I hope it sticks - I feel a LOT more secure with Bush Sr. and Clinton calling shots than with Karl Rove and Dick Cheney.
I'll nurse you back to health. I'll wear the nurse outfit!
"BuffyBot" ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 01, 2005 9:32:44 am PDT #3635 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
DXMachina - Sep 01, 2005 9:32:58 am PDT #3636 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I'm kind a surprised Jimmy Carter hasn't shown up with his tool box yet.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 01, 2005 9:34:06 am PDT #3637 of 10002
What is even happening?
Even calling on his geriatric father for help is comforting in a way. Whatever I may have thought about George H. Bush's degree of connection to the common man, I never supposed that he was anything less than brilliant and highly capable.
I don't think the father is brilliant, but I do think he's intelligent, capable, and more of a politician including those senses of the word that aren't an indictment of character, but more of a compliment.
Where Clinton is concerned, Allyson speaks for me. He is still very much my President.
shrift - Sep 01, 2005 9:35:18 am PDT #3638 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
My Out of Office message is on and my boarding passes are printed. I'm off to collect my luggage and do a "what did I forget?!" spin around the house, and then I'm off to meet up with Dana at Dragon*Con.
Bye!
Hayden - Sep 01, 2005 9:36:07 am PDT #3639 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Maybe Bush Sr could use his CIA connections to raise some cash from a Middle Eastern theocracy and a war-torn Central American country. If only there were some precedent...
Jesse - Sep 01, 2005 9:36:26 am PDT #3640 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I hope it sticks - I feel a LOT more secure with Bush Sr. and Clinton calling shots than with Karl Rove and Dick Cheney.
Oh, I don't know how many shots they'll actually call, but they make a great visual.
I'm kind a surprised Jimmy Carter hasn't shown up with his tool box yet.
I know, right? I heart Jimmy Carter.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 01, 2005 9:37:57 am PDT #3641 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I think the Daddy Bush + Clinton combo is brilliant, and I'm sure they'll be doing all of this kind of thing for the foreseeable future.
Despite the serious of this whole situation, the re-teaming of these two makes me want to come up with a filky variation on the intro to the Odd Couple. They do seem to work amazingly well together though.
Hayden - Sep 01, 2005 9:38:50 am PDT #3642 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
My in-laws visited Jimmy Carter's church last weekend and got a great photo op with the man. President Carter's surrounded by about eight people (my in-laws are on his left), and everyone's beaming except for two very angry looking ladies on the President's right. They remind me of the King of the Hill episode where Hank and Bobby get their picture made after Bobby's started working with his dad. Hank tells Bobby not to smile because he's a working man now.
tommyrot - Sep 01, 2005 9:46:07 am PDT #3643 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
But hey, Jimmy Carter is one of the 100 most dangerous people in America.
Fred Pete - Sep 01, 2005 9:47:36 am PDT #3644 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
I don't deny that the President's proposed budget didn't give Louisiana the funding it asked for and now, it seems, it desperately needed. But he's ultimately not the one who makes the budget, Congress is.
The White House proposes a budget, so they aren't automatically off the hook. I'd like to know what was proposed vs. what Congress approved. There may be plenty of blame to go around.
I'm kind a surprised Jimmy Carter hasn't shown up with his tool box yet.
I'm sure he'll be there once the water recedes and rebuilding can start.