(Photo by AFP/Mandel Ngan)
While the Decider is still deciderating what is what with the US Iraq policy — US troops and Iraqis are still being killed. The NYTimes has an infuriating profile of Mr. Pissy and his refusal to deal with any need for change until the very last minute.
But in the last two weeks, the critics and even some allies say, they have seen a reversal. Mr. Bush has shrugged off suggestions by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group that he enlist the help of Iran and Syria in the effort to stabilize Iraq. Countering suggestions that he begin thinking of bringing troops home, he has engaged in deliberations over whether to send more. And he has adjusted the voters’ message away from Iraq, saying on Wednesday, “I thought the election said they want to see more bipartisan cooperation.”
In a way, this is the president being the president he has always been — while he still can.
With Congress out of session, Mr. Bush has sought to reassert his relevance and show yet again that he can chart his own course against all prevailing winds, whether they be unfavorable election returns, a record-low standing in the polls or the public prescriptions of Washington wise men.
He has at least for now put the Iraq war debate on terms with which he is said to be more comfortable, if only because they are not the terms imposed on him by Democrats and the study group.
That stance could be short-lived.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet The Procrastinator-in-Chief.
The US death toll in Iraq has reached at least 2,978, according to Reuters, and there have been at least 89 deaths in December thus far. How many more daughters and sons, fathers and mothers will be killed before The Procrastinator decides to get off his butt, accept some responsibility and act like a grown-up and make some badly needed changes? How many times do we have to ask that question?
To say that things are not going well may be the understatement of the century. British troops have had to raze a police station in Basra that was operating as its own little torture unit. And AP reports that the appeal for Saddam Hussein's death sentence has been denied, and that the appeals court has declared that the death sentence ought to be imposed within the next thirty days — oh yeah, that's going to have a calming effect.
The cost in lives lost and limbs is astronomical. But when you begin to factor in the no-bid contracts and waste and fraud…well, there had better be some oversight. And soon.
The McCain-Lieberman War is spinning out of control, all the while the Procrastinator-In-Chief is scrambling to find a way to save face on the backs of the military personnel who are simply trying to keep their heads down in Iraq. This whirlwind is increasing in intensity and threatening to spread. Meanwhile, George Bush is hunkered down, worried about his legacy — what a craptastic way to make decisions that can impact the entire nation for generations to come that is.
Perhaps the President ought to start with Juan Cole's top ten myths about Iraq. It sure is an eye opener.
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ZED!
yea, me! now on to read the post (g)
Yay OldCoastie – zed master!
LIEberwurst, where’s my pony?
In today’s Salon, Walter Shapiro is good on how 2006 was a decisive year for the decider:
ya know, I think the shrub has some sort of oppositional disorder – if we say, “time to go!”, he is compelled to pull out the double-flippin’ bird and scream, “FU!”
maybe we should try some reverse psychology on him and demand, “MORE SIR!” and then he’d suddenly pull all the troops out just to show us who the decider is.
be nice if he’d just grow up.
Let’s see now. Saddam gets tried, sentenced to death. Sentence to be carried out withing 30 days.
George Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rove, Rumsfeld, Kissinger and the rest will never serve a day for their murderous crimes against humanity. Certainly seems fair to me.
AP – Iraq’s highest appeals court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence for Saddam Hussein in his first trial and said it must be carried out within 30 days. The sentence “must be implemented within 30 days,” chief judge Aref Shahin. “From tomorrow, any day could be the day of implementation.”
OldCoastie @ 6
I do believe you’re onto some sorta universal truthiness there, OC.
Adie – it’s one of my dumbest thoughts ever, but sometimes with this guy, you just gotta think as stupidly as possible.
Traveling through Miami airport over Christmas, I looked out the airport window with many others to see a dozen or so police cars with blue lights lined up near a loading plane. Soon a color guard emerged, and we watched as coffins were loaded – no doubt Iraq war dead. My daughter took a picture with her phone camera – illegal I think. Sad day.
AP – At least 36 Iraqis died Tuesday in bombings, officials said, including a coordinated strike that killed 25 in western Baghdad. Separately, the deaths of six U.S. soldiers pushed the American toll beyond the number of victims in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Waiting for Bush growing up and accepting responsibility – don’t hold your breath. He’s going to avoid this as long as anyone will allow him to do so. (I saw an Indian-style horoscope that says, maybe around 2011 he’ll start to do this. But we’ll have a hard time before then.)
OldCoastie @ 9
Gee. Thanks for ??? I’m actually serious. For a long long time, he’s been acting like a bratty kid refusing to mind his parents/teachers, no matter whut. You know. That 2-yr.-old stage when they suddenly discover how to say “NO” to absolutely everything? Mentally, he never grew beyond that. Hey. Did anyone thank Bar. for her terrific parenting skills yet today? She and that distant daddy-didn’t cardboard cutout?
Jus’ sayin’….
Go here & scroll down. Jus’ sayin’…
http://www.liberalopinion.com/
let’s start adding this to the lexicon now:
Bush’s Folly.
use at every opportunity. when the historians start dissecting the rancid corpse of the Bush presidency, we must have in place, in the public vocabulary, a short, pithy name for the Iraq tragedy.
Bush’s Folly
Bush’s Folly
Bush’s Folly
okay okay. time to go gather up paper for recycling… Bye gang. Back later…
Happy Boxing Day & Kwanzaa ;->
follyla-la-laaaah-la-la-la-la….
yeah. that works. put another lump in jr’s stocking, please.
Adie @ 12
Adie – I think he really has great big Daddy Problems, but the fact that we would even have to THINK about using something so juvenile as reverse psychology on the purported leader of the free world seems so far beyond the pale.
and yet, shrub needs to get bent over daddy’s knee and get a good paddling… that’s how it feels anyway…
Shapiro’s last paragraph in Salon:
Biodun at 19 — Sometimes I truly wonder if Bush believes any of the public spin that he and his Administration spew forth on a daily basis. How they can keep it up with a straight face otherwise is a mystery to me.
Today’s Boston Globe ‘lede’ story’s lede:
http://www.boston.com/news/nat…..oreigners/
–bold added–
Irony abounds.
quick off topic site request I hope gets some consideration
in the bottom links where the thread lists the catagorys, (”this post is filed under”}
could you list the author there also
I don’t usually read who’s writing the piece but if I want to respond to the author I would rather not have to go to the top of the page
if possible, please get that authors credit in the “filed under” catagory also
hope everyone’s holiday was an excellant adventure
My contempt for Joe Lieberman is unrelenting, but is equaled daily by my disgust with W.
Furriners may be comin’ to the rescue:
Wanna emigrate into the U.S.? Simple. Enlist. Then we’ll fast-track you for immigration.
I predicted this long ago. We outsource everything else, why not cannon fodder?
Don’t build a 700 mile wall along the Mexican border, build recruiting stations.
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Salon.com front page story:
check out the graphic if nothing else
The Calendar…
January 3, 2007… Bush announces 40,000 bounce
and declares war on Iran
January 16, 2007 … Libby’s Trial starts…
Revelations will rock the world…
January 23, 2007… Bush is booed at State of the Union Address… quotes “hard work” “we
are winning” “Saddam has been brought to justice”… he was hung on January 22nd….
Promises that he will work hard with Dems…
February 1, 2007 Impeachment proceedings start… Bush is declared an unrepentant
liar….
February 2, 2007 Cheney resigns under a cloud
We should let the Iraqis vote on the US “presence” of Iraq. It is their country; they have the right to decide who is welcome or not. If we call elections, at least there may be peace for a few weeks.
But of course, the US has never entertained such an idea. Yet if any foreign army ever occupied US soil to “save the country from our autocratic despot”, I’m sure we Americans would welcome such a vote. If such a vote were not offered, I dare say many Americans would join an insurgency to kick the foreign devils out.
It is undemocratic to force any type of government onto any other people. The US has been remarkably arrogant, short-sighted, and bull-headed in its Iraq policy.
I wonder if shrub is thinking we will as enthused about hanging Saddam as he is?
I can see it now, shrub being positively giddy…
I want everyone to start using the correct word, it isn’t “surge” but it is “Escalation” as in Vietnam. Just because Karl puts a pretty word on it doesn’t mean it isn’t the same thing!
Biodun @ 19,
I suspect Bush will spend the last two years of his presidency hiding out on vacation, leaving decisions unmade, business unattended to, and appearing in public only when it is unavoidable. For all his apparent “resoluteness,” I sense a lot of “quit” in him.
I can’t look at that man’s face and stay in a “good will toward all” frame of mind. I just can’t.
The NYT article can be seen as the beginning of the pushback to Bush’s pushback after the November elections. The realities are that Bush’s overall JAR is around 30% and his handling of the war in Iraq is below that. Only 12-15% of Americans support the murderously goofy Bush-McCain-Lieberman plan to escalate the conflict in Iraq and send more troops. Bush is flying in the face not of a divided country but one that is united in opposition to his Iraq policies, both current and proposed.
Meanwhile in Iraq, as I have often said, the political parties are the government or what passes for a government in Iraq, but they are also the militias and the militias make up the manpower of the Iraqi army and the security forces. So the likelihood of the army or the government really going after the militas is zero. Why would they attack themselves? Sure, SCIRI forces in the Iraqi army clash from time to time with Sadr’s Mahdi Army but this is not a national force seeking to restrain a rogue militia. It’s two militias going at it.
Re the Iraqi government, what I found interesting about General Abizaid’s statement of a week or two ago that more US troops would only allow the Iraqi government to dither was its tacit admission that the Iraqi government has been dithering all along. It did take them after all 175 days to form the current laughable excuse of a government even as the country descended into civil war. In the 6 months since with conditions worsening by the day, the Iraqi government has accomplished exactly nothing. Part of this is, of course, that the central government under the new constitution was made inherently weak but a lot of it is that the factions that make up the government have little interest in seeing the current government succeed. For them, it is just a tool to promote factional ends.
And, of course, there is that civil war thingy. In the refusal to acknowledge the civil war in Iraq, Bush and his war party continue to propose solutions to the wrong problems dooming them in advance to irrelevance and failure.
Renee in Ohio in Illinois @ 31
with W you get ill
Christy @ 20:
Sheryl Gay Stolberg has an answer for you here, from her “White House Memo” in yesterday’s NYTimes:
*g*
Yuk it up while you can George.
One more day of your ruinous reign has passed.
The clock is ticking against you now.
We are watching and waiting for you to go down in infamy.
A new year approaches soon and we can all start the countdown in earnest. Hopefully, Good things will start coming our way.
Biodun at 34 — somehow, that doesn’t make me feel better. *g*
“…before The Procrastinator decides to get off his butt, accept some responsibility and act like a grown-up and make some badly needed changes? How many times do we have to ask that question?”
you can stop asking because it will never happen. bush is a man-child. He is mentally and emotionally incapable of rational thought and adult decisions. What he so proudly proclaims as ‘listening to his gut’ is in reality his immature, child-voice telling him ‘what he wants’ to be real in spite of any and all actual reality to the contrary, i.e., bush creates the world he wants in his mind and then acts on that even though it doesn’t exist.
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Hugh at 32 — It would be awfully nice to know that the Bush Administration was honestly looking all of this mess squarely in the face — and for what it really is — wouldn’t it? SIGH
Blank Kludge @ 21
Hey, why not? Worked great for the Romans, didn’t it?
pluege @ 37
Lewis Lapham observed that the Bush world is populated by but two people. It is a place where Bush the Actor need only please Bush the Audience.
Succinctly stated, I would say.
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Rushton @
30
Your description of Bush’s upcoming last two years in office sounds remarkably similar to the way he spent the summer of 2001.
September 11 changed nothing for George W. Bush.
The term, used above, The Luck Stops Here, could be used to define the entire Bush II presidency, but the luck stopped, not just for W, but for the thousands in the WTC, for the thousands in NOLA, and the thousands in our armed forces. And on and on….
Christy Hardin Smith @ 36
Yep. If he does not believe his spin, then that just makes him dishonest, and a liar. On the other hand, if he really believes it, then we move very quickly into the realm of the clinical.
BobbyG at 40 — that is an awfully apt description — and it is a pity that is so, but here we are.
I have to think our President doesn’t give a ‘hang’ about what any of us say (or for that matter, anyone). This is a particularly sad and pathetic individual and abuser of the Constitution. I do not feel a smidgen of sorrow or pity for this man.
Heh Heh Heh. Come and get it.
Bush is bracing for new scrutiny
White House hiring lawyers in expectation of Democratic probes
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
Sun reporter
Originally published December 26, 2006
WASHINGTON // President Bush is bracing for what could be an onslaught of investigations by the new Democratic-led Congress by hiring lawyers to fill key White House posts and preparing to play defense on countless document requests and possible subpoenas.
Bush is moving quickly to fill vacancies within his stable of lawyers, though White House officials say there are no plans to drastically expand the legal staff to deal with a flood of oversight.
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“No, at this point, no,” Tony Snow, the White House spokesman, said recently. “We’ll have to see what happens.”
Snow rebutted the notion that Bush is casting about for legal advice in the wake of his party’s loss of control of the Congress.
“We don’t have a war room set up where we’re … dialing the 800 numbers of law firms,” he said.
snip
http://www.baltimoresun.com/ne…..-headlines
I am still not convinced that Bush is acting entirely on his own in terms of Iraq. We have the Rapture story, the Big Oil story, AND the Neo-Con Mid-East story. All three are filled with fantasy framed as truth and are pushed heavily by different segments of supporters, including still far too many Democrats and media people. If Bush were being left to his own devices I think he would push for a law requiring daily bike riding and bible reading. Period.
Good morning – delurking from the other side of the world. Thanks Christy for another good post.
Hugh at 32 – I always appreciate your comments. The frustration for me is this delusional quality that Bush is almost constantly displaying when he does come out briefly from his reinforced bubble.
My prediction for this next year is that this absolute travesty cannot continue. I cannot believe that in a year the American public will be willing to let Bush kick this can down the road anymore. I think by this spring that the opposition to this war by the American public is going to be white-hot. The casualty counts will be a daily bleeding on Bush, and he won’t be able to hide behind his handlers at that point.
I’m not sure how this is all going to play out, and I am very much afraid that Bush is delusional enough to start another war with Iran by this spring, or let the Israelis start it first. My prediction is that by this time next year, Bush is gone.
I’m sure that’s true, because I don’t doubt the White House has been keeping a file of corrupt law firms for exactly this contingency.
Here’s a thought for the press: Just because T. Sugartastic Loco denies something doesn’t mean he’s “refuted” it. If that were true, he would already have pretty much refuted the cosmos right out of existence.
Busted Knuckles @ 45
From the same Baltimore Sun article…
So I guess that settles it. There isn’t anything to investigate; just a waste of time. Unbelievable!
OkiDave @ 47
I’m afraid he’ll be our president through the second week of January 2009, unless something happens to him. At the risk of hanging myself out there to dry, I don’t think impeachment is practical at this point.
bookwoman @ 49
I’d guess then they will really be surprised! sorta like those November elections when shrub was only listening to rover…
Biodun – I don’t care as much if they impeach him, I just want him stopped, tied up in a way he can’t do any more damage… kicked out of office in shame would be nice, but if it can’t be done? lock him in a closet or sit on him or whatever it takes… just don’t let him do any more deciderin’…
This is what Iraq has been always about. American hegemony, chauvinism and colonialism.
Iraq’s Grim Oil Politics
As civil war boils, the country’s future depends on how sectarian groups divide what’s underground.
By Michael Hastings
Newsweek
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16…../newsweek/
Christy Hardin Smith @ 38
They never did, not from cooking the intelligence in the run up to the war, not in planning for the aftermath to the invasion, not in defining any coherent mission or strategy for the US military in Iraq in what is now more than 3 1/2 years, not in Rumsfeld’s talk of “deadenders”, Cheney’s “last throes”, or Bush’s most recent “Victory is still achievable.”
I have been analyzing Bush’s speeches and pressers for about a year now. The man speaks only in strawmen, false choices, false statements, and misdirection. Take the phrase above “Victory is still achievable”. Classic misdirection. It focuses the debate on whether it is true or what “victory” means or how out of touch Bush is. All of these ideas are worthwhile but miss the point. What a statement like this does is avoid another more devastating truth and that Iraq is already lost and Bush lost it.
The same George W. Bush who so proudly declared himself a “war president” is leading the United States to strategic bankruptcy and geopolitical disaster. As Commander-in-Chief, President Bush displays all the hallmarks of the failed executive. With a nod to Stephen Covey, call them the “Seven Habits of Highly Defective Presidents.”
1. Name Names and Outsource Responsibility
2. Focus on the Process, Not the Plan
3. Set Dates to Turn Corners
4. Use New Slogans for An Old, Failed Product
5. Find New Uses for An Old, Failed Product
6. Announce Your New Product Before It’s Ready
7. Don’t Do The Market Research
For the analysis, see:
“Iraq and the 7 Habits of Highly Defective Presidents.”
OldCoastie @ 52
I agree with you completely. But therein lies the rub: How do you stop a child who always wants to get his way? Congress can try to tie him up, but then government will be paralyzed. The country cannot afford that. We still need the executive branch for the government to function.
OldCoastie @ 52
I beg to disagree – he must be impeached and sooner than later. Like Nixon, Bush faced threat of impeachment (Ramsey Clark) in the Fall before he unleased our military might on poor Iraq. Very similar timeline as Nixon. As a veteran of that grass roots impeachment on Tricky Dick I can’t imagine the new democratic majority will be able to ignore the growing chorus for removal from the grassroots and netroots. At the risk of sounding Pollyannish I have considerable faith in the courage of Pelosi to rally bi-partisan agreement by the second quarter of the new House & Senate.
Who has been whispering the words “Harry Truman” into the nit’s ear?
It seems that the nit’s really latched onto Harry as the paradigm for history vindicating/rehabilitating crappy poll numbers.
Is this the shiny object that RoveCheney keep dangling at the end of the stick?
OK all you smart ambitious people, fill me in…
Bush and Cheney will NEVER give in
Bush and Cheney are DARK characters..
Their mantra: “Rage, rage against the
birthing of the light”
Ergo,
Impeachment MUST happen…
From the NYT article:
There you have it folks — we’re just background noise to these people.
Grrrrrr. No, make that GRRRRRRRRRRRROWLLLLLLLLL!!!
Biodun – something is going to happen, and we are living through unprecedented times. That’s why I believe that Bush won’t be able to muddle his way to Jan ‘09.
The civil war in Iraq by this time next year will be undeniable even to Bush. His ’surge’ of combat units into this hell-hole is going to be a bloody, miserable failure, and his approval ratings are going to hit all-time historical lows. His delusional ‘God is telling me what I must do’ style of leadership will be too much for a significant part of his party, especially when they realize that his Iraq disaster is going to take the Republican party over the cliff in ‘08. The breaking point will be when some Repub senator like Grassley stands up to tell Bush that his bus license is being revoked.
What we went through in 1974 with Nixon and his defiance of the rule of law is going to appear like a mild dispute compared to what I sense is coming our way during this coming year.
TURN ON C-SPAN 2 !
The Christy is on w/a rerun of part of 12-12 panel she went to! Someone else speaking right this minute but hopefully she will be back again.
CHS, “you look maaaaaaaavelous” & sound even better.
Gotta run; expecting company & they are going to be *forced* to watch the tube *g*
Waccamaw at 62 — omg…watching myself on teevee may be my own version of purgatory. Eeeep.
Waccamaw @ 62
Woo Hoo! Thanks for the heads up – Christy knocks my socks off!
Blank Kludge @ 21
Hey wait, I heard of this guy, great at recruitment, Osama somebody??
MAybe we could get him to fill up are military with his guys??? Sounds like another wining idea for Bushco
Bush is a terrible excuse for a leader.
Did anyone here take part in the Vietnam War protests?
Starting with the Moratorium on October 15, 1969 millions of Americans took to the streets to attempt to end that tragic war. I wonder where the passion that fueled those protests has gone?
If this tragedy continues to unfold unabated for the next few months, will the spring bring people in mass to the street?
rizbiz @ 58
In May 2006, the NYTimes first reported this comparison to Truman that Bush made himself, although early in his first term, conservatives also made the comparison:
well that sucks! we don’t GET CSPAN2 any more… we did last week… time to call the cable company…
OC at 69 — not that I’m encouraging anyone to tune me in (arrrgh, am watching myself at the moment, and it’s just so weird seeing my face on TV), but C-span.org generally has the video streaming as well.
rizbiz @
58
another take, albeit indirect – Ulysses S. Grant (at Hullabaloo):
What a spoiled brat. To the woodshed with you, W.
OT:
If you get a chance, NPR’s Fresh Air is playing from old interviews with James Brown today. This is the sort of stuff Terry Gross does best.
Bay State Librul @ 26
I thought the Libby trial was starting onthe 15th? Did they ammned the docket? Gotta go check now
Christy Hardin Smith @ 70
oh, I could watch online, but that would deprieve me of actually fussing at the cable company…
you look fine on tv, btw…
what’s Peanut’s reaction to you on the tube? I’d think that would be pretty interesting!
Fine job Christy.
It always amazes me how you can stay on topic while getting your whole point across without getting distracted and going OT.
bookwoman — (via bustednuckles via Balt.Sun)
That means they’ve shredded and deleted everything they think is incriminating.
Maybe it should read:
“They don’t think they have anything (left) to hide.”
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lhp –
You’re very astute. (as usual…)
BIDEN SAYS ALL THAT BUSH WANTS TO SEE IS IRAQ SUCCESS CONVERTIBLE INTO POLITCAL POWER. SHORTLY VOTES. “THATD BE ALL REASONS FOR THE TROOP INCREASE” (sticking to the photo of the thread)
yahoo
Not only does Bush truly care about what peoples opinions of him are, he is obsessed with what people think about.
This whole attempt to Trumanize Bush smacks of desperation.
Poor Rove, he’s created his own reality alright.
-GSD
bold be gone!
The only chance to get Bush to care about any of the US troops in Iraq or Afghanistan is to get a single Bush family members serving in either. That being said, there is no chance of any Bush family member ever serving in the military. It is puzzling why no one in the press ever raises this issue with Bush or his Administration.
I gotta get up and do something besides think about that shrub…
catch y’all on the flip.
rizbiz @ 58:
In his 2003 book, The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, David Frum might have made the first comparison with Truman.
I wonder if the Saddam execution will end up turning out to be a moment, much like the Samarra mosque bombing that tilts Iraq into worse of a spin.
-GSD
OkiDave @ 61:
I hope you’re right. Then we can say we at FDL heard it here first.
Interesting poll at DKos:
Old Gold @ 67
Here on the central CA coast, predominately Republican, we have witnessed a seismic shift in the past year, i.e., Pebble Beach, one of the wealthiest Republican enclaves in the state, has a surprising number of publicly disillusioned Bush voters. Our fine Congressman Sam Farr was among the first to join with Congressman Murtha more than a year ago. This is Leon Panetta country and while I wouldn’t bet a nickel on Panetta leading an impeachment call I think I can safely predict he will not defend the Bush Cheney regime. Furthermore, our local Republican icon Clint Eastwood, continues to remain mute on any discussion of the President. Poor Clint has his own credibility problems from his Pebble Beach Company’s failed attempt to game the California Coastal Commission on a massive development inside the hallowed Del Monte Forest.
Call me crazy but I sense Bush has no credibility left whatsoever here in our little corner of the country.
While the NYT worries about the non-existent troubled conscience of the “commander-in-chief”, they seem to have little concern for the lives and deaths of the troops or the crushing, overwhelming anxiety suffered by their families because of the repeated futile, mission-less deployments of the troops. As a military mom it is so frustrating for me to hear congress critters comment that they’ll have to “wait and see” what the deciderator will do. And the deciderator seems to be content to stall until he can find enough “Yes Men & Women” to build up another case for a troop “surge” and more US troop deaths.
Christy was great.
jayt at 90 — thanks much — my hair looked SO red in that lighting. It was a great panel — as was the one prior to ours, don’t know if anyone saw that one, but Ray Suarez and Colbert King were amazing on it.
Larry Johnson at No Quarter has an interesting tidbit on the US arrest of Iranian diplomats.
No Quarter, much sense.
-GSD
But Christy, you didn’t answer the question of what the Peanut thought seeing you on the toob.
In his entire life, has George Bush EVER acted like a grown-up? Seriously, can you give me ONE example?
newspaperbrat @
64
Late here, ’cause I was watchin’! Thank heaven they keep showing that video, ’cause I’ve just missed it umpteen times – too busy to sitdown & watch. But TODAY I CAUGHT YA, CHristy! Beautiful job. YAHOO! When you get a chance again, “read” the faces & comments immediately following your wonderful presentation, gal. Speaks volumes. Those folks were scribbling notes hand-over-fist, & nodding approval. THE blog has arrived. Thanks Redd. Proud to know ya! ;->
OK went to court website and answered my own question. Case to commence on Jan 15th.
ANother tidbit showed up in the calendar: there will be motion hearing during the week of the jury Voir Dire (which begins on Jan 8th).
So they will be litgating the small stuff right down to the wire.
Has anybody just simply stated that Mr. Bush looks, sounds and acts like he’s insane?
If not, let me be in the vanguard:
George Bush is insane.
Damn, that felt good.
new thread
“I wonder where the passion that fueled those protests has gone?”
simple, just ask Charlie Rangel: elimination of the draft disconnected the personal tragedy of ill-begotten war from “most” Americans, i.e., most Americans have felt little more personally from the Iraq adventure than ill-ease that we aren’t “winning”. With the draft, the tragedy of Vietnam was much closer to home to many more Americans. Rather than the immediate potential of losing a loved one or friend, the big sacrifice Americans are supposed to make for “victory in Iraq” is to go shopping. Not much of an inspiration to stop the Iraq tragedy.
The bushliar-criminal regime has only had to manage the media image of their war to suppress opposition, rather than (As with Vietnam) a nationwide fear of the war touching each American’s personal life. The cult of republicanism is vile in every human aspect of decency, but you do have to give them credit for knowing how to manipulate the average American psyche their ends.
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looseheadprop @ 96
Isn’t Jan. 15th a holiday? MLK Day.
Will Bush end up doing anything but take up the neocons on their latest invitation to disaster? I doubt it. New Pottery Barn Rules: You break it, go ahead and break it some more. The neocons plan to double down their Iraq bet with a troop surge. Baghdad = Stalingrad? Iraq is the neocon wet dream turned nightmare, and it looks as if it just won’t end until Cheney and Bush leave office.