Bush to Address Earmarks

Among the usual ra ra ra for the wars, Bush plans on addressing the issue of earmarks in his State of the Union. Bush is expected to announce that he will sign an executive order "directing agencies to ignore any future earmarks included in report language, but not in the legislation". Abolishing earmarks by itself is an admirable goal, albeit a naive one. It's how Congress works unfortunately. But this feels like a step to sabotage Congress. Like it's all part of their plan to blame the Democrats for this administration's failures. An elaborate dine and dash. Bush let the Republican Congressmen run amok with earmarks and pork when the Republicans were in power and didn't give a damn. This is a piss poor attempt to try to reverse his legacy and avoid going down as one of the worst presidents ever. I can't wait til this hypocritical piece of shit is out.

Also included in the excerpts in this hackneyed talking point, "Some may deny the surge is working, but among the terrorists there is no doubt. Al Qaeda is on the run in Iraq, and this enemy will be defeated". This coming from the same administration that for nearly four years believed that if it just kept saying such crap we would win. Crap like "the insurgency is in its final throws". I believe the surge the is working. And I'm damn glad it is. But victory in Iraq should not be based solely on a military victory. Iraq has given little indication that it is ready politically and socially to "stand up". I want to hear less about the great surge and more concrete explanations of how in the hell the Iraqis are going to cooperate politically and socially to achieve the Democratic utopia that Bush described after his first reason for going to war turned out to be bullshit lies. God he disgusts me.