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1.) Why are so many Democrats still afraid of George W. Bush when his poll numbers are in the sewer, his dishonest war is
a disaster, his party's leadership is increasingly (and rightly) seen as amoral, and high-profile military and civilian authorities
are revolting against his dictates? As a sad case in point, U.S. Senate candidate Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat who voted
against the Iraq war resolution and who leads in the polls in an overwhelmingly Democratic state, told reporters this week
that if fellow Democrats retake both houses, he hopes his party "will work on a constructive course in Iraq, recognizing
that public opinion is on the side of change, rather than challenging the White House." Are Democrats part of some behaviorist's
experiment in conditioned timidity?
2.) Why, as Iraq crumbles into civil war and casualties spiral out of control, has the footage of George W. Bush proclaiming
"Mission Accomplished" disappeared from public view, apparently never to be mentioned again?
3.) Does Condoleezza Rice, a very smart woman, actually believe the moronic rationalizations through which she regularly
stumbles in her statements on Iraq, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine? Or is she just another lying operative?
4.) What happened to the raging controversy over the new "Survivor?" Are there race riots on the island yet?
(I don't have cable.)
5.) How do closeted gay Republicans sleep at night?
6.) Has Christopher Hitchens (lefty turned righty, profiled in the October 16 New Yorker) always been mean and insulting
to acquaintances? Or did his move rightward bring out his Inner Asshole?
7.) Does the Bush White House truly believe it has a chance in hell of winning a war with Iran with virtually no available
ground troops and openly rebelling military brass? Or is it a "Win the 2006 election any way we can and deal with the
fallout later" scenario?
8.) How does Laura Bush, a children's librarian, sleep at night?
9.) Is the New York Times or the Washington Post now sitting on a monster political story that it will break only after
the election?
10.) How many citizens of how many nations -- excepting Americans -- will be disappeared by American authorities now that
a supine legislative branch has granted the president unprecedented power to detain and abuse any of them without trial?
11.) In spite of the above exclusion, how many American citizens will be -- and already have been -- disappeared by an
Administration known to lie to hide its most flagrantly illegal actions?
12.) Who is watching Flavor Flav's TV show (in which nasty-mouthed nymphs go at one another with their acrylic fingernails
in pursuit of the favor of His Ugliness), and why?
13.) How does Rush Limbaugh, a rich white guy who makes his living distracting pissed-off white listeners from the ways
they are being screwed by even richer white guys, sleep at night? (Hint: it may involve a prescription.)
14.) Precisely how many lies are the naïfs among white voters willing to believe if they come from the mouths of white
or right-wing political figures? (So far, I have the number as 8,122,774 and counting. But the election is young.) (Also see
my "Pass the Stupidity, Please" post of 11/17/05 in which I examine White Unfathomable Stupidity Syndrome, or WUSS.)
15.) How many truths are the same white naïfs willing to ignore if they come from the mouths of nonwhite or left-wing
political figures? (My count is 11,475,991 to date, but look for a spike as events cause more downtrodden people to suffer.)
16.) If you can train a pig to run like the wind in a race in which the winner gets an Oreo cookie (my source tells me
this is big sport in Texas), can you train a Democrat to stand up and fight for the presidency?
17.) How much sea water will the Bush boat need to take on in order to flush the rats who have kept secret logs, phone
tapes or videos of White House illegality for their own last-ditch protection?
18.) He'll never tell us. But is Colin Powell sorry he ever took a call from a weak Texas governor named George W. Bush?
19.) Who was the woman in the fancy shoe store who scolded Condi Rice for being on a shopping spree at the height of Hurricane
Katrina, and if Spike Lee couldn't find her, can anyone?
20.) What will W lie about next?
__A. The reasons our war effort is succeeding in Iraq
__B. The reasons we have begun air strikes on Iran
__C. The reasons our war effort is succeeding in Iran
__D. The reasons it is legal for him to suspend the 2006 election
__E. Other
(Posted 10/20/06)
© 2006 Bruce A. Jacobs
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