Caught on Tape: A ‘Stay the Course’ Retrospective
Yesterday, the White House complained to the Washington Post that their critics were smearing them with inaccurate labels:
Many Democrats accuse the president of advocating “stay the course” in Iraq, but the White House rejects the phrase and regularly emphasizes that it is adapting tactics to changing circumstances, such as moving more U.S. troops into Baghdad recently after a previous security strategy appeared to fail.
Where did anyone ever get the idea that President Bush advocates “staying the course” in Iraq? Let’s go to the videotape:
Transcript below:
BUSH: We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]
SNOW: The second thing you do is you stay the course. [7/10/06]
SNOW: But on the other hand, you also cannot be a President in a wartime and not realize that you’ve got to stay the course. [8/17/06]
BUSH: We will stay the course. [8/30/06]
BUSH: We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]
BUSH: And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04]
SNOW: People are going to want more of it, and that’s why the President is determined to stay the course. April. [8/16/06]
BUSH: And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. And that’s why when we say something in Iraq, we’re going to do it. [4/16/04]
BUSH: And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]
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They aren’t believeing their own saying and working over to confuse their own slogans.
September 1st, 2006 at 4:49 pmThe White House rejected that phrase right after every time that it came out of their mouths.
September 1st, 2006 at 4:53 pmThey were for “staying the course” before they were against it.
September 1st, 2006 at 4:54 pmflip-floppers
September 1st, 2006 at 4:56 pmwhat exactly is stay the course I spose he means stay until hell freezes over -
September 1st, 2006 at 4:57 pmThe full quote is:
BUSH: And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. But the White House rejects that I used the phrase “stay the course” just now and we will retain the right to use another phrase later when we think it will benefit us politically. Thank you.
September 1st, 2006 at 4:59 pmSorry, neocons, but this isn’t the dystopia of George Orwell’s 1984, although you’re certainly trying to make it so.
You haven’t yet gained total control of the media, so your attempts to retroactively rewrite history will never be totally successful.
I’m sure that the kool-aid swilling 34% of this nation that count themselves your supporters are more than taken in by this lie…after all, relying on FOX News for your information is guaranteed to give you a skewed view of reality. But the rest of us are onto your tricks, and we’re doing our best to educate the kool-aid drinkers into putting down the cups and joining us in actual reality.
You’re losing the battle…the fear you mainlined into us with 9/11 is almost gone. We’re starting to wake up.
You’ve been trying to keep us in that terrified state with regular injections of terror threats, but all you’ve done is built up an immunity to your lies. Your latest attempt was pitiful…the ‘liquid explosives’ ploy that had us guessing for all of a week.
Even if you stage another ‘terrorist incident’ that costs lives, this time we’ll be wary. This time, we won’t trust you implicitly. This time, we’ll know what to look for and who to ask for help in getting the answers.
Like the terror threats, we’ve also developed a resistance to the partisan rhetoric slung about on FOX like so many handfuls of feces. Viewership of FOX is plummeting. The American public is learning to duck.
So lie all you like, kids. We remember what you said, and we know what you did. More of us know every day.
September 1st, 2006 at 4:59 pmOkay I admit it I embelished a little and misquoted bushie. He didn’t actually say “Thank you.”
September 1st, 2006 at 5:00 pmMuslim Beauty
Updated: 16:01, Thu Aug 31
The first Muslim Miss England has accused Tony Blair of fuelling hostility towards Islam after the London bombings.
I AGGREE WITH HER FOR SURE
September 1st, 2006 at 5:05 pmWhat difference does it make? The dumb SOB was lying when he said it and is lying when he said he didn’t say it and he will be lying when he says that he didn’t say that he didn’t say it.
Stay the course! Right into Leavenworth.
September 1st, 2006 at 5:07 pm9/ Hey Tobey That will enlist more rapist Marines
September 1st, 2006 at 5:08 pmHe’s precisely the one who coined the phrase….like a broken, warped record, he’s said it over and over ad nauseum.
September 1st, 2006 at 5:09 pmLiar, Liar…pants on fire! You’re burning big time…check out those sliding poll numbers sometime. You might finally realize what people honestly think about you and your performance as commander in chief….that is, if you’re not “on vacation”…lights are on but, sorry, no one’s home.
September 1st, 2006 at 5:11 pmhey , he is just talking to the base about stay the course, you know, the ones whose memories are clear of entanglements?
September 1st, 2006 at 5:11 pmmeat puppets don’t think, they do what they are told
karl speaks in his ear, monkey do.
[…] We will stay the course right into Leavenworth! […]
September 1st, 2006 at 5:16 pmHe cannot escape his own failed policies, no matter how much he tries. I am loving this!!!
September 1st, 2006 at 5:19 pmAmerica’s Least Wanted
do they grow those podiums in texas?
i know - stupid joke - that pic just looks funny to me…
September 1st, 2006 at 5:20 pm#17 - Good one, katy.
Well, kiddies, I remember it well, the terrible drought in the year ‘06, in the great podium fields of Texas…
September 1st, 2006 at 5:25 pmActually if you listen to the video closely, he’s saying “Stay the Schwartz“.
It is believed Bush is really “Dark Helmet” and is using the Dark Side of the Schwartz to further his ambitions.
September 1st, 2006 at 5:30 pmNot 1984 - Animal Farm:
Four legs good,
September 1st, 2006 at 5:46 pmTwo legs better.
I believe “stay the course” may have been mentioned more times than TP documents. Just my opine.
September 1st, 2006 at 5:49 pm#7 Excellent post, Trip.
September 1st, 2006 at 5:54 pmSo “coach” this your first day, or are you the same as before, but a new name?
September 1st, 2006 at 6:05 pmcoachjason
September 1st, 2006 at 6:05 pmYou punched in on the troll time clock two minutes early. I’m sure your boss will be proud of you.
My little iMac is not getting all the pictures, no matter this time, don’t want to see bull shit bush anyway….Their own word’s may come back and bite them on the ass, I can only hope. After year’s of listening to them say “Stay the course”, WMD, “Terrests” “I’m the decider” Bla, bla, bla, I sure hope we win from now on and the public wakes up…
Well I’ve been out in the world stirring up crap every where I go, pissed off a bunch of reich wingers (thast’s my job) and talked to a lot of great struggling middle class folk’s and encouraged some to go out and vote. They weren’t going to untill I told them about bush’s latest apointment to labor…Wala!
Informed a cute little boy (7 year old) he won the pee wee class with the 8lb bass he caught 2 week’s ago. His name is Lorenzo, his dad and I laughed a lot when I told him I bet he was a better fisherman than the president….Another diamond day….
Thank’s for the info on the radio station gang……Here’s to getting the word out and informing people in a kind gentle way, except the reich winger’s of course. LOL…. Blessings, pass them around..Peace for all the world….
September 1st, 2006 at 6:06 pmWill any of the trolls-with-blinkers have the courage to actually say “well, obviously they are flipflopping/lying” If the supporters of the Bush regime cannot even admit this kind of thing to themselves, they are not only living in denial, but proving how incapable they are of taking any real responsibility for anything. Oh yeah, it’s Clinton’s fault. Also Saddam. Maybe Bin Laden, but we can’t remember who that was.
September 1st, 2006 at 6:10 pm“The first duty of the propagandist is to subvert the meaning of words.”
September 1st, 2006 at 6:17 pm-Lenin
They paid for the marketing on that phrase. Can’t they just pull up the receipt.
September 1st, 2006 at 6:27 pm[…] The “Stay The Course” Medley […]
September 1st, 2006 at 6:35 pmI noticed some folks discuss their Macs from time to time. I would like to say, GOOD JOB, I switched from Windows to Mac 5 years ago. Just by using a Mac and telling others how good it is helps take power away from the corporate monopoly. (And anyway its a way better system, you get what you pay for).
September 1st, 2006 at 6:37 pmActually the truth is that Turdblossom finally figured out that for the first time in six years anybody listened to the fool and remembered what he said. Rover Boy then went to his Synonym Finder and figured that using the various synonyms for “Stay” (both verb and noun) and “Course” (both verb and noun) there were 143 to the 247th power (37.8 followed by a lot of aughts) of possible combinations such as “Inhabit the set of Dishes” and “Rib the Deportment.” After much consideration Rover Boy and Condom Rice decided that there was still too much danger in some High School Senior English Student figuring what the fool really meant so they pulled the “Stay” string to alter the “Course.”
Cling to the Carriage all the way to Leavenworth!
September 1st, 2006 at 6:41 pm“Stay the course” is a phrase that Bush Sr. used right up until he lost the election to Clinton. Bush Jr. brought it back to try to give it legitimacy. It means the same thing now as it did then: “I’m too stubborn to change.” Bush Jr. is running from it now that he can see that it’s doing the same thing to him as it did to his father.
September 1st, 2006 at 6:45 pmCan we call ’stay-the’course’ what it really is ‘lie-and-die?’
Bush the Divider (or why Rummy’s speech was all part of the plan)
September 1st, 2006 at 6:45 pmhttp://scootmandubious.blogspot.com/2006/09/bush-divider.html
Do they grow Podiums in Texas?
George was born In Connecticutt but he did want America to see the brush he had cleared away [background] on his many vacations.
September 1st, 2006 at 7:26 pm[…] This is quite funny. In a Washington Post story, this passage appears: While no Democrat has the powerful platform that the White House affords Bush and Cheney, the complaints about the mischaracterizing of positions on the war flow in both directions. Many Democrats accuse the president of advocating “stay the course” in Iraq, but the White House rejects the phrase and regularly emphasizes that it is adapting tactics to changing circumstances, such as moving more U.S. troops into Baghdad recently after a previous security strategy appeared to fail. […]
September 1st, 2006 at 7:36 pmBush hates us for our freedoms!
September 1st, 2006 at 7:42 pmbut, but, but ….the democrats made him say it.
mmmmm….maybe the bushliar-criminal regime’s endless spewing “stay the course” was all just a diabolicle unka karl twick to make democrats make false accusations…I mean true accusations…
oh, i’m so confused.
September 1st, 2006 at 7:59 pm.
They are staying the course, but the destination keeps moving!
September 1st, 2006 at 8:25 pmadapting tactics to changing circumstances,
What ever happened to intelligent design?
September 1st, 2006 at 8:42 pmIMPEACH GEORGE BUSH IMPEACH GEORGE BUSH IMPEACH GEORGE BUSH IMPEACH GEORGE BUSH
LET’S WORK TOGETHER TO CLEAN UP THIS MESS AND IMPEACH GEORGE BUSH
September 1st, 2006 at 8:44 pmi love it. someone please send a copy of this to Michael Moore. I can’t wait to see it in the second coming of fahrenheit 9/11.
September 1st, 2006 at 9:04 pmThe next “Fahrenheit 9-11″ should be clips of Republicans being Republicans. Olbermann, Colbert, and Stewart have made careers just showing clips of comics like Katherine Harris, Tom DeLay, Rumsfeld, and Bush. Every time these assholes open their mouths it’s pure comedy tinged with tragedy.
America is starting to have the great awaking to the bullshit the neocons have dropped on us. There is no freedom on the march, there is no democracy in the Middle East, there is only death, debt, and corruption. The GOP has nothing to offer voters in November. NOTHING. The GOP is in sad shape if their great hope is Joe Lieberman.
The Dems’ plan will be to fix the mess Bush and his neocon circus have visited on us.
September 1st, 2006 at 9:26 pmWhen lying liars aren’t even good at lying, then you know we’ve got a huge problem.
September 1st, 2006 at 9:29 pmjust a friendly reminder that our politicians never remember anything they say unless it is convinient to them
September 1st, 2006 at 9:45 pmtesting the filter
September 1st, 2006 at 9:55 pmWe shouild kill Islamic women and children, that way their culture dies out!
Comment by Scarface
Judd, you have shitty standards regarding your Delete button.
September 1st, 2006 at 9:55 pmThey lie straight out without hesitation and the challenges - if any - are dismissed.
September 1st, 2006 at 10:02 pmIt’s like they never said what they said a thousand times - we just heard it wrong!
I don’t hold out much hope that the next two months are going to get any better - in fact, I expect even worse.
They are so accustomed to lying and denying, and the press has been so acquiescent for so long, it’s all predictable.
Sharon cox
September 1st, 2006 at 10:05 pmSomewhere earlier you asked if I was from Washington, but I live in Illinois.
I was unable to get past thte TP filter (again) so I couldn’t answer before now.
I enjoy your posts - they’re so much to the point. Keep up the good fight.
So the Whitehouse has cut-and-run from staying the course?
September 1st, 2006 at 10:06 pmNothing but aliberal plot, he has never said stay the course. Forget what you see in the video, it’s all lies.
September 1st, 2006 at 10:08 pmAh same old pattern I see. The BushCo rapid supporters completely ignore the topic at hand. They admit to no wrong even when it’s played back to them on video. Instead they try to change the subject.
These people and their mindless blind unquestioning supports are severely lacking in integrity and testicular fortitude. A real man can admit to being in the wrong and apologising. People like this, evidently, can’t. Worse still they try to change the subject and blame others for something else. Like that’s real integrity and worth respecting.
The hilarious part is these same ones are the first ones to be critical and point fingers at anyone (especially Democrats) for even the slightest thing.
September 1st, 2006 at 10:14 pmHey check it out:
(note: the letter ‘S’ has a different value depending upon whether it’s used to form a hard or soft sound as in ‘bus’ or ‘bush’):
If you add up the name ‘George Bush’ in Hebrew letters it comes out:
* G = 3 (gimel)
September 1st, 2006 at 10:27 pm* e = 5 (heh)
* o = 70 (ayin)
* r = 200 (resh)
* g = 3 (gimel)
* e = 5 (heh)
* B = 2 (beth)
* u = 70 (ayin)
* s = 300 (shin)
* h = 8 (cheth)
* total = 666 (Antichrist)
==
Hey you Bush trolls LMAO, you been duped.
This is actually quite fascinating. The master at the three-word phrase cannot come up with a viable alternative. “Stay the course” becomes “adapting tactics to changing circumstances.” Not quite as catchy.
Some alternatives to “stay the course:”
Give Iraq back!
Armageddon out of Mesopotamia.
Boycott the War on Terror: Give a flower to a Muslim.
All humor aside, I really like the last one.
Think Peace. It couldn’t hurt, and it just might help.
September 1st, 2006 at 10:39 pmToday’s syndicated column by Helen Thomas should be required reading for Democrats and liberals. As she says “where is the opposition in the opposition party?” If the Democrats had an ounce of brains, they would label the Republican strategy of stay the course into “stay and die” and demand that the troops be withdrawn from Iraq as soon as possible. These pusillanimous Democrats are quaking in their shoes at the prospect that they will be labeled soft on terrorists, as if the 7 per cent of those outside forces who are currently fighting the U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq will somehow storm the shores of the United States if the U.S. were to actually use some common sense and leave Iraq. U.S. troops are being tossed into a meatgrinder in Iraq and the Democrats still cannot speak with one voice in making sure that all of them demand that the troops get out of Iraq safely, in one piece, instead of being bogged down in some elusive, ambiguous “noble cause.”
September 1st, 2006 at 10:42 pmI could not be more in disaggreance!!! Again a great liberal Media bias has cloaked a
good idea..into a massive fluster cluck!!!!
To think that…If we pull out we will be safe?!!!!
You are a hypocrite!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those brave men & women of our military can see what a difference it is making and reupping every chance they can.!…Respect yo !!!!!!
Apparently… You have bought into this mind set and have no respect of our military and thier resolve and knowlege.. (thier feelings)
Do you have annyone who you deeply care about serving in the region?
If you did most will tell you that it is a worthy cause and they are up to the challenge!
My Family and freinds are! And they are committed to save face and to save you!!!
Think about it!!!!
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:02 amI could not be more in disaggreance!!! Again a great liberal Media bias has cloaked a
good idea..into a massive fluster cluck!!!!
To think that…If we pull out we will be safe?!!!!
You are a hypocrite!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those brave men & women of our military can see what a difference it is making and reupping every chance they can.!…Respect yo !!!!!!
==
Many of my family has served. Stop thinking that you KNOW about people on a blind blog. It makes you look foolish to project your opinions as fact.
The liberal media thing has been debunked long ago and it does not hold true.
Those brave men and women are brave. But they were sent into
a war by an incompetent and misleading man.
I have respect for the troops, I do not have respect for a President that Lies.
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:20 amMy Family and freinds are! And they are committed to save face and to save you!!!
Think about it!!!!
Comment by High Tech Red Neck
I thought about it.
I am a religious person and I do not appreciate your wanting to Save me…. as long as you support a man such as bush and his insane wars, I wonder what God you speak of?
Jesus didn’t send you to war did he?
No Jesus did not.
Did God send you to war?
No. God did not.
You are not doing Gods work thru war.
Ergo YOU cannot save anyones ‘Face’ beacuse you are doing the devils work. The last person I want on this earth trying to save my ‘face’ is someone that think he is doing Gods work thur War.
My ‘face’ is perfectly safe. It’s yours I worry about Red Neck Tech
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:30 am#65, We HAVE thought about it.
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:30 amThe war was immoral and presented under false pretenses, by a group of self-centered individuals with no regard for those who would be fighting for their folly.
Perhaps you should think about it. Think about the commander in chief, who was AWOL when he was in the service; think about his family background (how his family got their fortune, and with whom they deal); think about how W never had a job he applied for - he was given business to run and he ran them all into the ground, except for the baseball team that he sold after he had the taxpayers pay for the new stadium that enriched the value of the team; think about the ignorance of this man who cannot speak coherently; think about the man who smeared and slimed two decorated war heroes in his determination to rise in politics; think about the troops who were sent into battle with inferior armor and equipment; think about the funds he has cut for veterans health care; think about the profits made on the lives of those soldiers by Halliburton and KBR; think about the deterioration of everything American in this country as we are being driven into bankruptcy by his reckless management.
Mo Do in “Much Ado About Reading†examines W’s reading habits.
September 2nd, 2006 at 3:44 amHelp Us Pass H Res 635 to Create an Investigation into Grounds for Impeachment
“When Richard Nixon abused power, Congress held a serious, bi-partisan investigation that resulted in articles of impeachment. Strong evidence suggests that George Bush and Dick Cheney launched an illegal war and lied to Congress, spied on Americans without court approval, leaked classified information, produced phony news reports, imprisoned without charge and tortured, targeted civilians and used illegal weapons. Ask your Congress Member to cosponsor House Resolution 635 for an investigation.
H.Res.635 would create a select committee to investigate the Administration’s intent to go to war before congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and countenancing torture, and retaliating against critics, and to make recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment.”
Continued: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/635
September 2nd, 2006 at 5:51 amSome alternatives to “stay the course:†Yo Blair!
September 2nd, 2006 at 6:08 amAs long as the U.S. is in Iraq, we are “staying the course”. And that course leads to a nuke falling on Tehran.
http://www.polibuzz.blogspot.com
September 2nd, 2006 at 8:07 amPolitical Buzz
it depends on what the meaning of “stay the course is”
September 2nd, 2006 at 8:18 am.
Lies, lies, and more damn lies! This whole 21st Century Republican Party is built upon lies. In fact I saw a few Republicans just the other day trying to buy a little bit of yellow cake from some Congo nationals. A while back I also witnessed WMDs (White Men Doingit) in Republican territory that caused them alarm. Today we are to believe no one wanted to “stay the course” in Iraq. Well, if such logic is to prevail, I will have to blame Bill Clinton for forcing us to invade Iraq in a “pre-emptive” strike just to prove to the world no one threatens his newly found friend, Pappy Bush.
What jabberwocky we face today!
Vote the Rascals Out in ‘06 and ‘08! -Kevo
September 2nd, 2006 at 9:30 amHaving failed miserably in Iraq , cuting and running out of excuses for our presence there , my cartesian logic tells me of the only fact left : building an attack on Iran . Well , may be ,if the the chiefs of staff do not resign first in mass or the whole majority here in the good ol’USA does not take to the street in protest.
September 2nd, 2006 at 9:52 amThey’re creating their own reality, again.
Dump all those “stay the course” clips down the memory whole.
September 2nd, 2006 at 10:40 amHow could you possibly draw the conclusion that anyone in power would plan to stay the course. I just don’t see it.
Yours truly
Every freakin republican on the planet
September 2nd, 2006 at 1:12 pmWell since Bush said our troops will never leave Iraq, as long as he is president, so it’s time to remove Bush from the presidency and to bring the troops home!
September 2nd, 2006 at 1:47 pmI don’t get it. What couse is he staying? The golf course? Bush only picks up a a weapon to skeet shoot on his ranch. Republicans kill me with the tuff talk but want someone else to do the work. My ancestors cleaned thier houses and tilled thier fields, now my brothers are fighting THIER war while they make all the money. Again, what f’n course is he or rummy or demon spawn rove staying on? The golf course. Sure as hell ain’t the battlefield. I’m glad all of these cats served so they can know the pain they have put our troops thru. Oh, they never did? Well, that explains it all.
September 2nd, 2006 at 3:59 pmAnd now they are saying they never said it? Can think progress e-mail them that clip?!?
September 2nd, 2006 at 4:13 pmAnd I might be wrong but I’m pretty sure you used the same “stay the course” line in his interview with Brian Williams this week.
September 2nd, 2006 at 4:45 pmGood post at #80.
September 2nd, 2006 at 4:59 pmHere’s the winning slogan for the Democrats: “Change the Course.“
September 2nd, 2006 at 6:54 pmYou know, I can just imagine these buffoons going like this:
Bush: “I am not shaking my head” (while shaking his head)
The rest of the neocrooks would all be doing the same, as would their rabid supporters. Kinda makes you wonder, why would any self respecting person with even a modicum of intelligence support them? I know the education system in the US is a bit of a let down, but surely there can’t be that many sheeple with single digit IQs?
September 2nd, 2006 at 10:23 pmRepublicans: I hate these people. We are dealing with the mentally insane and thier games.
September 2nd, 2006 at 11:08 pm85. My reasoning is it is mental illness at a massive scale that we must fight. If these people don’t have the brain compasity for us to reason with, then forget them, they all should be put in their place…and that is not along side us, as human beings, because obviously they have no idea what is going on at any level, so we should consider them a sub-human component of OUR existence, and made sure that they are treated as such: low-life sub-humans.
September 2nd, 2006 at 11:14 pmThey mean nothing, they are lower than dogs.
September 2nd, 2006 at 11:15 pmSee, doesn’t that sound right? Did it ring true? Yes it did.
September 2nd, 2006 at 11:16 pmI’m sorry, but that picture looks like Todd Lubner is speaking…to a nerd… Can’t take it seriously.
September 3rd, 2006 at 1:15 amIt came to me the other day after hearing the same old drum beat from the Bush camp et al…”the U.S. military won’t leave until the Iraqis can develop an adequate force to suppress the violence”…
September 4th, 2006 at 2:42 pmWhat Sadam had, under his undeniably brutal and oppressive regime, was a police state that forced order over rival and disparate elements which, for better or worse, kept this artificially cobbled together country from out and out civil war.
We invaded, imposed our military and the small coalition as the new military police. And now , 4 years later, we continue a frantic attempt to prop up an Iraqi military presence that can maintain order within it’s own country.
So one police state replaces another and another…?
The transparent and disastrous nature of this so called plan, is a exercise in entropy with no end in site.
[…] “The idea that somehow we’re staying the course is just wrong. It is absolutely wrong.” Tony Snow, 8/16/06: “The President is determined to stay the course.” It’s all caught on tape. 10:59 am | Comment (0) […]
September 6th, 2006 at 10:59 am[…] Recall this little video? Well, they’re still trying the same old stunt: Tony Snow yesterday: “The idea that somehow we’re staying the course is just wrong. It is absolutely wrong.†Tony Snow, 8/16/06: “The President is determined to stay the course.†It’s all caught on tape. […]
September 6th, 2006 at 11:32 am[…] Tony Snow yesterday: “The idea that somehow we’re staying the course is just wrong. It is absolutely wrong.†Tony Snow, 8/16/06: “The President is determined to stay the course.” […]
September 6th, 2006 at 11:39 am[…] From non anonymous Source Number One reporting on subject White House Press Agent Tony Snow: “The idea that somehow we’re staying the course is just wrong. It is absolutely wrong.†Tony Snow, 8/16/06: “The President is determined to stay the course.†It’s all caught on tape. […]
September 8th, 2006 at 11:16 am[…] Unfortunately, there is no evidence that the Bush administration has any plan to avoid the castastrophe that it itself says will happen if the U.S. withdraws, but is in fact happening now, right under our noses. Just as the administration repeats the same old talking points over and over, regardless of the reality on the ground, it is likewise apparently unable to change its military and diplomatic strategy in the face of changing circumstances. Even though the administration and its supporters bizarrely deny it, their only strategy is to “stay the course.” And no matter how you spin it, we, and the Iraqis, are on a direct course to disaster. Before it’s too late–if it’s not already too late–we have to chart a different course. Now. […]
September 11th, 2006 at 10:04 am[…] But as Tester pointed out, Bush doesn’t have a plan other than “stay the course.” Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) recently stated that Bush needs to “find a new strategy, a way out of Iraq” and 61 percent of the American public agreed that Bush has no clear plan for handling the situation in Iraq, according to a Sept. CNN/Gallup poll. […]
October 18th, 2006 at 5:00 pm[…] When I first read this, I was shocked that even a habitual liar like Mehlman would try a whopper like this one since everyone with ears knew that Republicans were saying the U.S. should “stay the course” in Iraq. Think Progress helpfully gathered a bunch of quotes of Republicans saying just that, and even put together a video montage of the Bush administration saying the same thing. […]
October 19th, 2006 at 1:23 pmFIRED!
October 22nd, 2006 at 11:51 am[…] First go here and watch the video. […]
October 22nd, 2006 at 6:11 pmPlease Stay the Course!!
Straight back to Texas.
October 23rd, 2006 at 10:18 pmMr BUSH… you dumb idiot…. THE SKY IS FALLING while you stay the course.. go back to your bunker and do the only thing HONORABLE thing your capable of EVER doing.. RESIGN. The American people have resigned from you and you have proved that you are a COMPLETE FAILURE~!
October 25th, 2006 at 8:33 pm