Now that it's become clear that the Republicans, the fiscally conservative, strong on defense party, are neither fiscally conservative nor strong on defense, they have to tell us what it is they are actually good at.
9/11 happened on your watch. And you retaliated by invading the wrong country. And you lost a 7 year game of hide and seek with bin Laden. And you are responsible for running up most of the debt which more than anything makes us weak.
You're supposed to be the party with the killer instinct, but it was a Democrat put a bomb in Gaddafi's bedroom and bullet in bin Laden's eye like Mo Green. Raising the question, how many muslims does a black guy need to kill in one weekend before crackers climb down off his ass?
Let's look at some facts.
When Bill Clinton left office in 2001, the congressional budget office calculated that by the end of the decade we would have paid off the entire debt and had a 2 trillion dollar surplus. Instead we have a 10.5 trillion dollar public debt, and the difference in those two numbers is mostly because the Republicans put tax cuts for the rich, free drugs for the elderly and two wars on the layaway plan and bailed on the check.
So much for fiscal responsibility.
But hey, at least they still had the defense thing, right? The public still believed that they were tougher when it came to hunting down dark skinned foreigners with funny sounding names.
But Bush had 7 years to get Osama. He didn't. He got Wesley Snipes.
Only 6 months after 9/11 Bush said he didn't spend that much time on bin Laden and was no longer concerned about him, just as he wasn't before 9/11, when he blew off that mysterious memo entitled 'bin Laden determined to attack inside the United States'. In under a year Bush went from who gives a sh*t to dead or alive back to who gives a sh*t.
Why focus on the terrorists who reduced Wall Street to rubble when you can help Wall Street reduce the entire country into rubble?
In 2008 the candidates were asked if they knew for sure that bin Laden was in Pakistan would you send our guys in without permission from Pakistan. McCain said 'No'. Obama said 'Yes'. McCain called him 'Naive'.
And why can't you just admit that Obama is one efficient, steely nerved multi-tasking, black, ninja, gangster President? In one week he produced his birth certificate, comforted disaster victims, swung by Florida to say 'hey ' to Gabby Giffords, did stand up at the correspondent's dinner and then personally repelled into bin Laden's lair and threw a Chinese star through his throat without waking up any of his 13 wives. I saw that on MSNBC.
30% of this country will always vote Republican. I'm just asking why? Sure paranoia, greed and racism are fun, but it's like when you see someone driving a Mercury, you think did that person really think, 'did that person really want to drive a Mercury Mariner?' No, you assume he knows someone who sells them or a Kia dealer molested him as a child.
I know this all sounds harsh, but Republicans are supposed to be the party of harsh truth. Like, 'there is no such thing as a free lunch'. And speaking of lunch, Obama just ate yours.
Bill Maher
