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State Of United Arrogance

Thank you all. Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, members of the Supreme Court and diplomatic corps, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: Tonite, I will open my speech with token thanks to a minority figurehead, in hopes of convincing someone that I give a damn.

In our great history, we have often divided things into two sides. Tonite, I will call for unity, but when I say unity, I mean the other side should do things my way.

We must not follow calls for isolationism. No, instead, we must expand the tendrils of American self-interest outward, across all of the world, and call this international interference "Leadership." On September the 11th, 2001, a failed and oppressive state, that we supported and armed only 20 years earlier, sheltered terrorists who attacked us, and we responded by bombing the hell out of another nation right next door and installing a faltering government that is a Democracy only in name.

Other nations nearby are overcome by Radical Islam, which, because of our incredible American self-absorption, we know has only one reason for existence: to attack America. We reject these tyrannies, and seek to install "Democracy" in these countries. But their "Democracy" will not look like our "Democracy". Ours is increasingly fueled by Fundamentalist Christianity, while theirs will be fueled by Fundamentalist Islam. Both are religions of peace, yet their differences will fund Defense Contractors for decades to come.

With so much in the balance, we must learn the difference between responsible criticism that aims for success, and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. So if you don't agree with me, shut your damned mouth, traitor.

Iran, a small nation between two other nations in which we have many soldiers, is attempting to gain nuclear weapons. Tonight, let me speak directly to the citizens of Iran: America respects you, like a drunk frat boy respects a plump blond underclassman that just got done servicing him in the stall of a seedy bar. Do what you're told, and keep your mouth shut about it, and we won't totally ruin you for all eternity.

I urge the congress to reauthorize the Patriot Act, and I again falsely repeat that violating the civil rights of American Citizens by tapping their phone lines is a legal action under our laws and Constitution. Previous Presidents have also broken the law, so I can too. We will not sit back and be hit again without first racking up the false positives and destroyed lives this invasive surveillance program will incur.

Our economy is healthy and vigorous, and in the last two-and-a-half years, America has created 4.6 million new jobs. Of course, I won't count how many jobs have been lost over the last six. We hear claims that immigrants are somehow bad for the economy - even though this economy could not function without their cheap and sometimes illegal labor.

We need to keep our economy growing, and I propose that Congress make permanent the tax cuts I have set forward. And if you are watching at home, you will notice right now that every fat, white male Republican has stood up to applaud right now, faster that at any other time during this speech, because those fat, white male Republicans are exactly the ones who will benefit the most from these tax cuts.

Keeping America competitive requires us to to be good stewards or tax dollars. This year, my budget will cut more than 140 programs that have not been fulfilling essential priorities, like womens health care that doesn't go towards popping out more babies, inner city education programs, and job placement for the disadvantaged.

Keeping America competitive requires affordable health care. We could provide a national health care system, like every other industrialized nation in the world, but then the insurance companies couldn't rake in record profits. So instead, I'll say we need to extend crappy corporate insurance coverage to everyone, and we need to have medical tort reform, because that's hurting OB/GYNs, and Jesus loves babies.

America has a serious problem: We are addicted to oil. We need to break the addiction of this product from unstable parts of the world, which of course begs the question of why we're in Iraq, or why we even give a rats ass about the Middle East, since oil is the only thing they really have to offer the rest of the world. So tonite, I will announce an Advanced Energy Initiative that, while being reasonable about pushing wind, solar, and nuclear power, will outline far reaching goals to wean ourself off foreign oil with miracle technologies that cannot be invented overnight. This will ensure both that I am not accountable for the failure of this program, and that my crony energy executive friends will continue to milk the American public for every possible penny they can.

We need to encourage children to take more math and science, and I propose to give 70,000 high school teachers more work on top of their already overloaded, underpaid, and unappreciated jobs by training them to teach advanced-placement courses, courses that most students probably couldn't get into or pass right now if they tried. We raised standards with No Child Left Behind, but failed to fund it, and we'll follow that lead by bringing math and science professionals to teach in classrooms, but I won't tell you how. Here's a hint, it involves rubber hoses.

America has become a more hopeful nation, mainly because this is all people can do: hope. Welfare cases have dropped, mostly because there are fewer welfare workers. Abortion is down, not because abstinence works, but because fewer poor mothers can afford one, so instead they have children, who as we know, are much less expensive to care for than an abortion. This is evidence of a quiet transformation - when women keep quiet, we can transform this nation the way us religious guys want it.

A hopeful society depends on courts who will be servants of the law, and not legislate from the bench. That's why I've packed the Supreme Court with Roberts and Alito, who won't let them gays marry, and will overturn Roe v. Wade before morning breakfast.

A hopeful society wants elected officials who uphold the public trust. Well, keep hoping. We're politicians, and we'll pay lip service to ethics any chance we get while screwing you royally whenever you blink.

Fellow citizens, we've been called to leadership in a period of great consequence. I may invoke Lincoln and King, Birmingham and Selma, but I am no leader. For the next three years, you can expect more of the same hollow promises and money grabbing. I'm optimistic, faithful to my cronies, and confidant that the rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer, and I'll do jack squat to help the little guy.

May God bless me and my buddies. To hell with the rest of the world.
Comments
pahana From: [info]pahana Date: February 1st, 2006 05:36 am (UTC) (Link)
Well played, sir.
sonder From: [info]sonder Date: February 1st, 2006 09:24 am (UTC) (Link)
I hope you can see my metal hand salute.


Because I'm doing it as hard as I can.



lazyangel From: [info]lazyangel Date: February 1st, 2006 05:22 pm (UTC) (Link)
Wow. Just wow.
verifex From: [info]verifex Date: February 1st, 2006 05:58 pm (UTC) (Link)
Hey, are you writing for the Colbert Report on the side?
staticengine From: [info]staticengine Date: February 1st, 2006 06:01 pm (UTC) (Link)
I am not, but feel free to spread the love around.
leenerella From: [info]leenerella Date: February 1st, 2006 06:15 pm (UTC) (Link)
Someone should get that to the Daily Show..

God save the Chief. He's gonna need it.
And so are we.
verifex From: [info]verifex Date: February 1st, 2006 09:20 pm (UTC) (Link)
Done and Done!
h2so4 From: [info]h2so4 Date: February 1st, 2006 06:14 pm (UTC) (Link)
Truly a masterpeice.

JimG
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veronica_rich From: [info]veronica_rich Date: February 1st, 2006 11:23 pm (UTC) (Link)
Who I, regrettably, voted for, even though i'd probably vote for him again

Tell me, did you vote for Bush, or against Clinton? Because Clinton had already served two terms by 2000. Most neocons don't comprehend this.
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veronica_rich From: [info]veronica_rich Date: February 1st, 2006 11:29 pm (UTC) (Link)
The second because I think the country would be in worse condition had Kerry gotten into office.

Then I have to take from this you believe Bush did a GOOD job his first four years.
urbancannibal From: [info]urbancannibal Date: February 2nd, 2006 02:30 pm (UTC) (Link)
The second because I think the country would be in worse condition had Kerry gotten into office.

I'd love to see a written version of the mental processes that led you to that conclusion. How, in the name of sanity, can choosing a simpleton over a statesman, or rejecting a bona fide war hero, politician and American patriot in favour of a greedy, educationally subnormal liar, be a good thing?
veronica_rich From: [info]veronica_rich Date: February 2nd, 2006 03:22 pm (UTC) (Link)
Elections, for the most part, are *usually* about choosing the lesser of two evils. While I certainly don't believe any man is without fault, I cannot fathom how Kerry could be considered more evil than what we have. Does he have defense contractor buddies to placate, too? How was he going to pad his personal fortune by getting into high office - funding technologies to replace petroleum with ketchup and relish alternatives?

At any rate, I'm sure Kerry is still breathing a sigh of relief over dodging THAT bullet - he would've inherited all the problems that have come to light in the past year and, because he's non-Republican and can therefore do no right, he's the one who would've caught hell for all of it.
zero42zero From: [info]zero42zero Date: February 1st, 2006 06:28 pm (UTC) (Link)
*THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE*
gwai_lol From: [info]gwai_lol Date: February 1st, 2006 06:38 pm (UTC) (Link)
This is incredibly written. Thanks for sharing it with us.
faerieburst From: [info]faerieburst Date: February 1st, 2006 07:20 pm (UTC) (Link)
I may, in fact, love you. I hope you don't mind.

~Aramada
staticengine From: [info]staticengine Date: February 1st, 2006 07:28 pm (UTC) (Link)
Are we talking stall in the Merc love, or Brokeback Mountain love?
faerieburst From: [info]faerieburst Date: February 1st, 2006 07:44 pm (UTC) (Link)
Undecided. Negotiations to follow. Can we use Pahana as a mediator?

~Aramada
staticengine From: [info]staticengine Date: February 1st, 2006 08:11 pm (UTC) (Link)
If my "mediator" you mean "meat in the sandwich" then yes.
faerieburst From: [info]faerieburst Date: February 1st, 2006 08:19 pm (UTC) (Link)
::blinks::

Is there any other meaning for the word?

~Aramada
tonights From: [info]tonights Date: February 1st, 2006 08:02 pm (UTC) (Link)
Bravo, sir! Bravo!
synabetic From: [info]synabetic Date: February 1st, 2006 08:02 pm (UTC) (Link)
Excellent job, my friend.

If it's alright, I'll plop it in me lj because I feel more people should read it :)
staticengine From: [info]staticengine Date: February 1st, 2006 08:10 pm (UTC) (Link)
Sure, link or copy away.
synabetic From: [info]synabetic Date: February 1st, 2006 08:13 pm (UTC) (Link)
Thanks, man :)
From: [info]ssmodk Date: February 1st, 2006 09:30 pm (UTC) (Link)
Get this man a drink.

Kudos.
fizzyland From: [info]fizzyland Date: February 1st, 2006 10:04 pm (UTC) (Link)
Props man, that's pretty fucking sweet in an honest, tragic way.
metalkatt From: [info]metalkatt Date: February 1st, 2006 10:15 pm (UTC) (Link)
That is the best thing I've read all day. I haven't laughed this hard in ages. Great work!
nobleplatypus From: [info]nobleplatypus Date: February 1st, 2006 11:24 pm (UTC) (Link)
Kick. Ass.

I'm going to link this in my LJ, since you don't seem to mind. ;)
chanceofrainne From: [info]chanceofrainne Date: February 2nd, 2006 03:21 am (UTC) (Link)
*stands up and applauds* Thanks for the honesty!
tabula_x_rasa From: [info]tabula_x_rasa Date: February 2nd, 2006 03:28 am (UTC) (Link)
Got pointed here by someone. I just want to say, sir, that you ROCKED MY WORLD.
keori From: [info]keori Date: February 2nd, 2006 04:24 am (UTC) (Link)
Here from childfree...

That was better than Mark Morford, an uber-liberal columnist for the San Fransisco Gate. I've listened to a lot of Shrub drivel, and rather than listen last night, I just read your version.

Though I do have to disagree with you on one point. I have worked for NSA for 10 years, and the wiretapping done by the Administration? Completely legal. As long as the conversation being intercepted was to or from a phone number outside the country, then the Feds could do what they liked with it. Now, a U.S. number to a U.S. number...that's where the FISA waivers have to start flying. So, as long as the calls monitored were to or from a non-U.S. phone number known to be connected to a terrorist network, as unpopular as it sounds, monitoring them was well within the legal scope of the Fourth Amendment, Executive Orders 12333 and 12334, and in accordance with DOD Directive 5240.1, which governs DOD intelligence activities. Anyone who wants to know the legalities of the whole process, feel free to email me privately, and I wil provide you with the text of the laws.
veronica_rich From: [info]veronica_rich Date: February 2nd, 2006 03:14 pm (UTC) (Link)
The part that really puzzled me - and, I suspect, a lot of people - about the wiretapping was Bush's handling of getting it cleared. Even if there are instances that can be legally justified, he was required to report it to a panel of justices who, most likely, would have authorized it and backed him up - and he never did so. Not even AFTER the fact. If it's so goshdarned legal, why the hush-hush even to the people who would've least personally cared about it being done?
machine_logic From: [info]machine_logic Date: February 2nd, 2006 05:16 am (UTC) (Link)
Paul, I owe you a beer. *applauds*
rsheslin From: [info]rsheslin Date: February 2nd, 2006 05:20 pm (UTC) (Link)
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
thewhitedragon From: [info]thewhitedragon Date: February 2nd, 2006 07:49 pm (UTC) (Link)
I'm currently sitting over here laughing my ass off... mind if I share this via my journal? More people need to read this.
staticengine From: [info]staticengine Date: February 2nd, 2006 09:13 pm (UTC) (Link)
Nope, as I've replied to others, feel free to link away with abandon, or C&P if due credit is given.
pracuel From: [info]pracuel Date: February 5th, 2006 12:37 am (UTC) (Link)
I know this is exactly what Bush would have read if he could- I gave you credit for this on my blog today. Great work
dawntreader90 From: [info]dawntreader90 Date: February 2nd, 2006 08:19 pm (UTC) (Link)
that was beautifully written. sad thing is, he could probably deliver that exact speech and still get the thunderous applause every 14.7 seconds. sometimes i wonder if people are listening to the words or applauding because he ain't democrat.

/cynicism
the_redneck From: [info]the_redneck Date: February 22nd, 2006 06:19 am (UTC) (Link)
I don't see what's so creative about this. It's the same old slander we've been fed for the last six years. You keep trying, and you keep betting surprised when voting time comes and you get your asses handed to you.

Wierd.
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