The State of the Onion...
From the moment the President walked into the south wing of the Capitol building until he left the Chambers of the House of Representatives, I couldn't help but laugh myself nearly to tears at the theatrics that ensued for nearly an hour. Mr. Bush made a grand entrance no different from a pro-bowl bound quarterback, he shook hands and kissed the cheeks of a hysterically cheering crowd as he made his way to the podium. Before the scowl of Dick Cheney and the glazed look of the rotund Dennis Hastert, the CEO President laid out a litany of lies and false promises befitting of a shareholder's meeting of WorldCom or Enron.
He gave tribute to a lost icon of civil liberties and urged congress to pass legislation to threaten the liberties of all American's. He honored a fallen marine and rebuked members of congress that work to prevent similar fates of other soldiers. He hailed his track record on AIDS and Malaria and then condemned the stem cell efforts to save thousands from Parkinson's, Sickle Cell Anemia, Hodgkin's, Diabetes, Leukemia, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer, and a whole host of other ailments that he could neither understand nor pronounce.
After every third sentence the audience on his left, composed of republicans, stood simultaneously and applauded for extreme durations that were reminiscent of applauding awarded to Josef Stalin. Bush would stand erect and wink with a smirk toward some obscure member of the audience (if not his wife, then most likely Satan). The praise of the puppets didn't seem to provide Bush the confidence to speak without stuttering and jumbling his words.
The puppet master even caught the audience off guard. He proposed important earmark reform to funnel money away from special interest spending. To that no congressman except Senator John McCain clapped, all other sat in contemptuous silence feeling betrayed. Bush asserted that to make progress on such a reform he would require the line item veto. The republicans got the joke, understood the bait and switch and stood proud of their grand deceptor and applauded wildly. It would not be the republican earmarks that would be threatened by his veto, but only those of the democratic party. They celebrated his proposal to further consolidate the corporate interest in the republican party.
Mr. Bush submitted to the floor his American Competativeness Initiative to advance the study in math and science, but only through high school, as though the competitiveness of America need only depend upon basic geometry and biology. His cuts to funding of college and graduate students will remain in effect. He proposed to provide $136 billion to make the American business environment more conducive to dominating global competition. So other companies like MCI will receive billions for data and network projects and produce nothing in return.
The former oil businessman criticized American's for their addiction to petroleum and announced an Advanced Energy Initiative that would replace 75% of our oil with coal, nuclear, ethanol and hydrogen fuels. On the topic of addiction, he stated that drug use was down 19% since 2001, but his figures don't include the ever increasing addictions to prescription drugs. Addicts like Rush Limbaugh hooked on Oxicontin, Percocet, Percodan and Vicodin can rest assure that they aren't targeted in any Bush Administration war on drugs.
He invoked the creator when speaking of the gift of life, proposed saving those of faith from HIV and AIDS, chastised those that want to expand the institute of marriage beyond that description found in the bible, and admonished radical Islam for holding in such low regard those that don't adhere to their faith. He spoke of a revolution of conscience and improving the character of our country, and yet failed to recollect the lies he told to get the country into a war that has killed over two thousand soldiers, twenty thousand civilians and thousands of insurgents, he didn't mention his reallocation of the tax burden upon the meek of the country, he failed to cite the growing hatred between Americans of differing views, and he avoided the topic of the world's disappointment with the American conscience and character.
As he piled on each layer of bullshit, I became more and more repulsed by his blatant manipulation and distortion of reality. He still referred to his lie that Saddam had acquired weapons of mass destruction. His corporate before citizen priority was still well intact despite the obvious failures and exploitations of privatization. He ignored the wide spread corruption of elected officials in Washington by special interests. He deliberately avoided the issue of campaign finance reform despite the overwhelming need to make politicians side with their constituents rather than their corporate donors. The layers solidified and formed a noxious new dome of lies, large enough to fill Capitol's 180 foot Rotunda, and served to insulate the puppet master and his puppets through the coming mid-term elections.
He gave tribute to a lost icon of civil liberties and urged congress to pass legislation to threaten the liberties of all American's. He honored a fallen marine and rebuked members of congress that work to prevent similar fates of other soldiers. He hailed his track record on AIDS and Malaria and then condemned the stem cell efforts to save thousands from Parkinson's, Sickle Cell Anemia, Hodgkin's, Diabetes, Leukemia, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer, and a whole host of other ailments that he could neither understand nor pronounce.
After every third sentence the audience on his left, composed of republicans, stood simultaneously and applauded for extreme durations that were reminiscent of applauding awarded to Josef Stalin. Bush would stand erect and wink with a smirk toward some obscure member of the audience (if not his wife, then most likely Satan). The praise of the puppets didn't seem to provide Bush the confidence to speak without stuttering and jumbling his words.
The puppet master even caught the audience off guard. He proposed important earmark reform to funnel money away from special interest spending. To that no congressman except Senator John McCain clapped, all other sat in contemptuous silence feeling betrayed. Bush asserted that to make progress on such a reform he would require the line item veto. The republicans got the joke, understood the bait and switch and stood proud of their grand deceptor and applauded wildly. It would not be the republican earmarks that would be threatened by his veto, but only those of the democratic party. They celebrated his proposal to further consolidate the corporate interest in the republican party.
Mr. Bush submitted to the floor his American Competativeness Initiative to advance the study in math and science, but only through high school, as though the competitiveness of America need only depend upon basic geometry and biology. His cuts to funding of college and graduate students will remain in effect. He proposed to provide $136 billion to make the American business environment more conducive to dominating global competition. So other companies like MCI will receive billions for data and network projects and produce nothing in return.
The former oil businessman criticized American's for their addiction to petroleum and announced an Advanced Energy Initiative that would replace 75% of our oil with coal, nuclear, ethanol and hydrogen fuels. On the topic of addiction, he stated that drug use was down 19% since 2001, but his figures don't include the ever increasing addictions to prescription drugs. Addicts like Rush Limbaugh hooked on Oxicontin, Percocet, Percodan and Vicodin can rest assure that they aren't targeted in any Bush Administration war on drugs.
He invoked the creator when speaking of the gift of life, proposed saving those of faith from HIV and AIDS, chastised those that want to expand the institute of marriage beyond that description found in the bible, and admonished radical Islam for holding in such low regard those that don't adhere to their faith. He spoke of a revolution of conscience and improving the character of our country, and yet failed to recollect the lies he told to get the country into a war that has killed over two thousand soldiers, twenty thousand civilians and thousands of insurgents, he didn't mention his reallocation of the tax burden upon the meek of the country, he failed to cite the growing hatred between Americans of differing views, and he avoided the topic of the world's disappointment with the American conscience and character.
As he piled on each layer of bullshit, I became more and more repulsed by his blatant manipulation and distortion of reality. He still referred to his lie that Saddam had acquired weapons of mass destruction. His corporate before citizen priority was still well intact despite the obvious failures and exploitations of privatization. He ignored the wide spread corruption of elected officials in Washington by special interests. He deliberately avoided the issue of campaign finance reform despite the overwhelming need to make politicians side with their constituents rather than their corporate donors. The layers solidified and formed a noxious new dome of lies, large enough to fill Capitol's 180 foot Rotunda, and served to insulate the puppet master and his puppets through the coming mid-term elections.
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