Bush to Publish Memoir
Published April 30th, 2010 | 
According to recent reports, our former President, George Dubya Bush League will release a memoir in November entitled Decision Point. Yes, the Decider-in-Chief will tell us his version of what went down during his 8-year reign. This means, he’ll probably be going on TV to promote his book. While this may be good news for embattled Democrats to have a timely reminder of the Bush Years just in time for the mid-term elections, I’m personally not looking forward to the Bush Revisionism Tour of 2010. I was hoping Bush would just go back to Crawford and stay out of the media after leaving office. You know, open up a horse tack shop or something. Instead, the media will give him one more opportunity to convince the world that he’s not the most disastrous president of our time. I can just see him on Faux News now, having his asshole licked by Chris Wallace or O’Reilly. Or, perhaps worse, taking softball questions from some lightweight on early morning shows. I just hope Bush’s ghostwriter got hazard pay for his troubles.
There They Go Again Pt. 2
Published April 27th, 2010 | Sometimes I think that the best weight loss pills available are Wall Street types and the politicians who protect their interests. If you have a fat cat stealing food from a starving cat, you end up with a fatter cat and a dead cat. Such is the orgy of rape and theft being done on main street by the fat cats of Wall Street. Currently, the Democrats are trying to get a financial reform bill through Congress. One can certainly debate whether or not their effort has teeth or not, but no one in their right mind can argue that the measure is unnecessary. The Republicans, as usual, are trying to block the effort. Yesterday, they blocked an effort to even open the floor to debate on the subject. Now, why would the Repugnicans allow a bill to pass out of committee without offering a single amendment only to block the bill from being discussed?
This morning, a reporter posed this same question to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, a republican senator from Texas (naturally). Her answer amounted to a masterful load of Orwellian doublespeak that defied logic. She claimed that she and her Repug colleagues were blocking the Demos because the bill wouldn’t end “too big to fail” and that they wanted to protect “main street”. However, when probed about specific amendments proposed by the Demos that would do just that, she was against them. Explain it to me like I’m a four year-old, Kay, because I do not get it. You want to protect main street, but you are against any measure that would protect main street? You want to end “too big to fail” but you don’t want to limit the size of banks. You want to protect consumers, but you are against a strong consumer protection agency or even the most common sense regulations like limiting credit card usury? How does that protect the people or promote the success of community banks and small businesses? I’m sorry, but I don’t see how anyone can buy into this line of garbage unless they are brain dead fucking retarded.
So instead of buying weight loss pills, let’s just let the fat cats eat us into starvation. That’s the republican diet plan, anyway. Turn us all into uneducated dittoheads living in a third-rate, third-world country where only a select few live free and rich, smiling from their penthouses overlooking a sea of whites-only country clubs while the rest of use live on crumbs in the ghettos of America. A country where poverty is prosperity, war is peace and up is down.
Come On, Don’t Be Retarded, Pt. 2
Published February 13th, 2010 | Conservative blogger and author of the book 7 Myths of Working Mothers, Susan Venker, has written a follow-up post to her previous entry on liberal media biased in publishing. In this entry, she whines about how mainstream publishers don’t want to publish books by conservatives. To prove her thesis, she cites Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter’s early years of rejection and her own struggle to get her book published.
Well, all writers get rejected. If there’s a writer out there who’s never been rejected, I don’t know of one. Second, I don’t recall anywhere in the Constitution an amendment stating that writers have a right to be published — only that they have the right to say and write what they want to write. And, while that little annecdote about the unnamed literary agent, refusing to represent "conservatives" may be true for all I know, one agent out of thousands doesn’t exactly make your case that there’s a vast left-wing conspiracy to keep conservative writers from getting their idiot message out there.
Now, I didn’t read your book, Ms. Venker, so I can’t really critique it, but I sincerely doubt that mainstream publishers rejected it because of your politics. They probably just thought it wouldn’t sell very well. Sure, Laura Ingraham and Michelle Malkin are both published by Regnery Publishing, which is a conservative press, but what about Coulter, Limbaugh, Beck, O’Reilly, etc.? Beck and Limbaugh are both published by imprints of Simon and Shuster. O’Reilly and Coulter are both published by imprints of Random House. What about Michael Savage? He’s had books published by conservative and mainstream publishers. The idea that there’s a liberal media bias in book publishing is a myth concocted by right-wing crybabies to explain why most intelligent people think they are idiots. What if I said that conservative publishers were prejudiced against progressive writers? After all, I’ve pointed to examples of conservative writers published by mainstream publishers, but can you name a single progressive writer published by a conservative publisher? Obviously, there’s a biased there, but who fucking cares, Ms. Venker? Anyone can start a publishing company and publish whatever they want. I could decide to only publish books about peanut butter. Does that mean I don’t like jelly? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe it just means that I like peanut butter a whole lot better. So get over it.
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