On the Playground
September 20th, 2006The UN has turned into quite a playground for children. George W. Bush and Mahmoud Ahmaniac refuse to speak to one another at the jungle gym — although they will blast each other from across the baseball field, with President Bush throwing a “divorce” pitch and Mahmoud calling George W. Bush out with a knuckleball called war criminal. Not just happy to watch the big boys bully others, Venezuela has to get involved, and today Hugo Chavez strolled across the playground and called Bush “the Devil.”
I think this may be the first time in hundreds of years where the world is literally and absolutely run by idiots. Literally, and it stretches from continent to continent to continent to continent to continent to continent. To continent!
I know that, today, everyone will be talking about Chavez and Mahmoud’s comments, but to me, the most important news of the day is this:
Seeking a deal with Senate Republicans on the rules governing the interrogation of terrorism suspects, the White House has dropped its insistence on redefining the obligations of the United States under the Geneva Conventions, members of Congress and aides said Tuesday.
Good to hear that they’ve come back to Earth. I’ll enjoy it while I can, as I’m sure Bush’ll be back in all his Geneva Convention redefining Glory. His friend Alberto, too, much like, earlier in the year, Bill Frist pulled the issue of immigration from the Senate and said, that’s enough for now. Now he’s bringing controversy back by reintroducing a measure to have tougher borders. Clearly it’s an attempt to rile up the Republican base but, for my money, it’s a poor one. Republicans have made gains amongst Latinos, and with acts like this, they are deleting them, and further, it just isn’t good policy. Worst of all for Republicans, it doesn’t stand up to the smell test: it smells like a piece of pandering, and it is. Voters will see through that.
Thank you, Senator.