Indignant Desert Birds » Bush

Sans-Culottes

Punning Pundit — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:34:17 +0000

I try not to post videos without any accompanying commentary. But I figure this video speaks for itself.

Ok, fine. Some commentary

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out

Punning Pundit — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:00:33 +0000

In 24hrs we can begin the serious work of rebuilding from the odious reign of an awful president.

Jackass.

These are the days when anything goes

Punning Pundit — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:00:29 +0000

The lawyers broke the bad news to Obama aides at a briefing Friday morning convened by incoming Deputy White House Counsel Cassandra Butts: Not only are they leaving the modern world to enter a White House where some of the clunky desktop computers still run Windows 2000 but — worst of all — they’ll be forced to surrender a form of communication staffers have relied on for the last two years to communicate with each other, outside allies, and the press.

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To recap: The Lawyers said “You can’t use IM”. Team Obama said “damn, that sucks.” Now there is talk about changing the law.

This is the change we voted for. See, when team Bush learns that something is illegal, or creates a complicated legal situation, they simply ignored the law– sometimes hiring lawyers to tell them that Torture is Legal. Team Obama simply doesn’t do whatever it is that they shouldn’t be doing.

*swoon *

On Bush and Bushisms

Punning Pundit — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:00:53 +0000

My sister just walked into my room and said that she was “a fond of long sentences”. I don’t really care. Sure, I twitted her about it, but it’s not a huge deal. Simmilarly with President Bush. I don’t really care how he said things. It was always his expressed wishes rather than his expressions which bothered me:

“I’m the decider, and I decide what is best. And what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense.”—Washington, D.C., April 18, 2006

The problem here is not “I’m the decider”, childish as that is. The problem with this sentence is that he “decided” to keep “Don Rumsfeld” as “Secretary of Defense”. This was a disastrous idea that cost hundreds of American lives and made American manifestly less safe.

Likewise, I’m nonplussed by the fact that Jeb Bush missed a bit of world history. To me, It’s rather easy to imagine that as a child Jeb heard his father say something, and made an assumption that he never– as an adult– had cause to question. That’s the sort of embarrassing thing that simply happens to everyone from time to time.

Much more worrisome is that Jeb Bush is giving Golden Swords to fellow lawmakers…

Iraqi Journalists have good aim

Punning Pundit — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:52:50 +0000

Unfortunately, Bush ducked. Also unfortunately, we’re supposed to be throwing a (metaphorical) book at him…