Write a Dubya Speech

For fun.

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Bush to Raise our Taxes?

Here.
the Joint Committee projects that the President’s proposed standard deduction for health insurance, coupled with repeal of the exclusion for employer-paid health insurance, self-employed health insurance deduction, and itemized medical deductions, would result in a $333 billion tax increase over 10 years.

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Petty Cruelties

Really just a metaphor for the Bush administration’s entire tenure:
The dismissal process itself, the documents show, was chaotic and spiked with petty cruelties. Two senior officials joked caustically about U.S. Attorney Carol Lam in San Diego — who prosecuted the corruption case of former congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif.) — calling her “sad” and saying [...]

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Not Distinguished

We’re surprised to learn that Prosecutor Fitzgerald is not distinguished. Notice that the Bush administration does not make competence an issue, because competence is precisely the standard you want to avoid when you’re building an organization of mindless cronies. And “not distinguished” means just these things: not blindly loyal, not a “Bushie”, not independent, not [...]

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Trump to Bush: You’re Fired

The Rosie treatment, hilarious, here.

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Protecting Republicans from Themselves

“Mistakes were made,” Gonzales says without irony — by whom, we are left to guess. Have they forgotten that the phrase should be used only as parody? When those tough, aggressive Bush henchmen are put to the test, we see the miserable passivity.
And then there’s the loyalty factor. For all their talk of liberal [...]

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