dubya makes me goddamned insane

I just learned that while he was governor of Texas, President Bush signed into law a bill that was used only a few days ago to remove the feeding tube of a six-month old baby, against the parents' will. But yet, YESTERDAY, Dubya voted (ending his vacation early to return to D.C. for the 1st time since he has been in office) to put Terri Schiavo's feeding tube after it was removed 3 days ago. Holy shit, I am speechless. For a candidate that called his opponent a flip-flopper repeatedly in the 2004 election campaign. Hypocrite. And he is against abortion, but will let a 6-month old die, but not a 41-year-old brain-dead woman in the exact same way?! And he is for the death penalty, aka: for death occasionally, but for life othertimes. (We'll leave alone how I actually feel about these issues, since I'm not super conclusive on the death penalty thing, but again, I'm not the fucking president of the fucking United States). I seriously wanted to pull all of my hair out when I heard this news. I didn't even give a shit about politics until January 2001, when I realized that me and most of the people I know are more intelligent than the President of what is essentially 'the free world'. I seriously beg for the day where I can not give a crap about politics again because there are competent people in the White House to give a crap for me and the citizens of America, as well as the rest of the world.

Also, this whole Schiavo thing is driving me insane (yes, I'm as tired as the most tired person in the world who bothers to pay attention to the US national media). The Republicans, supposedly, stand for decreased central government, and increased power in the hands of individual states, but yet called an emergency congress vote in the first 3 days of their spring break to remove power from the Florida Supreme Court and try to reverse a decision it had a perfectly constitutional right to make without interference from the federal government. At this point I give up hope that anyone will ever be able to stand up and challenge the fallacies under which the current administration operates.

Ah, venting is good. So is beer. Paul convinced me tonight that Budweiser Select may possibly be better than Miller Lite, which I have become very attached to. I know, I'm a connoisseur as Cara pointed out the other day. ;) She also pointed out that "I am the best at drinking margaritas," yeah you know it... As a note, any mistakes I may have made in this post are due to the first good substance abuse I have enjoyed in a week. yum.

Oh and the job interview went great today, they want me like hell, because I am probably about the best thing that has walked through those doors in the 4 years they've been around. A very high-end pyramid sales and marketing scheme with big-time companies as clients as far as I discerned. Not horrible, but not what I want, and theres no point selling myself short from the start.