going into the rest of this year at least.