I try not to be a partison Bush basher, but THIS just struck me as too funny.
The very idea of GWB founding a “think tank” sounds like it came out of the Onion. I wonder what the qualifications would be to work there? No higher than a B- grade point average and membership in a fraternity perhaps?
I spelled the word “partisan” with an O in my original post. Maybe Dan Quayle and I could share a cubicle at Bush’s new business and work as spellcheckers…
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Well, he did say it’ll be for “young scholars”, so I’m guessing like 5th grade and younger.
Ah, he’ll just go on holiday and forget to feed 'em, and when he gets back they’ll all be floating belly-up and stinking up the Oval Office.
Not just a think tank – one to talk about “freedom and liberty”. I fucking hate Bush and his cronies for starting to turn those into buzzwords.
I’m going to give you some thoughts about what I’m thinking about…- Bush 1/26/2006
Then a light or microphone fixture began to swing in front of him, I think even inanimate objects are beginning to cringe at Bush’s words.
I love how the sight of the moving microphone just completely commandeered his entire brain. He couldn’t speak, his face went slack, his eyes glazed–it was quite literally the exact same look you imagine an actual deer having when being run down by actual headlights.
Did you happen to hear Jon Stewart’s comment on the light on The Daily Show?
“If it had been shiny, we might have lost him altogether.”
From that same article:
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WTF?
Now I’m really starting to hate this guy.
Think tanks are a very useful device for controlling the news media. Liberals didn’t realize this when the conservatives did, and it hurt them. When news directors need to flesh out a story, they call up an “expert” from a think tank. Conservative think tanks outnumber liberal ones by about 9 to 1, so guess who the public sees speaking authoritatively on the evening news.
First Ted Kennedy and his dog Splash, and now this. Ignorance is bi-partisan, and fighting it takes longer than we thought.
I’m thinking Bush mispronucinated “Drunk tank.”
We don’t need any more “Think Tanks”. They haven’t done any good so far, and all they seem to do is generate talking points, slogans, and flimsy excuses for why the world needs a King George and a neocon universe.
By the way, a clip of bush being mesmerized by the swaying microphone can be found at the end of the ‘rock the vote’ video on the daily show’s video index.
:dubious: “Starting”? I think not. The abuse of those words as buzzwords dates back at least to the first Red Scare. If not further.
I wouldn’t worry about the think tank. He’s going to send them over to Iraq to help arm our boys with the war effort.
After he sends the think tanks, he’ll send over some Armor-All and some bullet points.
Heh, nice one!
shish-bah!
Now I’m going to go home and watch my newly-purchased copy of Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate. “I keep telling you not to think! You’re very, very good at a great many things, but thinking, hon’, just simply isn’t one of them.”
Stranger
Why don’t yiou pass the time by playing a game of solitaire?
With an attack plan for both.
Damn, I failed, I laughed immediately.
The George W. Bush Think Tank, that’s a Grade ‘A’ funny Oxy-Moron.
Jim