Hypocrisy and other Bushisms

Is it not the ultimate in hypocrisy that George W. da Shrub Torture 'm Bush, alleged President of the Nation that Shines the Beacon of Freedom and Christian Values for the Rest of the World, calls on companies to honor their promises of pensions to their employees? Isn't this the guy who wants to gut government promises of Social Security benefits in favor of some Republican privatization scheme benefitting those who already benefit from 401k's, IRA's and other investment tax shelters (myself included)?

Now a quote from Donald Weasel Word Rumsfeld, Administration Prevaricator in Chief: "There is no question that there were people who believed they would be met as liberators, and indeed they were for a period, and still are in a number of parts of the country (Iraq)." Wasn't this guy Secretary of Defense at the time of the invasion? Wasn't he one of those telling us that Iraqis would be throwing flowers and celebrating our arrival? And what about all the insinuations that oil would pay for the war?

Then there's Condi, telling our European friends that since they benefited from our extraordinary rendition, secret prisons and torture of certain high-ranking terrorist suspects, they have no business criticizing us although we can't confirm or deny that anything went on. I was beginning to think better of her. Oh, well. If you can't convince them, swift-boat them, it's the way of the Bushites. Her goal is to say we were bad but since you benefited from our actions, you're bad, too. Somehow she doesn't understand the outrage of Europeans who, unlike the U. S., have scruples and values and believe that the ends don't always justify the means.

Back to the Shrub and his fatal, "You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie," FEMA knew it was screwed shortly after the water started rushing into the Big Puddle. Warnings and pleas from state and local responders as well as FEMA operatives fell on apparently deaf ears as Brownie practiced his spin and the Shrub did, well, wasn't he clearing brush in Crawford at the time? Now how long did they mislead us by telling us they had things under control? And what really happened to those four trillion dollars in homeland security funding? It appears to me that all we've got for our money was a pile of knitting needles and nail clippers and a TSA too busy searching for bombs to search for the type of weapon used in the 9/11 hijackings, much less searching cargo for bombs.

Another day in Republican Washington.