"I'll Give Some Speeches, Just to Replenish the Ol' Coffers."

Just when you feel impenetrably numb to the delusional ravings of our Punk In Chief, comes a sentence so multilayered in obscenity, so richly textured with arrogance and solipsism as to make Ayn Rand look like Albert Schweitzer.

Let's put aside the coffers of thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis now eternally empty. Let's put aside the refugees who left their coffers behind when they fled. Let's put aside the amputees at Walter Reed who can no longer grip their coffers. Let's even put aside that his major domestic initiative centers on denying health care to children whose coffers exceed twice the poverty limit.

No, for any student of the career of George W, the true cause for projectile vomiting can be found in the word "replenish". This is a man who, from buying tropical plants to specializing in dry holes to responsibility-free board appointments to being given his own baseball team, has never done anything to plenish his coffers in the first place.

And...wait for it...he is going to give speeches. Speeches! Charitably, he has had perhaps three thoughts in the past seven years. And he has used them in every lip sucking spittle-encrusted yammer. Smugly flipping through his sentence per page binder, finding it "interesting" that Japan is now an ally and "fully" understanding that war is "tough". Ahh the comatose stares around the Carlyle Group's banquet hall, as member's struggle not to pass out in their omelets during the brunch speaker's power point presentation "Oceans Don't Protect Us".

Comments

[Birdman]

Lets hope that there are no takers that care to hear anything from Bush after he leaves office.

[KeysDan]

These speech deals are, essentially, a modern form of graft. Much more sophisticated than the old Tammany Hall pols. These Nixon administration alums noted the retro-corruption methods of Vice President Spiro Agnew and his resultant resignation following a nolo contendre plea bargain for taking money-stuffed envelops while in office. Now, patience is their virtue: inordinate amounts of cash for a 30-minute speech when out of office. Consider it payment for services previously rendered. Remember, ex-president Reagan's $l million honorarium from the Japanese; Bush will have a long line of military and construction contractors, as well as megachurch preachers, waiting to pay for his spellbinders.

[KeysDan]

Inordinate amounts of money for "speeches" by ex-office holders are just modern-day graft. It is cash for services previously rendered. The old-fashioned folly of Spiro Agnew, who took cash-stuffed envelopes from road contractors while a sitting vice presiddent, did not go unnoticed. Always better to wait and safely receive "honoraria". Remember ex-president Ronald Reagan's one million dollar remuneration from the Japanense for giving a speech--it must really have been quite the barnburner. President Bush should really be able to replenish (how did he spend any of his money, anyway? Rich people never spend their own money) the ol' coffins (sic) what with all those royal saudis, military contractors and megachurch preachers lined up to hear his spellbinding rhetoric.

[Tennessean]

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." -- H.L.Mencken

[Ivann]

I'm sure he's got Tony Bliar lined up as speech lapdog.

[tod1way]

As a Punk, I really wish you wouldn't use that term to refer to George W. Bush. He's about as punk as Toby Keith. Joey Ramone would be rolling over in his grave to know you lumped him in with the likes of that pinhead.
Punks care about the little guy and hate corporations. Does that sound like Mr. Bush to you? I doubt it.

[coloneblog]

Dubya will go broke on the speaker's circuit! Is he kidding, this babbling idiot needs honorariums or speaker's fees to survive financially? Do you mean to say he did tax cuts for the rich, the Iraq War, the highway
bill, the health care deal, liaise fare on environmental policy, no oversight on the banking industry and other pro rich actions without a pre agreed to pay backs? If he did, then he is dumber than we thought. Oh well,
his Daddy'll take care of his boy! Please, no more speeches. Geez.

[khristmaskathy]

We would all be okay if Al Gore had not had the election taken from him in 2000. The course of history got off-track at that time and I doubt it will ever be able to get back on track as a result. I am so sick of George Bush and company's crap.

[asl3676]

Has Bush spent any money the past 7 years? He needs to replenish? Does he know what replenish means? What a sorry person.

[TwilightBlogger]

I also found it outrageous that Bush would be giving speeches not because there's an issue about which he feels some passion and wants to inpire/educate people, or because there's a cause in which he believes so strongly he must keep working on it even after he's no longer president. For a man who claims that God talks to him, he is the most spiritually bankrupt person to ever be president of this country.

[grainger5]

He gives speeches, not to inspire, nor to educate or enlighten, or even to convince anyone to believe what he is saying. He gives them simply to piss you off. That's all. He, and his speechwriters (yes, he has those) know which buttons to press for his amusement, because that's all he has to do at the White House. He makes no decisions, has no vision, no ideas or suggestions. Others are doing that, and badly. Remember the Australia speech, where he said OPEC instead of APEC? Listen closely. That was deliberate, intentional. He wanted to insult the people at that conference, because he doesn't care about them or their policies. He doesn't give a shit because he knows nothing he says or does matters.

In other words, he's just having some fun, while he's still president. Search the Internet for videos of him drunk. That is his true personality shining through.

[Robert59]

Any why wasn't this comment the lead story? It shows what a shallow man he really is. Easy to understand why so many don't vote; if he is the model of a public servant why participate?

[glesslib]

We're all laughing about W's inability to make a speech, but he'll have lots of takers. After all, he's a "guy's guy" and he'll just drape himself over the podium, smirk his winning smirk, and tell his highly partisan audiences how he stood up to the whole world and what a big man he is. The money will roll in.

Someone once said of this pathetic man, "George Bush....proof positive that the guy having a beer on the next barstool would NOT make a good president.

[glesslib]

The big problem with all of our laughing about his inability to give a speech is that, since he's a "guy's guy", he'll just lean on the podium, smirk his winning smirk, and tell all his highly partisan listeners how he stood up to the whold world...they'll eat it up and pay him big bucks. It really says more about American values than about this man who is so clearly out of his depth as president.

Someone once said about him, " George Bush...proof positive that the guy having a been on the next barstool would NOT make a good president.

[bookish]

Cry in hell, Bush.

[Texashogfan]

Reedmaker

Yeh, Barbara Bush lost what respect I ever held for her with her post-Katrina comment about the flood victims in Houston. Have you seen her since?

Troop reductions in Iraq? Well, dubya's reduced troops--- almost 4K dead, another 25-30K wounded. That's reducing the troop levels, isn't it? Plus giving the Iraqis all kinds of business opportunities--- coffin builders, grave diggers, not to mention the OT the firefighters must be getting.

Loved dub's photo-op in Al Anbar province. He was sweating like he'd been 'rode hard' in his short-sleeved shirt, showing off the troops in their new full combat gear standing in front of (TaDa) the MRAPs. Can you imagine if HE was sweating how toasty it was for the troops?
What a miserable excuse for a human. And him talking about replenishing his coffers!