Kool-Aid! Getcher Kool-Aid!
Jul. 28th, 2004 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuSo on my way to work this morning, while I'm visiting the newsstand where I obtain my 32 oz. cup of ice (I drink a lot of water in a day), there's this kid standing near the counter ranting about the unprecedented eeeeevil that is President Bush.
"Bush wants to bring back the draft!"
"He wants all these eighteen year-olds to do his dirty work!"
"While we're in Iraq and Afghanistan and Kuwait and all these ugly-ass countries, we're getting wiped out!"
"Blah blah blah yammer yammer yammer."
I didn't bother engaging him. I just rolled my eyes. Dude, even if Bush wanted to reinstate the draft--and I keep hearing hysterical rumors about this, but never anything concrete--it ain't gonna happen. The President doesn't have the authority. Congress would have to do it, and Congress isn't going to do it. Not even if the Forces of Evil (tm) (that is, Republicans) gain a veto-proof majority in both houses. Which doesn't seem likely.
But clearly he's drunk deep of the Bush Derangement Syndrome Kool-Aid.
"Bush wants to bring back the draft!"
"He wants all these eighteen year-olds to do his dirty work!"
"While we're in Iraq and Afghanistan and Kuwait and all these ugly-ass countries, we're getting wiped out!"
"Blah blah blah yammer yammer yammer."
I didn't bother engaging him. I just rolled my eyes. Dude, even if Bush wanted to reinstate the draft--and I keep hearing hysterical rumors about this, but never anything concrete--it ain't gonna happen. The President doesn't have the authority. Congress would have to do it, and Congress isn't going to do it. Not even if the Forces of Evil (tm) (that is, Republicans) gain a veto-proof majority in both houses. Which doesn't seem likely.
But clearly he's drunk deep of the Bush Derangement Syndrome Kool-Aid.
