Gross, Man
February 5th, 2007Last night’s Super Bowl was miserable to watch. Rex Grossman was miserable, man, like he always is. I’ve long said that he collapses under modest pressure, and he does. Get a small pass rush on him and he runs backward, throws off the wrong foot, often just letting it fly deep and hoping something happens when any reasonable person would do something, anything, else. It isn’t just poor decision making that’s a problem with Rex, though: he can’t even handle snaps, and he falls over his own feet. He fell over in several games during the season, in and out of the rain, and he is just a terrible Quarterback. Pea-brained and noodle-armed, as the fellows at Slate described him leading up to the Super Bowl, he’s fundamentally unsound on any field.
I’d like to tell my fellow Bear fans that Next year’s the year! but the truth is that I wouldn’t bet on it with Grossman at the helm. Time will tell, so for now, we should turn to the present, to this, another disgusting move by the President.
President Bush has signed a directive that gives the White House much greater control over the rules and policy statements that the government develops to protect public health, safety, the environment, civil rights and privacy. In an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Mr. Bush said that each agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee, to supervise the development of rules and documents providing guidance to regulated industries. The White House will thus have a gatekeeper in each agency to analyze the costs and the benefits of new rules and to make sure the agencies carry out the president’s priorities.
This strengthens the hand of the White House in shaping rules that have, in the past, often been generated by civil servants and scientific experts. It suggests that the administration still has ways to exert its power after the takeover of Congress by the Democrats. The White House said the executive order was not meant to rein in any one agency. But business executives and consumer advocates said the administration was particularly concerned about rules and guidance issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
George W. Bush is such an awful, sleazy, dishonest man, only respecting the dollar and his own sense of privelege. He has dishonored and disgraced this country, he has shown nothing but contempt for the city, its traditions, and common decency. He is Rex Grossman in the White House. He is a man to be scorned, not pitied, and when he dies, the then-sitting President would be right to avoid his funeral or to declare at it, “An American monster has passed.”
I don’t like to talk like this. I’ve avoided it, in the past, but this is out of hand, and deserves such a response. George Bush doesn’t care about good government, and if he does, George Bush is incapable of creating and maintaining it. But it’s time to unconditionally call a spade a spade, and George Walker is a liar and a buffoon.
Let’s add the third edge to this trifecta of ridikule: there are “virginity balls” going on across the country in which girls are pledging to be chaste for their fathers. That type of thing seems like it be better suited for a kitchen conversation than it would be a dance.