Um, Mr. President, Can We Have a Talk...?
I don't want to get into the details of President Bush's mugging of House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner on the intel reform bill. But there are two other actions of the White House this week that do quite a bit more than prompt a raised eyebrow.
One was his lavishing $20 million in direct aid on the PLO as it prepares for the masquerade of January 9th "presidential elections" to replace Yasser Arafat. Brother Mirengoff at Powerline aptly described this as "a corporate bailout for terrorists" after the late, enflamed, bloodthirsty old kingpin sucked all the previous boodle we and others had poured into their coffers drier than the surface of the Moon. For heaven's sake, Marwan Barghouti, the Jew-killer who is in the slammer serving five consecutive life terms, is still thinking about throwing his hat into the so-called "ring." How could George W. Bush possibly dignify such corrupt totalitarianist farce by deigning to acknowledge it, much less subsidize it?
But this is even worse.
"The United States expressed confidence in Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday and said he should remain at the helm of the United Nations, an abrupt turnaround from its refusal to back him last week after a U.S. senator called for his resignation. The statement from U.S. Ambassador John Danforth, who said he was speaking on behalf of the Bush Administration, aligned the United States with the 190 other members of the United Nations."
Somebody help me understand this. We didn't care what the "190 other members of the United Nations" thought when we invaded Iraq to uphold eighteen Security Council Resolutions against the regime of Saddam Hussein, but that same Bush Administration folds like a K-Mart deck chair over the opinion, expressed quite reasonably by Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) and echoed by other Hill GOPers, that Secretary-General Kofi Annan is a corrupt, authoritarian hack and accessory to genocide in Sudan, Iraq, and elsewhere who should be thrown in jail at the very least for the appalling crimes he has committed and as a downpayment on the complete fumigation and rehabilitation of Turtle Bay, assuming such a thing is even possible.
Nope, I still don't get it. I mean, it's not as if the President had to echo Senator Coleman, but couldn't he have kept mum and let his silence speak for him? Coleman might just as well drop his investigation if even the Bush White House is going to kneecap him. And the Bush White House might as well implement John Kerry's entire foreign policy if it's going to bow down at King Kofi's throne after all the meddling crap it's taken from that crooked pseudopotentate and the den of weasels, thugs, and dictators he represents.
As omens go, this one is far short of encouraging.
One was his lavishing $20 million in direct aid on the PLO as it prepares for the masquerade of January 9th "presidential elections" to replace Yasser Arafat. Brother Mirengoff at Powerline aptly described this as "a corporate bailout for terrorists" after the late, enflamed, bloodthirsty old kingpin sucked all the previous boodle we and others had poured into their coffers drier than the surface of the Moon. For heaven's sake, Marwan Barghouti, the Jew-killer who is in the slammer serving five consecutive life terms, is still thinking about throwing his hat into the so-called "ring." How could George W. Bush possibly dignify such corrupt totalitarianist farce by deigning to acknowledge it, much less subsidize it?
But this is even worse.
"The United States expressed confidence in Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday and said he should remain at the helm of the United Nations, an abrupt turnaround from its refusal to back him last week after a U.S. senator called for his resignation. The statement from U.S. Ambassador John Danforth, who said he was speaking on behalf of the Bush Administration, aligned the United States with the 190 other members of the United Nations."
Somebody help me understand this. We didn't care what the "190 other members of the United Nations" thought when we invaded Iraq to uphold eighteen Security Council Resolutions against the regime of Saddam Hussein, but that same Bush Administration folds like a K-Mart deck chair over the opinion, expressed quite reasonably by Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) and echoed by other Hill GOPers, that Secretary-General Kofi Annan is a corrupt, authoritarian hack and accessory to genocide in Sudan, Iraq, and elsewhere who should be thrown in jail at the very least for the appalling crimes he has committed and as a downpayment on the complete fumigation and rehabilitation of Turtle Bay, assuming such a thing is even possible.
Nope, I still don't get it. I mean, it's not as if the President had to echo Senator Coleman, but couldn't he have kept mum and let his silence speak for him? Coleman might just as well drop his investigation if even the Bush White House is going to kneecap him. And the Bush White House might as well implement John Kerry's entire foreign policy if it's going to bow down at King Kofi's throne after all the meddling crap it's taken from that crooked pseudopotentate and the den of weasels, thugs, and dictators he represents.
As omens go, this one is far short of encouraging.
posted by JASmius at 10:12 PM
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