NEWS: Condi Rice Celebrates Irony

I am John Galt!

You know. I never really felt Condi believed a lot of the bullshit she had to peddle, and I do believe she believes in the diplomatic process, or at the very least, respects it a lot more than her counterparts in the administration (for instance: her and Rummy butting heads). Personally, I think she's a decent person that unfortunately got involved with some nasty morons.

[I appreciate Zarth adding some perspective on the matter.]

And FearTheReaper, I'm really disappointed that there was no "assassination plot" reference.

Sorry, it was just too perfect..

Amazing

Has Condi ever been to Haiti? She seems to be under the influence of a voodoo doctor.

Whew! At least somebody's John Galt!

Now, who is John Galt?

No, no, no ...

Who is on first.

Oh, what, because she's black? Racist.

I've always gotten the impression that the hubris of the Bush Administration was such that they truly believed that what they did and what everyone should do is and can be different. The do as we say not as we do refrain really gripes. Just look at the different approach to Iran and India and Pakistan over their nuclear programs. Hypocrisy does bad things for credibility.

What's with the constantly calling other people racist? Is it racist every time someone makes redneck or white trash jokes about Bush? Clichés, colloquialisms and sayings are just that. Stop reading so much into them or are you just trying to troll to disrupt the discussion? I doubt anyone on this site is down on Rice because she is a woman or because she is black. It has more to do with the crap job she and her boss have done.

jungle fever, omg condi

A fake company involved with the World Trade Center recovery effort?

Bingo.

The Bush administration has repeatedly claimed that the President has the Constitutional authority to completely ignore laws passed by Congress.

If massively expanded, unchecked Executive power doesn't sound authoritarian to you, then what exactly does?

I believe the response will be..."Nut N Honey"

Yeah, I didn't feel jpaul256's "question" even deserved a legitimate response at all, only because what Uncognitive described was only one of maybe a dozen "specific examples" that immediately spring to mind of how this administration has "leaned authoritarian," and was by no means the most egregious; authorizing torture, warrantless domestic surveillance, and suspending habeas corpus I think were probably the worst in that regard, though the politicization of the civil service has probably done the most lasting damage (as yet), and is also characteristically authoritarian.

Given the administration's documented policy history, either jpaul256 has been in a persistent vegetative state for the past six years or his question was disingenuous. I interpreted it as the latter.

Well, I felt like being pretentious, especially since there are some Bush apologists (I don't know if I can even call them "conservatives" anymore, since any actual self-respecting non-Evangelical conservative has already left the Bush camp for Libertarian Fantasy Island or Paleo-Conservative Jurassic Park) who think that anything short of cartoonish Stalinism isn't authoritarian.

I do think that one of the root causes of the authoritarian bent of Bush Jr's administration is the concept of the Unitary Executive. Bush literally ignored FISA law because he just assumed he could, and didn't feel compelled to tell anyone until after the fact. He just assumed he had the power to declare people to be "enemy combatants" and disappear them into torture dens without bothering with the law, the Constitution, or Congress.

There's never a bad time for a John Galt joke, though.

I'm sure that a life spent growing up with Yahoo Serious as your national comedic icon has beaten any sense of humor out of you, but that was actually supposed to be a joke. Could have been my fault, though. It wasn't very funny. Next time, I'll try to write something so hilarious that even you'll understand that it's not meant to be taken literally.