Tomorrow’s News, Yesterday

If any of you have a time machine, I’ve got a mission for you : Travel about a year or two into the future and get the scoop on Colin Powell’s autobigraphical bestseller about his clashes with the Bush Administration and/or candid 60 Minutes interview in which he reveals some really unsavory/embarassing details about the President. Next, take this stuff and go back in time to about mid-October or so, giving the American people enough time to digest this information and realize that the election isn’t quite the choice between two moderates that it seems.

Once that’s done, I’m gonna need you to go back to the late thirties. I’ll be providing you with a list of comic book titles shortly….


posted by greg on November 15, 2004 @ 9:12 am

5 comments

  1. Sorry, mine’s in the shop. I’d let you borrow it, but you might end up in an alternate reality where Cheney is president, and you wouldn’t want that.

    Is there anybody keeping track of “disgruntled ex-bush employees”? If there is, I think they are going to have a lot to write about in the next four years.

    Comment by doink — November 15, 2004 @ 9:35 am

  2. Are there any gruntled ex-Bush employees? (BTW: What is a “gruntled” anyway, I’ve been wondering that for years…)

    Comment by Jason — November 15, 2004 @ 10:08 am

  3. There’s Ari Fleischer. And there’s that guy that got fired when O’Neill did. He always says nice things about Dear Leader. And does Tommy Franks count? I’m guessing Paige will happily toe the party line when he’s gone. Ashcroft loves his former boss. Tenet may be disgruntled, but he’s keeping his mouth shut in public, considering the damage he could do. Veneman will cause no trouble. Elaine Chao, if she goes, will probably start carving a statue of BushCo with his boot on a union worker’s throat in her spare time. And Spencer Abraham doesn’t look unhappy.

    Comment by eRobin — November 15, 2004 @ 10:17 am

  4. Tenet may be disgruntled, but he’s keeping his mouth shut in public, considering the damage he could do.

    Perhaps we’ll be hearing more from him soon…

    Should Condoleezza Rice be worried about the memoir that ex- CIA director George Tenet is peddling?

    The former spy chief “trashes” the national security adviser in his book proposal, one publishing insider tells us.

    “He claims she was incompetent, that she didn’t do her job” when it came to protecting the country from terrorists, the source says.

    With the torture memo guy and Condi, we’re gonna have some exciting confirmation hearings to look forward to.

    Comment by greg — November 15, 2004 @ 10:44 am

  5. Ed Bradley: So President Bush decided to attack Iraq when?

    Colin Powell: It was the day the Supreme Court ruled in his favor. He said “We are going to attack Iran, wait a second, Iraq. Mixed up my q’s and my n’s. Heh Heh.” It was kinda depressing.

    Comment by Carlos — November 15, 2004 @ 10:44 am

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