mjh's blog

Top Ten George W. Bush Complaints About ”Fahrenheit 9/11”

CBS | Late Show Top Ten Archive: June 29, 2004

10. That actor who played the President was totally unconvincing
9. It oversimplified the way I stole the election
8. Too many of them fancy college-boy words
7. If Michael Moore had waited a few months, he could have included the part where I get him deported
6. Didn’t have one of them hilarious monkeys who smoke cigarettes and gives people the finger
5. Of all Michael Moore’s accusations, only 97% are true
4. Not sure – - I passed out after a piece of popcorn lodged in my windpipe
3. Where the hell was Spider-man?
2. Couldn’t hear most of the movie over Cheney’s foul mouth
1. I thought this was supposed to be about Dodgeball

(via NewMexiKen)

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

Clever Heather?

href="http://joemonahansnewmexico.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_joemonahansnewmexico_archive.html#108857026554441437">New Mexico Politics with

Joe Monahan

[S]ources in Washington report Wilson has cast [three] votes this month that are clearly aimed at positioning

herself as an ”independent” voice for the ABQ district and not the ”rubber stamp” for the Prez her Democratic opponent

Richard Romero accuses her of being.

”Heather was one of only three Republicans out of 220 to vote for the CIA cuts. It was a clear

break with the leadership and came on the heels of her strong words condemning the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by our military. With Romero

hammering her for being a tool of (House Majority Leader) Delay and the hard-core conservatives, she is clearly positioning herself so

when she calls herself an independent she will have the ammo to back up the claim,” analyzed a Washington politico close to the

action. …

Washington insiders say Heather may not run into trouble with her GOP bosses over her votes because, as one of them put

it, ”they may very well be providing her cover. Her vote was not needed on any of these measures. They know what she needs to put

Romero away and it would not be surprising if they are giving these votes their blessing. I also don’t think these votes will damage

her any with rank and file Republicans”

Whatever the case, Wilson knows that the Iraq war and the President are not awash in

popularity among swing voters in ABQ.She hopes her June declaration of independence will echo on the campaign trail come October forcing

Romero to dig deeper in explaining his rubber stamp argument. Should we call her ”Clever Heather?”

Three votes do not an independent make. mjh

href="http://wilsonwatch.org/">WilsonWatch.org | Heather Wilson (R-NM-1)

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

Effing Great!

As of this writing, my blog entry is

number 5 out of 14,300 for queries to Google for dick cheney says go fuck yourself. Curiously,

that entry is only 85 out of 65,100 for ‘cheney go f yourself’. And my DumpBushBlog entry on this doesn’t get listed at all, as far as

I can see. mjh

href="http://www.edgewiseblog.com/mjh/000329.htm">mjh’s Blog: Cheney says: Go Fuck Yourself, America!

mjh’s Dump Bush weBlog: Same Old Campaign Slogan

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

www.RedefeatBush.com

ReDefeat Bush – His Own Right: George W. Bush and the Collapse of the Conservative Consensus

[W]hat is increasingly troubling to many of them is that Bush is undermining the very foundations of conservatism, preparing the structure for its imminent collapse. …

At its best, conservatism has three pillars that anchor it to the bedrock of American politics: that conservatives are realists who see the world as it is rather than through an idealistic prism, that they are fiscally responsible and disciplined, and that they are people who are free of bombast and pretense, who speak clearly and honestly. Happily for the American left, George W. Bush is thoroughly undermining each of those pillars. Not only is Bush increasingly likely to lose to his Democratic opponent in the fall, but he’s fracturing the conservative coalition and causing at least one crucial member – the commercial news media, which loves a winner above all else – to start to defect….

Finally, conservatives say they hate pretense and doublespeak and love clarity and honestly above all else. Despite his calls for humility during his campaign, arrogance and unreason have become the cornerstones of the Bush presidency. …

Bush is going to have to face his failures and answer serious questions by serious people. Few Americans can answer yes to the famous question posed by Ronald Reagan in 1980, are you better off now than you were four years ago? For the rest of us, the evidence in the news, our bank accounts and our daily lives points instead to the obvious conclusion that the nation has tried conservatism and that it is now time, after just a short four year reign, for something completely different.

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

Ridiculously Short Fiction

Results of The Alibi’s Ridiculously Short Fiction Contest have been

published. See the following link for all the entries. The next three links are to my entries (the first of which got one of the

Honorable Mentions — cool! Thanks, Alibi.) It is interesting to note the tone common to most of these short pieces. mjh

alibi . june 24 – 30, 2004

The Alibi’s Ridiculously Short Fiction Contest

mjh’s Blog: Thinking Today about

Tomorrow’s Museum of Yesterday

mjh’s

Blog: August Two Moons

mjh’s Blog: No

Contest

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

Bush in NM (a battleground state)

New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan

For the first time in three surveys, soon-to-be Dem Prez nominee John Kerry cracks the magic 50% mark in the interactive New Mexico Zogby poll. My insiders are tracking the numbers and report in that Kerry gets 50%, Bush garners 43% and Ralph Nader just 1% in the poll conducted June 14-20 and that sports a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4%.

”The bad news in this poll is how Bush is running with Democrats. He gets only 12%. He must bring that number up, or he is going to lose this state,” predicted one analyst who is studying the numbers.

Bush does get a solid 93% among NM Republican voters but this is a Democratic state and there simply are not enough R’s here for him to carry the day. ”Bush needs to get a quarter or more of the Democrats if he is gong to win in November. Another concern for him is his weakening support in this poll in smaller cities and rural areas. That’s the first time we have seen that,” commented my deep insider.

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

Reagan Legacy

alibi . june 24 – 30, 2004

At his father’s burial service, Ronald Reagan Jr., said: ”Dad was … a deeply, unabashedly religious man. But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.” The statement clearly rebuked the current Bush administration’s faith-based governmental policies, and days later Salon scored an exclusive interview with the famous dog show host that has since made it difficult for Bush to wrap himself in the Reagan legacy.

”My father was a man — that’s the difference between him and Bush,” Reagan told Salon. ”To paraphrase Jack Palance, my father crapped bigger ones than George Bush.”

”The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he’s in now,” Reagan continued. ”Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the ’80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father’s — these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive and just plain corrupt. I don’t trust these people.”

It wasn’t the first time Ron Jr. skewered Dubya in the press. During the 2000 GOP convention he told the Washington Post: ”The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What’s his accomplishment? That he’s no longer an obnoxious drunk?”

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...