How Dare He

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Ari Fleisher was on the Chris Matthew's Show yesterday, in a foolish attempt to rehabilitate his love bucket, W. I didn't recognize him at first - no glasses and something bizarre has happened to the skin on his face - the texture and color looked very strange (please God, let me not find out that he has some horrible disease, so I won't be punished for mocking the afflicted.) He was so obnoxious after a while I had to mute the sound, but I did hear some choice exchanges. Matthew's brought up the economy, asking was the economy better when W left office than when he took office. Ari's non answer? 9/11, no more threat from Sadam, and we weren't attacked. There are so many stupid items in this statement, it is hard to know where to begin. First, that doesn't exactly answer the question about the economy, except in some ways I guess it does. A non answer means the Bushies left the economy in the crapper and have no arguement, except to blame it on Clinton, by alluding to inheriting a so called resession when W took office. So in typical Republican mode, he talks about something different. What threat from Sadam? When Matthew's brought up that we were attacked under Bush's watch, Ari said, "How dare you!" What? 9/11 didn't happen when Bush was president? Matthew's brought up the infamous memo Ben Ladin Determined to Attack Inside the United States, and Ari pooh poohed it, saying in essence, Oh we got thousands of those kinds of memos. And I guess they ignored them all. Ari got pissy with Matthew's saying, "Do you interupt all your guests?" I guess Ari has never watched the show, so this must have come as an ugly surprise (ha ha). As many have pointed out, the Bush years were a terrorists recruiting dream, not to mention, the incalculable damage done to our nation's economy, so the spectacle of Ari talking about the wonderfulness of the Bush years was stomach churningly awful.

The Ramen investment

I didn't blog this morning - I actually have a day job, which given the state of the economy I will be working for a long, long time, if I am lucky enough to keep my job. More grim news from Wall Street. I know I don't understand the financial world all that well, but is the fact that consumer spending was down a surprise? I guess so. My brother in law suggested that we all invest heavily in Ramen Noodle Soup because that will be the only thing that we will able to afford to eat.

There is much talk in the msm about the upcoming debate. I came home to the dulcet tones of Tweety (aka Chris Mathews) hectoring someone about what McCain had to do during the debate. Who care what he does, even if he waxes lyrical, his ideas about everything are horrible, and he been acting so notional these days, who could trust him to be dog catcher, let alone president.