-- Ronald Reagan in his recently published diaries, May 17, 1986.
"A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do well
son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the
political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the
time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has
never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic
and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That
looks like easy work."
Well, it looks like the poor old senile Gipper got at least one thing right in his second term. He called TGDSOBGWB "the ne'er-do well" oldest son of GHWB a "shiftless... so-called kid" who had "never had a real job."
And now, for the rest of the story go over the fold. .
Well crap! It turns out the Gipper didn't say any of this after all. Pure "urban myth." But, it turns out, a myth that a really lot of people, including me, want to believe, since like George Carlin says about god in his rant on religion, TGDSOBGWB and his adminstration have been more like what you might expect from the incompetent "work of a temp with a bad attitude!" He, they, have given us war, flood, death, pestulence, distruction and suffering on an almost cosmic scale.
And like Christians in George Carlin's rant, The Religious Right and the fools and criminals who have taken over the Repugnican Party, the Talibangelists and GOPocrites have done their best to creat a president all powerful, all knowing and all wise just like the "Invisable man who lives in the sky," and who always needs MONEY! Oh, and while he loves you, and all the rest of the "saved," TGDSOBGWB is more than willing to send you and your children and grandchildren to a place where, if you don't believe his bullshit, you and they will burn and scream and suffer, if not for all eternity, for at least the rest of your natural lives.
Now let's look at why I so wanted to accept the Gipper's story. Obviously it is because little Georgie Bush and his man Karl Rove once sold the liars and thieves and criminals, and a large number of just plain fools, in the Repugnican Party on the geatest bullshit story ever told!
By the time he became the sorriest excuse for a US President that anyone has ever seen, 'the kid" had had a few "real jobs", somehow, like many rich men's sons, always starting far above his very limited capacities: driving a small oil company into bankruptcy, being a figurehead Gov. of Texas, being the "general manager" of a baseball team that one of his daddy's rich pals gave him stock in, and finally, Junior's FIRST REALLY REAL JOB, and a REALLLYYY BIGGG ONE, as the President of the United States! And he became the Decider! And Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of The United States of America, which had been until he took office, the richest and most powerful nation on earth. Sort of the Roman Empire of its day. And every day for the past almost 7 years, he becomes ever more our very own version of the mad emperor, Nero, fiddling while our country burns and our children die!
A few days ago, there was a report in the MSM that for the first time in many decades, the number of maternal deaths in this country has risen, meaning more of our daughters are dying as a result of childbirth and its complications. And hard on the heels of this, is the news that there were now more than 47 millions Americans with no health insurance, many more than 50% of them uninsured women and and 15 million uninsured children, and that our new born death rate is only 42 places below the best nations in the world at taking care of our/their new borns.
Wow! We're Number Forty Second! But somehow that just doesn't have the oomph that a flagwaving yell of "We're Number One! We're Number One!" does. Or is it just me?
Now, TGDSOBGWB is threatening to veto the SCHIP legislation intended insure as many as 6 million of those uninsured kids.
And all the while our young men and women continue to die, and to suffer life changing injuries on the mean streets, alleyways and roadsides of Iraq.
All this while TGDSOBGWB asks for another 50 BILLION for the seemingly endless War in Iraq... oh, excuse me, the must win WAR ON TERROR! and additional tax cuts for the richest 0.15% of our population!
George Carlin says that he really, REALLY tried to believe in God, but it just never worked for him. So he decided to believe in and worship the Sun. But he doesn't pray to the SUN. He thinks that would be a little arrogant. Nor does he pray to God, who is supposed to have a devine plan.
He used to pray to God, but it never seemed to work. So now, he prays to Joe Pesche. Why? Because Joe Pesche is a good actor and he looks like a fellow who can get things done. And once, after he prayed to God to take care of his neighbor with a barking dog, he decided to try Joe Pesche, and Joe took care of that neighbor with just one try...with a haseball bat!
When TGDSOBGWB assumed the office of the POTUS in 2001 after the stolen election was handed to him by his dad's rich pals, just like he had been given all his oother jobs, many of us prayed that he might really become a "COMPASSIONATE CONSERVITIVE" and a "UNITER, NOT A DIVIDER." Looks like we should have prayed to Joe Pesche with his baseball bat!
Message to the US House of Representatives! IMPEACH TGDSOBGWB NOW!