A Comedy of Heir-as
The Presidenting Guy: “Hey, brutha, you know why I’m here, right? I gotta keep up the front like I’m doing something to moderate oil prices now that it’s clear some of the little people will settle for a $28-per-summer tax kickback.”
The Terror Sponsor Guy: “We can dig it my brother, Carlyle Group be praised. Thank you for the most excellent ways we’ve enriched each other and our friends to levels we never dreamed of. We know the schtick; watch this.”
(Turns on microphone, peers at camera.)
The Terror Sponsor Guy: ““The president showed great concern for the impact on the American economy,” adding, “We of course sympathize with that.”
(Turns off microphone.)
“How’d I do?” he asked.
The Presidenting Guy: “I was moved deeply.”
(They look at each other seriously for a long, drawn out moment. The Presidenting Guy sauddenly starts howling with laughter, jumps up and down on their matrimonial bed and starts giving his bud noogies.)
May 16th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Alfred E. Neuman chalks up another brilliant foreign policy success.
May 16th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Come, come. Only rubes and the American press think that the President’s visit had anything remotely to do with oil. It has to do with the Saudis continued unfettered access to buy everything in this country that isn’t already nailed down (and hell… most of whatever already IS nailed down!) in this case, probably more banking assets (I hear some of them are going pretty cheap…)
Bush somehow needs to tell us he’s still relevant… well, the Saudis know bloody well that until the next 247, 248 days come and go and Junior has to give the keys back, the official mantra among Bush and the Saudi royals continues to be: PARTY ON DUDES.