Molly Ivins: Move up the date for Armageddon

[Dudley_DUright]

I must confess, I have sadly underestimated the Bush administration's sense of humor. Appointing John Bolton ambassador to the United Nations: boffo! What a laff riot! Hilarious comedy, a delicious romp, great setup for a sit-com.

Bolton is known for being arrogant, humorless, self-righteous and confrontational, and he hates the United Nations. In other words, the perfect diplomat.

Speaking of setups, would the joke be half as good if President Bush hadn't just returned from a tour of Europe during which he assured our allies he was anxious to improve international cooperation? There, he was promising Europeans old and new that we'd turned a new page, we want nothing more than consultation, cooperation, being buddy-buddy. And then he names Bolton ambassador (oh, ha ha) to the United Nations (ha, ha, ha). Bolton keeps a bronzed grenade in his office to show how proud he is of being called a bomb-thrower.

Bolton himself has said, "I don't do carrots." Meaning he's strictly a stick guy. Intimidation, bullying, threats. The hawk's hawk, the neo-con's darling. This is a single-digit salute to the United Nations.

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[librechik]

1. direct evidence that either a) Bush is insane or

b) Bush is calculatedly evil.
or the everpresent c) stupid stupid stupid.

[DenverDem]

2. d) All of the above.

busholini is incomprehensably crazy, satanic and ignorant. He has destroyed our country and has his sights set on the world.

[ewagner]

3. Molly is right

and I have to ask again....


WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?!?

[Gyre]

4. Passive/aggression against America

Seems to work really well. It provideth cover to the admin apologists. It confuses Americans who are naturally not very skeptical and know nothing of the evils of pernicious corporation control of the government.

If Americans are too stupid to wrap their tiny little brains around the facts, and come up with the logical conclusions, then they're nothing but fodder for an administration that's out to fuck them while pretending to protect them.

Gyre

[ochazuke]

5. Answer to your question: outrage fatigue

compare to 'Clinton fatigue'. (Media will never come up with this term, so here it is.)

This appointment looks like a big FU to the UN for all the 'support' they gave W in his Vietnam redux.

[neverforget]

10. Want to talk about outrage? Michael Jackson was late to court today!

Now that's outrageous! :eyes:

[woodsprite]

6. I don't care what anyone says

I say the bush administration is who they were talking about in Revelations!

[salinen]

7. So you know * is the antichrist

Yes, you are correct, but there is no reason to gloat.

[Mari333]

8. Another carrot thrown to the Bush base

while he reams them in other arenas...just a little carrot to his constituents...while he destroys their right to file for bankruptcy, takes away their farming subsidies, and screws them royally in other ways..
sadly, they will fall for it.

[Catfight]

9. Bush is the worlds court jester. n/t