I swear it’s true, I saw it with my own human eyes, and listened to it with my perfectly shaped human ears. And one of us is insane, and I’m reasonably sure in this context that it is not me.
Beware, we are about to enter the zone of Bush logic. You may need to take some protective gear along, because it may be catching. If you catch it, you will be unable to function in normal society. Okay, forewarned is forearmed, so on we go.
To day, wonder boy had a press conference. He used to shun these things as being a bit too revealing of his basic lack of smarts, but now he seems to relish them. More like, “Whatever you can say about how dumb I am, I’m still President and you’re not” kinda smarmy arrogance. You know, the kind of thing that led him gleefully to exclaim as he got ready to ride into the sunset following the G-8 conference: “Farewell, from the biggest polluter on the planet.” In that case he was thumbing his nose at all the other participants saying ” You may think I’m dumb as a rock, but I’m still the most powerful leader of the world and you aren’t.”
I digress. Back to the press conference. After taking credit for foreseeing this energy crisis, to which nobody listened, eight years ago, (defined as “we wanted to drill in Anwar 8 years ago”) he was asked: “Mr. President, given the energy crisis we are in, why have you not seen fit to ask the American people to cut down on driving and given them other ways to cut their energy usage?”
Here was the substance of his response in impeccable Bushite logic.
- The American people are smart. They don’t need me to tell them how best to spend their money.
- The free-market economy, which we have always as good Republicans espoused, is proven correct. Why?
- The American people by being good consumers are making the car companies design smaller and more efficient autos.
- They are doing this by driving less.
- I don’t need to tell them to do this. They’re smart.
Hurrah, praise the Lord and pass the spigot. It’s all so simple. Bet you thought it would be complicated. The compassionate conservative, (who but a month ago was astounded that gas prices might REACH $4 a gallon–he hadn’t heard that as he said) lays it out in such simplistic terms even us smart Americans can figure it out.
You see, it’s this way. When people become so poor they can’t feed their families, pay their mortgages, buy their medicines, or even afford health care, they stop driving their cars, and stop buying stuff. The people who make cars and “stuff” go, “Oh, my, they aren’t buying our stuff. What are we to do?” They then think of ways to make their stuff more affordable to the poor people so they can buy them again. This process might take 3,10, 15 years, but well, that’s the way the ball bounces. Finally people can buy stuff again, and we can continue all being merry until things get out of balance again. It’s what you call Compassionate conservatism, the market listens to the consumer!
Got it? Feel better? I knew you would. But whatever you do, don’t make the rich be involved in this. They need to have all their stuff, since it helps them better to understand when it’s time to retool so they can sell the other stuff to us. They need to be able to have that extra 3 houses and private jet. It helps them make the good decisions, listening so carefully to us consumers. And they are consumed by money but never by guilt. Aren’t we all happy being consumers?
Filed under: Bush, Current Issues, Economy, Energy | Tagged: Bush, economy, energy
He has no clue! Even if he *had* a clue, then what? Either no one tells him anything REAL, or he ignores it completely. Reminds me of the old saw : Q. “What’s the difference between ignorance and apathy?” A. “Don’t know; don’t care.”
You nailed it Pat. It really doesn’t matter at all. He’s determined to either be stupid or else just shill for the big oil, big business interests. Oh Lord we must elect Obama or we are going to get nothing more but the same. McCain is getting more senile by the minute. He can’t remember what he voted for, and he can’t explain his “programs”. This is political leadership? What has happened to us?
Yeah, that’s why all these smart business people have a backload of monster SUVs and Hummers no one wants to buy.
You know, the government is supposed to have very smart analysts who figure out some things. Let’s see. 1. Petroleum is a limited resource. 2. The bulk of the world’s supply is controlled by nations that don’t like us. 3. China, the world’s most populous nation is industrializing at a rapid rate and demanding more and more oil. 4. There ain’t gonna be enough to go around. 5. Maybe we should do something. 6. And what is that something? Wait for people to decide to buy smaller cars.
Good move, Bushwacker.
Yeah Ruth, you would think they were all 10 year olds wouldn’t ya? I mean duh…But its come to my attention that guess what? I’m just a citizen, I have no influence and they don’t care what I think. They haven’t for at least a number of decades. When you even watch how FDR, whom I respect, had to “slowly walk the US into WWII” you realize that they mostly see us as infant children who must be cared for, because they simply know better. We get lip service and not much else from any of them to tell the truth. I demand a modicum of intelligence however in the folks who are going to be deciding for me.