Little Lord Pontchartrain
mikethemadbiologist | August 19, 2006The best description of George Walker Bush ever penned (or at least for the next 48 hours which is forever in internet time):
Dubya is a white-knuckling, emotionally dead dry-drunk halfwit with the attention span of a massively over-caffeinated mayfly who believes in all the fun, flight-suit-related bits about being Preznit and leaves the hard thinky stuff to Dick.
There is no one better who skewers the modern conservative than driftglass.
mikethemadbiologist | August 1, 2006maha agrees with me that the current Republican leadership is suffering from Peter Pan syndrome:
If there's one thing I'm sure of about our President, it's that he has never encountered his limitations. He is as oblivious to his limitations as a spoon is oblivious to soup. He's oblivious to his dark side; the dragon has been bought off; he mistakes his own inhumanity for virtue. He's still a boy, in other words. And I believe the same is true of Dick and Rummy.
And while we're on the subject of Big Famous Bloggers who agree with me, Matt Yglesias also thinks that Little Lord Pontchartrain's…
mikethemadbiologist | August 1, 2006...that conservatives don't have to face reality, they can just invent their own? DeLong writes about one delusional tax 'plan' (italics mine):
There is a serious issue here: When one does policy evaluation of the proposals of an administration, does one evaluate the effects of the policies that the administration has proposed? Or does one evaluate the effects of the policies that the administration has proposed plus policies that the administration has not proposed, shows no inclination to propose, but that one wishes it would propose?
I think the italicized part explains how so many have…
mikethemadbiologist | July 25, 2006
Yes, I know. Saying this is like picking on the stupid kid. But that's the whole point. Cenk Uygur writes:
If someone is this ignorant, they're usually embarrassed and try not to talk much. But this guy is so dumb he has no idea how dumb he is. This sounds like a conversation you might have with a child, a mentally challenged child. Johnny, do you know how big Russia is? How about China?
This would all be unfortunate if George was your dentist, or worse yet, your accountant. But he is the leader of the free world. This man makes life or death decisions every day. If you say you're not…
mikethemadbiologist | July 24, 2006Apparently, the Iraqis have moved to "Plan B", which is the dissolution of the Iraqi state. From the Independent:
The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, meets Tony Blair in London today as violence in Iraq reaches a new crescendo and senior Iraqi officials say the break up of the country is inevitable.
A car bomb in a market in the Shia stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad yesterday killed 34 people and wounded a further 60 and was followed by a second bomb in the same area two hours later that left a further eight dead. Another car bomb outside a court house in Kirkuk killed a further 20…