Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 by Gene

I cringe just thinking about the wedding night
Woman marries dead boyfriend

Makes all the hoo-ha about gay marriage seem sort of silly, doesn't it?

The worm, she is turning
Bush looked so comically bad in that Tim Russert interview even conservatives are saying so. Meanwhile...

--the press is finally giving a shit en masse about his curious National Guard record, which is an issue partly because it's become fairly evident Bush's challenger for the White House is going to be a guy who actually WENT to Vietnam.

--The proposed budget for 2005 is being laughed at by both sides of the House.

--The tax cuts over the last three years are responsible for 1/4 of the national deficit.

--Joblessness is at a high.

--There's mad cow disease and the chicken flu and the FDA is too toothless to do anything about it.

--The EPA is a joke.

--Conservative puppet cum commentator Bill O'Reilly recently said there's clearly a problem with our rationale for going to war with Iraq.

--A high-ranking Pakistani national hero just admitted to selling nuclear secrets to North Korea, Libya, and Iran (and not, please note, Iraq.)

I could go on. My point is, we're finally hearing about this shit in the regular press, and Bush is finally on the defensive. And it sounds like even some of the Republican cognoscenti are starting to recognize this as a sinking ship.

What, I still wonder, took everyone so long?

About the Vietnam thing
Incidentally, I have no qualms, overall, with Bush ducking Vietnam. My problem is that he was so lackadaisical about it he also ducked the one thing KEEPING him from the war, which was the National Guard. All that bullshit about Clinton being a draft-dodger, and nobody had a thing to say about a guy who couldn't even report to a base one weekend a month? C'mon.

Meanwhile...
John Kerry keeps on rolling. Go, Johnny, go.