Its your ball, you dropped it.
My hats off to Republicans. You have been given full control of our federal government and you are blowing it. Your theory of democracy does not work. Your old guard, good ole boys way of handing out high profile, high pay and highly important government jobs to your P.A.L.s has crumbled on you. You have once again sunk us into a recession. My own Republican Governor now has sunk to a ALL TIME LOW approval rating of 15%, of which, only 2% strongly approve. Good job Senator Tom Delay! Your exposed... but I don't understand why anybody didn't bust your balls when you tried to keep a brain dead corpse "alive" by trying to erode public trust in our judicial system.
I watched a President Bush presser this morning. He was being hammered by the once "terrified to be unpatriotic" media on all sides. (Does that make Bush a terrorist? By definition it should.) The set up of the conference was the usual Bush family control system. You see, there was only 1 (one) handheld wireless microphone being passed to each reporter as they asked their pre-set, presidentially pre-determined single question. As soon as the reporter was done with the question, the microphone was immediately taken away by the White House A/V guy. The funny part was that Bush repeatedly didn't answer the obvious questions with straightforward answers. Every politician does it, but the reporters were not paying him the respect today. The reporters were blasting back while Bush was in mid-sentence to correct what exactly was asked in the first place... without the microphone.. sometimes yelling to make sure they would be heard. Meanwhile, the White House A/V guy followed orders and would not hand back the mic.
Some things that pissed me off about the presser were the following:
1)When asked why he (Bush) said there were more "battle ready" Iraqi Battalions, when right before a Senate hearing the generals testified that the Iraqi Battalions did not increase, it went from3 ... to one lonely battalion. Uno. Bush's response was the same basic, "its hard work", "we are making progress you can't see", "there are 30 battalions getting really good". Meanwhile, all I hear about is the insurgency is getting worse, it will take almost ten years to get Iraq to "settle down" and Iraqis' wanting to join the army or police keep getting killed while waiting in line to just sign up. That $400 Billion bucks we are spending in Iraq doesn't have enough room for the bomb sniffers they are putting in our airports?
I seem to remember that before Bush Jr. took office, Iraq was "contained" and had no terrorists. Even on November 11, 2001, there were no real problems that threatened our nation in Iraq. Oh, that's right, our new UN ambassador, Michael Bolton, who is still legally unconfirmed by our congress, was responsible for all those lies back then. Remember?
2) When a black reporter asked what Bush was going to do about the still obvious rift between races and how the poor response to Katrina exposed it, more Bush bullshit. Bush didn't even touch the racial issue other than to say he was disappointed that more black people did not vote for him and acted as if he didn't understand why. He also mention that he has filled his cabinet with enough black people. Isn't that the most taboo way to say you are trying to not look like a racist? Say,"See... I gots me some black friends... SEE I'm not a racist". Well, it could mean it you dumbass and they were all watching you fake it today too. I do not have any evidence to support that Bush is a racist (though his mother has managed to blurt out some bad stuff), he sure made a harder case for himself today. Meanwhile he focused the question on poverty. He was saying that ownership is the key to getting out of poverty. In my own case, I am hard pressed to buy property within the next 5 years. I have a job, an ok credit rating, a car and formal education... How does he expect people without even what I have even try to make it to ownership? Very foggy world you live in Mr. Bush.
Those were the two big dodges I saw from him today. It kinda reminded me of a Nixon press conference in some ways.
I watched a President Bush presser this morning. He was being hammered by the once "terrified to be unpatriotic" media on all sides. (Does that make Bush a terrorist? By definition it should.) The set up of the conference was the usual Bush family control system. You see, there was only 1 (one) handheld wireless microphone being passed to each reporter as they asked their pre-set, presidentially pre-determined single question. As soon as the reporter was done with the question, the microphone was immediately taken away by the White House A/V guy. The funny part was that Bush repeatedly didn't answer the obvious questions with straightforward answers. Every politician does it, but the reporters were not paying him the respect today. The reporters were blasting back while Bush was in mid-sentence to correct what exactly was asked in the first place... without the microphone.. sometimes yelling to make sure they would be heard. Meanwhile, the White House A/V guy followed orders and would not hand back the mic.
Some things that pissed me off about the presser were the following:
1)When asked why he (Bush) said there were more "battle ready" Iraqi Battalions, when right before a Senate hearing the generals testified that the Iraqi Battalions did not increase, it went from3 ... to one lonely battalion. Uno. Bush's response was the same basic, "its hard work", "we are making progress you can't see", "there are 30 battalions getting really good". Meanwhile, all I hear about is the insurgency is getting worse, it will take almost ten years to get Iraq to "settle down" and Iraqis' wanting to join the army or police keep getting killed while waiting in line to just sign up. That $400 Billion bucks we are spending in Iraq doesn't have enough room for the bomb sniffers they are putting in our airports?
I seem to remember that before Bush Jr. took office, Iraq was "contained" and had no terrorists. Even on November 11, 2001, there were no real problems that threatened our nation in Iraq. Oh, that's right, our new UN ambassador, Michael Bolton, who is still legally unconfirmed by our congress, was responsible for all those lies back then. Remember?
2) When a black reporter asked what Bush was going to do about the still obvious rift between races and how the poor response to Katrina exposed it, more Bush bullshit. Bush didn't even touch the racial issue other than to say he was disappointed that more black people did not vote for him and acted as if he didn't understand why. He also mention that he has filled his cabinet with enough black people. Isn't that the most taboo way to say you are trying to not look like a racist? Say,"See... I gots me some black friends... SEE I'm not a racist". Well, it could mean it you dumbass and they were all watching you fake it today too. I do not have any evidence to support that Bush is a racist (though his mother has managed to blurt out some bad stuff), he sure made a harder case for himself today. Meanwhile he focused the question on poverty. He was saying that ownership is the key to getting out of poverty. In my own case, I am hard pressed to buy property within the next 5 years. I have a job, an ok credit rating, a car and formal education... How does he expect people without even what I have even try to make it to ownership? Very foggy world you live in Mr. Bush.
Those were the two big dodges I saw from him today. It kinda reminded me of a Nixon press conference in some ways.
posted by Benners at 4:12 PM
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