Shots In The Dark: The Worst President in History, Cont'd.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

The Worst President in History, Cont'd.

Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona told Congress yesterday that he was forbidden by top Bush administration officials to attend the Special Olympics because they have traditionally been supported by the Kennedy family.

“I was specifically told by a senior person, ‘Why would you want to help those people?’ ” Dr. Carmona said.

Carmona was also forbidden to speak or issue reports about stem cells, emergency contraception, sex ed, or "prison, mental, and global health issues," according to the Times.

Oh—and he had to mention George Bush three times on every page of all his speeches.

He described attending a meeting of top officials in which the subject of global warming was discussed. The officials concluded that global warming was a liberal cause and dismissed it, he said.

Who are these people, and how did they seize control of our government?

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Comments:

The voters elected them, to our shame. Well, at least I think they did, at least in 2004 (when they really should have known better).

Pretty good answer to the "Why they hate us" question, no?

As that old hypocrite Jefferson once wrote, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."

# posted by Anonymous : July 11, 2007 9:26 AM

I really don't think there's any need for the Gomer act ("Surprise, surprise, surprise!"). Anyone paying attention has known about all this stuff since mid '03.

The bellwether for me was I think early '02 -- the administration's treatment of the Small Business Administration. But everyone -- at least everyone who takes their civic responsibility seriously, which I know includes you, Richard -- has his or her own story.

I'm interested in how Romney's candidacy can survive this dog-on-car incident. The guy's a freak in ways that the media at some point has got to love. There are just enough animal-interest groups out there to keep bringing it up, and if this country has any real heartland Silent Majority these days it's pet owners. What matters is that reporters and news execs get reconciled to the idea that there. will. be. no. horse race. Then they can make stories out of what freaks the GOP candidates are.

By the way, Richard, for the extreme version of the thing I (believed I) was contemning in your first Scooter Libby post, see here --

http://tinyurl.com/2noftt

SE

# posted by Standing Eagle : July 11, 2007 9:53 AM

Standing Eagle,

I'm not sure that Romney does survive the dog on car incident; I think it could be a Muskie's tears kind of thing.

Richard

P.S. On the other hand, I do think he's the strongest Republican candidate.

# posted by Richard Bradley : July 11, 2007 10:06 AM

To be sure, the GOP nomination is now Christie Brinkley to Romney's Chevy Chase.

# posted by Squatting Egret : July 11, 2007 12:14 PM

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