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CrimQuips 1/2/03 Thursday, January 2, 2003

Commentary by Barry Crimmins

http://www.barrycrimmins.com Although Court-appointed President Bush has expressed opposition to cloning, he is said to be relieved that at least there will be a new minority group to openly hate now that Trent Lout has forced Republicans to crazy-glue their Klan hoods on.

Senator Bill Frist was one of the first people at the scene of a traffic accident in Florida this week. As you may recall, Frist was first on the scene of the knifing of Lout a few weeks ago.

The court-appointed prez has ordered the Treasury Department to only print old money since it is the only kind of currency that anyone seems to be able to hold onto anymore. When questioned about his plans for yet another tax cut for the ultra-rich, Bush said, "I don't want to get involved in Class warfare." This is because because not even Donald Rumsfeld is loopy enough to think Republicans could win a war fought on that front.

Bush doesn't want warfare with the poor because "warfare" implies the poor would get a chance to fight back.

Nope, no class warfare for Bush-- just a continuation of his policy of preemptive strikes on the poor. Maybe after Bush sends every poor kid in the country to go out and fight as corporate Hessians, leaving their neighborhoods defenseless, he'll make his move and endorse class warfare.

You want meaningful tax relief for working Americans? End corporate welfare.   Today's cheery thought: Were it not for the death penalty, Texas would have several more electoral votes.

Senator John Edwards of North Carolina announced his desire to be the 2004 Democratic nominee for president saying, "If you want a career politicians, I'm not your man." Judging by how quickly the first-term senator has decided to run for president, he is actually is more ambitious than a career pol.

Edwards will be savaged by Republicans for his background as a trial lawyer. The R's want trial lawyers outlawed because once they're eliminated then the corporate elite will no longer even have to speak with the legal representatives of working people.

Besides, if it weren't for the damned trial lawyers suing tobacco companies, auto makers, polluters and other purveyors of health hazards we wouldn't have to worry about overpopulation.

If anything makes Edwards attractive, it's the fact that he's a trial lawyer. Why does Frist, an heir to a healthcare-denial conglomerate, get played up as a hero for helping out auto accident victims but Edwards get painted as a bum for representing those same auto accident victims?

Frist demanded the victims health insurance cards before he would work on them.

Dick Gephardt is also preparing to announce a bid to become the Democratic choice in 2004. His plan to be the only Democrat to out-hawk Bush on Iraq could be foiled if Joe Lieberman enters the race.

W said that he considers the Democrats jockeying for the 2004 nomination as mere "background noise." Here's hoping that 'background noise" becomes the "let them eat cake" quotation of Bush's eventual demise.

Now that it has come out that U.S. Air Force pilots take an amphetamine referred to as 'go pills' does this mean someone will finally make a legitimate ad linking drug use to terrorism?

When whacked-out U.S. pilots bomb innocents, the victims just say "nooooooooooooo!"

Steel removed from the World Trade Center is going to be used to build a Navy warship. And you thought Republicans were opposed to pornography!

How ridiculous has North Korea made Bush look? He was swaggering all over the international playground terrorizing the other kids over weapons of mass destruction and disputes over U.N. inspectors in Iraq. Now the inspectors are in, no weapons of mass destruction have been found but Bush is sending troops over faster than he can deprive floridians of their right to vote. Now North Korea has tossed out weapons inspectors so it can build weapons of mass destruction in privacy and Bush suddenly has become a sniveling weak-kneed appeaser in search of solutions through diplomatci channels. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for diplomatic solutions, but Bush has been shown up to a fraud. If Bush were a college football coach , he'd only schedule games against small schools with very weak teams because he's terrified by the thought of anything that even remotely approaches a real fight.