Charlie Gibson seemed confident he was asking the definitive question when he insisted the candidates clarify how they were going to cut the deficit in half in four years.
Cheers to Gibson for pointing out the elephant in the room that people behind “battling green eye shades” refuse to discuss. Yet was he sincerely interested or was it just payback for when George charged him like a shop-a-holic who just had his credit card cut-in-two and Charlie meekly hunkered down into his seat like an abused step-child? Neither candidate answered the question and Gibson just let it linger as if to say tag, you’re it.
It’s not so much how George & Co. have used their power to fund every pipe dream their sponsors have ever nursed over the years that I find so incredibly interesting but how unquestioningly and hypocritically their fanatical supporters cheer on their own demise.
Yes, give us permanent war!
Hell No! You better not raise our taxes!
I refuse to support a president who would spend my tax dollars for abortions!
And from the mouth of George:
“I hear there’s rumors on the Internets (sic) that we’re going to have a draft. We’re not going to have a draft, period. The all- volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well. It works when we make sure they’ve got housing, like we have done in the last military budgets.”
It really makes perfect sense.
“I signed a bill called the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.
In other words, if you’re a mom and you’re pregnant and you get killed, the murderer gets tried for two cases, not just one.”
–George “Culture of Life” Bush
See. A murderer would be deterred by two life sentences. It has nothing to do with coming in the back door to put abortion doctors on trial. Wink. Wink.
“I also think we ought to continue to have good adoption law as an alternative to abortion.”
–George “Hospitable Society” Bush
But no adoption rights for those damned lesbians and gays. We need arrogant, blood-thirsty soldiers who strut like me; god-fearin’ Christians who unnerstan’ the impotence of fightin’ the terruhists because you know this war is going to go on for decades. We don’t wanna be raisin’ no girlie men.
“And we need to promote maternity group homes, which my administration has done.”
Hell yeah! On to the orphanages! We can start their military training early. Give ’em hand grenade pins as pacifiers, let ’em suck on red-white-and-blue blankies, cuddle a stuffed doll that looks like George, or probably Arnie, by the time we have them up and running.
When these kids we care so much about turn 16 we can shuffle them off to Iraq, Syria, and Iran because in 10 or so years where else will a poor kid be able to find a job except in the service, and besides, these charity cases should repay the nation that protected their right to life! Well okay, maybe not liberty exactly, but we’ll have that someday just as soon as they kill the millions who hate us for our freedom!
A caller to C-Span this morning said one of the teenagers who watched the debate with her thought George “came across like a gang leader.”
Yeah. I agree. And if his base wants permanent war but not the bother of fighting it or paying for it, they’ll have to be getting new recruits somewhere. Wink. Wink.