Did I say Bush would be in the 20s by August? Um... I meant next week.
In my last blog entry, discussing Bush's 31 percent approval rating, I predicted he'd crack the 20s by August 1. Chrissake, my abilities, or lack thereof, as a political prognosticator are really getting worrisome. Is this the same guy that predicted no WMDs in Iraq? No connection to al-Qaeda from Iraq? That Bush would win in 2000 after an impossibly tight race in Florida? Man, I am seriously slipping. Especially after news of the latest Harris poll, which puts Bush at 29 percent. At this rate, the possibility of Bush sinking to -- and even beyond -- Nixon's low of 24 percent is very real. Hell, by August, he could even surpass Truman's all-time low of 22 percent. Bush has been sent a clear message: Mr. President, we hate you like cancer.
George W. Bush, allegedly less approved of than communicable disease
But I don't want to talk about Bush. Stick a fork in him -- he's done. I want to talk about Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and what a colossally inept, old and in-the-way would-be presidential contender she has become.
Specifically, I want to talk about Hillary's speech before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Despite it's official-sounding name, the Chamber is not an official government organization. It's the most powerful pro-business lobby in America. Now, I know what you're thinking. Does big business actually need a powerful lobby? Christ in a cornrow, don't they already run things as it is?
Well, that's true. But neither here nor there. The real disturbing thing is reading the position papers of organizations like the Chamber -- they sound like they were issued by some sort of inhuman, Matrix-operating artificial intelligence that doesn't just ignore the trials and tribulations of the average American but, in fact, has no real conception of such problems, like Mr. Spock trying to understand human emotion.
Commander Spock, alleged lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Anyway, Hillary said in a speech before the Chamber that young people today “think work is a four-letter word." She quickly apologized after her own 26-year-old daughter called up to bitch her out. That is, she apologized to her daughter. At a speech later before the graduating class of Long Island University, the senator said, "I said, ‘I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to convey the impression that you don’t work hard. I just want to set the bar high, because we are in a competition for the future.' ”
Bullshit, Senator. You meant what you said and that half-assed apology gets you nowhere. I am sick to death of my entire generation being brushed aside by Baby Boomers, a generation itself known best for it's self-indulgence and facile attempts at counterculture. Screw you, senator. You just enunciated in one phrase everything I hate about the generation before me -- the rampant hypocrisy of do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do that has led to such asinine results as your ex-potsmoker husband leading the War on Drugs.
Goddamn it, Hillary, if you don't think we work at all, why the hell should we work for you?
Sen. Hillary Clinton, alleged panderer to Big Business and typical Baby Boomer hypocrite
Comments
You tell 'em,Sweeney! I can't understand the people that think Mrs. Clinton is going to be the savior of this country...I can't even see her saving the Democratic Party from its impending implosion. And this is before I even heard of this insult to our generation.
I can't stand people insulting my work ethic...
Posted by: scooter | May 15, 2006 3:26 PM