Wednesday and the White House
Eh. It’s too damned early and I didn’t make it to the gym today. Time to work out my frustration on the keyboard. Happy wednesday, y’all. Or all y’all.
Scotty quit! Gee, now there’s a shocker. More likely he was canned. You’d think after 2-1/2 years he would have learned to at least fake sincerity and competence rather than sweating like a fat man in Texas and pouting whenever he was asked an honest question. I still wonder — was he so awful because he actually had a conscience and didn’t like lying every time he opened his mouth, or was he so awful because nobody higher up really ever told him anything in the hopes that he wouldn’t blow it by actually saying anything that approximated the truth? Here’s hoping Bush can find a better lying scumbag to pretend to inform the press.
Rove is also out to a certain extent, it appears. Amazing what a new Chief of Staff can do for you. I don’t think it is enough to turn around the train-wreck that is our President’s image, but at least it is a start. Now all Bolten needs to do is get rid of the rest of the dead weight. Rumsfeld. Cheney. Bush. Boy, things are certainly going to be quiet in the WH.
Okay, enough leader, time to get to Saturday’s scribblings, since I was too lazy to enter this crap then (slightly edited so that the timeline isn’t so confusing and we all think it is still last Saturday. I know how easily confused you all are):
Andy Card’s last day as White House Chief of Staff (WHCC, because I don’t want to type that out again) was Friday, with Josh Bolten sliding over from heading the OMB to take over as the new Andy. Excellent choice, considering how well Josh did reigning in that budget (GWB motto: Budgets? We don’t need no steenkeeng budgets!). Now that the firings, er, resignations, are starting up, I assume Mr. Bolten has already gone through the ceremonial Surrendering of Integrity and sworn fealty to the president. Or is he still covered by his indoctrination from the OMB?
A weekend is a great time to start work in the WH; you can pretty much be guaranteed that your boss won’t be in. Make it a holiday weekend, and you’re probably in the clear for three or four days at least.
Enough grumbling; I need to get to work.
Is it fair that just because he chooses to tell half-truths and outright lies for money that I call Scotty a lying scumbag? Or should I consider White House Press Secretary to be a special position where the truth has no greater intrinsic value than a lie?