The Supreme Soviet players forgot to go to the barracks, and talked only to the generals, while Yeltsin got to the colonels who actually had troops to command.

Unfortunately Yeltsin’s constitution made Putin possible.

– Badtux the Democracy Penguin

Putin will, no doubt, be replaced by Sergei Ivanov, a classmate at KGB U, and not Dimitri Medvedev. Oh, they’ll hold an election, but Putin’s blessing is all that’s needed.

In referring to running things like the Shrubbery, I meant for the benefit of his friends, basing decisions on oil, and totally ignoring the law. Of course, as you say, he will do a better job because he knows how to get things done.

Annti, the Russian mob is an alliance between the KGB and criminal gangs. The KGB ran the prisons, but was only interested in political crimes, so they recruited specialists from among the criminals. You don’t need a warrant when you have burglars working for you.

While he’s annoying, there are benefits for the criminal class having the Shrubbery as President, the most obvious being you don’t worry about getting caught – just ask Osama.

Y’know, if Mr. Putin ever does wrest control of Russia away from the mobs (no, I’m not holding my breath), I still crave to visit there, and to the Siberian tiger refuge. Y’know, when those Powerball numbers come in (ha ha ha)…

You look at the way that Dumbya tries to whip his little dick out in front of EVERY foreign leader/diplomat, on American soil or theirs, and it’s not just embarrassing as hell, it’s fucking pathetic. He’s such a barely-sublimated submissive, trying to be all macho and shit to prove that he’s NOT a sub, that his pee-pee is as big as anybody else’s (except maybe Condi’s), that his Daddy has bought him control of the whole wide world — it’s worse than watching Donald Trump trying to fix that dead wombat that he calls “hair.”

Y’all KNOW that every time that the male prosties were brought into the White House, it’s so that Dumbya could shove that pony-tail butt plug up into his small intestine and let Karl Rove ride him around bareback, whilst the JimmyJeff GannonGuckert hooker-boy showered them both with the gold that reminds them of how filthy-rich that they’re getting by destroying this country and several others.

Nothin’ I hate worse than a sub with a fucking ego — they’re generally sociopathic passive-aggressive manipulative cunt-farts as it is, but when you give them POWER — oh, well, just fuckitall and stay home.

One wonders if Biggus Dickus is ever allowed to meet with heads of state, or whether he just waggles his bionic dick at them and they run, screeching and clenching their buttocks, from the building. ‘Cause you KNOW that Dick Cheney is a TOP.

Honestly, I can’t imagine any previous Head of State, even NIXON, for fuck’s sake, who has shown equal amounts or more disrespect towards the leaders of other sovereign nations. He fucking MOLESTED the German chancellor, for fuck’s sake!!! They really should’ve pulled a Kennedy on that one, had him lobotomized and put away into a very secluded mental institution like they did that daughter who wanted to frolic with the yard boys. He tells men (dipolmats, senators, aides, etc.) that they have “beautiful faces,” he treats female leaders like they’re either PROPS or SECRETARIES, and he has the diplomatic skills of your average hemorrhoid.

How in the FUCK did this flaming fucktard even convince his PARENTS (sociopaths that they are) that he could hold down a single JOB, let alone the PRESIDENCY?!?!?! After all, he didn’t have to convince the VOTERS, they had Diebold for that…

*sigh*

I wish that Putin would put a hit out on Cheney first, THEN go after the short-bus kid.

That said, I don’t think Pooty poot has any intention of running Russia in the same way as the Shrubbery. For one thing, Pooty poot is *competent*, unlike the Shrubbery. For another thing, from everything I can tell Pooty Poot is actually a Russian patriot, in his own KGB thug way, and fully intends to step down at the end of his Presidential term because the alternative will be instability that is bad for the nation. He may still try to run things from behind the scenes, but (shrug). Maybe he’ll find his own Shrubbery to run for President, while he plays Cheney behind the scenes making his puppet’s mouth move. Who knows. But one thing is, I think, pretty certain, which is that he’s not going to try to run again in defiance of the Russian Constitution, because that would be too destabilizing of a country that the central government still only tenuously controls (most of the country is still largely controlled by the Russian Mafia, of which Pooty Poot’s faction is but one faction albeit the one that happens to be in control of the government at the moment).

– Badtux the Russian Scholar Penguin