Comments on: Bush Consistently Played Politics During 109th Congress

By: Politics: 2008 HQ » Blog Archive » Obama Is In… Now Is California Ready?

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:55:55 +0000

[...] of playing politics with everything from climate change to Iraq… To all the nonsense over flags and queers and Terri Schiavo. Perhaps, we are ready for someone who will move us beyond the old political games of the past and [...]

By: Johnny Destroyer

Johnny Destroyer — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:59:11 +0000

I think ALL of the INCUMBANTS are very happy…

We’re sitting here, talking about Schiavo, instead of Rumsfeld’s KBR favoritism…

lets not forget WMD, Bin Laden, Social Security (its gone, and no I havnt been contacted about a “private Account”)

Bush is….A LIBERAL…with nothing but a pre-emptive failure of a war, along with a failed massive national school initiative that allows faculty to prescribe psycotrophic drugs to the youth..

He also championed an ineffective tax cut that allows the Carlyles, Rotheschilds, and Rupert Murdoch’s of the world to use an over-inflated dollar to monopolize American Media, Energy, and, strangely enough, Paper…yes paper.

By: Plunderbund » Bush to Dems: don’t play politics with the 110th Congress

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:33:11 +0000

[...] HT: Think Progress. [...]

By: BlueArkansas

BlueArkansas — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:13:08 +0000

The real treasure from that laughable op-ed is found at the “Reader Responses” link on the top of the WSJ page. With one exception, the comments are so nauseatingly sycophantic that they bear strong resemblance to those found at Tom DeLay’s ghost-blog. Gag!

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:43:47 +0000

Why do I get the feeling Karl Rove is still pulling the executive strings?!

By: Krazny

Krazny — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:23:10 +0000

I think it is more the worry that he is going to be dragged out of the whitehouse in handcuffs, and the knowledge that Jimmy Baker won’t be able to help.

By: ForTruth

ForTruth — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:14:54 +0000

GWB has got the ol’ perma-pursed lips of so many of the GOPers. It looks like guilt to me.

By: Krazny

Krazny — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:15:18 +0000

LOL not really, the republicans consistantly brought up gay marriage, Flag burning, and even wrote a memo on Terry Schiavo, to do nothing more then energize their flaggin base. I am unsure how the Dems saying, gee maybe we shouldn’t get involved in this stuff, and well it isn’t our business, after being forced by the republicans to take a stand on the non-issue is the dems playing politics. That is playing politics. Your inane hyperbole doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. PS the dems did play politics with the Iraq war, and look what they won.

got any new dead baby jokes? I am really curious you screwed up hag.

By: mighty aphrodite

mighty aphrodite — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:07:43 +0000

Dear Krazny – Please show me WHERE I said Dems brought up homosexual marriage, flag burning or Terry Schiavo. I said they “played politics”, which they did…..Case closed.

By: Krazny

Krazny — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:06:57 +0000

Chris,

I would say given what has happened since 2000, that the supreme court hasn’t changed, rather they would be more willing to grant a republican president the line item veto over a dem president. It becomes a partisan issue, rather then what is actually constitutional or not.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:02:24 +0000

I noticed that one of the main things Bush is asking for is line item veto power. A small measure of this was granted temporarily to Clinton before the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. Has the Supreme Court changed so much in the last ten years that Bush thinks he can hold it now? I am always very cautious about granting the office of the president any extra power. Realize that this power will extend to the next president whether it is McCain, Hillary, or whoever, and the president after that, and so on.

By: Krazny

Krazny — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:36:17 +0000

The Dems didn’t bring any of those issues to the table MA, they were however forced to maintain a level head during all the hyperbole.

PS still waiting on your next dead baby joke.

By: mighty aphrodite

mighty aphrodite — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:29:01 +0000

So let me get this right, Nico. The Dems opposition to homosexual marriage, flag burning and pulling the plug on Terry Schiavo WAS NOT “playing politics”???? Prog hypocrisy is sooo precious…..

By: Jaded Prole

Jaded Prole — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:38:55 +0000

It’s all diversion so they can push a policy that no-one sane would support — and it works. It works because they know how to play opportunist Dims. They give the heinous legislation patriotic sounding names and push it through at prime moments. The Dims vote for it because it is “good politics” even if it is bad policy. The repugs call the tune and define the terms, the Dims dance . . .

By: Kid Clu

Kid Clu — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:23:49 +0000

I guess this means Bush will put a big X on any bill that would require that future president’s pass a psychiatric evaluation before he/she can assume office.

By: robert

robert — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:00:44 +0000

katy, I’m not whining, just pointing out the pot/kettle equation.

As you said, we shall see what happens.

By: Zooey

Zooey — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:58:34 +0000

At the bottom of yesterdayÂ´s thinkfast thread.
Comment by Juan C

Thanks, Juan. I’ll find out what I can.

By: katy

katy — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:54:58 +0000

robert – i never thought you were making stuff up… just very disappointed that you were whining about it… you know what the repugs have done these past years, evidently with no thought of “what goes around comes around”…

but since you asked so nice and desperately (heh), ok, i won’t give up on you… yet… ;-)

this from your link (and thanks for that):
“It’s in the nature of the House of Representatives for the majority party to be dominant and control the agenda and limit as much as possible the influence of the minority,” said Ross K. Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University. “It’s almost counter to the essence of the place for the majority and minority to share responsibility for legislation.”

In the Senate, by contrast, the Democrats will have less control over business because of their razor-thin 51-to-49-seat margin and because individual senators wield substantial power. Senate Democrats will allow Republicans to make amendments to all their initiatives, starting with the first measure — ethics and lobbying reform, said Jim Manley, spokesman for the incoming majority leader, Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.).
[...]
Democrats acknowledge that if they appear too extreme in blocking the opposing party, their party is sure to come under fire from the Republicans, who are already charging they are being left out of the legislative process.

â€˜An iron handâ€™
“If you’re talking about 100 hours, you’re talking about no obstruction whatsoever, no amendments offered other than those approved by the majority,” said Rutgers’s Baker. “I would like to think after 100 hours are over, the Democrats will adhere to their promise to make the system a little more equitable. But experience tells me it’s really going to be casting against type.”

so, we’ll see… they know they’ve got 2 years… and, they know we are watching them… the dems are much more attuned to the PEOPLE’s wishes and business…

By: impeachcheneythenbush

impeachcheneythenbush — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:36:03 +0000

Your side had the ball for 6 years and we can hardly recognize the playing field.

Comment by hellinabucket â€” January 3, 2007 @ 2:33 pm
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Correction: Twelve years (since 1994).

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:34:32 +0000

And, there is NO way the moron WROTE that op-ed. He merely signed off on it.