Maybe Bush is a fan of:
Isn’t the FEC renowned for its ineffectuality? Or do I misremember?
My biggest complaint with the FEC is that decisions usually are slow in coming, and the laws they have to enforce are often poorly thought. I have no beef with their fairness.
Even when its chairman was Chief Counsel to the Republican National Committee, and prior to that served as General Counsel of the Bush-Cheney Transition Team and General Counsel of the Bush-Cheney 2000 Presidential Campaign?
I made no reference to their fairness, just their ineffectuality. That their decisions have been “slow in coming,” as you say, has been at the heart of that: if the FEC decides in late 2009 that a candidate for office in 2008 stepped over the line, it has no effect on the race: by then, s/he’s either won or lost, and the campaign as a legal entity may well have closed up shop.
Well, their current chairman is a union attorney. Do you see me complaining?
Since corporations and unions are often regarded as opposites, you’d be opening up a lot of ground if you did. You’d disqualify most of Bushworld from just about everything.
IIRC, Bush 1.0 was a union member and flashed his union card at some campaign stump in '88.
The International Brotherhood of Spies, Spooks, and Covert Operatives, local 447, right?
Heh. No, I think it was something like the machinist’s union or oil workers union.
Rich, pampered yuppie scum have a union? Who gnu?
Might have been. But I think you might be remembering Cheney, who mentions his membership in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers from time to time.
Of course.
CHENEY IN 2000: “It’s alive! It’s alive!”
No, Cheney wasn’t running in 1988.
Meh, I was union briefly when I worked for A&P.
Yup. Their demi-god, aka, Ronnie “bonzo” Reagan was one, too.
I heard something on NPR today that took me aback. Unfortunately, it was not a direct quote, so I have NO idea if the veracity of it. A reporter on All Things Considered did a bit on the press conference that Bush gave today. He was asked about the possibility of Putin retaining his power. They cut to Bush speaking, and then the reporter said that Bush has also “joked” about his remaining in power.
But again, I dont’ have a cite or a quote. In fact, for the past 2 weeks, I’ve been on a news “break”. Anyone know what this refers to?
And for the record: no President should joke about that. I found it iin the worst on taste (if it indeed happened).
I have to say that most GOPers I know (here and in RL) are flunking the smell test (aka the Clinton test) big time. The shit that goes down that is explained away, dismissed, denied, and ignored amazes me. No Democratic President would be able to get away with it. Like Bush’s statement that we don’t torture today. BS. You can play semantic games to appease your conscience, but the poor treatment and torture of prisoners in and out of Guantonamo and Abu Graib and the like are doing MORE to fuel terrorism than anything else. The disingenousness of it all sickens me. Take back your party, GOPers–we need decent Republicans. <rant over>
But his pacemaker was!
I’ve not heard the segment on NPR (and likely will not). But it could be a reference to a quip he made in November of 2000, while the country was trying to get its electoral ducks in a row. An interviewer mentioned the complexity of the problem, and he responded with (paraphrased), “It would be a whole lot easier if this was a dictatorship. Just so long as I was the dictator.” Smirk. Breathy, uncomfortable, “laughing-at-one’s-own-joke” laugh.
I heard the NPR news story, too, and it chilled me for a bit, then I thought: These guys can’t control Iraq and Afghanistan, two countries which combined are smaller than the US and have fewer people in them, they can’t fix New Orleans, and inspite of all that think they’d be able to successfully turn America (with it’s imploding housing market and population disgruntled over the war) into a dictatorship with Shrub at the helm? Ye gads! Do they have a rude awakening coming!