Look for the man behind the curtain - (Nice Bush-Bash from TX)

[reprehensor]

On the economy, G. Walker Bush the character plays the up-from-the-bootstraps Marlboro man, a guy who spends his free time in blue jeans moseying on his ranch and thinking about how he can help average folk. The real President George W. Bush grew up wealthy, worked his family's connections to get ahead, and thinks ordering around his landscaping servants for five minutes means he's "clearing brush" on the frontier. He is, as his wife calls him, a true "windshield cowboy," a man who thinks he's a real wrangler simply because he drives a luxury pickup truck, wears boots, dons an engraved brass belt buckle, and once saw a double feature of City Slickers and City Slickers 2: The Legend of Curly's Gold. This Bush is the one who gave people making $1 million an average tax cut of more than $22,000, while giving people making $22,000 about $13.

Similarly, on the War on Terror, G. Walker Bush is the blunt-talking Texas loner, gutsy enough to tell terrorists to "bring on" the attacks, as if he will face them himself. But President George W. Bush will face none of the consequences of such saber-rattling. His declarations may fire up supporters who want a Dirty Harry in the White House, but he will be the last to bear the brunt of the increasingly lethal attacks Iraqi insurgents are directing at U.S. troops.

On military issues, G. Walker Bush is the compassionate wartime leader who bravely delivered a Thanksgiving dinner to troops in Baghdad and praised them for their service. President George W. Bush actually held up a fake Turkey and used troops as a prop in a photo-op. President George W. Bush has yet to punish his pals at Halliburton for repeatedly feeding these soldiers unsanitary food and has thanked soldiers by refusing to provide them with adequate body armor.

On Iraq, G. Walker Bush is the fearless naval aviator, borrowing a flight suit for a courageous aircraft carrier landing to declare "Mission Accomplished" and America secure. President George W. Bush is the man who skipped part of his National Guard service during Vietnam, and who now appears so disinterested in the human toll of war that he refuses to appear at any funeral for the fallen. The real man has no explanation why nine months after putting on the Top Gun costume and saying the war was over, more than 500 soldiers are dead, $166 billion has been spent, and the U.S. Army now says the entire Iraq endeavor "diverted attention and resources away" from more pressing terrorist threats.

http://www.fwweekly.com/issues/2004-02-11/thought.html

[DenverDem]

1. Texas liberals are the toughest liberals in the country,

they have to be.

Despite the Texan bashing everyone delights in around here, there is a longstanding liberal tradition in Texas (ref. Molly Ivens) and it is good to see it rising above the swamp of white trash tool of the bourgeoisie idiocy that has dominated Texas politricks for the last couple of decades.

As a Texas ex-pat I really miss my native home this morning in Denver where the low temp was five below zero.

[Bronco69]

2. I'm a Texas liberal

and yep, you have to have a tough skin to hang around here. BTW, the windchill in Dallas is 24. brrrrrrrrrrrr.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Another super column! Thanks. n/t