If His Brain were as big as His Cajones

In the news today, President Bush has been talking to Congress about the budget deficits that keep plaguing the nation.  In his written comments posted in the Wall Street Journal were apparently designed to let lawmakers know where he stands:

"If the Congress chooses to pass bills that are simply political statements, they will have chosen stalemate," Bush wrote. "If a different approach is taken, the next two years can be fruitful ones for our nation. We can show the American people that Republicans and Democrats can come together to find ways to help make America a more secure, prosperous and hopeful society."

Bush called on Congress Wednesday to sharply reduce spending on pet projects prized by lawmakers.

"One important message we all should take from the elections is that people want to end the secretive process by which Washington insiders are able to get billions of dollars directed to projects - many of them pork-barrel projects that have never been reviewed or voted on by the Congress," he said.

Democrats have already pledged to cut back on the spending, called "earmarks."

"But we need to do more," Bush said. "Here's my own view to end the dead-of-the-night process: Congress needs to adopt real reform that requires full disclosure of the sponsors, the costs, the recipients and the justifications for every earmark."

I suppose Mr. Bush has forgotten about all the money his administration has poured out of the Treasury since he took the Presidency in 2000.  Has it been so long already that Mr. Bush has forgotten all those no-bid contracts given to Halliburton, the no-competition clauses built into the Medicare Prescription drug plan that has cost the taxpayers 10 times more than the average for a pill and fattened the wallets of the pharmecutical companies, the major tax breaks to oil companies that were followed up with unrepetent greed as they gouged the public to reach record profits, or my favorite debacle: the $265 Billion F-35 fighter jet mock-up.  I won't even mention the amount of money poured down the toilet in Iraq thanks to his amazingly stupid decisions that went unchallenged by everyone for the past four years.  If we had to make a rough estimate on these expenses, I would guess it's teetering in the $750 Billion range.

But, in his usual show of the intelligence level we have all come to expect from Mr. Bush, he is griping over expenditures in Congress that totaled $47.4 Billion and was spent over the combined districts of the Congress.  While I do agree that this amount of money is probably too high as well, I am nonetheless amazed at the backwater thinking processes that Bush uses to come up with his decisions and opinions.  I suppose he must be thinking "if I make them look stinky, no one will notice the shit pile I'm sitting on."

The saddest part of the saga with Mr. Bush is that we still have two more years of his incapable leadership to contend with.  It's too bad that our government officials can no longer take into consideration the big picture when it comes to America in general.  If they could, one of two things would happen this month: Bush would resign and admit that he was in so far over his head that he couldn't see daylight anymore or Congress would take the bull by the cajones and fire him outright.  I can only imagine that the message would be sent loud and clear that we expect our Presidents to be have more brains than balls and if not, off they go.