Dowd: SpongeBush SquarePants!

"Dr. Dobson has done the country a service by reminding us to watch out for the dark side of lovable but malleable sponges. He inspired me to fish through the president's Inaugural Address with a more skeptical eye."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/opinion/23dowd.html?hp

And then there is this....

"Mr. Bush's epic pledge to support democratic movements and institutions in every nation and to end "tyranny in our world" may seem wildly pie-in-the-sky, given that the Iraq vortex has drained our military.

And then this.....

"I wonder if W. is surprised that people took it literally. The Bushes don't always understand that they're being held to their rhetoric in major speeches. (Read my warships.) For such a brass-knuckled vision, the president's delivery was curiously unemotional.

"Some of the same advisers who filled Mr. Bush's brain with sugary visions of a quick and painless Iraq makeover did mean the speech to be literal; they are drawing up military options for the rest of the Middle East. Once again, the lovable and malleable president seems to be soaking up the martial mind-set of those around him, almost like ... a sponge."


Personally, I believe that Mr. SpngeBob has Mr. Bush beat in the ability to discern what is absorbed.......

Love her or hate her, MoDo is certainly a very witty and incisive writer...

MoDo has a unique way with words that fasinates me. She can often see something from a slightly different angle and as long as she bashes bush, that's just fine.

We can only hope that Dr. Dobson doesn't pick up on the resemblance. SpongeBob, as his song goes, "lives in a pineapple under the sea/absorbent and yellow and porous is he!" SpongeBush lives in a bubble in D.C./absorbent and shallow and porous is he!