The Bully Pulpit

All the news that gives you fits. God, I am so ticked off. Mr Bush continues to find ways to infect my life negatively. Some background info is necessary here. I like to time shift--that is I like to record TV programs and watch them at my time as opposed to the time they are on. To this end, TiVo has been a godsend for me. Besides last Thursday (with Bush's bully pulpit crap on his stupid {and I mean that word in every connotation and denotation-but more of that later} social security plan),the only other time my programming was messed up was Mr/ Bush's Bogus adventure.

You remember--the flight suit, the aircraft carrier--the lie "Mission Accomplished"

Nevertheless, usually my TiVo is smart enough to record "Survivor" when it's on Wednesday night, instead of its usual Thursday night slot. However, there was no mention of this bully pulpit crap speech by Mr. Bush in the local Newsday. How was one to know that there was a pre-emption in progress? Was this a state of emergency meeting? No-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-! This was a beleaguered president taking his policy to the American public when his phony and set up town meetings B.S. were not effective. Politeness would have dictated that some notice be given so that those of us who did not want to watch this moron rant, rave and lie could watch something else. Again, those spineless commercial networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, etc.) let this political INFOMERCIAL happen. This was propaganda at its worse, worse than Showtime's cheesy remake of the 1930's Reefer Madness.

Mr. Bush's social security plan will not work for anyone other than his rich banking FRIENDS on Wall Street. His "private account" nonsense will not "fix" social security but rather destroy it and decimate the future incomes of the lower and middle classes who now have some protection under the current social security program. The absolute HUBRIS that Mr. Bush demonstrates continually, along with his blatant disregard for the working masses will soon prove to be his downfall.

I'm ticked off. I missed "Survivor" because my TiVo taped CBS on the 8-9 PM time slot. I missed "Joey" and "Will and Grace" because my TiVo recorded NBC in the 8-9 PM time slot. I left my house at 6AM and returned at 9:55 PM only to find the simpering, whimpering, smirky face of Mr. Bush where I had hoped to be entertained after a hard day's night. There was no justice in this world last November, and there is no justice anymore. This sniviling, pompous ass has now invaded the sanctity of my TiVo box with his unsolicited and unwelcome Bully Pulpit. Will there be no end to this madness? I wish I could program my TiVo NOT to record any speech by Mr. Bush. Now that would be technology that the whole world could use.