tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post112490342344278873..comments2023-11-03T04:39:50.760-05:00Comments on Galley Slaves: Just Asking . . .Jonathan V. Lasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17426165197358366129noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1125075379092055352005-08-26T11:56:00.000-05:002005-08-26T11:56:00.000-05:00Actually, I will probably be wearing my Jaworski t...Actually, I will probably be wearing my Jaworski throwback jersey and I'll either be at one of the 2 big sports bars in Chucktown. So if you want to administer a beating look for the guy in the Jaws jersey who is 6'5 275.<BR/><BR/>Layta spankyThat Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18186963883126843896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1125027244172466602005-08-25T22:34:00.000-05:002005-08-25T22:34:00.000-05:00that's the best you could do? You go from calling...that's the best you could do? You go from calling me a pussy and threatening to "administer a beating" to calling me illterate. At this rate you'll be moving onto contructive criticism and then editing my posts for grammar f' ups.<BR/><BR/>Thanks spankyThat Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18186963883126843896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1124937809185510002005-08-24T21:43:00.000-05:002005-08-24T21:43:00.000-05:00COnsider me a conservative who, while not going of...COnsider me a conservative who, while not going off the reservation is realizing that Dubya, hasnt been on the reservation with us for awhile.That Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18186963883126843896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1124919537669496142005-08-24T16:38:00.000-05:002005-08-24T16:38:00.000-05:00Rhetoric isn't the problem. In fact, the banality ...Rhetoric isn't the problem. In fact, the banality of Bush's extemp remarks has increased every year since 2000. He used to speak like an Ivy League educated businessman; now he mostly sounds like a department supervisor at Wal-Mart. Which is to say, he either suffers from a massively degenerative brain disease, or he's practicing a deliberately "down home" speaking style just like he turns his Texas accent on and off to suit his audience. And, for whatever reason, lots of voters respond positively when Bush condescends to them by talking dumb. <BR/><BR/>The problem is that Bush's actions don't even live up to his own dumbed-down talk. Bush says he wants to control spending, but he signs into law every pork-laden appropriations bill the borrow-and-spend Republicans in Congress send his way. He promised to bring Bin Laden to justice, or justice to Bin Laden, but the mastermind of al-Qaeda remains a free man. He said we had to invade Iraq to secure WMD, but his war plans left the suspected WMD sites unsecured for weeks after the fall of Baghdad. He promised a new mission for NASA to lay the foundation of permanent human settlement of space, but then hasn't provided any of the funding NASA needs to change directions. He says he's for family values, but the abortion rate, which was at a modern low in Clinton's last year, keeps rising under Bush. He promised to save small business and family farms from the estate tax, but his bankruptcy reform will cost more merchants and farmers their livelihoods than the estate tax will save. He says Social Security is nearing crisis, but his only proposal would worsen the program's finances. <BR/><BR/>The military is close to broken and it will be several years before we're able to fight any new wars. (We'd better hope that the force of prayer alone is enough to deter China from attacking Taiwan in the meantime.) The government's finances are so deeply in debt that the question is no longer whether federal taxes will have to go way up, it's when and how much. The pace of global Islamist terrorist attacks is increasing. Bush isn't even promising victory in Iraq any more; instead he says we'll give up the fight against terrorists there just as soon as Iraqis can take over for us. ("Our strategy can be summed up this way: As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.")<BR/><BR/>On issue after issue, Bush gets the marketing aspects of policy right, but when it comes time to deliver, there's nothing there. He's an executive who cannot execute. He's just not up to the job of being president. He's that guy, and every office has one, who's really friendly and who has good ideas but who just can't get the work done. <BR/><BR/>In an eight-year presidency, you can't hide from your record forever. Fail enough times and you're just not going to be popular anymore -- a lesson Bush should have learned in his first months in office, before the Sept. 11 attacks gave him a do-over on his first term.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1124911853090460522005-08-24T14:30:00.000-05:002005-08-24T14:30:00.000-05:00He just doesn't give a sh*t about these kinds of t...He just doesn't give a sh*t about these kinds of things until a couple of months before the election. Only then does he start to turn it on. So we're in for another year of blah, until September 2006.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com