Susan Collins

Ryan Grim at Huffpo gave me some gems from that new standard for American Literature that is about to hit your local Barnes & Noble.  This rat named Latimer wrote this book as a tell-all from a guy who knew how to listen in the men's room at the WH during George W. Bush's tenure as leader of the Free World.

Some of the best stuff:

• Donald Rumsfeld had to be talked out of editing his own entry on Wikipedia, which he referred to as "Wika-wakka." He was a Drudge Report reader and used to watch YouTube clips that made fun of his press conference performances. 

This brought me back to a standard at our Café that a brilliant man put into poetic form:

The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.

--Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing http://www.slate.com/id/2081042/

Now we must remember that I have been chastised on more than a few occasions for simply noting WIKI at the end of some unmemorable pointless point in one of my posts. I was cautioned to cite it as wikipedia or some such. But now I rarely even note that the line came from WIKI anyway since the links within the line tell everyone where it came from.

But I am a little sullen that rummy did not edit his own entry. You see, someone like rummy needs to splain himself. He cannot help it. If I were working with WIKI I would solicit edits from rummy on a number of subjects. I think it would be enlightening indeed.

But back to reality or unreality as the case may be:

• Interviewing for the job, Latimer was told by Chief of Staff Josh Bolten that Bush's White House was "the most ethical administration in history." He added: "Looks like even Scooter Libby might get off."

When two hundred government regulators help the most successful felons in the world to rape and pillage America's resources and no one can prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, was there a 'sound'; has a crime been committed? THIS IS HOW BOLTON AND HALF THE PEOPLE IN W'S WH THOUGHT; for eight long years.

There is no truth, justice or the American Way. It is all about what those out of power can prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

• While Karl Rove was appearing on Fox News and writing op-eds as an independent political analyst, he was privately smearing Democrats. "Karl spread rumors through the White House that one of Obama's potential vice presidential running mates -- and a United States senator -- had beaten his first wife. 'Karl says it's true,' the president assured a small group of staffers. Then knowing Karl, he quickly added, 'Karl hopes it's true,'" reports Latimer.

Now here is a trickster in the tradition of Donald Segretti. What a pig. Just my own thoughts here. Hit the repubs anyway you can whenever you can wherever you can.

• Bush, it turns out, is like millions of Americans: "I haven't watched the nightly news one night since I've been president," he said.

This is nothing new. I recall this line coming to the fore years ago. Hell, he never watched the damn news before he was president. He was too busy reading three Shakespeare plays.

• Latimer was asked to help with a speech for Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith, who General Tommy Franks famously called "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth." Feith had rejected a draft from another writer. "His own writer had failed miserably at drafting some upcoming testimony to Congress. Feith was so incensed by the speech's first line that he read it aloud to me. 'Mr. Chairman, thank you for inviting me to testify today.' 'Thank you?' Feith snapped, as if he couldn't believe it. 'For inviting me'?'"

Well, let's just stick with Tommy Franks on this one.

• Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins is fond of sending angry, middle-of-the-night e-mails to staffers because she's frustrated that her colleague and rival Olympia Snowe gets more and better press. As a result, reports Latimer, she rips through press secretaries like 30-packs at a beer-pong tournament. (A Collins press secretary didn't respond to a request for comment.)

I would like to claim that I am somehow above gossip. But I swear, sometimes these two Maine Dammes appear to me as two older spinsters in some Stephen King novel.  The most powerful men in the world wooing them. I mean why has there not been some commedianne with the speech patterns of Collins. Hahahah. She would make a mint. And to think the two grand dames, if let loose, would end up in a cat fight of some kind. Hahahaahaha.

Oh Olympia, the pride of the north,

Oh Olympia, please let me come forth

To you I come for my advice

I really need to know

Will you grace me with your presence

Will you show me with your allegiance

Like the snow caps the great Mt. Olympus

You grace our magnificent Senate.

Oh Susan I love you more every day

Oh Susan you humble us in every way

Can you come out and play

Can you sing the songs that must be sung?

We praise your voice

Over everyone"s

I shall end with this little quote:

• Bush on Jimmy Carter: "If I'm ever eighty-two years old and acting like that have someone put me away."

Folks, George W. Bush is not fit to wash the manure off of Jimmy Carter's boots. And w would not even have a clue as to why that should be. Can you imagine w going out to some development and gleefully working on the construction of a home for a homeless family that would provide proper plumbing and kitchen facilities and new hope for the vanquished?  Not some photo op. I mean helping to coordinate the construction, helping to raise a wall....and seeing the project through to the end?

When looking at these two gentlemen who were once leaders of the Free World, which one is the true Christian? 

Which one truly wished to come to the aide of his countrymen during perilous times?

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/20/bush-in-2008-im-not-going_n_292876.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/20/bush-in-2008-im-not-going_n_292876.html