What smell? (The Phoenix)

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2006: A second-quarter scorecard — summer fiction bonanza=
By: BARRY CRIMMINS
7/26/2006 1:45:57 PM

It’s always summer to George W. Bush, our lazy, hazy, crazy commander in chief who puts in shorter presidential work weeks than Woodrow Wilson did after he was paralyzed by a stroke. Having stolen his way into the Oval Office what now seems to be several bad lifetimes ago, GW has treated us to a scorching five years that have inflicted on the world a pandemic of son burn. We have been continually baited and switched by an administration that promises sinsemilla and delivers oregano. As we sweat out the fifth summer of this affront to everything this nation could be, we all need a break ...

It’s such hard work that former White House press secretary Scott McClellan finally succumbed to fiction fatigue in April. After a few years of repeatedly avoiding obvious questions and telling us that “the American people aren’t interested” in the details of the Bush-Cheney crime spree, he had all the credibility of a greasy, sweaty John Wayne Gacy saying, “Smell? What smell?” ...

Snow debuted with diplomatic aplomb while lying about the NSA-wiretapping/data-mining/“Big Brother on Inhuman Growth Hormones” scandal by citing a USA Today poll, explaining, “Part of it said 51 percent of the American people opposed , if you look at when people said, if there is a roster of phone numbers, do you feel comfortable with that — I’m paraphrasing and I apologize — but something like 64 percent of the polling was not troubled by it. Having said that, I don’t want to hug the tar baby of trying to comment on the program — the alleged program — the existence of which I can neither confirm nor deny.” ...


The custom goes thusly: Bush’s public standing nose-dives, some simmering issue gets magnified to distract us from more serious problems, and then word comes from the White House that the president is going to take his case to the American people. It’s once again make-or-break time and it’s all on the line. Bush then delivers a factually bereft assessment of the latest crisis and closes by reminding us that God is guiding us towards freedom. In this case, the price of freedom will be paid by troops who should be loading the sandbags, rather than the guns, of August ...

http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid18673.aspx

[Redstone]

1. "Lazy, crazy, hazy?" That writer must be as old as me, if not more so.

I remember that song well, and it was a DAMN long time ago.

Roll out those lazy, crazy, hazy days of summer,
Those days of soda, and pretzels, and beer.
Roll out those lazy, crazy, hazy days of summer,
You'll wish that summer could always be here.

And that's from pure memory; no Google.

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2. There are a number of such references in the article.

[Va Lefty]

3. Paraphrasing George McGovern about Vietnam

It doesn't take any courage for a Congressman or a Senator or a President to wrap themselves in the flag and talk about "staying the course" because it's not their blood that will be spilled. What a different world we would live in if the "Prairie Statesman" had defeated Tricky Dick.

[Redstone]

4. Nor is it their own childrens' blood.

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