Pity poor President Bush. For six years, he had a Congress who did everything his way, no questions asked. Allow indefinite imprisonment and torture of anyone whenever the president feels like it? Sure! What about rubber-stamping permanent war in Iraq? No problem. And blowing any hope of budgetary sanity out of the water and putting us in hock to other countries? You got it.
But now the Democrats are in charge of Congress. (It's hard to tell that sometimes, given how often they roll over and play dead, but that's another story.) And the president doesn't like that.
Bush basically threw a hissy fit outside the White House yesterday after meeting with Republican (and only Republican) Congressional leaders, complaining that the mean old Democrats aren't letting him win. In other words, they're acting like an actual opposition party and not just a pale imitation of one.
How dare they try to oppose him, the Maximum Leader of All He Surveys? Don't they know there's a war on? Don't they know that Bad People are holed up in their caves, watching C-Span and chortling to each other? How can we expect to win the War on Terror™ if all these namby-pamby wimps keep yapping about useless stuff like "freedom" and "accountability?"
Um...George? You might have forgotten this, but America is still a democracy, and opposition to your policies and priorities is in fact allowed.
So grow up.
But now the Democrats are in charge of Congress. (It's hard to tell that sometimes, given how often they roll over and play dead, but that's another story.) And the president doesn't like that.
Bush basically threw a hissy fit outside the White House yesterday after meeting with Republican (and only Republican) Congressional leaders, complaining that the mean old Democrats aren't letting him win. In other words, they're acting like an actual opposition party and not just a pale imitation of one.
How dare they try to oppose him, the Maximum Leader of All He Surveys? Don't they know there's a war on? Don't they know that Bad People are holed up in their caves, watching C-Span and chortling to each other? How can we expect to win the War on Terror™ if all these namby-pamby wimps keep yapping about useless stuff like "freedom" and "accountability?"
Um...George? You might have forgotten this, but America is still a democracy, and opposition to your policies and priorities is in fact allowed.
So grow up.
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