Senator Billy Frist and his butt-boy Glenn Reynolds have launched a campaign to make permanent Bush’s gutless recess appointment of the embarrassingly hostile and aggressive neocon non-entity John Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations.
Frist you will remember as the Doctor/Senator from Tennessee who was willing to diagnose Terri Schiavo without seeing her. Frist’s funding organization, VOLPAC, supports his latest bizarre effort to embarrass America with another quintessential act of stupidity…
The campaign has a great table listing liberal senators and their phone numbers. I don’t suppose it would hurt to click through there and call a few of these senators and encourage them to remain in principled opposition to the Bush administration’s attempt to dominate and subvert the UN through this appointment.
As this dittohead campaign takes off, I expect the blogroll at VOLPAC to grow to become a rogues gallery of the dimwits supporting Bush. Billy Frist is sucking up big-time because he hopes to inherit the mantle of hatred, graft and corruption. It’s not at all clear that the royal Bush family will allow an outsider to run while they have a perfectly good Governor and a couple of never convicted felons in the wings waiting for Cowboy George to check out of the white hotel, but Billy has to suck up anyway, just in case.
I find Bolton fascinating. He’s something of a poor man’s PoMo philosopher.
By virtue of its non-existence, his unconfirmed appointment made him the perfect ambassador. The logic is impeccable.
Excellent observation.
There are a few people who would be worse for the job. Lyndon Larouche, for example. But what’s needed is someone who thinks working to reduce animosity is a good idea. Failing that, someone who doesn’t get a kick out of farting in the elevator.
[…] Gee, is it possible to cram any more ad hominem attacks into this listics.com post’s opening sentence? Senator Billy Frist and his butt-boy Glenn Reynolds have launched a campaign to make permanent Bush’s gutless recess appointment of the embarrassingly hostile and aggressive neocon non-entity John Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations. […]
Well yes, Mortman, it is possible to pack more ad hominem attacks in a single sentence. You should have seen the draft!
In the end I decided to adhere to the stylistic constraints of simplicity and accuracy, and thus shortened to that simple sentence what had been a lofty attempt to inform others while expressing myself; because, you see, I am aware of the neocon aversion to compound and compound-complex sentence structures and all of their confusing commas and semicolons.
I hope you found it easy to read. I know Billy Frist and his butt-boy Glenn Reynolds did.
I wanted to help with the draft, but Frank thought my additions were too politically correct. Told me to come back when I developed a little moxie. It’s true *sigh* I have a soft spot for bullies, cretins and loutish demagogues. They’re so cuddly.
insight and dry humor.�
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