you're pulling my leg, right?

now playing: gordon lightfoot, "summer side of life"


from a cnn article i saw this morning (with some personal thoughts interspersed):

"So far, all we hear is a lot of old bitterness and partisan anger," Bush said. "Anger is not an agenda for the future of America. We are taking on big issues with strength and resolve and determination -- and we stand ready to lead this nation another four years."

of course we're angry. anger is a legitimate reaction to having been wronged. i love this - the opposition is chastized for being soft when they don't react, and labelled as hotheads when they do. wtf?

Bush, who has been the focus of sustained Democratic criticism for months, described Democrats as favoring higher taxes and more bureaucracy -- common GOP themes.

"It's that same old Washington mind-set -- they'll give the orders and you'll pay the bills," Bush said.

hey, folks - don't look now, but the cost of operating the fucking government doesn't change as a result of the incumbent party. you've gotten a couple of bribes passing as tax cuts over the past couple of years, sure...and didja happen to notice that our operating budget went from a surplus to the largest deficit in history?

pardon me, you dumb motherfucker - but it's "that same old washington mindset" right now...you're giving the orders, and putting it on the national credit card, and we - and our children and their children - will be paying the bills.

this is why i'm not running for president...they called howard dean angry - i'd make dean look like the pope on the Angry White Man scale.

the thing that really chafes my ass, though, is that people fall for this shit.


i just had to pass that along...i want to tell you all about last night, but it's early and i have fires to put out.