Conservatives not buying Bush’s escalation plan.
By on Jan 17th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Conservatives not buying Bush’s escalation plan.
“In what appears to be a Bush Administration effort to persuade skeptical Senate Republicans to support the president’s new Iraq strategy, several of them have been summoned to the White House for a meeting this morning with National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. The invited Republicans included Sens. Sam Brownback, George Voinovich, John Sununu, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins.”
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The best exchange came when Scott Pelley recited a litany of lies from the Bush administration about the Iraq war. Because polite people don’t call other people liars even when they are, Pelley used other language like “not been straight” and “not been honest.” But basically he challenged Bush on the lies about the Iraq war:
“You know better than I do that many Americans feel that your administration has not been straight with the country, has not been honest. To those people you say what?” Pelley asks.
“On what issue?” the president replies. “Like the weapons of mass destruction?”
“No weapons of mass destruction,” Pelley says.
“Yeah,” Bush says.
“No credible connection between 9/11 and Iraq,” Pelley says.
“Yeah,†the president replies.
“The Office of Management and Budget said this war would cost somewhere between $50 billion and $60 billion and now we’re over 400,†Pelley says.
“I gotcha. I gotcha. I gotcha,†Bush replies.
“The perception, Sir, more than any one of those points, is that the administration has not been straight with…,†Pelley says.
“Well, I strongly disagree with that, of course,†Bush says. “So I strongly reject that this administration hasn’t been straight with the American people. The minute we found out they didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, I was the first to say so.â€
So, yeah, yeah, yeah. He gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Bush basically admitted all his major arguments about Iraq were lies. Then, he lied again saying he hasn’t lied. In Bush world, just because something is a lie doesn’t make it a lie.
How can anyone believe anything the guy says?
January 17th, 2007 at 1:52 pmThe same conservatives had no problem with Bush’s augmentation plan.
January 17th, 2007 at 1:57 pmthis would be hilarious but for the decider being a “tweaker” ( someone under the influence of strong chemical reaction causing loss of control and reason)
isn’t it the public’s right to know what he is taking? it clearly isn’t working out well for him, and the public should know if he is on psychotropic and anti psychotic drugs. The war on drugs should be targeting this abuser to start. For he is clearly on drugs, and he has started 3 wars.
I call on you to resign Mr. Bush. You are not now, nor have you ever been competent to hold the position that you have been appointed to by your supreme court nominees or the secretary of state of Florida, or the governor of Florida. I request that you submit yourself to the justice department and divulge your plans for the destruction of the world, and the people that told you this would be a “good idea”
January 17th, 2007 at 2:04 pmI thought Chimp was for the surge regardless of what Congress thinks. I guess I’ll chalk this down as another flip-flop.
January 17th, 2007 at 2:07 pmThe stage is being set for ‘08.
The Repubs are going ‘on the record’ to say that they disagree with Chimpy, so in ‘08 they can say ‘hey, I did all I could’.
Since Chimpy doesn’t seem to actually need Congressional approval to do whatever he wants, there’s no danger in the Repubs disagreeing with him.
The tail of the glass lizard easily comes detached from the rest of the body, and twitches about with a horrific life of its own, distracting predators while the lizard quietly makes its escape.
Chimpy has become the tail of the neocon lizard.
January 17th, 2007 at 2:12 pmBush is calling them to the woodshed to try to force his brand of democracy on them, just like Iraq. I bet it will end up as chaotic and as much of a failure. I don’t think the Congressmen are going to take the meeting as anything but an insult and an attempt to make Bush’s decisions as more relevant than their opinions. Bush is going to be fighting “them” over there and “them” over here.
January 17th, 2007 at 2:15 pmWould like to be a fly on the wall for that meeting. I’ve often wondered what exactly Cheney & Co. do to get these guys to transform into subordinate automatrons.
Do they offer them a briefcase full of cash? Do they have compromising pictures of them? Do they use electric shock? Do they install a chip in their brain?
January 17th, 2007 at 2:18 pmThey are being called to the White House where they will be shown incriminating evidence against themselves by Karl Rove.
January 17th, 2007 at 2:40 pmThey will be shown the video of Saddam’s right hand men being hung with one of them having their head popped off their neck.
January 17th, 2007 at 2:43 pmHadley is a robot.
I object to this meeting as a waste of the Representatives’ time and a waste of taxpayer money.
January 17th, 2007 at 2:48 pm“If you guys don’t back my on this, I’m gonna fart up the room and make you all stay here.
January 17th, 2007 at 2:48 pmMaybe slightly off topic but I’m a little stressed about the new talk of not being able to stop Bush and his escalation. Constant chatter of nobody or nothing can stop Bush. 142 million registered voters for 2004(uscensus) election; US population of 281 million plus. That, my web savvy friends is ALOT of stopping power. So attention corporate sponsored spin doctors, journalistic challenged media, politicians without spines, THERE is a way to defeat corrupt, sleazy, agenda ridden politicians. This whining and spinning about not being able to stop Bush better cease and turn to action or HOPE not to get the undivided attention of 150 million plus AMERICANS.
January 17th, 2007 at 2:54 pmHEY! …what about the REST of the story?:
Senators Offer Anti-War Resolution
Nonbinding Measure Declares Bush Troop Increase “Is Not In The National Interest”
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, 2007
(CBS/AP) A group of senators that includes a prominent Republican war critic announced agreement Wednesday on a resolution opposing President Bush’s 21,500-troop buildup in Iraq, laying the groundwork for a major clash between the White House and Congress over the war.
The resolution, which was also gaining interest from a second key Republican, would put the Senate on record as saying the U.S. commitment in Iraq “can only be sustained” with popular support among the American public and in Congress.
“I will do everything I can to stop the president’s policy as he outlined it Wednesday night,” said Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican and potential 2008 presidential candidate who joined Democrats at a news conference on the resolution.
The resolution will be cosponsored by Sens. Carl Levin and Joseph Biden, as well as Hagel. Levin, D-Mich., chairs the Armed Services Committee, and Biden, D-Del., heads the Foreign Relations Committee.
January 17th, 2007 at 4:02 pm[...]
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/17/politics/main2368411.shtml
Better check these clowns out real carefully on their way out from the meeting.
January 17th, 2007 at 4:03 pmImplants?
Dubya’s henchmen probably used the NSA spying program to dig up dirt on members of congress and will blackmail them in return for support for Dubya. I bet this happened when McCain and Graham caved into Dubya on torture. This folks… is the real reason for the NSA spying program on Americans.
January 17th, 2007 at 6:24 pm