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outta touch and perhaps outta time?

Aw we can hope can't we? Weren't headlines like today's NY Times Headline "New Poll Finds Bush Pritories Out Of Step With Americans" usually the start of the proverbial landslide toward ouster? For Bush, Sr. and Jimmy Carter, it meant single terms, for Nixon it (and Watergate) led to his resignation. *Once again, the ooone main problem with Bush's impeachment is, Dick Cheney...Dennis Hastsert...it just gets worse as you go down the line...eeeeeek. ANYWAY...it is nontheless a promising headline. (And after waiting for HOURS-30 seconds at a time-yesterday for Red Sox opening day tickets and their being sold out [and the other available days only having tix in the ONE section my mother REFUSES to sit in {right field}] it was nice to see something remotely positive :p)

In fact the whole front page of the NY Times could be its own edition of "things George doesn't want to hear. There's the above CBS/Times poll saying that people are "uneasy" about both the President's domestic and foreign policy and increasingly wary of the Social Security plan, Greenspan saying that the present deficits are "Unsustainable", to the latest on Tom DeLay's trial in Texas, the testimony of which focuses today on fundraising (I suspect that juuust perhaps some Bush campaign people may suddenly be keeping real tight tabs on that today).

And speaking of Bush and DeLay, just as Bush, despite the approval for this plan dropping like hot pants at Studio 54 (there's been a disco exhibit at the NYPL), is out for one last push for the privatization for Social Security, DeLay is looking for his roots (and not just under that dyed head of hair) back in Texas as his case of crazy apparently doesn't quite work anymore back in his district. He's lookin' to sweeten things with Sugar Land (you know I HAD to do it!)

IN THE MEANTIME...another reason Bush might want to try to sweeten things with the nation is that it was announced today that the number of soldiers killed in Iraq has passed 1,500. And this is all while Bush is also saying that getting Osama is his "greatest challenge". well if ya had focused on getting him in the first place rather than jumping into Iraq...but that's just me...and okay, the thousands of people who don't think you have an exit plan or that we should have gone into Iraq in the first place...but who are we to say anything?

And he really should have tried with Hunter S. Thompson. Gonzo may be gone, but his regales and remarks live on such as this one stolen from wonkette this morning (which also has a fantastic photo of George captioned "Hey, look who's French now!"):

[George W. Bush] knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of the Bush dynasty. But he was nothing, he offered nothing, and he promised nothing.

He had no humor. He was insignificant in every way and consequently I didn't pay much attention to him.

But when he passed out in my bathtub, then I noticed him. I'd been in another room, talking to the bright people. I had to have him taken away.

Apparently, this is from when Thompson met Bush at a Superbowl party in '74 (he was still drinkin' back then). The tapes recorded by a friend a few years back saying that he'd never discuss whether or not he'd smoked weed (though Wyclef Jean would thim him "cooler") were one thing, this is outright testimony that yes, he not only drunk heavily, but passed out in a man's bathtub. (bet the Bush people are looking to scrub this story from the internet superhighway..."Would you want your kids to say 'Hey Daddy, you [passed out drunk in a tub, why can't I?]' why do I have a feeling he's already had that conversation with Jenna and Barbara...anyhooo)

and George might want to have a little pep talk with Porter Goss as Goss suddenly has realized that running the CIA is "overwhelming".

he also might want to have a little heart to heart with Paul Wolfowitz who, according to Yahoo News this morning, is no longer in the running for the Wolrd Bank job. I think the best remark had to come from the present head who said not only did the job require a person who cared about the poor and human rights and wasn't "just a good manager", but Mr. Wolfensohn also remarked that he'd put in his son's name and that perhaps there was a mix-up...ooooh poor paaaaaul...



And to lighten things up, here is something I wish they had broadcast HERE live, but of course, I am in New York, and they would not want to appease the Red Sox fans who live here by broadcasting the WORLD CHAMPION Red Sox visiting the White House. Mind you, I can't take Bush talking for more than a couple of minutes, but, there was apparently a moment used for much fodder on Stephanie Miller this morning. Bush noticed that Senator (and big time Sox fan) Kerry was there and remarked how it was ``Good to see you. I like to see Sen. Kerry - except when we're fixin' to debate. {he he he}". Of course, Ms. Miller played this soundbite and later interspersed your favorite debate moments, such as "uh...", through her broadcast. While it is sad to know that Bush now owns a Bush 43 Jersey (Dick Cheney owns a Cheney 2) now-as that really should have been Kerry's moment, I must say that my boys clean up nice :) (and now, time to check score on pre-season game against Cleveland)

Okay, I will give Bush this. He awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to Jackie Robinson posthumously yesterday...it's something Kerry's been pushing for for years and it finally got done.

So while you think about how the Sox might clean up THIS season, KEEP E-MAILING!!! E-mail, fax, call, write your friends and family, the press and your Congressfolk and let them know that you are PAYING ATTENTION!!! And as always, pass it on, pass it on, pass it on.

Peace --Alex

posted by funkweee @ 9:01 AM