Bush’s problem with DC: ‘Too many philosophers.’
By on Oct 30th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Bush’s problem with DC: ‘Too many philosophers.’
At a rally in Georgia today, President Bush bragged about having “acted” on his conservative “philosophy” by cutting taxes for the wealthy. “In other words, we just didn’t talk about philosophy,” Bush said. “There’s too many philosophers in Washington.“
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For more on Bush’s tax cutting philosophy, see:
October 30th, 2006 at 4:49 pm“Cheater-in-Chief: Bush as the MBA President.”
etimology of philosophy: philso=love + spohia=wisdom
philosopher = lover of wisdom
That Bush thinks philosophy is a bad thing tells you plenty about his mental outlook, now doesn’t it??
October 30th, 2006 at 4:49 pmThinkin’ is BAdd…….
October 30th, 2006 at 4:52 pmWe got too many people who wanna think about stuff in Washington there George? Figures.
October 30th, 2006 at 4:53 pmDid he happen to mention “too many liars and crooks” as well? He left out the most important Truth about DC and his own administration.
October 30th, 2006 at 4:55 pmKeep talking George, you’re motivating the base… OURS!
October 30th, 2006 at 4:55 pmBesides, he wouldn’t know a thing about philosophy anyway unless he read it in My Pet Goat, would he?
October 30th, 2006 at 4:56 pmBush is willing to subscribe to “I Think, Therefore I Am” as long as the first part is left out.
October 30th, 2006 at 4:59 pm-deciders and philosphers don’t mix
October 30th, 2006 at 5:00 pmMORON!!! There, I said it, I feel better….Why would most of the po’ Georgia folk support W., or the other GOP shills running for office. ” I lowered taxes for the wealthy.” is somthing that makes average folk want to vote for you??? Noooo, I think that in the end the “SOUTHERN” strategy of regarless of what else you do, we know you is against giving OUR stuff away to DARK people and the folk who like them; thats enough to garner votes in the GOP base. (GAYS, MUSLIMS, JEWS, WOMEN fall into the “dark people” category). There can be NO other reason they would vote for these Rethuglicans.
This is why traditional Republicans and moderate Republicans cannot be heard. They just did not appeal to the BASE instincts in the GOP BASE!
LORD help us, VOTE on NOVEMBER 7!!!
October 30th, 2006 at 5:00 pm“In other words, we just didn’t talk about philosophy,†Bush said
Or the National Debt. Or no bid contracts. Or WMDs. Or dead soldiers. It appears they don’t talk about much of anything, really.
Why should philosophy be any different? I mean, why talk about something you can’t even spell?
October 30th, 2006 at 5:00 pmWTF?
The unfunded future liabilities of the federal government was $20 trillion in 2000. After four years of Bush Republicanism, it is $43 trillion. Heckuva Job, W.
Tax cuts during times of deficits aren’t tax cuts at ALL – they are merely tax deferments to future generations.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:02 pmBush’s essay: “There’s too many philosophers in Washington.“
Teacher’s correction: “There are too many philosophers in Washington.” or “There’s too much philosophical talk in Washington.”
Progressive politician’s correction: There’s a lack of intellectual curiosity in the Bush administration.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:03 pmDescartes: To do is to be.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:03 pmSartre: To be is to do.
Shrub: Screw you boobs.
This guy is incredible. He will be laughing ass for the next decade.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:04 pmComment by shmo
Ha ha ha!
October 30th, 2006 at 5:04 pmTexas Juice
Wow, what a great bit of political philosophy there – the neocons appeal to the “base” instincts of their “base”. Excellent summary of the immorality of the neocons.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:06 pmYa see, there’s too many peoples out there a-doin’ that there thinkin’ stuff.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:11 pmBush is terrified of people who think!
October 30th, 2006 at 5:11 pmProgressive politician’s correction: There’s a lack of intellectual curiosity in the Bush administration.
Comment by PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC)
Well said, PLC.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:12 pmHey Dubya, how is that democracy in the Middle East theory working out? I think you refer to it as your “Freedom Agenda.”
October 30th, 2006 at 5:12 pm“Too many philosophers” –
Or not enough.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:13 pmThis speech is disgusting. Nothign more than a bunch of lies and he’s got his audience chanting like a bunch of deranged cultists.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:15 pmOh, like Rumsfeld who theorized the Iraq war, or Richard Perle, or Paul Wolfowitz, or the dildo factory that is A.E.I.
Good God George, put the whiskey down, increase your anti-psychotic meds and take a vacation for the next two years.
-GSD
October 30th, 2006 at 5:15 pmOnly a Republican would call swindling people in the name of patriotism a “philosophy.”
October 30th, 2006 at 5:15 pmBush said. “There’s too many philosophers in Washington.“ Not enough warmongers. We took care of that. hehehehehe.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:16 pmWhether or not there may be too many philosophers in Washington is debatable. The fact that there is one too many Bushes is not. Trim the shrub–click here.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:20 pmOkay, where is the factual backup for this ridiculous line in the speech (part of that whole stupidity of getting the audience to keep saying, “Just say no”? He said “When it comes to trying the terrorists, what’s the Democrats’ answer?”, to which the audience shouted “Just say no!”
Where does he come off lying like that? Where have Democrats come out and said that we shouldn’t give these prisoners a trial at all. As I, and everyone with an IQ in the three-digit range who was paying attention then, recall, it was the Republicans, and the Bush Administration in particular, that opposed giving the terrorists any trials. So where is he getting this bullshit? What did he mean by that line? MSM, please follow up.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:23 pmBush is nothing short of a blithering idiot. I just can’t understand how someone’s goal in life is to be a simpleton.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:29 pmDescartes: To do is to be.
Sartre: To be is to do.
Shrub: Screw you boobs.
Comment by shmo — October 30, 2006 @ 5:03 pm
aaw… i hadn’t thought of that one in years…
October 30th, 2006 at 5:32 pmi once got a framed poster for my music playing dad that was a variation of that:
Descartes: To do is to be.
Sartre: To be is to do.
Sinatra: Do be do be do…
Yeah, wouldn’t want any of these things happeneing in Washington.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:42 pmkaty…
Pretty much the inspiration. It’s a classic example of graffiti.
Ask your dad to keep it down….
October 30th, 2006 at 5:45 pmThis comment comes from the same person who declared that he nakes most, if not all, of his decisions, “from the gut.” It is doubtful if Washington D.C. has ever seen a president who is so fearful of intellectual thought. Bush would rather have a photographer snap a picture of him with a chainsaw in his hand instead of holding a pair of reading glasses or lattempting to read from something called a book. Yale graduate indeed.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:02 pm“Just say no” = Sieg Heil!
October 30th, 2006 at 6:13 pm“Just say no”, huh, and whose administration did he borrow that one from.
Oh well, he is doing only what he’s capable of, cheerleading…..
Blindly ranting and chanting at the pep rally for a team of losers who are really really bad sports that know they are out of the running.
And, he sure was sounding kinda philosophical at the end, talking about the brave fighter pilot who fought the enemy (whose son was on the same plane with him).
The fighter pilot who turned out to be Daddy.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:15 pmYeah, those founding fathers. They just read that philosophy and thought too much. They put all those checks and balances in Shrub’s way.
Vote, people!! Put those checks and balances in action!!!!
October 30th, 2006 at 6:15 pmIn other words, he doesn’t THINK first,he just acts on what ever Karl and Dick tell him to do….and to hell with Phil Losifers, who ever he is.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:23 pmIf only we could all be “Deciders”!
October 30th, 2006 at 6:27 pm“Philosophers” suck!
“Deciders” rule!
He doesn’t like any philosophy other than nazi.
Somethingthat may have slipped by TP and alot here.
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In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President’s ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions.
Public Law 109-364, or the “John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007″ (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a “public emergency” and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to “suppress public disorder.”
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This one was snuck in under the radar, they don’t want you to know, MSN has avoided it like the plague.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:38 pmOh hell, and I thought the problem was there weren’t enough uncurious idiots!
October 30th, 2006 at 6:38 pmAs Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Is it any wonder a mouth breathing troglodyte like Bush hates philosophers?
The real problem is too many dittoheads!
October 30th, 2006 at 6:41 pmno surprise here… Bush isn’t big on them thinkin’ folk…
October 30th, 2006 at 6:44 pmallows the President to declare a “public emergency†and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to “suppress public disorder.â€
Comment by Wayne — October 30, 2006 @ 6:38 pm
And people think we’re irrational when we liken the man to Hitler… Each day it becomes more and more obvious that we are living in the same footsteps of Pre-Holocaustic Germany.
This makes me sick. Thanks for posting it.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:55 pmAsk your dad to keep it down….
Comment by shmo — October 30, 2006 @ 5:45 pm
heh… that got a chuckle out of me…
October 30th, 2006 at 6:58 pmnot to bum you, but my “aaaw” was because my dad passed away and the “graffiti” reminded me of a favorite thing – watching him play the organ and piano at the same time…
it’s all good! thanks…
From the link:
“It has become clear in recent months that a critical mass of the American people have seen through the lies of the Bush administration; with the president’s polls at an historic low, growing resistance to the war Iraq, and the Democrats likely to take back the Congress in mid-term elections, the Bush administration is on the ropes. And so it is particularly worrying that President Bush has seen fit, at this juncture to, in effect, declare himself dictator.”
I just sent this article to everyone I know. I recommend everyone else do the same.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:00 pmI just sent this article to everyone I know. I recommend everyone else do the same.
Comment by unbelievable
Thanks, I have been letting everyone I know hear about this one also.
And we thought the Military Commissions Act of 2006 by itself was bad? Just think of both acts used together, to suppress the US population. **shudder**
October 30th, 2006 at 7:08 pmThat is a Marixian comment by Bush. Marx said, ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.’ Bush is at what extreme and Marx at another but both are dangerous zealots.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:09 pmThe next president better order a case of ‘UN-DO’ rubber stamps ever ordered. First order should be : ‘All bush & admin. people will not be allowed to leave the country until further notice’.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:21 pmBush’s Marxist sentiments shouldn’t be surprising. Cheney and Rummy’s neocon mentors were, in fact, former Trotskyites.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:25 pmAqua…Blindly ranting and chanting at the pep rally for a team of losers who are really really bad sports that know they are out of the running.
The Great Destroyer is leading the pep rally alright. He destroys everything he touches including destroying the GOP
October 30th, 2006 at 7:27 pmThanks, I have been letting everyone I know hear about this one also.
I tried to email it to Wolf Blitzer, but it wouldn’t go through…
You should post it in other places as well. It’s too important to let it be ignored.
And we thought the Military Commissions Act of 2006 by itself was bad? Just think of both acts used together, to suppress the US population. **shudder**
Comment by Wayne — October 30, 2006 @ 7:08 pm
I’m far from paranoid, but I’m not going to sleep well on November 6th. The Soviets installed their barricade around Eastern Germany in the middle of the night while the Germans slept. 1941. How quickly we have forgotten.
I almost can’t believe this is real…
October 30th, 2006 at 7:30 pmFirst order should be : ‘All bush & admin. people will not be allowed to leave the country until further notice’.
Comment by wisedup
Someone, cant find the link atm, was saying Bush has purchased land in Paraguay, same country that will no extradite nazis that fled to there. Coincidence?
October 30th, 2006 at 7:50 pmWayne, if you Google on Bush AND Paraguay, you will get lots of info on this strange story. It’s hard to believe, but Bush and his people could be preparing for the possibility of living in south america under political asylum — just like a former Nazi or something.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:59 pmthere’s too many philosophers in Washington
::sigh::
I am not sure there are too many philosophers in Washington -if any at all. I can tell, however, there are too few grammarians…
October 30th, 2006 at 8:07 pmat Unknowncountry.com search Paraguay and the story will come up, click on it and then click on more info. plenglish.com has an article.
- Interesting that the land was bought in Jenna ’s name
October 30th, 2006 at 8:09 pm-many mid-easterners have been reported in Paraguay as of late,staging area?
“Terrorists Attack In November” according to Karl Rove at a speech in NY,oops, on youtube.com
October 30th, 2006 at 8:47 pmI’m far from paranoid, but I’m not going to sleep well on November 6th.
Comment by unbelievable
Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean they are not out to get you =)
October 30th, 2006 at 8:53 pmWayne,
It turns out that story is true, but it is about George H W Bush.
But, that doesn’t change how scary the article is. Remember “new world order” I know I do.
October 30th, 2006 at 8:55 pmOne Camus and three Shakespeares
October 30th, 2006 at 10:02 pmJust because you are paranoid doesn’t mean they are not out to get you =)
Comment by Wayne — October 30, 2006 @ 8:53 pm
: )
October 30th, 2006 at 10:28 pmComment by Bluedog49
I dont know if this is related with what you say but there is an increase of military staff in a region where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil have a common border. The Triple Frontier is called. More
October 30th, 2006 at 11:01 pmThere are too many Bushes in Washington!
October 30th, 2006 at 11:26 pm“Thinking for Dummies”, by George W. Bush
October 31st, 2006 at 1:16 am[...] Bush s problem with DC: Too many philosophers. Think Progress, DC - 9 hours agoAt a rally in Georgia today, President Bush bragged about having acted on his conservative philosophy by cutting taxes for the wealthy. … [...]
October 31st, 2006 at 2:11 am