Political Rant, Boiled Way Down
Posted on November 25, 2005 Posted by John Scalzi 13 Comments
Somebody correct me if I’m wrong here, but: A major reason the Bush administration is finally allowing Jose Padilla the Constitutional rights it’s been systematically depriving him of for the last three years is because it doesn’t want to discuss how it tortured people to get the information used to implicate him? Holy mother of God in Manolo Blahnik pumps —
[Insert standard Bush administration rant; really, by this time you folks can pretty much guess what I’m going to say here, can’t you? And aren’t you still logy from Thanksgiving and not in a mood to read me fulminate for 1,200 words? Exactly. Wait, here’s the exit ramp]
— and that’s why this entire administration needs to be dunked in clarified butter and served to the hungry, hungry lobsters.
Thank you for reading.
What do you have against lobsters? Myself I think beetles or maggots would be more appropriate.
Lobsters can give you such a pinch.
You’re not wrong.
The Bush administration drives me insane.
Just some interesting quotes from Bush during the 2000 debate:
But we can’t be all things to all people in the world, Jim. And I think that’s where maybe the vice president and I begin to have some differences. I’m worried about overcommitting our military around the world. I want to be judicious in its use. You mentioned Haiti. I wouldn’t have sent troops to Haiti. I didn’t think it was a mission worthwhile. It was a nation building mission, and it was not very successful. It cost us billions, a couple billions of dollars, and I’m not so sure democracy is any better off in Haiti than it was before.
Uh, huh. And…
I just don’t think it’s the role of the United States to walk into a country and say, we do it this way, so should you.
You don’t say?
I mean, we’re going to have kind of a nation building core from America? Absolutely not. Our military is meant to fight and win war. That’s what it’s meant to do. And when it gets overextended, morale drops.
Mr. Bush, I’m surprised. You said all these wonderful things and suddenly, flop, you’re singing a different tune…
Torture is bad. People should have rights. Freedom…stay the course…yup. Heh heh.
I can’t wait to see what history makes of this administration.
Gawd! It’s true! If you do wrong things long enough it simply becomes “just the way things are”.
Our new status quo sucks…I want a different one.
Sorry, Dane. Three years to go yet.
Heh. Lobsters. You fed ’em to the lobsters.
I think the lobsters should be called the articles of impeachment by a simple majority in the House of Representatives….but clarified butter goes along with that as well.
Wonder if rich people are well-marbled?
wait…i don’t really wanna know now.
They also don’t want any Executive Power cases reaching the Supreme Court until Bush has finished packing it.
I’m thinking, instead, a steel cage match pitting lobsters, fire ants, foot-long venomous centipedes, and scorpions against butter-soaked and hogtied administration officials.
I prefer Claw Shrimp
That’s a waste of good butter John. Anything involving that bunch of rednecks should involve ‘possums, a can of lard and a drop cloth.
i am an idiot and i am lead by richard simmons