BushHumor on September 17th, 2008
January 1, 2001 September 17, 2008
Unemployment 4.2 % 6.1%
Budget 281 Billion Surplus 357 Billion Deficit
Debt 5.7 Trillion 9.7 Trillion
Gas Prices 1.46 a gallon 3.25 + a gallon
BushHumor on September 16th, 2008
U.S. troops entered the region of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan and raided several villages, killing 20. It has since been learned that the raids were secretly authorized by the George W. Bush regime back in July.
According to the New York Times, no legal precedent was cited by the Bush regime for approving the cross-border raids, which were heavily debated within the regime for months.
The effect was to provoke Pakistan into approving military force to “repel” U.S. raiding parties. According to WPA sources in the region, Pakistani soldiers stopped a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs yesterday. No one was killed.
BushHumor on September 15th, 2008
But McCain is not Bush. No matter what you think of McCain, you can’t pin that on him. Now Palin? Palin is Bush.
We know nothing about Sarah Palin. Nothing. Which is not anywhere near enough information to elevate her to the position whereby she would succeed McCain if he died in office or suffered a catastrophic illness. At 72 years of age and in questionable health, McCain’s fitness to coach a high school football team would be in doubt, let alone the grueling reality of the presidency of this country.
John McCain is, statistically, more likely to die or suffer some catastrophic illness during his first term than any other man that has sought the office. Who would succeed him? George Bush would succeed him. Someone with no record. No experience. Only question marks. Everywhere. Forget about the fact that Palin looks a lot like a really attractive TV star I know. Underneath all the Tina, she’s George.
BushHumor on August 31st, 2008
Time is running out, but there is still a chance that George Bush could run the national debt over the $10 trillion mark before he leaves office.
At the start of his Presidency the national debt stood at approximately $5.7 trillion. As of today the national debt stands at approximately $9.667 trillion.
With a little more than 4 months left in his term, and with the economy in, or heading into, a recession there is till an odds on chance that he can do it. Read the rest of this entry »
BushHumor on August 29th, 2008
I have been thinking hard about what I can cherish and treasure from the Bush White House years, one simple thing I have to be thankful to Dubya for, and I have found it.
Perspective. Bush’s Iraq war has given me a sense of scale about money that’s actually relieved me of a lot of worrying and fretting.
One month of the war in Iraq is costing this country an estimated $10 billion dollars. Once you use that as a yardstick, no other expense, no other crisis seems as expensive, as intractable and terrifying as it once did. A $15 billion California budget deficit? No sweat! It’s only six weeks’ worth of war Iraq dollars! The Bear Sterns bailout — pshaw, that’s only three months in Iraq war dollars. And a possible $40 billion to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? A mere quarterly check for the Iraq war.
And that $300 pair of shoes I’ve had my eye on but told myself I couldn’t possibly afford? In Iraq war bucks, it’s the change they don’t bother to pick up from the sidewalk.
So to paraphrase Jack Valenti’s line about Lyndon Johnson in the White House, I now sleep better knowing that virtually nothing we might do here at home would cost as much as the Iraq war is costing us already.
