Login HereWillard seems convinced that the way to beat back the Huckevangelists and win the GOP nomination is to worship at the altar of Bush. First, he demanded Huck apologize to W. for writing in Foreign Affairs that the Bush administration had a "arrogant, bunker mentality." What's the deal? Isn't that a compliment to a neocon?
Now, Willard pens this love letter to W., exclusively for Townhall.
As Americans prepare for the holidays with their families and loved ones, we have many challenges to face but also many reasons to be thankful. We are thankful we live in a nation that is still a land of freedom, hope and opportunity. And we can be thankful that President Bush has kept us safe.
Boy, has he ever. I mean, that awful Bill Clinton just sat around and let 9/11 happen. But when Bush took over, he's really protected us. No catastrophic attacks or calamities on his watch at all. Whew.
In the wake of 9/11, the President took unprecedented steps to keep us safe and defend Americans at home and abroad. We revamped our homeland security apparatus, passed new laws that allowed us to listen in when al-Qaeda was calling, cleared out terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and successfully toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein.
What was the law that prohibited us from listening in on al-Qaeda? And, unfortunately, those terrorists in Afghanistan -- and the Taliban -- are still there. Bummer. But it is true that Bush got Saddam Hussein, who we all know did 9/11. So he's got that going for him.
A half century ago, our mothers and fathers in the Greatest Generation came together to defeat fascism and communism, promote freedom and civil rights, and build a strong and prosperous country that is the envy of the world.
Bzzzzzzzt! So sorry, Willard, but it turns out that the communists were on our side when the Greatest Generation defeated fascism. And, sadly, the armed forces were still segregated. But way to tie up the American Century into one pretty big dumb bow for the Bushbots at Townhall.
Hey, for Willard right now -- this isn't a bad plan. 70% of America might hate Bush, but 70% of Republicans still love him. But good luck with that in the general.
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Blue Texan!
Exclusive? K-lo must be swooning!
I wonder if TBogg finally struck paydirt.
http://tbogg.blogspot.com/2007.....rs-to.html
What a fucking dork he is. Typical draft dodger.
Indeed, Jane. I guess Hugh has more pull with Willard than K-Lo.
Nice Post, BT.
Is everyone listening to our wonderful leader? He is bragging about blocking a middle class tax hike? What was this about? The AMT? He is admonsishing Congress now. I am laughing out loud. Bush is actually trying to come off as a Fiscal Conservative. This must play to his base. Because any moron knows that he has spent like a drunken sailor for the last 7 years. Boy it is the same ol speech. Does he actually think this will work? I guess. Bush says Boo and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi roll over and piss on themselves.
W “won” on the ignorance ticket… …it didn’t work out too bad (for him).
one of the main reasons, i guess, i like the blog format because it reads more like a script, like reading a play.
of course little boots would take to the airwaves to smear poo in the feckless dems eyes….DONT GIVE IN TO HIM DEMS!!1 NEVER GIVE IN
As we saw at College Station, he’s got Poppy’s lurv. Guess he wants to keep it all in the family.
i was an evil child and i trained my mom’s dog to do that on command. not a pretty sight D:
met a woman on the checkout line bragging about voting twice for chimp…everybody else on line was mocking her….ahhhhhh the diehards…too dumb to live
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I guess Willard doesn’t read Paul Krugman blog.
I hope the Dems portray this push from Bush that the intelligence community needs the tools to keep us safe. You mean Mr. President, that we have to sacrifice the constituion to keep us safe? You mean the tools that previous generations used to end the cold war and defeat fascism will not work against some radical cave dwellers? Is is that your administration is so incompetent that we have to break the rule of law so you can get the job done? I am sick of Bush saying Boo and Dems rolling over.
George Bush talks to us like we are all 2nd graders. He holds the book up to us and says, “See little children…this is how it is?” and then won’t allow questions from the us kiddos! Spit.
This morning when I checked my e-mail, I got the following from Ted Kennedy:
I signed the petition, and added this when it asked me what I wanted to say to Bush:
The obedient press took one shot at a question about the CIA tapes and was whacked on the nose. by the Crawford Caligula They quickly ran into the corner and began licking their collective nuts.
-G
Funny, I had a dog as a kid that would do that on his own anytime you would yell.
Agreed, great post, Blue Texan. Thanx to you, Irish Jim, & all who are doing a play-by-play on the GWB presser. I can’t stomach even looking @ him w/mute on anymore.
Bush presser on my local NPR station. What a pathetic remnant of a man. He is incapable of any coherent answer.
At Thanksgiving I had chance to sup with an aunt. She’s a Republican. She’s the nicest person you could know; would never hurt a fly.
She believes Mexicans will give us diseases and if we don’t torture Muslims we’ll all be killed.
I tried. But these people are impervious to logic.
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The “defeat of communism” was accomplished by our aiding and abetting those Islamofascists that we have to burn our Constitution for in order to protect ourselves.
Bush claiming Iraq has functioning Government. Points out that our legislatures wait to the last minute to get things done. Mad that people are saying nothing is happening. Guess they hit a nerve.
alfred e newman was appointed pretzledent…the office is forever degradesd
Ah, but did she know she was being mocked!
I am tired of the smug lectures from this dissipated dry-drunk.
-G
And now Pooty-Poot is making them Ruskies stronger than ever, and they have unlimited energy resources, whilst we have a economy on the edge of collapse. Nice going, idjits.
You’re shitting me. He said that about Iraq’s government? And compared it to te US Congress? Ave Maria.
you must try harder…take her to a Mexican Res…and give her a Marguerita,and extol the virtues of the humble chili pepper!lol
Refried beans and some Tecate. Then let her sit in her own beerfarts.
I listened to the man-child bully anyone who dares question him. As a bully, he uses every tool to humiliate and it is painful to watch. What a sociopathic pathetic creature, a man who,lies to himself almost as much as he lies to everyone else.
except for a handfull of good dems…im sick of them all!
Yay, us.
We’re Number 1! We’re Number 1!
Enemies? We create them, then we fight them.
Heckuva way to run an empire.
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romney’s “thank God president bush has kept us safe” ranks up there with guiliani’s “thank god bush is our president”
How safe I feel… it should be a dirge…
romney has an ear for the absurd …. and even then he is playing off key
roflmao
Bush droning on that presidential candidates need to ask themselves how they plan to get the unvarnished truth from advisors because what looks like no big deal today can become a big deal tomorrow.
You don’t think he’s calling his Torture Advice ‘varnished’ do you?
Bush’s ‘affect’ is toned down at this presser. He’s lightly slurring his words and rambling ‘conversationally.’
tooooooooooooooooo funny! lol
Deciderating is hard work.
I think Bush is shifting into his statesman mode now that he is at the end of his term. It manages to be dull and frightening at the same time.
I just don’t get it. My nephew, a normally very smart, very savvy guy, actually likes Romney. He says he’s not nearly as conservative as he appears these days.
To which I say, “WHYYYYYYYY?!” Why does the dimwit feel the need to be so…so…McCain-like?
I like my nephew, and in the interests of family harmony, I’m not going to say it. But I’d love to say, “Dude, we’ve already had 7 years of a guy who would say *anything* to become president. Look how well that’s working out.”
yeah, it’s physiological conditioning :/
Romney:
Thanks be to God. BIG BROTHER IS LISTENING and keeping us safe.
Sandra Day O Conor,has reeked this creature on the whole world!!!!
Yep! He hunted down all those ANTHRAX terr’ists quite successfully with his warrantless wiretaps. Not onlt did he prevent their initial attack, but he stopped the subsequent attacks they had planned as well! RIGHT!
Wait! Nope, that’s not right! So maybe they needed to BROADEN their phone taps and computer data harvesting. After all, anyone looking up the word “
Amtrack” Anthrax in the wake of the foiled attack MUST be suspicious, copy cat terrorists!Same with all those 9/11 “investigators” who wanted to check up all the Stats on the World trade Centers. What conceivable reason would these so-called TRUTHERS want with all that information. It was clear that they were planning a “return attack”…after the WTC complex was rebuilt. But the Bush Administration thwarted that! They designed a completely different set of towers! Smart, these Republicans!
And don’t forget the wonderful idea of how they put all of Saddam’s Secret documents on the internet and asked all those who spoke Arabic out there to look for information about Nuclear, Biological or Chemical Weapons. And the plans and schematics that were turned over after Gulf War #1 happened to be in there…available to any Al Qaida terrorist or other lunatic to download. We can thank Rep. Hoekstra and Senator Roberts for THAT lame-brain idea…although it was approved by Condy and the White House.
And talk about protecting our troops in Iraq? Rumsfeld and the Bushies had such a meagre invasion force that they couldn’t even guard the Armories and Weapons Depots of Saddam….so they were looted of the explosives and weapons used to arm the Shiite and Sunni Militias, as well as foreign insurgents that entered Iraq from the unguarded borders!
invoking sheer terror here!
I seriously doubt the dry-drunk is all that dry anymore. Those long vacations aren’t because he’s overworked.
After being married to a hard core drunk you learn the signs and the tricks. They are extremely nasty people when separated from their drug. Most of that is so you will let them drink just so you can have some peace.
And BTW, alcoholics do coke because it counters the sleep effect and they can drink more without passing out.
what a joke!!!!!the little fukker has been listening since the week he took office…HE DID NOT PROTECT US…………jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez!
Bush remains totally divorced from reality. He talks about the universality of freedom. Not sure how he ties in all of his efforts to spy on us with that.
you got it 100%
Bush moving into his ‘bringing Democracy to the Middle East’ stump speech.
Now getting excited about ‘ideological enemies’ being confronted by Liberty. It’s neccessary work, Hard Work, and we will prevail! We have the ultimate weapon, Freedom!
OT I mentioned signing 3 petitions this morning on the previous thread. Elliott and Marie Roget asked for links. I signed and sent them to the trash. This is the one for the EPA’s California emissions decision, and I’m trying to find the one for HUD and the FEC decision. Will put up links when I figure out how to find them again.
http://action.environmentaldef.....xzp775j6bx
Sorry to have left the thread to mix up Christmas cookies.
He most certainly did. He is yelling now about an idealogical struggle. Invoking 9/11 again. idealogical struggle. Claiming we have freedom on our side, yet he argues that we must give up freedoms so our people can have tools to defeat the islamic evil doers.
She believes Mexicans will give us diseases
Did y’all know that the US used to (until the 1960’s) douse Mexican immigrants with gasoline and friggin’ Zyklon B???
OOT
TLANTA, Georgia (AP) — Former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who was ousted from office last year after a headline-grabbing scuffle with a Capitol Hill police officer, has decided to seek the presidency — as a Green Party candidate.
In a video posted on the Internet on Tuesday, McKinney criticized the war in Iraq and complained about Democrats and Republicans, saying both parties are beholden to corrupt corporate interests. She called the Green Party “my new political home.”
McKinney, 52, registered to vote in California after a group called Run! Cynthia! Run! began drafting her as the Green Party’s candidate there. Since then, she had made campaign appearances in Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
“The Democrats do not speak for us,” she said. “The Democrats are no different than their Republican counterparts.”
i would seriously consider giving a thousand bux to any reporter that asked him on air….WHERE IS OSAMA BIN LADEN?
Oh my. Did you see the one who is still convulsing in the corner? It’s pathetic!
“My view of the economy is that the fundamentals are strong.”
He will work to help “credit-worthy” homeowners stay in their homes, i.e. if you don’t need our help we are willing to offer it to you.
Don’t remind me about the 80’s ever again!
-G
by never connecting one thought with another!
Thanks for that link, carmen. Cookie mixing/baking excuse always allowed here, I believe.
Bush says the Economy is doing fine.
We aren’t going to ‘bail out’ anyone. We aren’t going to aid speculators, either.
The difficulty in the housing market is that the lender doesn’t own the mortgage, it’s been bundled and sold-off into the market, and so we don’t want put our efforts in the wrong place.
thank you carmen!
He meant to say the fundamentalists are strong.
-G
bush would report the titanic was doing fine… from the lifeboat even
We can’t rely on corn in George’s world….not even to eat.
BT,
Thanks to the corporate PR department, Romney’s narrative will sound about right to far too many voters.
‘08 ain’t gonna be easy.
WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO DESERVE THIS ODIOUS LITTLE PISSANT?
He was against Teaoto. That is the drinkable version of Kyoto.
I was hoping nobody would figure that out *g*
Of course, lighting a building on fire on the White House campus to destroy evidence is NOT….I repeat….is NOT contributing to global warming in the DC area!
Ahhhh, the Bracero Program.
Yay! Slavery!
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The pitching machine is almost out of softballs.
-G
sadly Cynthia is mostly correct
Be afraid, be very afraid of stopping global warming. It can make you broke. And nooocular power is the solution.
What a cogent analysis of the situation. What a strong logical thought process. We are so lucky to have this man as our leader.
“You can’t deal with greenhouse gases if you are broke.”
Of course, if you don’t deal with greenhouse gases, you are going to end up broke.
How about taxing the wealthy only in our country to pay for what Georgie (the top 5%’s Charlatan Puppet Boy) wants? No way! Not in The New America Order. Uh ah. That’s not how it works, people.
Bush’s cocky posturing makes my skin crawl
Ditto!
Oh, He did not just say that until China does something about Global Warming, then we are not. I thought the US were supposed to be leaders, not followers. Damn Republicans are reactionaries. Cannot do anything proactively.
*catching a foul ball and throwing it back to the press*
Wait for the next pitch!
Bush rotely rattling-off his policy points, not very lively.
He wants China to get right on emmissions!
Bush says our standard of living can’t stay high and we deal with greenhouse gasses effectively, if we are broke! Fixing the environment is expensive, and should come second to our standard of living as long as polluters like China are around.
Wonder if Ms. McKinney knows who said that first?
“There is not a dime’s worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties!”
Alabama Governor George Wallace, candidate for President, 1968
President Scumbag, why was Karl Rove getting phone calls from felons in NH on election day in 2002?
-G
Bush has a strategy on global warming:
Bring others to the table
Develop goals later this summer
And then leave office before anything gets done. It is after all not like he has been in office for 7 years. Oh, wait.
He’s back on the “work is hard” jag. How does he know? He’s never tried it.
I can’t wait till bush has left office and realizes he won’t be able to go anywhere without pickets showing up! And I hope they will do so in great numbers!
CIA Tapes question - are you concerned about ‘criticism’ from the World?
Bush: Let’s wait and see what happens with the investigations, first.
Yes M’am.
What is that weird thing he does while he’s pretending to think? The one where he purses his lips? I thought only old women did that.
“Get it?” He actually just said that. So insulting.
Assad if he is listening doesn’t need a phone call. He knows what Bush is thinking.
he looks like a poor imitation of Mussolini
http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nov.....lini-l.jpg
Look at the press corps just sitting there with dumbfounded expressions. Like little kids being scolded by daddy. Why are they so afraid of him?
howdy - anyone watching the the HJC hearing on c-span1 now? it’s on the cia torture tapes.
Why the surprise?
Bush/authoritarianism + China -Maoism = God’s Own Heaven!
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he does!
Freedom—is detentions without redress.
Peace is war.
-G
Key O Toe.
Thanks explains the timing of the chimp’s presser.
Bush claims he goes around the world spreading goodwill now. That is like claiming Bush is a fiscal conservative.
And the Europeans struggle to save their economies which they fear are too entrenched with the US Economy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/mon.....com119.xml
s/Thanks/That
Want my edit back!
he is a FECAL conservative
The White House press corps is paid not to ask tough questions and they were out there really earning their money today. Nothing Bush has said makes sense and they call him on none of it. They just let him ramble on and string non sequiturs together.
W has access to Rove’s special polls. Confident the Rs will hold the WH & gain seats in House & Senate.
well, perhaps when bush leaves…. people feel such a relief … it’s like taking off tight shoes… so maybe in bush’s strange way, he could imagine he spreads “good will”
Protect us from harm? Who was the one who did nothing from January 2001 to September 11, 2001 but ignore the warnings that an attack on our nation was coming in the form of commercial airliners being used as missiles and then proceeded to read a book while these planes were doing circles in the sky and their occupants were dying?
Anyone? George Bush, do you know whom I speak of?
Oh yes. He is the Goodwill Ambassador for the Fascist Message. See?
Here, CSPAN-1 has the Bush presser.
CSPAN-3 has Treatment of Prisoners Hearing.
And, the military is really laying into Senator Dayton. Yikes, I haven’t missed Rumsfeld.
remember him saying to the intelligence officer…”ya covered your ass?” they let it happen!
I think the relevant quote for Mitt (and Bush) on how “we” all came together for civil rights is from Spinal Tap:
bush always thinks his “greatest duty” is to protect us. NOT! his greatest duty is to protect the constitution.
so when it comes to “protection” - the guy has done more than any other president to be a DESTROYER - not a protector.
Yes. It’s on CSPAN2 here due to presser. It seems odd to see & hear Daschle after all this time…
Can’t one of these sonambulist fluffers throw a pen down, scream ‘bullshit’ and run from the room cursing to themselves?
-G
His primary job, explicated in his Oath, to to protect and defend the constitution. We pay plenty of qualified others to “protect Americans from harm.
Bush giving his usual loony tunes answer on raising taxes. If the government has money it will spend it. (tax cuts for the rich and unnecessary wars). When you say you are taxing the rich, you are taxing hard working people.
The original question was actually a good one on not paying for a lot of these things, Iraq, the AMT, tax cuts for the rich. Bush blew it off. There was, of course, no follow up to ask about his borrow and spend policies.