Thursday, May 20, 2004

It's not often that a story like this one rears it's funny looking head on the Internet. But when it does, one cannot turn away, one must mock it. It's like a Medusa version of Siegfried and Roy.

Hastert Critizes McCain on Sacrifices for War

After a two month slapfest between House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, and Senator John McCain, R-Arizona, the two finally got into a public shouting match over the new budget plans, which amid times of war calls for (guess what!) more spending and tax cuts.

McCain, a constant bitchslapper of the Bush Administration, publically chastized his own party for supporting tax cuts while the war in Iraq is still going on saying that no one seems to be willing to make sacrifices. Hastert then cleverly retorted, "Of course, we're making sacrifices except mine's taken the form of a tax cut."

Then the two got into a shouting match with Hastert actually lecturing McCain on what it means to make sacrifices during times of war implying McCain didn't know what he was talking about. The funny thing is McCain spent the Vietnam war in a POW camp because he was called to serve his country (that's not the funny part, I'm not there yet) and Hastert spent the Vietnam war stateside probably in some kind of tennis resort/masseuse college because of a shoulder injury.

McCain retorted Hastert's hypocritical statement, which for no reason is translated below into Jive speak thanks to the folks at "The Dialectizer":

"De rapa' is co'rect in dat nodin' we is called downon t'do comes close t'matchin' de heroism uh our troops. All we is called downon t'do be to not spend our nashun into bankruptcy while our soldiers risk deir lives. ah' fondly rememba' a time when real Republicans stood fo' fiscal responsibility. Slap mah fro!"

Hastert and McCain have always had bad blood between them. But President Bush is scheduled to make an appearance on Capitol Hill Friday to patch things up, and it'll probably do about as much good as letting Ozzy Osbourne become the Secretary General of the United Nations. They should just get the whole thing over with a boxing match. I can see Don King pitching it to the networks now...

"I'm telling ya, only in America will you be able to watch the most splendiforous, blastitidunal, hogtastic, toasterific bout in the history of professional boxing! I'm calling it "The Decorated War Hero Who's Loud and Crass vs. the Speaker of the House with the Big Fat Ass!"