Bush on Low Approval: Brushes Aside Policy Concerns, Says People Are Just ‘Unsettled’
Bush on Low Approval: Brushes Aside Policy Concerns, Says People Are Just ‘Unsettled’
NBC White House correspondent David Gregory interviewed President Bush this morning on the Today Show and asked him why so many people disapprove of the job he’s doing. Bush brushed aside the public’s concern about his policies and insisted that nearly 70 percent of Americans are simply “unsettled.†Watch it.
Transcript:
GREGORY: Let me ask you about your leadership. In the most recent survey, your disapproval rating is now one point lower than Richard Nixon’s before he resigned the presidency. You are laughing.
BUSH: I’m not laughing –
GREGORY: Why? Why do you think that is?
BUSH: Because we are at war, and war unsettles people. Listen, we got a great economy. We’ve added 5.2 million jobs in the last two and a half years. People are unsettled.
GREGORY: But they’re not just unsettled sir. They disapprove of the job you’re doing.
BUSH: That’s unsettled.
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Wrong. We are not unsettled - we are disgruntled at the incompetence, corruption, dishonesty, fiscal irresponsibility, and war crimes of the Bush administration. Forget impeachment. The smirking jerk, dead-eye Dick, and secretary of War needed to tried for crimes against humanity.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:12 amUnsettled? Is that a ludicrous talking point from Karl Rove? Bush is in denial and clueless.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:14 am“La la la la la la I can’t hear you”
Okay, if his disapproval rating is so low because we’re at war and people are “unsettled”, how does Bush explain his 90% approval in the aftermath of 9/11? I thought the nation was pretty unsettled then.
“La la la la la la I can’t hear you… unsettled… unsettled…unsettled I tell you!”
May 19th, 2006 at 10:15 amIf in Bushes mind unsettled means I think he is the worst president ever, a liar, a thief, a cheat, a horrible person who has a special place in hell —-then hell yeah I am unsettled!!!
May 19th, 2006 at 10:17 amOh - criminal - I forgot he is a criminal…and a torturer…and an all around jackass!!!
May 19th, 2006 at 10:18 amUnsettled? How about PISSED OFF!!
May 19th, 2006 at 10:21 amF^&*ing Moron
May 19th, 2006 at 10:23 amSee those Iraqis over there blown to bits? They are just a little unsettled right now.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:24 amTell that to the loved ones of the men and women that have been killed and injured from war in Iraq/Afghanistan. Tell that to the forgotten people in New Orleans. Tell that to the seniors confused over Medicare. Tell that to the average person trying to get by on two jobs just to make ends meet.
We are more than unsettled you dumb shit : we are angry at the war mongering, corruption that has pervaded your administration, we are angry at the lies and incompetence that spells every flipping thing you have done since taking office.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:24 amWhoa….totally uncomprehending….this has got to be the DNC’s main campaign video…total empty head.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:25 amYou have to impeach them first. Can’t try ‘em until you impeach ‘em.
Unsettled. That’s a good one. I scream at the tv when his face in on because I’m “unsettled.” My mother throws at him the only curse words I have ever heard her utter because she’s “unsettled” (a prior Republican, I might add). They people on the street talk about prison for him and his buddies because they are “unsettled”. One of Bush’s biggest problems has always been that he doesn’t hear anybody but his advisors. The advisors technique has always been to relabel and redefine a problem as something completely different. The don’t solve it, they spend all their energy on renaming it, reframing it, but never solving it… witness this “illegal v undocumented” controversy, and the “amnesty” argument . Are “these people” in NO “refugees” or are they “survivors”? And then there is the “defense of marriage” abomination pretending that an anti-civil rights bill isn’t really intended to permanently stick gays into second-class citizenship. It’s for defending YOUR hetero marriage from… ? They will do that every time rather than address the real problem.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:25 amUnsettled? Yeah, like the San Francisco earthquake.
Here is the latest Rove talking point that the right wing media is spewing out: “Bush is only polling low because of Iraq”.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:26 amThis is utter bullshit.
Bush is polling low because America has woken the hell up and now realizes they have a stupid, lying, dangerous ideologue who shits on the Constitution as a pResident.
Bush was polling low long before 911 and Iraq.
If anything the opposite is true.
911 and Iraq gave Bush a free pass for a couple of years, but now the party is over.
Go Cheney yourself, Rove. And stick your talking points in the same place.
I think his bubble is is getting thicker and smaller.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:26 amHey junior, you and your drug addicted wench think alike.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:28 amWhat a sad excuse for a President of the United States.
I hope all of you who voted for this disgrace in 2004 are happy. You got exactly what you voted for.
Great job!
May 19th, 2006 at 10:28 amDemocrats have been apocolyptic since the Supreme Court voted President Gore out of the White House in 2000. Now it’s the Republicans who are “unsettled” because they see they’ve been had by a con man. Lookin’ in the mirror hurts sometimes, eh?
May 19th, 2006 at 10:28 amLet’s unsettle him out of the White House and settle him back in Crawford.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:29 amYou have to impeach them first. Can’t try ‘em until you impeach ‘em.
Unsettled. That’s a good one. I scream at the tv when he’s on because I’m “unsettled.” My mother throws at him the only curse words I have ever heard her utter because she’s “unsettled” (a prior Republican, I might add). The people on the street talk about prison for him and his buddies because they are “unsettled”. One of Bush’s biggest problems has always been that he doesn’t hear anybody but his advisors. The technique has always been to relabel and redefine a problem as something completely different. The don’t solve it, they spend all their energy on renaming it, reframing it, but never solving it…such as this “illegal v undocumented” controversy, and the “amnesty” semantics . Are “these people” in NO “refugees” or are they “survivors”? And then there is the “defense of marriage” abomination pretending that an anti-civil rights bill isn’t really intended to permanently stick gays into second-class citizenship. It’s for defending YOUR hetero marriage from… ? They will do that every time rather than address the real problem.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:30 am50% of the people in the country HATE him. For good reason. Another 20% just can’t tolerate him anymore. I think the remaining 30% has a long 30 months ahead.
Unsettled? Yeah, like the San Francisco earthquake.
You have to impeach them first. Can’t try ‘em until you impeach ‘em.
Unsettled. That’s a good one. I scream at the tv when he’s on because I’m “unsettled.” My mother throws at him the only curse words I have ever heard her utter because she’s “unsettled” (a prior Republican, I might add). The people on the street talk about prison for him and his buddies because they are “unsettled”. One of Bush’s biggest problems has always been that he doesn’t hear anybody but his advisors. The technique has always been to relabel and redefine a problem as something completely different. They don’t solve it, they spend all their energy on renaming it, reframing it, but never solving it…such as this “illegal / undocumented” controversy, and the “amnesty” semantics . Are “these people” in NO “refugees” or are they “survivors”? And then there is the “defense of marriage” abomination pretending that an anti-civil rights bill isn’t really intended to permanently stick gays into second-class citizenship. It’s for defending YOUR hetero marriage from… ? They will do that every time rather than address the real problem.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:31 am50% of the people in the country HATE him. For good reason. Another 20% just can’t tolerate him anymore. I think the remaining 30% has a long 30 months ahead.
Unsettled? Yeah, like the San Francisco earthquake.
I am unsettled!!! Mostly by the President’s
May 19th, 2006 at 10:32 amstupidity.
Bush is Jesus.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:32 amGrab the popcorn, folks,
the Crucifixion is at 8:00
Did he forget that the war was HIS friggin’ idea? Take responsibility for your actions, chimpy mc dumbass.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:32 amI am unsettled, unwillnig to sit still while the Bush gang and his crinies loot American resources and pocketbooks. Damn right I am unsettled!
May 19th, 2006 at 10:33 amHis head is like postal service’s abbreviation for Montana: MT.
Bush must go.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:33 amPerhaps Americans are suffering from “Bush Unsettlement Syndrome”
He still has his loyal core willing to follow him off a cliff (as long as that pisses off liberals).
May 19th, 2006 at 10:34 amI never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:35 amLucius Annaeus Seneca
Let’s unsettle him out of the White House and settle him back in Crawford.
Comment by Marie — May 19, 2006 @ 10:29 am
I second Marie’s suggestion.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:38 amUnsettled. HAhahahaha. Reminds me of what they call a suicide attempt at Guatanamo; “a hanging gesture”.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:39 amCaption contest:
“You’d better start kissing my ring, Greg, or it’s a free Cuban vacation for you - remember to pack some vaseline”
May 19th, 2006 at 10:41 amSure I’m unsettled. This Lunatic homicidal maniac with nukular weapons thinks he has to fulfill the Revelation. Yeah, unsettled. Tha puts it mildly.
50 Ways To Dump The Dubya
May 19th, 2006 at 10:42 amCaption Contest;
“Look, Is that a Camera? SEE? Where are the Words I’m supposed to say, they aren’t scrolling by!….I I see feeling unsettled look”
BTW looked at the Pentagon Pics, that looks like the nose of a Thermobaric Bunker Buster, the “Airplane” went underground then blew up.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:48 amWell props to Gregory at least for not letting that fly initially. Did he keep it up? More of the interview would be useful.
Can anyone say LAME DUCK?
May 19th, 2006 at 10:48 amHey whats those white lesions on Bushs’ face?
May 19th, 2006 at 10:49 amHe got Aids or Sumthing he aint telling us?
I see dogs get that look on their face a lot.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:49 amWhat an ass.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:51 amHey Mr. Bush, 70% of the nation think you are a LOSER.
Way to deny reality.
-GSD
May 19th, 2006 at 10:51 amWe are “unsettled” like Bush is “clueless”.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:52 amSOunds like Rove has strongly been pushing that “%60 love you personally” poll.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:53 amThis proves a theory I’d have about the Chimp for several months. We knew earlier that he had his head planted firmly in his ass. Now we know that he’s alternating his head’s position between his rectum and a large pile of sand.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:54 amBut we all know how much Bush dislikes David Gregory as it is. So why would you expect Bush to answer truthfully? Not that Bush would be honest with any other reporter either.
But when Bush is asked a question by a reporter he already dislikes, a question laced with an insult (saying very few like him)… of COURSE he is going to brush it off! He doesn’t want someone like Daivid Gregory stepping all over him!
May 19th, 2006 at 10:55 amWhat’s worse is when David Gregory says ‘Why are you laughing?’ and Bush says” “I’m not,”
Lying again.
-GSD
May 19th, 2006 at 10:56 am“Sure, they may not like me, but they’re wrong….” — Dubya
Cheers,
May 19th, 2006 at 10:57 amGREGORY: Let me ask you about your leadership. In the most recent survey, your disapproval rating is now one point lower than Richard Nixon’s before he resigned the presidency. You are laughing.
BUSH: I’m not laughing –
Yes, he was. Watch the clip. I saw it on Countdown last night.
Did anyone also catch Bush repeating what he said in the past about immigrants taking the jobs that Americans didn’t want?
May 19th, 2006 at 10:58 amThis Bush guy has never been held responsible for anything throughout his entire pampered & privileged life. He’s never had to worry about where his next meal will come from or where he will sleep from one night to the next. There’s always been someone to fix what he breaks or clean up his messes for him; in short, he’s insulated from the responsibilities that the vast majority of people have to face. How can we expect such a spoiled & indulged person to know how the rest of the world lives, and to act in anyone else’s interests besides his own?
May 19th, 2006 at 10:58 amAll these stammering photo op’s are looking the same. The other day,” we’re not mining or trolling on these wire taps.” Yesterday the hype word,” UNSETELLING.”,,,, It’s Friday, can we have a Rove indictment or significant arrest of one of these corrupt nut bags.
If impeachment is out can we recall this fool.? I can’t watch any more. Even CNN is giving him more time than I would a guppy…..You are all right, I will dispense with my F words that need to discribe this piece of trash.. Gonna hug a tree a puppy and feed the birds, they are more worthy……….Blessings
May 19th, 2006 at 11:03 amOf course! Don’t we all know by now that any American not for GWB is stupid, demented, a traitor, a teorrorist, and “unsettled” (!!!).
I’m personally surprised that he even knows what’s gping on in the polls. I though the didn’t read the newspaper or watch any news? Oh no! Is George becoming curious?
http://www.lcoliberal.blogspot.com
May 19th, 2006 at 11:05 amThe latest right-wing assault on America:
Right now on LCL
He may brush aside policy concerns, but that’s a brush that he just can’t clear.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:06 amThat jackass needs to stop laughing, I just can’t take that idiocy anymore.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:08 am#45 - Exactly
May 19th, 2006 at 11:12 amAs a “Texas” businessman, he’s been a COMPLETE failure. Hell, he couldn’t even find oil in Texas?! But that was okay cause his daddy’s money helped him buy and continue the losing trend of the Texas Rangers before he was pushed into politics. Spoiled rich brat has no sense of reality AT ALL.
Laughing at approval ratings in the 30s. The guy just doesn’t care.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:15 amI think my stomach is getting unsettled!
May 19th, 2006 at 11:15 amI am unsettled by the Chimperor Boy King’s arrogance at not realizing that he is the most stupidest man in the entire universe.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:17 am[…] From ThinkProgress: […]
May 19th, 2006 at 11:21 amIf I had the booze, drugs, money and political mafie this fool has I would be in la la land to…These people don’t care they are all raiders, murderers and bloated politicians. Untill we get them out of office they will continue to try to keep us busy with all their folly while they strip our country and constitution………Gonna hug the trees…….Blessings
May 19th, 2006 at 11:22 amdon’t we force the unwilliing, but clinically proven to be mentally ill, to accept treatment?
May 19th, 2006 at 11:25 amcan’t we do that with this idiot? This drug addled individual has his finger on the trigger, why would we allow him to ?
so, where are the trolls on this one?
May 19th, 2006 at 11:26 amFrom several online dictionaries:
Unsettled, adj., not in a state of order or calmness, disturbed
From several online thesauruses:
Unsettled: agitated, anxious, concerned, distressed, uneasy
Yeah, I’m unsettled. I’m concerned about, distressed, agitated and disturbed by his criminal behavior.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:32 amMad, [r] is on the think fast thread posting his derail drivell……enjoy a moment with out trolls…..Blessings
May 19th, 2006 at 11:33 amUnsettled is a way of “framing” really, really bad news and turning it into “clouds and puppy dogs.” Read “Bush On The Couch” to find out why this deranged mental really is a lunatic. Can we recall an insane moron?
May 19th, 2006 at 11:33 am#52 - I think my stomach is getting unsettled!
Comment by G.W.SuperChrist
He’s catching me in the lower intestine.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:34 amUnsettled
May 19th, 2006 at 11:35 amYeah, like the diaspora was about unsettled people…I’m so unsettled that I’m imagining millions of Americans like me fleeing the country.
I am convinced that this man lives in an alternate universe. In Bushland, the economy is booming, unemployment is at an all time low, the Iraq insurgency is in its last throes (again), the Iraqi people see us as their liberators, we are well respected and loved around the world, there are no homeless, working poor or destitute people, cornyism ensures quality appointees, to misspeak is not to lie, and lastly, inquiries, investigations, indictments and arrests mean you’re doing one heck of a job. Yep, ignorance sure is bliss.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:36 amI think we all need to be careful to not misunderestimate the man in the Presidents Office.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:41 amWell of course we’re unsettled. Any time the Command in Chief is a traitor to his country who passed along misinformation that got thousands of Americans killed, it’s tiime to be unsettled until that traitor is brought to justice.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:46 am.
Just look at ‘em! Complete and total GOOBER!!!
May 19th, 2006 at 11:46 amGeorgie:
Given that you likely cannot find Egypt on a map, you’re probably not aware that denial is not a river in Egypt. Americans aren’t unsetteld; they just hate you with a passion!
May 19th, 2006 at 11:49 am#45 - Preznit Pinhead - What you say is obvious. Isn’t it bitterly ironic that liberals are always tagged with the “elitist” label? The more this travesty of a regime endures, the more I think this is all they do: project their pathological hatreds onto other people, say the opposite of what is obviously true, LIE.
The really weird thing is that Bush is burnt out, defeated, helplessly devoid of credibility, but he will retain power because of the fortress the right has built around the presidency.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:52 amDayum!!! He learned a new word? Who taught him that???
UNSETTLED??? Hmmmm…ALL this time I thought it was his IGNORANT demeanor, INCOMPETENT handling of country issues, and CORRUPT policy practices that had me upset with him. But ALL THIS TIME, I was UNSETTLED???
WHAT AN IDIOT!!!
If the NEO-CONS cannot see it now, then I want the names of those IDIOTS!!! I want to run for Governor and I know they will fall for it as long as I like PAT ROBBERSOME and JERRY “Give me Money” FAREWELL!!!
May 19th, 2006 at 11:54 amUnsettled,…rich. After all,we are all just the “help”; not to be taken seriously,interchangable,replaceable, to be ignored,taken for granted, and oh yea, use the side entrance, NOT the front. Like the elite say ,the best “help” is invisabley attentive.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:00 pmBush has finally succeeded at his campaign promise of being a “uniter not a divider” by uniting most Americans against him and the Administration. Keep up the good work, Mr. President.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:01 pmI watched this interview this morning. It is amazing this moron actually has a college degree, did he pay off the proffesors or have someone else take his tests for him?
May 19th, 2006 at 12:12 pmSimply un-freekin-believable!!
Next will be….”I’m not a crook, I’m just ‘unsettled’. His little pea brain will never except he is the worst president ….ever. Laura will believe the polls when the movers pack her stuff OUT of the white house….
May 19th, 2006 at 12:16 pmFOAD you evil man!
May 19th, 2006 at 12:23 pmHe’s laughing because (to quote a common gamer/hacker phrase) he pwns us. He conned the public twice during an election and he doesn’t care what they think now because he still has a chance to push his lousy foreign and domestic ultra-right-wing crony policies through. If anything upsets him, it’s that he hasn’t been able to push as much through this year as others. But he got his supreme court justices up, so no matter what happens in the rest of his presidency, we’ll be feeling the effects of THAT “mission accomplished” for many years to come.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:26 pm#63 - I am convinced that this man lives in an alternate universe.
It is a universe protected by a barrier of magical rainbows emitted from pots of gold, maintained and operated by leprechauns. The rainbow barriers will prevent passage of unicorns, jackalopes, kangaroos, silver bullets, roosters taller than two feet, Gideon Bibles, Santa Claus, and unsightly nose hair.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:33 pm#77 - Oops, forgot to credit Zoo Jr with that.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:35 pmYeah, since January 2001.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:41 pmWe’re acting more and more like used car salesmen.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:43 pm“Bush brushed aside the public’s concern…”
That does seem to be his SOP. May have something to do with how they feel about him.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:52 pmHey, does anybody here think that perhaps a low approval rating now, is just another way to con us into believing that the next appointed president would be a god sent? I mean since it’s all ran by the same string pullers anyway…?
May 19th, 2006 at 12:54 pmThe following question is : Mr. president why do you think the American people is unsettled. Is it the war , if so, then why do’nt you do any thing about it ? Is god still talking to you ? and so on , so many questions to probe the psyche and expose the whole failure of this presidency .
May 19th, 2006 at 12:55 pmComment by krank #3
Great point Krank!!!!
May 19th, 2006 at 1:14 pmThe President is right, I’m just unsettled about his policies. I just can’t figure out why he stubbornly sticks to policies that the American people disapprove of. He is influenced by Dick Cheney and others who have their own agendas and these agendas don’t resignate with the public. Mr Cheney is too power hunger to waste time thinking about whats right for the people. His attitude seems to be, I’ll do what I want and don’t care who doesn’t like it.
It’s about time those idiots in the Red States wake up and realize this Presidency has been a disaster and that’s all there is to it. You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. No matter how hard those rightwing fools wish for them to do right, their just not going to do it. I was watching Larry King last night and he had Joana Goldberg, David Gergin, Rep Pete King, Chris Shays, and a conservative Paster Chris Scarborough on his program. Joana Goldberg , Mr. Kingand especially Paster Scarbourough thought the President wasn’t being conservative enough. I got some advise for them, if he did try to be more conservative his approval rating would drop into the negative numbers. Those fools think that being conservative is a good thing. Personally I see conservatives as partically racist, bigotted, upperclass snobs, and only concerned about preserving “white power”.
Perhaps that’s why the KKK supported Ronald Reagans first Campaign, because the Klan considers themselves are “Conservatives”. They too believe in conserving the ways of the old south. I see a lot of people driving around with rebel flags in my state and most of them haven’t even set foot on southern souls before. If this country doesn’t wake up, the terrorist won’t have to attack us, we will destroy each other over hate. I’m sure everytime the terrorist in those white sheets with cones on their heads abd preach hate America become a more secure country. We need to deal with the terrorist (KKK) we have right here in American at the same time we deal with the foreign terrorist.
May 19th, 2006 at 1:18 pmThe President is right, I’m just unsettled about his policies. I just can’t figure out why he stubbornly sticks to policies that the American people disapprove of. He is influenced by Dick Cheney and others who have their own agendas and these agendas don’t resignate with the public. Mr Cheney is too power hunger to waste time thinking about whats right for the people. His attitude seems to be, I’ll do what I want and don’t care who doesn’t like it.
It’s about time those idiots in the Red States wake up and realize this Presidency has been a disaster and that’s all there is to it. You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. No matter how hard those rightwing fools wish for them to do right, their just not going to do it. I was watching Larry King last night and he had Joana Goldberg, David Gergin, Rep Pete King, Chris Shays, and a conservative Paster Chris Scarborough on his program. Joana Goldberg , Mr. Kingand especially Paster Scarbourough thought the President wasn’t being conservative enough. I got some advise for them, if he did try to be more conservative his approval rating would drop into the negative numbers. Those fools think that being conservative is a good thing. Personally I see conservatives as partically racist, bigotted, upperclass snobs, and only concerned about preserving “white power”.
Perhaps that’s why the KKK supported Ronald Reagans first Campaign, because the Klan considers themselves are “Conservatives”. They too believe in conserving the ways of the old south. I see a lot of people driving around with rebel flags in my state and most of them haven’t even set foot on southern souls before. If this country doesn’t wake up, the terrorist won’t have to attack us, we will destroy each other over hate. I’m sure everytime the terrorist in those white sheets with cones on their heads abd preach hate America become a more secure country. We need to deal with the terrorist (KKK) we have right here in American at the same time we deal with the foreign terrorist.
May 19th, 2006 at 1:18 pmBush is holding his head the same way my dog does when he doesn’t understand something.
May 19th, 2006 at 1:20 pmCalifornia Legislature Introduces State Bill That Would Force Federal Impeachment
This is the Real Deal, and is getting little play in the press. Google “AJR 39″ for some details. Vermont and Illinois are doing the same and it only takes one state.
Wave goodbye to Bush, and his supporters, Congressional Republicans and War-Democrats.
Details: here, in the California Chronicle.
Support A Peace Candidate Against Pro-War Dem for Congress
Additional Background on Legislation: http://www.impeachbush.tv
May 19th, 2006 at 1:22 pmRacism is not confined to upperclass whites, a good percentage of Bush’s base are trailer trash whites in the South, and the vast majority of them are most definitely racist. These so-called Christians are more worried about a fetus than they are about a living, breathing child. Their philosophy seems to be, ‘ok kid, you’re born, your on your own now.’
May 19th, 2006 at 1:26 pmCalifornia can vote to force impeachment all they want, but as long as the Rethugs hold the majority in the Senate, impeachment will go nowhere.
May 19th, 2006 at 1:29 pmI get unsettled when I get a steak that’s overdone or if I drop my ice cream cone.
I get pretty pissed when a major city is practically wiped off the map with hardly a finger lifted to fix it, cherry picked evidence to support an unjust war, an outed CIA agent that worked on WMD in Iran, and a spying program that undermines my constitutional rights. Throw on that plate the disregard for science, the notion that religion is taking a frontseat to science under your guidence, and the fact that the whole world has more disdain for us as a people.
I’m sorry, Mr. President, I know your handlers keep you well in the dark so that overdone steak and icecream cones are your only problems, but the rest of us are watching the results of your disaasterous adminstration, and 70% of us are a litte more than ‘unsettled.’
May 19th, 2006 at 1:33 pmI know it’s bad to speak ill of other people, but this guy is such a “major asshole.”
May 19th, 2006 at 1:35 pm#91 Dave M.
Well said, Dave.
#92 Mumon,
It’s okay to speak bad of people if what you say is true. If it weren’t, then it would be bad.
May 19th, 2006 at 1:38 pmNo, mr bush, it is settled. We do not like you, your friends, your policies, your family, your ilk.
We almost uniformly despise you as the worst president, absolutely in living memory, but we also suspect you rank as probably the worst leader in the US, and even, probably, the world.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:04 pmMumon - It is only bad to speak ill of the dead. As it is just this presidency that is dead it is alright to speak ill of the ass that made it that way.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:07 pmPLEASE!!!! Can someone tell me what and where those new jobs are that the Bushies keep bragging about? I’m so tired of hearing about new jobs without some sort of proof what those jobs are. Give me some statistics. Are they security jobs, Wal Mart jobs, burger flipping jobs? Maybe they are immigrant jobs? Give me something that tells me the truth.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:07 pmMaybe someone should take away Smirk’s meds, cocaine and alcohol. People are not unsettled….they are sick to death of this guy. I can’t stand seeing him on tv every 5 mins., he’s always there. He constantly tries to go on tv giving recycled, trash canned speeches that make no sense, gets photo-ops that he thinks are good for him and just flat out does not care what the people think. Someone should give him the memo (oh wait, he’ll just not read that one, just like he didn’t read the one saying Al-Qaeda was going to attack during his August “vacation”) that the American people are who he will answer to, not to himself. This scumbag acts like it’s a big sandbox where he can cause all the trouble and problems he wants and no one gets affected because no one will say anything. If he isn’t punished in November this time, then people deserve whatever is coming to them because they had been warned as far back as 2000, I remember warning people, if you vote for this guy you will get: a) recession b) a war……check on both counts but he has exceeded that far beyond anything. Bush is nothing less than beyond worthless.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:11 pmFind a tongue-in-cheek visual of George Bush solving the immigration problem and another national issue at the same time…here:
http://www.thoughttheater.com
May 19th, 2006 at 2:20 pm#91 - “I get pretty pissed when a major city is practically wiped off the map with hardly a finger lifted to fix it, cherry picked evidence to support an unjust war, an outed CIA agent that worked on WMD in Iran, and a spying program that undermines my constitutional rights.” - Comment by Dave
******Dave, I’m sure this will come as news to you, but FEMA, the National Guard etc. don’t show up until the storm is OVER….Confusing, I know….But maybe you have enough “pissed off” to share with Mayor Nagin. Can’t you just hear that “leader”, “Thank you Chocolate City for returning a Chocolate Mayor” - I think they might have benfitted from competent bus drivers instead…who knew?
Get REALLY PISSED off at Jimmeh Carter for helping Frank Church gut the CIA…and show some understanding to President Clinton who relied on the same info re: WMD’s as President Bush.
Please explain to one and all how your constitutional rights have been violated - have you been conspiring with radical Islamic terrorists?
Finally, allow me to compliment you - you have cut and paste the lefty blogs sites talking points flawlessly - Mom said EVERYONE was good at something….
May 19th, 2006 at 2:27 pmblah blah blah hate… blah blah blah bigotry… blah blah blah drivel… blah blah blah Jesus… blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
May 19th, 2006 at 2:39 pmmighty aphrodite worships her God Bush.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:43 pmwhat an idiot, the 30% include the greedy rich
and the morons like our esteemed troll.
Dear Hermaphrodite and Jason - Try as you might, it is impossible to refute my argument in #99.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:49 pm#99, perhaps you can explain what’s been done to repair NO and to shore up
and protect the gulf coast in the mean time? Hurricane season’s just around
the corner, after all.
The facts remain.
May 19th, 2006 at 3:07 pmGet REALLY PISSED off at Jimmeh Carter for helping Frank Church gut the CIA…and show some understanding to President Clinton who relied on the same info re: WMD’s as President Bush. Mighty
Bullshit. Was Clinton informed about the drones of death? How about the mobile chem labs? Aluminum tubes that weren’t suitable for enriching uranium?
Consider yourself refuted.
May 19th, 2006 at 3:31 pmSomebody has to defend the Dubya Dunce Decider on here so Mighty Moron agreed to do it for Karl Rove > lol.
May 19th, 2006 at 3:34 pmTry as you might, it is impossible to refute my argument in #99.
Comment by mighty aphrodite — May 19, 2006 @ 2:49 pm
This is true… incoherent ramblings can not be refuted… next time try to place your words together in such a way that they form a cogent thought and maybe you’ll get some takers?
May 19th, 2006 at 3:37 pmDear Bob - My suggestion to Congress and the President is “send in the moving vans” - THAT would HELP New Orleans more. (Your suggestion to send more “help” is like sending fire extinguishers and oxygen tanks to Pompeii.)
Dear bar-gnat - When Mr. Jimmeh signed legislation neutering the intelligence agencies, he became responsible for trimming the quality of informants and information gleaned. Having lived through the infancy and maturation of Islamic terrorists, domestic spies for the USSR, etc. there was no excuse on his part.
May 19th, 2006 at 3:42 pmBar-gnat - re-read #99 - I was criticizing Jimmeh - not Billeh. (You better look up the word refute - apparently, you don’t know the definition.)
May 19th, 2006 at 3:46 pmDear George,
May 19th, 2006 at 3:53 pmYou, my friend, are being sold a bill of goods by the brains who are pulling your strings. People aren’t unsettled. People are royally pissed off. At You. You’re on the skids. When the bottom falls out of this sham of a White House, your handlers (the ones whose brains substitute for the empty space in your head) are going to turn into rats and you, my friend, are going to go down with the ship.
Bush is listening!
May 19th, 2006 at 4:02 pmUse big words!
There has never been a more stupid and clueless, more careless and reckless, arrogant president in this country.
May 19th, 2006 at 4:09 pmHe has done great damage to this country and someday I hope to see him pay the price.
#111, “There has never been a more stupid and clueless, more careless and reckless, arrogant president in this country.”
I guess Dubya /is/ more stupid than Ronald Reagan was … but I’d say RR was turkey-neck and neck with Dubya for cluelessness and arrogance.
May 19th, 2006 at 4:14 pmLaughing? Of course he would laugh! The very thought that he should be concerned about what Americans feel about him, is laughable. He does not care, never has, never will. It’s just not in him to care about anyone but himself. Typical sociopath.
May 19th, 2006 at 4:30 pmBush is listening!
Use big words!
Comment by maria — May 19, 2006 @ 4:02 pm
Excellent strategery maria!
May 19th, 2006 at 4:51 pmThe Repugnicants have a penchant for doing the opposite of their rhetoric. Nixon promised us “law and order” and gave us Watergate instead. Saint Reagan promised to balance the budget and nearly swamped us in red ink. And “Poppy” promised us a “kinder, gentler nation” and gave us crack turf wars instead. I should have known better when the Repugs said “the grown-ups are in charge”. I should have known we would be saddled with an arrogant, petulant man-child.
May 19th, 2006 at 5:03 pmGlenn Becker..actually when Reagan finally figgered it iout late in his pResidency he tried to modify some of his position..including raising some tax rate in1986….something that had to be done…Bush on the other hand seem almost illogical in his insistance of staying the course, or as Stephen Colbert he belives in 2006 what he belived in 2002 no matter what happened in between
May 19th, 2006 at 5:03 pmI thought of Bush and Cheney when I read this quote:
May 19th, 2006 at 5:05 pm“Bush is listening!
Use big words! - - Comment by maria
****Bush is READING, Maria….(WRITE BIGGER words than you have demonstrated.)
May 19th, 2006 at 5:08 pm#118 actually it is being read to the chimpy Mc Idiot
May 19th, 2006 at 5:20 pmThe Clueless decider In Charge of Misinformation and its not working anymore…
May 19th, 2006 at 5:24 pmWhen one person’s Constitutional rights are violated, all of our Constitutional rights are violated. Our rights protect us when they apply equally to everyone. Otherwise, they become meaningless.
May 19th, 2006 at 5:29 pm****Bush is READING, Maria….(WRITE BIGGER words than you have demonstrated.)
Comment by mighty aphrodite — May 19, 2006 @ 5:08 pm
Ha ha ha ha!
Bigger words? I think you meant ‘more intelligent’ words or ‘more astute’ words or ‘more creative’ words. No way you passed the SAT much less the LSAT!
What an imbecile! Oh, http://www.dictionary.com so you can understand.
May 19th, 2006 at 5:35 pmClif,
“Bush on the other hand seem almost illogical in his insistance of staying the course.”
Yes, I’d trot out that “foolish consistency” chestnut, but it’s a chestnut. :)
GWB thinks to think that _any_ change in course or opinion _whatsoever_ = a sign of weakness or something. Which is just plain weird. It takes courage to admit mistakes, intelligence to adjust one’s course, brains and guts to “improvise” (not the right word, but maybe you know what I mean). GWB seems to have no ideas but the one(s?) he was first fed.
May 19th, 2006 at 5:42 pmGWB seems to have no ideas but the one(s?) he was first fed.
Comment by Glenn Becker — May 19, 2006 @ 5:42 pm
By Momma (Iron fist) Bush …right….LOL
May 19th, 2006 at 5:47 pmDavid Gregory sometimes does a good job in the press briefings. However, here the obvious response to “we’re at war” is “Your approval ratings were very high during periods of this war. THEREFORE, it can’t just be the war making people ‘unsettled.’”
What the hell was that GOOBER laughing at? We don’t like the job you’re doing!!! Got it, moron?
Also, it would have been worth pointing out that at a comparable period during President Clinton’s term, the economy had generated about 12 million new jobs, not just 5.2 million.
May 19th, 2006 at 5:55 pm“and show some understanding to President Clinton who relied on the same info re: WMD’s as President Bush.”
Bullshit. Was Clinton informed about the drones of death? How about the mobile chem labs? Aluminum tubes that weren’t suitable for enriching uranium?
I was criticizing Jimmeh - not Billeh. (You better look up the word refute - apparently, you don’t know the definition.)
Consider yourself refuted again, silly - on both posts.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:04 pm#110 glenn becker
May 19th, 2006 at 6:20 pmI guess Dubya /is/ more stupid than Ronald Reagan was … but I’d say RR was turkey-neck and neck with Dubya for cluelessness and arrogance.
I didn’t think we could get much worse than Reagan in the clueless department, but I think we did. At least we learned later that Reagan was already suffereing from dementia while in office. Iran-Contra fall out is still weighing on us. Bush’s acts will weigh on us forever.
#124, big difference between the Chimp and Clinton:
When presented with the intelligence and the doubts surrounding the intelligence, Clinton maintained the sanctions, the Chimp ignored the doubts and ploughed right in so as not to waste his chance to be a ‘war president’ and ‘have a successful presidency’.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:22 pmSomeone should remind MA that no matter what intel anyone else had, the only one who chose to go to war on another soverign nation is Bush.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:25 pmMuch of the intel gathered around the world reflected the US intel which was flawed. Bush is the one who ignored those in the intel community who told him the intel was flawed. His administration squelched the dissenters. There is no one else to blame but Bush — he did it all alone.
114 - ….actually when Reagan finally figgered it iout late in his pResidency he tried to modify some of his position..including raising some tax rate in1986….something that had to be done” - Comment by clif
*****Dear clif - You would LOVE California - the Dems MOST vile candidate for governor proposes ALL kinds of tax INCREASES!! My only beef with GWB is the out of control spending. The Congress and President are spending like a bunch of drunk Democraps. (Why do progs love wasteful spending and higher taxes SO much?)
#124 - Apparently, you’re incapab;e of refutation. I apologize bar-gnat - but repeating the same ignoRANTS louder and bolder will not make up for your stupidity.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:43 pmThere is no one else to blame but Bush — he did it all alone.
Comment by Marie — May 19, 2006 @ 6:25 pm
Add Cheney,Rumsfeld,,wolfowitz, feith, and condi…and I could agree with you
May 19th, 2006 at 6:54 pm#127 - Thank you, Marie! How sweet of you to share SO many leftwing talking points with me. I already read the progressive/commie websites and rags - I’ve read or heard all your “lines” over, and over, &&&& OVER… Thank you for your thoughtfulness.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:54 pmwasteful spending?
like losing 9 BILIION in IRAQ?
like Flushing 200 BILLION down the drain on an war of choice?
like millions on trailers for NO and letting them rot?
like the repug in Alaska iand his millions for a bridge to nowhere?
the only taxes that need to be raised is on the greedy fat asses who allready
have more than they need.
MA why is that “we” all sacrifice for this stupid war = except the very
May 19th, 2006 at 6:54 pmrich? The rich who would still be rich with/without tax cuts.
You would LOVE California ,
Comment by mighty aphrodite — May 19, 2006 @ 6:43 pm
Been there state sucks at least the southern part with the over inflated egos of those who live below LA, I think I’ll stay on my 3 acres in Ky
My only beef with GWB is the out of control spending. The Congress and President are spending like a bunch of drunk Democraps.
Comment by mighty aphrodite — May 19, 2006 @ 6:43 pm
I have to agree the optional war in Iraq is a drag with all the ciosts in human suffering, and the waste of money that could have helped people instead of making more misery is wrong too
May 19th, 2006 at 7:01 pmToo bad David Gregory couldn’t really lace into that creep. It would have been great if he said, “Why are you laughing, Mr. President? Are you finally getting the humor of the fabulous jokes that Steven Colbert shared with you at the correspondents’ dinner?
May 19th, 2006 at 7:02 pmOr didn’t he make himself perfectly kular for someone of your limited mental ability?
“MA why is that “we†all sacrifice for this stupid war = except the very
rich? The rich who would still be rich with/without tax cuts.”
Comment by jason —
Dear Jason- You sound like you’re quoting the DNC website talking point page. ( If you’re in school - stay there - you MAY eventually learn something. But if Mom and Dad are paying your tuition, tell them to demand a refund!)
Now Jason, pay CLOSE attention to the following question: Which amount of money would you RATHER live on??
a.) The amount of money EQUAL to the amount of federal income tax YOU paid for 2005?
b.) The amount of money Dick and Lynn Cheney paid in federal taxes for 2005?
When you figure out which socio-economic group pays the MOST in taxes - come back for a grown up discussion.
May 19th, 2006 at 7:34 pmMA nice dodge but you failed to answer the question why does the rich get a tax cut at the same time we are runningb deficits and offf budget approiations for the war…shouldn’t even the rich sacrifice some of their tax cuts seeing the poorer have to sacrifuice some of their loved ones…and the DNC is not wrong on this point the GOP(Greedy Oilonthemind Pricks) is, because th3e borrowing that the Idiot in Chief has done since 2001 both for the tax cuts and war is going to harm the economy as well as the country when we have to find the funds to pay the bill…see ebven though the repugs think they can borrow and spend like junkies…it don’t last either way(for the junkie or the repug)
May 19th, 2006 at 7:43 pmClif - You seem to be afflicted with ADD - I wasn’t discussing the cultural issues of California - you were pleased that Reagan raised taxes (typical socialist/prog). I was merely informing you of our MOST disgusting piece of $h*t Dem gubenatorial candidate. If you were a resident here, I’m convinced the smarmy jerk would have YOUR vote.
May 19th, 2006 at 7:44 pmNo Mighty foole you must have ADD to think your right so much of the time when the policies yopu defend turn out soooooo badly ALL the time
May 19th, 2006 at 7:48 pmClif - Tax cuts stimulate the economy - when tax RATES are cut MORE tax RECEIPTS are collected. (Repeat this three times to penetrate your THICK skull.) Even JFK knew THAT….I knew Clinton was a “taxdog” when he started creferring to texes as “investments”… What a slick guy
May 19th, 2006 at 7:48 pmAt http://bookofsigns.blogspot.com/ there’s a sign along the same lines–found art, if you will–on a Buenos Aires wall.
May 19th, 2006 at 7:58 pm#
Clif - Tax cuts stimulate the economy -
Not always…the stinulation in the great depression was NOT tax cuts…
when tax RATES are cut MORE tax RECEIPTS are collected.
PURE BULL
(Repeat this three times to penetrate your THICK skull.) Even JFK knew THAT Tax rates at 70% not 33%
….I knew Clinton was a “taxdog†when he started creferring to texes as “investmentsâ€â€¦ What a slick guy
Comment by mighty aphrodite — May 19, 2006 @ 7:48 pm
But the tax cuts are nbot stimulating the economy because the borrowing that has to go on to fund the goberment of the idiot and the optional war he wanted to be a war pResident are causing interest rates to go up at the same time as food..energy costs this causes the lower portion of the economy to spend more on basics and interest thus less descressionary spending thus less freer money in the economy.
This results in a ever smaller group of poeple gaining a larger share of the economy. not enlargening the pie, because of outsourcing and retrenchment of older industries taht either can not or will not produce the goods that Americans want like the auto MFG’s which are loosing market share to the japanese and KLoreans…and after next year probably the Chinese…thus how low do we go with tax rates for those which are sending larger and larger amounts of cap[ital overseas to gain a better return on their investments 20%? 15%/ what is the correct number MA? because the 8.4 trillion dollar debt is now causing about 350 billion in interest payments on the debt but with the raising interest rates this will go up. Thus with each lowering of the rates of taxes we go more and more in debt thus giving up more and more of either the revenue or borrowed money to those who loaned it to us not for any government services of any kind even defence..and the Chinese will take our money thru Walmart or the US treasury interest payments, because we are sending them SOOO much money that we are basically funding their government including their military, but you keep on the tyax cuts are soooo goood and anything that looks like fiscal responsibility is bad until they show up to claim whatm you have because there is nothing left for them to buy with all the money we give them….MORON
May 19th, 2006 at 8:06 pmClif - Tax cuts stimulate the economy -
Not always…the stinulation in the great depression was NOT tax cuts…and tax cuts do not stimulate the economy if those who are recieving them are spending the money overseas for a better rate of return, also buying and selling stocks is not really stimulative as actually building a company to actually employ people
when tax RATES are cut MORE tax RECEIPTS are collected.
PURE BULL
Tax cuts lose more money than they generate, studies conclude
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14603575.htm
That’s just not true. A host of studies, some of them written by economists who served in the Bush administration, have concluded that tax reductions mean less money for the Treasury.
The cuts Bush extended Wednesday will cost the Treasury an estimated $70 billion over five years. They may help spur economic growth, but they still lose more revenue than they generate. And unless they’re matched by lower federal spending, they worsen federal budget deficits.
And since the repugs habve had the house since 1994 which starts the approiations they can not claim to not to be able to actually cut the budget, and who was the ones which stopped pay-go in 2001..whcih party has had complete control 2001-till now to propose anyt cuts…BUT never ballanced the budget?
(Repeat this three times to penetrate your THICK skull.) Even JFK knew THAT Tax rates at 70% not 33% thus in JFK’s time it might have mader more sence and JFK did not set the country on the course of borrow and spend for as long as we can get away with it…like reagan…Bush41….Bush43, seems that your argumentr looses steam with a few facts’
….I knew Clinton was a “taxdog†when he started creferring to texes as “investmentsâ€â€¦ What a slick guy, \\
well they are better investments than Bush and the repug congress are letting the japanese, chinese OPEC, canada and england make in OUR federakl debt….they are making off with the interest payments where an actual tax revenue collected does not create interest payments 26years on as the first onmes of Reagan has….
Comment by mighty aphrodite — May 19, 2006 @ 7:48 pm
But the tax cuts are nbot stimulating the economy because the borrowing that has to go on to fund the goberment of the idiot and the optional war he wanted to be a war pResident are causing interest rates to go up at the same time as food..energy costs this causes the lower portion of the economy to spend more on basics and interest thus less descressionary spending thus less freer money in the economy.
This results in a ever smaller group of poeple gaining a larger share of the economy. not enlargening the pie, because of outsourcing and retrenchment of older industries taht either can not or will not produce the goods that Americans want like the auto MFG’s which are loosing market share to the japanese and KLoreans…and after next year probably the Chinese…thus how low do we go with tax rates for those which are sending larger and larger amounts of cap[ital overseas to gain a better return on their investments 20%? 15%/ what is the correct number MA? because the 8.4 trillion dollar debt is now causing about 350 billion in interest payments on the debt but with the raising interest rates this will go up. Thus with each lowering of the rates of taxes we go more and more in debt thus giving up more and more of either the revenue or borrowed money to those who loaned it to us not for any government services of any kind even defence..and the Chinese will take our money thru Walmart or the US treasury interest payments, because we are sending them SOOO much money that we are basically funding their government including their military, but you keep on the tyax cuts are soooo goood and anything that looks like fiscal responsibility is bad until they show up to claim whatm you have because there is nothing left for them to buy with all the money we give them….MORON
May 19th, 2006 at 8:17 pmDidn’t Nixon get us out of a war?
Didn’t we kick him to the curb anyway?
Bubble boy is the most metally challenged subhuman I have ever seen.
May 19th, 2006 at 8:25 pmPop the Bubble, Impeach the Bubble boy!
idiot MA
May 19th, 2006 at 8:29 pmI own my own business (contractor) and clear 600K in a year.
However - I came from a poor family and I have not forgotten my roots.
MANY of us who make a good income do not understand why the
poor sacrifices in many case their LIFE. The middle class pays much more
to send their kids to school and often do not have health care. Most people
live pay check to pa check. President Bush talks about SACRIFICE
YET I SEE NO SACRIFICE ON THE PART OF THE RICH!!
get it?
Nowadays cuts in taxes for the rich - makes them more GREEDY as instead
of onvesting in America they invest their money in buying more influence from
corrupt politicians (mostly Repugs) and outsourcing jobs.
trickle down does NOT work and YOU have no proof.
pendeja.
It’s crap like this from Bush that makes me hit the mute button. I don’t wanna see his face, hear his voice or read any of the empty musings.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:25 pmBush is on anti-depressants and not responsible for his actions.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:45 pmUnderneath the 5 1/2 years of Bu$h appears a decades old GOP ideology of mainly helping the wealthy and a hostility to regulate companies and using the government to help the poor and anyone else who needs help from the government.
The Bu$h pResidency appears in trouble and the Ayn Rand wing has had a dispute with the Tomas de Torquemada wing of the RepubliKKKlan party.
The independents have abandoned Bu$h and the Grand Old Pococurantes.
Who needs impeachment? get me some popcorn and let the implosion continue.
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May 19th, 2006 at 11:08 pmUnsettled?? UNSETTLED??? I’d love to see the American people give him “unsettled” come November by changing the congressional majority from Republican to Democrat…
What a condescending little megalomaniac…
May 20th, 2006 at 12:24 amDubya Dunce Decider is a certified lunatic and a massive pathological liar! Crazy Cheney is also a lunatic and a liar too! Rummy is a certified dolt and a liar as well! Everyone in the Bush Regime are crazy and liars! Most of the Repubs in the Senate are loons and phony Dems like Lieberman > lol.
May 20th, 2006 at 1:05 amThe boy-Emperor is still president? Damn right we are unsettled.
May 20th, 2006 at 1:47 amAs the compassionate party i think we have some responsibility to find those 29% who still support this idiot and get them away from sharp things or at least medicate them. They are clearly a threat to themselves and others.
May 20th, 2006 at 1:52 amThere’s alot of posts, have read most during the day, but here’s the end of the interview that was cut off from the original video:
MSNBC: They’re not just unsettled, sir. They disapprove of the job you’re doing.
BUSH: That’s unsettled
MSNBC That’s how you see it?
BUSH: Yeah, I do. I see it as the war has… the war is… the war is difficult. And I understand that. I understand why people wonder whether we can win the war or not. But there’s a big difference between some of us who believe we’re doing the right thing and moving forward and a group of people who want to pull out before the jobs is done.
So…. it’s just “a group of people who want to pull out”…. huh?
May GHWB should have pulled out about 59 years ago. We can all agree on that!
May 20th, 2006 at 3:53 amSomeone needs to tell dumbass in chief to stop bragging about the 5.2 Million jobs. Everywhere he goes, he brings it up, like it’s the only thing he has left to be proud of. Well, 5.2 million jobs over 33 months is 157,000 jobs per month. The economy needs 150,000 new jobs each month just to keep up with population growth. So he is taking credit for 7,000 additional jobs every month. Nice work.
May 20th, 2006 at 5:30 amHey! W! Every time I see your face and hear you “speak” my stomach becomes “unsettled”.
May 20th, 2006 at 8:05 amSo he is taking credit for 7,000 additional jobs every month. Nice work.
Comment by Ernest — May 20, 2006 @ 5:30 am
Thanks for the math.
I have to wonder what happens when you compare this number with the jobs loss. If he’s helped create 7,000 jobs each month, but his policies are responsible for the loss of 8,000 (a guess) each month - then he’s actually in the hole. But, I don’t know how we determine the actual number since the government isn’t keeping statistics on job losses. Just the number of people claiming unemployment insurance. Which only last for 6 months anyway.
May 20th, 2006 at 8:17 am>> Someone needs to tell dumbass in chief to stop bragging about the 5.2 Million jobs
thestreet.com showed that those numbers are a lie. They are trough to peak numbers which no financial institution would consider credible. Bush lost 2.3 million jobs. He then started calculateing the jobs he created from this trough instead of his break even line.
Subtract 2.3 from 5.2 and you have the real number. 2.9 million jobs. The worst recovery since the depression
May 20th, 2006 at 9:05 amThe man is deranged and should be in the looney bin. The neocons lied to start a preemptive war for profiteering. They claimed the “war” would last a few weeks, with little or no dead, and cost under a billion dollars to be repaid by the Iraqis. The debacle in Iraq is over 3 years in length, thousands killed and maimed, $320 billion already squandered with an additional $10 billion a month wasted. Someone has to be held responsible. It has to be the simple minded, inane and ignorant man who passes off this tragedy with the casual diversion to the economy. He has in 6 years undone 230 years of our glorious history with his incompetence, deception and chicanery. Let the good times roll!
May 20th, 2006 at 10:05 amIt is a bit unsettling that we have a moron chimpanzee trying to run the most powerful country on the planet.
May 20th, 2006 at 11:18 amChimpage!!!
May 20th, 2006 at 11:37 am#143 - Jason - Congratulations on your enormous earning power!!! How much of the $600K do you get to KEEP??? You do realize a rich guy like you has a “bulls eye” painted on your back by Dems who despise and denigrate “the evil, greedy, selfish RICH”. (The word “Rich” must be said with an excessive revulsion.)
May I make a modest proposal for one who “hasn’t forgotten his roots?” Give away as much of your hard earned money as will help alleviate your “progressive” guilt - it’s far more therapeudic than being such a whiny hand-wringer. I would also suggest that you encourage your undoubtedly wealthy friends and colleagues to find worthy local beneficiaries and shower your largesse upon them.
I’m off to the mini-Aphrodites games….have a wonderful weekend!!!
May 20th, 2006 at 1:09 pmI didn’t read every post here. Did anybody stop to think that maybe he was referring to the THOUSANDS LEFT UNSETTLED BY KATRINA?
May 20th, 2006 at 1:11 pmMalignant Narcissist. He truly believes his own lies. War unsettles people? Understatement, look at all those people who used to have lives and jobs in Iraq. Oops, the enemy, how dare I? I guess “the deciders” job is to keep the citizens “unsettled” introduce a bit of new terror a little at a time to unsettle us. Keep us of balance, confused. “war on terrorism” “WMD” “Liberate Iraq”. I’m “unsettled” alright, that there are so many idiots that don’t know the man they follow is plain, old Meglomanic insane.
May 20th, 2006 at 3:59 pmTHAT would HELP New Orleans more. (Your suggestion to send more “help†is like sending fire extinguishers and oxygen tanks to Pompeii.)
comment by Mighty Hypocrite
The comparison between New Orleans and Pompeii, which Mighty Troll has made on other threads too, is not at all apt. Pompeii was totally destroyed; its residents were all killed, and the place was forgotten for centuries. New Orleans was not totally destroyed, and most of its residents survived.
May 21st, 2006 at 3:17 amMighty’s repeated insistence that New Orleans doesn’t deserve help shows just what a compASSionate CON he/she is.
Mighty Aphrodite, You wrote:
Please explain to one and all how your constitutional rights have been violated - have you been conspiring with radical Islamic terrorists?
Comment by mighty aphrodite — May 19, 2006 @ 2:27 pm
Dear Hermaphrodite and Jason - Try as you might, it is impossible to refute my argument in #99.
Comment by mighty aphrodite
If I may, First off, you have not made an argument. You have made statements without analysis. You’re a “lawyer.” You know an argument follows a format: Issue, Rule of Law, Analysis (applying the Rule of Law to the Facts at issue, and Conclusion.
“FEMA, the National Guard etc. don’t show up until the storm is OVER….” as I recall, when FEMA finally did show up, its response was wholley inadequate. FEMA, once a shining example of preparedness following the Florida hurricanes before Bush became Commander in Chief is now so poorly managed that the most recent study recommended scraping the entire Agency.
“Please explain to one and all how your constitutional rights have been violated - have you been conspiring with radical Islamic terrorists?”
This statement implies that the only people who’s rights are violated are those conspiring with radical Islamic terrorists. Little by little, public knowledge of the extent of the government surveillance programs since 9/11 are becoming known. WE DON’T KNOW if our Constitutional rights are being violated by a covert operation.
We do know of at least one United States citizen who was held for years without charges. And if the government can do that to one of us, it can do that to any of us.
“it is impossible to refute my argument “
ah, but first, you must make an argument. When you do, let me know.
May 21st, 2006 at 3:45 amAnd when his poll numbers hit single digits, he may try to put the blame on 9/11.
And Clinton.
May 21st, 2006 at 3:55 amI am NOT unsettled, king chimp, YOU ARE UN-SANE!!!!!
May 21st, 2006 at 11:28 amBraid Faire - In the courtroom, into which you have yet to offer legal arguments, your assertion of presentation of precedence, statute. etc is correct. (I would expect no less from an Honours Graduate of an ABA accredited law school!)
However, should you wish to alienate ALL the non-lawyer friends you might have, treat them ALL to your legal arguments concerning every political, social, moral, philosophical, artistic, environmental, etc. discussion. What a wonderful way to “friends and influence people”! In the world outside the courtroom - yes there IS one (!) one definition of argument is, “a series of statements from premise to conclusion.” In discussions concerning global warming, evolution, etc. legal references are NOT a requirement for positing a view.
FEMA and Bush (as much as you hate to acknowledge) were told of the possibility of the “levees topping” - much DIFFERENT than BREECHING. Had local and state officials familiar with the region and safety afforded by the levee taken the horrific threat to New Orleans as a STRONG possibility, perhaps they would have re-doubled their efforts to evacuate the populace.
Re: your statements about the US surveillance programs: You fail to note diverse legal opinions and arguments supporting either side. It is amazing the differences of opinion and legal precedence each side uses to bolster their argument
I assume, as you do not name, “the one US citizen” being held is Jose Padilla. I agree - he should have not been held without charges. He should have been charged with treason and THEN remanded.
Good day.
May 21st, 2006 at 1:41 pmthe possibility of the “levees topping†- much DIFFERENT than BREECHING.(SIC)
comment by Mighty Hypocrite
Everyone,
May 21st, 2006 at 6:51 pmNotice that Mighty Hypocrite, who claims to be an attorney, still doesn’t know the difference between “breech” (barrel of a cannon) and “breach” (to break, such as in “breach of contract). I might give him the benefit of the doubt as a typo if he misspelled only once or twice, but this phony attorney does it consistently in all threads he comments on–which is, of course, most of the threads.
Lora,
I don’t believe a word out of that pathalogical liar’s mouth. Not only is he not an attorney, but he couldn’t get into a third rate law school.
One of my close friends was going to law school several years ago, and everything she studied was about making a FACT based argument. Mighty Mouth never offers facts, just opinion and conjecture. He never makes an argument, just slings insult and innuendo.
My guess is that he lives in a pretend fantasy world with his four Chihuahuas and a picture of some ‘husband’ that came with a picture frame he once bought.
May 21st, 2006 at 7:03 pmGood Lord Mr. Bush, you are really out of touch with the American people. UNSETTLED we are NOT!!! MAD AS HELL…YES!!!
We have an administration which, under your leadership, or lack thereof, has become the most corrupt in the history of the U.S. Your lies and your arrogance is simply disgusting….and you are the one that should be unsettled……unseated. You do not deserve to continue out your term…you and all of your administration deserve to be impeaced, tried in an international court of law, and thrown in jail for the rest of your pathetic lives.
You, sir, should step down….for the sake of democracy and for the sake of the Constitution which you swore on the bible to uphold…you did not swear on the Constitution to uphold the bible or any other document….
You are an embarrassment and an abomination. History WILL show that yours was the worst presidency in the history of The United States of America.
Wake up and smell the coffee….the majority of Americans do not like you. Take your toys and go back to Crawford.
May 21st, 2006 at 8:50 pmMy guess is that he (Mighty Hypocrite) lives in a pretend fantasy world with his four Chihuahuas and a picture of some ‘husband’ that came with a picture frame he once bought.
Comment by unbelievable
To unbelievable,
Please don’t insult Chihuahuas. I don’t think someone as full of vitriol as Mighty Hypocrite could possibly care for one cuddly animal–let alone four. (And I say this as a person with four cats.)
As for Mighty’s consistent misspelling of a word like “breach”that is common in the legal world, This is akin to a Japanese translator not knowing how to write “kimono.”
Though I doubt that Mighty will give up, I thi