Bush, Press Corps, Polls, Time Tables, and Truth

Well, the Washington press corp has once again surpassed itself. I would not have believed it had I not seen it.

Wait. I’ve done them a disservice, if that is possible. It is just barely possible that some cretanous puppetmaster is writing those inane questions and compelling them to make such glorious fools of themselves, on pain of losing their positions. That’s probably true. After all, we all have to eat.

And the talking heads are no better. Did you hear those comments about the gesture made by Iraq’s prime minister on meeting and shaking hands with the president? I nearly fell off my chair. They shouldn’t be allowed to do that to an old lady like me. I could have been killed!

The man turns to face the cameras and checks his tie and the national press of the United States turns that simple gesture, that I would be willing to lay money each and every one of them has done countless times before facing the cameras, into some kind of mystic pass. The fact that the president’s tie was a little off center after his hurried rush to greet the Prime Minister probably cued the check. One has to remember that the Iraqis are a more formal people than we. Plus, they deal more with permanent print media, and are accustomed to formal poses. But the Pompous Press and their talking heads have to have something to say – they should come with instructions, like those Christmas presents Grandma sends the kids: “First, remove foot from mouth. . .”

And the Washington press corps are so busy spinning anti-Am when they deal with President Bush that they neglect to ask the questions that we the people would like to have answered. Instead, some stupid bimbo gets up and asks what message the President is sending about the prime minister when he failed to notify him in plenty of time to let the terrorists set up their anti-aircraft guns. . .Well, that wasn’t exactly what she said, but that was exactly what she meant.

Now we all know that the Demoncrats would love nothing more than to have Mr. Bush shot down, literally, by anybody and they are doing their level best to see that it happens. If the country goes down with him, hey – as long as they getelected, what do they care????

But I think she went just a little too far. The press is letting the hoi polloi see that they think we’re stupid, that we won’t notice even the most obvious attempt to paint us in the most negative possible light. Because the President is us, after all. Do you think they’re so stupid they don’t know that? That when they dis the President, they’re dis-ing the country, and us, to the whole world????

And who gave them the right, or even the position? Who are these “masked men”??

Another one of them got up and quoted “the polls.” President Bush threw them right back at her. We all know about the polls. You can make the polls say anything you want to, just by the way you write the questions. Anybody who thinks the Democrats are going to take the next election, especially by giving away this country, better try doing an honest poll. One where you ask straight out and get a straight answer.

Bubba comes by and sits on my front porch quite often. He’s taught me how to sing a song I really like, about beer and horses and raising your glasses against evil forces. He says the boys down at the bar sing it every night. They all really like Bush, and what he’s doing with the military. They don’t like the yellow dog politicians, media, and the Hollywood hypocrites. Bubba makes one word out of that one: hollywoodhypocrites. Bubba says there are always fair-weather friends, and we don’t need ‘em. We especially don’t need ‘em running the country.

Then we have people like Congressman Paul, who seems not to have all his ducks in a row, or perhaps just not to have all his ducks. . .He doesn’t get the difference between “intervening” in a foreign war, and pursuing the terrorists who invaded our country so avidly abroad that they have no time to wage war here on American soil. Or maybe he’s just trying to position himself as a VP candidate.

The Democrats say violence is at an all-time high – untrue! And what violence there is, it ain’t here, brethren!

For those of you who don’t get it, that’s what’s important to us!

And for all those of you who are so concerned with time tables, please be advised that we know the reasons you are so concerned with time tables: you want to work them into your private agendas – your re-election plans, your ratings, your own personal interests, which we know are not particularly connected with our interest in America’s and our personal security. If you’re interested in our point of view.

Just for the record, our take on the time table for leaving Iraq is pure and simple: we get out when the job is done.

Those of us who live in the real world know that many things take their own time. We who know that we are not God, unlike a group of senators and congressmen who shall be nameless democrats, mostly, we hope, for generations hereafter as a result of their determination to focus on their own personal goals to the exclusion of their country’s good--we know that some things are worth waiting for. Freedom from terrorism here in America is worth waiting for, no matter how long it takes.

Bubba and I watched President Bush up there taking questions, and it reminded us of the Lion King, with all the jackals sniffing around. . .traitors and backstabbers are thick on the ground in DC and the national media, according to Bubba, and I agree, but G. W. is a Man. He has what it takes to draw hard lines, and to make ‘em stick.

What the President needs to know, and the rest of you need to remember, is that he’s got quite a majority posse all over the mainland. And we are gathering rope, and looking for trees. We are planning on doing more than raising our glasses and singing: we’re taking names, and we’ll be voting our principles--and your lack of ‘em.

[Thanks to Toby Keith for Beer for My Horses]