State of the Onion
Published on 1 Feb 2006 at 11:40 am.
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It’s no longer possible to identify satire in America. After listening to the President’s speech, I honestly felt that John Stewart should have delivered the response.
Anyone ready to celebrate the results of free elections in the Palestinian territory, for example?
Or believe that a president with crude oil running through his veins (to say nothing of his bank account) is talking “seriously” about reducing our dependence on oil?
Or that we are making “progress” in Iraq, where the deaths keep mounting, along with the bribes, corruption, and fundamentalist opposition?
Or the success of our war on terrorism, which has predictably resulted in our own freedom being measurably curtailed?
I honestly can’t believe that Bush can argue with a straight face that his domestic eavesdropping is legal. Of course, with Samuel Alito on the Supreme Court, our understanding of “legal” is certainly going to change.
Bush’s presidency reminds me of nothing so much as “The Hunting of the Snark”:
“Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice: That alone should encourage the crew. Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.”
By the way, if you can no longer keep track of the scandals that would have led to the impeachment of any previous Administration in recent memory, Salon has developed a handy checklist of the 34 Bush Administration crimes currently under investigation. They recommend clipping it and sending it to Senator Harry Reid.
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