Pictures That Make the Rude Pundit Want to Drop Acid With the Bush Twins:

[seemslikeadream]

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2007/10/pictures-that-make-rude-pundit-want-to.html

[musette_sf]

1. you'd think that Tara would have run out

of curtains by now :-)

[blondeatlast]

13. Like the Carol Burnett spoof: "I love the dress, Scarlett!"

"Oh, I saw it in the window and just had to have it!"

Cue the brilliant Bob Mackie gown--complete with the curtain rod...

[leftchick]

2. ya need the text....

That's a photo of First Lady Laura Bush sweeping into the Library of Congress gala of the National Book Festival. While her husband is threatening to veto health insurance legislation for children who live a little above ditch-sleeping poverty, while there's a, what do you call that? oh, yeah, war going on, while Burma, a nation she is supposed to care about, is locked down, the First Lady thought it was perfectly fine to show up in an ostentatious outfit that seems to reek of Scarlett O'Hara and "Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war; this war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream." Ah, well. At least it seems to be the color of dried blood.

It's not that there should be no festivities while a couple hundred thousand Americans are putting their lives on the line for something or other, maybe. It's just...a little subtlety, a little modesty goes a long goddamn way. Of course, putting any "Bush" and "modest" together in the same sentence is like asking a corpse to rot more quietly. Are the Bushes just pretending or do they really not get it? The Rude Pundit opts for the latter.

In her speech at that Gala last week, she quotes Shakespeare, Prospero, the deposed leader who finds exile on an island in The Tempest, saying, "My library was dukedom large enough." Laura Bush helpfully interprets this as "With a good collection of books, a reader can go to any place any time he pleases."

Of course, context is always a wicked whore. See, as the Duke of Milan, Prospero was so arrogant, he ignored his people in favor of burying himself in books, giving the duties of actually running Milan over to his brother. His head was so far up his own ass that he didn't see a coup coming, even though it was led by that same brother. The line Laura Bush quotes is, in the play, an admission that Prospero didn't really want to lead, that, perhaps, he wasn't even constitutionally suited to lead. The full line is "Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough," and then Prospero comments on his own perceived incompetence: "of temporal royalties he thinks me now incapable."

Laura Bush's seemingly innocuous quote is really a warning: don't trust the leader who disengages from reality.

[Hydra]

3. That's such an awesome freudian slip

this administration often says what they mean, at the oddest times :evilgrin:

[leftchick]

5. it is bizarre

it shows repeatedly how detached from reality they all are.

[ixion]

4. It's a short, sweet knock-out punch from the Rude Bard...

very well done, indeed. :applause:

[tandot]

6. Why is she always stealing the curtains?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

7. OMG she;s been Bronzed!

How... statuesque :)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. Long live the necromancer empire..... shades of Riddick oh ma

gosh.

[jimshoes]

9. Somewhere a window is

missing its drapes. How ghastly is that dress?

[seemslikeadream]

I guess the cuffs and necklace match

:shrug:

[Swamp Rat]

10. Hehehehehe!!!

I dig the Rude Pundit. :D

[seemslikeadream]

11. Hard to top a Swamp original but.........

:hi:

She seems to have done it!

[Swamp Rat]

12. She looks like the Martian Girl from "Mars Attacks," gliding across the floor.

"Ack! Ack! ... Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack!" (((oooooWEEEEEEoooo)))