dromody on television
Not to overlink, but it seems like we're teetering at the edge of something grand, a point at which a contradiction of the Bush administration's 'position' on an issue by someone with(in) the Bush administration and the administration's enunciation of that 'position' will occur simultaneously. I'm crossing my fingers that the contradictions will begin to precede the positions, so that those positions only develop as rejections of the contradictions of the positions that are rejections of the contradictions...
Anyway, until Condi's defense of the Iraqi constitutional 'process' supersedes Bush's statement that the arbitrary deadline will be followed, we have Denny "W is my co-pilot" Hastert instantiating a major fucking fumble. This happened a little while ago, remarks regarding the ridiculously bloated $286 billion highway bill--what happened to that plated body armor?--that was just passed, but is just surfacing on some blogs. See below as he publicly accuses the administration's number inventors of constructing alternate (faith-based?) numerical realities. Maybe the reality-based community has a new member.
Following is an exceprt from remarks made on March 11 by House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert at a pen and pad with reporters...go to releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=27400 for full transcript.
Speaker Hastert. Well, we can still do a lot. I mean, when we started talking, some people started talking about $375 billion. It wasn't sustained by the revenues coming into the highway fund. And that was talking about probably what they perceived as needs, but it wasn't sustained by revenue. We always have been able to sustain a highway bill with the revenue that came into it. The White House has laid out the parameters that we have to sustain it with the revenue. That has always been where we are at in principle, and we will have a highway bill that is sustained by revenue.
So we will take care of roads and bridges. That is an increase, about a 25 percent increase over what we had the last time, and so, you know, it is increased. I think Members will have their needs met, maybe not quite as fully as they would have hoped, but they will have their needs met. We need to get a bill done. I think it is important to have that certainty of letting of those contracts over a 6-year period of time. We need to move forward and get that work done.
Q You met with the administration yesterday. Did they say they would support the target number? Speaker Hastert. We need to go forward, we need to go to conference with the Senate, and then if they want to be involved in that conference, they certainly will be able to be involved in it.
Q But did they say they would sign?
Speaker Hastert. They didn't make a commitment.
Q Did they say they would veto it?
Speaker Hastert. They didn't say they would veto it.
Q Is that with the President or with the people?
Speaker Hastert. That is with the President. I don't deal with his people anymore.
Q Mr. Speaker, do you anticipate the assault weapons ban renewal? It expires in September.
Speaker Hastert. The Senate was going to go through the bill first. It kind of fell away over in the Senate. I am not sure what is going to happen.
Q Sir, what did you mean by that last comment: That was with the President; I don't deal with his people anymore?
Speaker Hastert. Well, we weren't getting straight numbers from his people, and they changed their mind in the middle of the process. So we are going to do what we feel we need to do.
Q Just on this issue or on...
Speaker Hastert. On this issue.
Q Or in general?
Speaker Hastert. On this issue.
Q Sir --
Q What kind of numbers were you getting from them?
Speaker Hastert. Different numbers.
Q Different from?
Speaker Hastert: Where they added up.
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Postscript:
Virilio coined the term dromocracy (from the Greek 'dromos', meaning avenue or race course) to describe a political system in which acceleration is the definitive feature. The limits of acceleration in the sphere of technological civilization, at least in relation to the natural environment, are maybe being matched by a little political human comedy of sorts? How quickly can lies replace each other? With what frequency can new terms be invented to redefine the same catastrophes? I'm looking forward to the moment we can all turn on the TV and watch Bush and his fellow speed demons chase an electric rabbit around a racetrack. And I hope there's a big fucking screen at the track, so they can catch the show.
Anyway, until Condi's defense of the Iraqi constitutional 'process' supersedes Bush's statement that the arbitrary deadline will be followed, we have Denny "W is my co-pilot" Hastert instantiating a major fucking fumble. This happened a little while ago, remarks regarding the ridiculously bloated $286 billion highway bill--what happened to that plated body armor?--that was just passed, but is just surfacing on some blogs. See below as he publicly accuses the administration's number inventors of constructing alternate (faith-based?) numerical realities. Maybe the reality-based community has a new member.
Following is an exceprt from remarks made on March 11 by House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert at a pen and pad with reporters...go to releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=27400 for full transcript.
Speaker Hastert. Well, we can still do a lot. I mean, when we started talking, some people started talking about $375 billion. It wasn't sustained by the revenues coming into the highway fund. And that was talking about probably what they perceived as needs, but it wasn't sustained by revenue. We always have been able to sustain a highway bill with the revenue that came into it. The White House has laid out the parameters that we have to sustain it with the revenue. That has always been where we are at in principle, and we will have a highway bill that is sustained by revenue.
So we will take care of roads and bridges. That is an increase, about a 25 percent increase over what we had the last time, and so, you know, it is increased. I think Members will have their needs met, maybe not quite as fully as they would have hoped, but they will have their needs met. We need to get a bill done. I think it is important to have that certainty of letting of those contracts over a 6-year period of time. We need to move forward and get that work done.
Q You met with the administration yesterday. Did they say they would support the target number? Speaker Hastert. We need to go forward, we need to go to conference with the Senate, and then if they want to be involved in that conference, they certainly will be able to be involved in it.
Q But did they say they would sign?
Speaker Hastert. They didn't make a commitment.
Q Did they say they would veto it?
Speaker Hastert. They didn't say they would veto it.
Q Is that with the President or with the people?
Speaker Hastert. That is with the President. I don't deal with his people anymore.
Q Mr. Speaker, do you anticipate the assault weapons ban renewal? It expires in September.
Speaker Hastert. The Senate was going to go through the bill first. It kind of fell away over in the Senate. I am not sure what is going to happen.
Q Sir, what did you mean by that last comment: That was with the President; I don't deal with his people anymore?
Speaker Hastert. Well, we weren't getting straight numbers from his people, and they changed their mind in the middle of the process. So we are going to do what we feel we need to do.
Q Just on this issue or on...
Speaker Hastert. On this issue.
Q Or in general?
Speaker Hastert. On this issue.
Q Sir --
Q What kind of numbers were you getting from them?
Speaker Hastert. Different numbers.
Q Different from?
Speaker Hastert: Where they added up.
* * *
Postscript:
Virilio coined the term dromocracy (from the Greek 'dromos', meaning avenue or race course) to describe a political system in which acceleration is the definitive feature. The limits of acceleration in the sphere of technological civilization, at least in relation to the natural environment, are maybe being matched by a little political human comedy of sorts? How quickly can lies replace each other? With what frequency can new terms be invented to redefine the same catastrophes? I'm looking forward to the moment we can all turn on the TV and watch Bush and his fellow speed demons chase an electric rabbit around a racetrack. And I hope there's a big fucking screen at the track, so they can catch the show.
posted by salmoncolored | 1:11 AM
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