Minor point: Some conservatives are expressing outrage over the fact that Democrats grumbled loudly when Bush was talking about Social Security in the SOTU.
In the 90's there was a dispute over budget projections - having to do with the deficit, if memory serves. Different numbers were coming out of the OMB and CBO. One was more 'political' than the other, and it was a topic of the day (who to trust). We don't recall the specifics, but during a Clinton SOTU speech, he said Congress should use the projections from one of the agencies. At that moment, the Republicans roared with laughter. Even Clinton grinned a bit.
But you can't do that to King George.
posted by Quiddity at 2/03/2005 01:23:00 PM
http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2005/02/as-long-as-rude-pundit-and-atrios-are.html
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Exactly. It's okay if you're a Republican (IOKIYAR).
Anything you do is holier than thou because you claim to be holy; anything you do is tougher than thou because you claim to be tough. You may be a pathetic poor-little-rich-kid loser who ran every company he ever took over into the ground - and is now doing the same to the country as a whole - but hey! if you're a Republican, you get presented as a man of the people CEO President! And the media laps it up! Great!
The media savaged Clinton for - what? exactly?
Then Bush comes in, does an absolute mountain of despicable shit and what happens? Virtually nothing.
IOKIYAR.
You don't even get to complain.
If there were any justice, Bush and his entire cabinet would be impeached. They'd be sitting in starchy orange jumpsuits, in prison for treason - let's see how the Chimperor likes wearing uniforms then, eh?
