Musings from Brian J. Noggle

George W. Bush.

New goals: 7 million more affordable homes? Cripes, leave that to developers and Habitat for Humanity, ainna?

Social Security reform? Bring it on!

George W. Bush.

Ensuring health centers for low population density areas? Guaranteed? Bad promise to make. Might be a worse one to keep.

And decisions won’t be made by bureacrats in Washington? I guess he’s proposing regional bureaucrat centers.

George W. Bush.

Don’t know how I feel about the small business health gig. Ask me when I have to start funding employees.

George W. Bush.

Spend money on community colleges and job training? Do we have to?

American opportunity zones? Incentives? The Federal Government in charge of, what? Zoning? Local tax breaks? Ew.

George W. Bush.

Reform the tax code….simplify it?

Oh, baby!

I supported Steve Forbes in 1996 before I voted for Dole. What do you think I want?

George W. Bush.

Making America a good place in which to do business? Good. Meat for we libertarian carnivores.

Level the playing field to sell American goods and services across the globe? Eliminate the minimum wage! Yeah!

George W. Bush.

Government must take my side? Dammit, the government must only take my side against the foreigners and criminals who would harm me. Not against my fellow Americans or American governments.

George W. Bush.

Liberty constantly expanding? Great shot kid, don’t get cocky.

Am I the first with a Star Wars allusion? Does it matter?

George W. Bush.

The drifting toward tragedy if America’s uncertain line: very good. He said it would not happen on his watch, but not that his watch is the only answer. Good perspective.

Government improving lives but not running lives? Hmm. Trying to improve lives involves a certain amount of power that’s on the road to running lives. Government should impact peoples’ lives minimally.

George W. Bush.

Education spending and socialist senior support is good. Sigh.

Tax relief. Wooo!

You’re expecting more insight from me at this pace?

George W. Bush.

Now a role-call of the family, and the supporters/predecessors (Cheney and Reagan).

Already structured like an epic poem.

Coincidence?

George W. Bush.

We can already see the valley? A little early to hang that banner on the aircraft carrier.

Especially since it’s too close to an allusion to that whole 23rd Psalms thing.

There his is. The nominee, George W. Bush.

Anyone who bet against him accepting the nomination, you have now lost.

Must have been mighty long odds and almost worth a $2.00 bet to win a million.

I think I just recognized the mating call of the wild big jawed Nevada woo woo woo woman.

Fred Thompson.

The president threw the first pitch from the rubber in Yankee Stadium while wearing body armor.

That’s more manly than wind-surfing, bungee-jumping, playing hockey like a thug, and falling down on snow slopes, werd, because he did it and didn’t make a show of it.

Fred Thompson.

He’s got a good voice, and he’s played respected authority figures (See Die Hard II: Die Harder).

Also, I liked his commercial message in support of the Bush Doctrine (What warning did the terrorists give before 9/11?)

George Pataki.

Final allusion to the Statue of Liberty as a uniting symbol that can make all of us feel good: reminiscient of Ghostbusters II.

I almost expect a cut to Yohanna de la Torres to in the observation deck of lady Liberty with a healthy dose of mood slime.