Ring the bell

Well, President Bush has jumped the shark. Not only is he strongly supporting allowing a company from the United Arab Emirates to guard several of our most important and vulnerable ports, but he now views it as so important that he is threatening a veto if his minions in Congress can't round up enough votes for it. Oh my god.

I'm having a real hard time wrapping my anthrax infected brain around this one, but there seem to be a couple of problems. First, and most importantly, why is he forcefully advocating that any foreign company, let alone one from a country that has had some uncomfortable ties with terror, guard our ports? Is Halliburton unvailable on this one? Second, how can this be the one issue that he is ready to pull out the veto on? Are animal-human hybrids finally on the backburner? Third, he has no congressional support. None. Changing French fries to freedom fries had two sponsors in the House, and you can't get a single House or Senate leader on your side? You've got Frist, Schumer, Hastert and Pelosi on the same side on this issue. That never happens.

Now, I know I love hyperbole, but this might be the single stupidest thing this President has ever done. And that is saying a lot, after all he: choked on a pretzel, crashed a Segway, dropped his dog, invaded a country without provocation or planning, pulled out of Kyoto, broke the FISA law, pressured scientists to deny Global warning, got a DUI, got drunk clearly a long time after he claimed to quit, picked a guy who had three heart attacks to be his Vice President, picked Rachel Dratch to be on the Supreme Court, was a cokehead, demanded tax cuts during wartime, and caught up on some reading on September 11.

In other words, I think I've finally found his successor!!!


Charles Logan '08!