"Bloody peasants"

Our whining president.

It sure is "hard" to rule imperiously when you control all branches of government.

Mr. Bush showed no signs of easing up despite public opinion polls showing tepid support for his approach to reshaping the retirement program and concern among some Republicans in the House and Senate that pushing for legislation this year in the face of intense Democratic opposition will backfire in next year's elections.

"I'm going to continue to call upon the United States Congress, members of both political parties, to stand up, to do what's right for a young generation of Americans coming up, to fix this Social Security system once and for all," Mr. Bush told a gathering of the Future Farmers of America on the campus of Pennsylvania State University.

Mr. Bush was far more biting and partisan at the Republican fund-raiser on Tuesday evening in Washington, in his most combative attack since his re-election on Democrats in Congress.

On a variety of issues, including Social Security, rethinking the tax code and approval of his judicial nominees, Mr. Bush said, Democrats have done nothing but say no to his ideas while offering none of their own.

The Democratic leadership, he said, embodies "the philosophy of the stop sign, the agenda of the roadblock."

Awww.

Meanwhile, "The Hammer" can hardly get the words out between wrenching sobs.

"If the Democrats really wanted this committee to be functioning, they would work in a bipartisan way to make it happen," Mr. DeLay said on Tuesday.

Did Tom DeLay just say "bipartisan?" If I were a supporter of his, I'd be concerned.

It's just hard, dammit, to rule us anarcho-syndicalist peasants.

WOMAN:
Well, how did you become King, then?
ARTHUR:
The Lady of the Lake,...
[angels sing]
...her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur.
[singing stops]
That is why I am your king!
DENNIS:
Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR:
Be quiet!
DENNIS:
Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR:
Shut up!
DENNIS:
I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
ARTHUR:
Shut up, will you? Shut up!
DENNIS:
Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
ARTHUR:
Shut up!
DENNIS:
Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
ARTHUR:
Bloody peasant!

Watery tart or Miss Citrus Canker. Whatever.