“Because I told them it had to.”
By on Jan 25th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
“Because I told them it had to.”
“He’s tried this two times — it’s failed twice,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says of President Bush’s escalation plan. “I asked him at the White House, ‘Mr. President, why do you think this time it’s going to work?’ And he said, ‘Because I told them it had to.‘” Pelosi reportedly then asked, “Why didn’t you tell them that the other two times?“
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And he said, ‘Because I told them it had to.‘†Pelosi reportedly then asked, “Why didn’t you tell them that the other two times?“
ROTFL!
Priceless!
January 25th, 2007 at 9:41 pmAnd he said, ‘Because I told them it had to.‘†Pelosi reportedly then asked, “Why didn’t you tell them that the other two times?“
And then Nancy gave Georgie cookies and milk for snacktime…
Sounds like Nancy was having a conversation with a 7 year old.
January 25th, 2007 at 9:43 pmYeah – “make it so” ALWAYS worked for me.
January 25th, 2007 at 9:43 pmexcalation?
January 25th, 2007 at 9:45 pmHow many people have died or been mamed in this war? For this? Can someone explain to me why impeachement hearings haven’t begun yet?
January 25th, 2007 at 9:47 pmThe first sign of insanity is expecting different results from the same action. If at first you don’t succeed, quit. Don’t make a bush out of yourself.
January 25th, 2007 at 9:47 pmCaptain P, I beg to differ – “Abracadabra” – that’s the one… never fails.
January 25th, 2007 at 9:48 pmGrammer Nerd
It’s like escalation mixed with laxatives…It’s gonna burn regardless.
January 25th, 2007 at 9:51 pmcomment deleted
January 25th, 2007 at 9:52 pmHah, amusing.
Too bad that we’re all musing over this while our best and bravest are fighting some mindless war.
We miss our heroes. Bring them back.
January 25th, 2007 at 9:53 pm3 strikes, you’re out.
Remember when you were a kid playing ball and you could foul as many times as you like to keep the game fair?
Swing batta batta swing…………
The stench of juvenile in this administration is overwhelming. But I bet the EPA says it’ fine to inhale……
Pananoia striks deep
January 25th, 2007 at 9:56 pmWe miss our heroes. Bring them back.
Comment by Xbot
Ouch. Sorry, Xbot.
January 25th, 2007 at 9:56 pmstupid trolls
January 25th, 2007 at 9:57 pm#2 zooey,
That’s exactly what I was thinking. She sounds like Mom, and he sounds like a kid who screwed up.
Of course, we always said Georgie is the boy-king.
What an embarrassment. No, embarrassment isn’t enough to describe how his reckless stubbornness has screwed up everything.
January 25th, 2007 at 9:59 pmXbot
They’ll never really be gone, as long as we stand up for them. I know it’s not much, but it’s all we got.
January 25th, 2007 at 9:59 pmAssuming this story is true, it illustrates the terrifying disconnect with reality that the Leader of the Free World suffers from. Chimpy and reality are simply not on speaking terms.
Pathetic and sad, until you realize that this is the guy that has his finger on The Button…
January 25th, 2007 at 10:01 pmHey TP, I thought you had promised to do something about the trolls…
January 25th, 2007 at 10:02 pmmeekly show people she is getting tough
Only a moron troll could come up with that one. How about aggressively submit ?
January 25th, 2007 at 10:02 pmBack home you meant, I guess, but my comment still stands.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:02 pmWhat an embarrassment. No, embarrassment isn’t enough to describe how his reckless stubbornness has screwed up everything.
Comment by Marie
Cringing bloody horror?
January 25th, 2007 at 10:05 pmTripMasterMonkey
Here is the link for finding events if you can’t make it to DC Sat.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=272143985&url_num=4&url=http://www.unitedforpeace.org/calendar.php
January 25th, 2007 at 10:07 pmhttp://www.fcnl.org/iraq/jan2907call.htm
Or this, possibly the same
January 25th, 2007 at 10:08 pmThanks, SouthPaw…I appreciate it.
Unfortunately, I have to work on Saturday, and I wouldn’t be able to afford to go to D.C. in any case, but I hope to attend future protests, as well as the local ones here.
I’ll keep an eye on how you guys are doing Saturday, and let everyone I see know that there’s a huge protest going on in D.C., since they certainly won’t be hearing about it from the corporate media…
January 25th, 2007 at 10:14 pmHave any of you ever used the Internet? Have any of you ever had popups? Ever had porn pop ups go crazy on your PC?
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/01/substitute_teacher_faces_jail.html?nav=rss_blog
January 25th, 2007 at 10:15 pmTtripMasterMonkey
Spread theword, be active where you can.
It makes a difference.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:22 pmummm 24? There was a pop-up with that link!
January 25th, 2007 at 10:23 pmThere was a pop-up with that link!
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
What kind of pop-up? :)
January 25th, 2007 at 10:34 pmWell maybe you should have a popup blocker installed !! )
I am running Vista so I didnt get a popup … but it is washington post so I doubt it was porn…
January 25th, 2007 at 10:38 pmPelosi needs to wise up and realize that Bush is a pathological liar! Nothing he tells her is true, so she must call for Dubya to resign or to be impeached!
January 25th, 2007 at 10:40 pm….that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Something to think about.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:44 pmWhat kind of pop-up? :)
Comment by Zooey
A poptart like you ditzy duncey. That`s what they call dufus`s like yourself who popup into threads to say stupid things that are way off topic like yours is now, hence and I quote:
What kind of pop-up? :)
Comment by Zooey
January 25, 2007 @ 10:34 pm
Get back on topic little anklebiter.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:45 pmIt’s starting to sound like Bush, imitating John Stewart.
It’s gonna work this time, because I told the gen’rals it has to work this time. heh. I didn’t tell them before because no one could have anticipated it wouldn’t work …before…twice. heh. heh.
But it’ll work this time. Because I told the gen’rals it has to work. And I’m the Decider. So when I decide it’s gonna work, it’s gonna work. And I decided. It’s gonna work. It has to work, or my legacy’s gonna be screwed.
oops…did I just say that?
If it doesn’t work, I’ll convene another study group…bye-partisan…with McCain and Lieburman… and then I’ll send in more troops…maybe 40,000 the next time…either that, or I’ll attack Granada…that worked for Reagan…I haven’t decided yet.
Somebody close that door…I feel a draft…..
January 25th, 2007 at 10:47 pmNo. I think he said Pop-tart….maybe wrong?
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:49 pmComment by Joanie Doe — January 25, 2007 @ 10:45 pm
TAKE YOUR OWN ADVISE, JOANIE.
It seems like all you do is post crap and deride other posters.
The message from the Universe to you is: Othel:Family:Reversed. Take heed.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:50 pmIs Bush stealing Steve Colbert’s act?
-GSD
January 25th, 2007 at 10:51 pmIt will be successful because I told them it had to. What a freakin’ classic comment…. It will be a success because I said it HAD to be. This gang of scumbags feel if you wish it, it will be so.
Go back to OZ, you immoral chickenhawk scumbags!!!
January 25th, 2007 at 10:52 pmGet back on topic little anklebiter.
Comment by Joanie Doe
You first, asshole.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:52 pmAnd what did god say about all this, huh?
January 25th, 2007 at 10:53 pmOff topic, but I wanted to put this on the top thread:
Ray gun makes targets feel like they’re on fire
U.S. military interested in weapon that emits 130-degree, non-lethal beam
Jan. 25: Alicia Eakin of WALB reports.
NBC News Channel
Updated: 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
Just in time for Saturday’s anti-war ralley?
January 25th, 2007 at 10:57 pmJoanie’s not Joanie….thats Rachel the troll.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:57 pm“Dickie (Cheney)! The nasty woman made fun of me, waaaaaaaaa!!!!”
January 25th, 2007 at 10:58 pmComment by RUCerious — January 25, 2007 @ 10:53 pm
FEOH: Reversed
Indicates a failure or loss if the course currently embarked upon continues.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:59 pmJust in time for Saturday’s anti-war ralley?
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
Good god…
January 25th, 2007 at 11:01 pmJoanie’s not Joanie….thats Rachel the troll.
Comment by JTitor
Ya think!? :-D
January 25th, 2007 at 11:01 pmRay gun makes targets feel like they’re on fire
U.S. military interested in weapon that emits 130-degree, non-lethal beam
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
You can see it on google video…BnF
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5127581994625171688&q=Active+Denial+System&hl=en
January 25th, 2007 at 11:08 pmI was being funny Zooey….minds slow tonight. Long day at work.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:10 pm“Because I told them it had to.â€
Pelosi is an old woman. She still knows where a womans place truly is. This is why when Bush speaks, she, like a well trained lady of older traditions, jumps to attention and asks him practically
” how high sir? ” Just like any other good ” old fashioned ” lady would do.
It is your generation of late 1960s burned out hippies who decided to have children and name their children after pastures,streams,tress,etc. that is responsible for the irresponsibility of todays society.
And the democrats have swooped in on this golden oppurtunity to grab blocks of voters.
Perhaps in the next generation we may have a lady President. America is not ready for one just yet, and personally I believe it will never happen on Americahn soil.
You progressives surely cannot expect a WHOLE nation to cowtow to your free flowing whims on abortion, gay rights, taxes, etc. etc.
Just because it is what you would like to see, does not mean the MAJORITY wants it too.
You are a MINORITY in this country, you progressives are. Please do not fill your britches with more poop than you yourself can cleanup.
You are not even the most popular blog as I was reading in this very blog just this last week.
When a man tells a woman to do something she is expected to do it. That is what the MAJORITY says in this country, it does not matter what political affiliation the parties are associated with, it is a given in our culture that when a man says something to a woman, she listens and does what she is told.
As it should be.
I am glad I got the oppurtunity to right that sinking ship with you people.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:12 pmNow Bush on the record saying he will succeed this time, but if he has been listening to Cheney’s interviews on many television stations lately, he will discover that”We are already succeeded”.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:13 pmI was being funny Zooey….minds slow tonight. Long day at work.
Comment by JTitor
Sorry. Long day at school…
January 25th, 2007 at 11:14 pmSpeaking of Saturday’s anti-war rally, remind me to bombard all of the MSM outlets with urgent pleas to treat this rally like it’s an actual news story (thinking A section) and not just a Fun Fact to hide somewhere near the comics section.
Also, if the Park Police are the best judge of crowd size, that’s who the MSM should ask for an estimate.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:15 pmOff topic
Developers of a new gel inspired by sea urchins and Venus flytraps say the material—which straightens silicon columns at the touch of moisture and leaves them limp as it dries—may one day be used to make water-repellant clothes and microscopic plumbing systems
January 25th, 2007 at 11:15 pmMy dad used to correct me when I said two times.
TWICE he would say!
January 25th, 2007 at 11:18 pmvinnie/rachel/angie,
It’s always the same stuff. Never an intelligent argument. Just name-calling. You accomplish nothing, persuade nobody. Why bother?
January 25th, 2007 at 11:20 pmleaves them limp as it dries
Comment by Zep Tepi
Thats what Misses Bush’s said.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:22 pmmay one day be used to make water-repellant clothes and microscopic plumbing systems
Comment by Zep Tepi
Why?
January 25th, 2007 at 11:22 pmThat new Pentagon ray gun is not in operation yet, so it cannot be used on protestors this coming Saturday in DC, but someday it might be turned on American public.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:23 pmMicrowave gun they should call it, because it blasts microwave beams at you. Actually if the beam is on you for more than a couple seconds, then it could burn your skin or blind you too > cook your eyeballs.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:30 pmHave any of you ever used the Internet? Have any of you ever had popups? Ever had porn pop ups go crazy on your PC?
Spybots or Ad-Aware may help that problem. BHO’s (browser helper objects) aka spyware are notorius. I suggest using Firefox (free browser mozilla.org) and blocking them. Perhaps disabling Active X (IEeplorer) as well. If you visit a porn site you can pretty much expect porn pop ups. =0)
January 25th, 2007 at 11:34 pmmay one day be used to make water-repellant clothes and microscopic plumbing systems
Comment by Zep Tepi
Why?
Comment by Zooey
Chemical weapons etc..
January 25th, 2007 at 11:41 pmChemical weapons etc..
Comment by Zep Tepi
My mind never goes to weapons use. I’m kind of happy about that. :)
January 25th, 2007 at 11:43 pmMaybe Georgies doesn’t understand the idea of metaphor.
From Suskind in Oct 2004
January 25th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
My mind never goes to weapons use. I’m kind of happy about that. :)
Comment by Zooey
My mind reels so much I often cannot sleep, but this would be for protection, not for use.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:49 pmMy mind reels so much I often cannot sleep, but this would be for protection, not for use.
Comment by Zep Tepi
Thank goodness, we don’t need new ways to harm each other.
Meditation should help calm your mind. :)
January 25th, 2007 at 11:53 pm56 – the media demonstration showed they at least have a working prototype….
“just sayin’,” to quote Zooey….
January 26th, 2007 at 12:02 amYa know Doc, this is interesting. After reading Orwells 1984 it came to me that we create self fulfilling prophecies thru our words, and that maybe that is why there were no pencils or papers. Wordsmiths and artists often do not know why they write the things they do, yet they in a way are themselves prophets of sorts. We, I think, should step gingerly and carefully lest we become the unsolvable situation portrayed in the novel.
I will try. Blessings Zooey.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:05 amI will try. Blessings Zooey.
Comment by Zep Tepi
Goodnight, Zep.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:11 am#30 JTitor: Why don’t we do just that? Reform our government somewhere else, such as Dallas or Las Vegas. We can’t possibly have a worse example of representative government than the one we (don’t) have now.
Georgie, Dickie, Karly, Tony Boy, you’re all fired!
January 26th, 2007 at 12:14 amlatimes.com: Cheney intentionally discredited Wilson: actively involved in an effort to spin news coverage and discredit a critic of the Iraq war even before the fact that his wife was a CIA operative became public
January 26th, 2007 at 12:52 amhullaballo:Early in 1974, Nixon requested a support package for the South Vietnamese that included $474 million in emergency military aid. The Senate Armed Services Committee balked and approved about half. A liberal coup? Hardly. One of the critics was Senator Barry Goldwater. “We can scratch South Vietnam,” he said.(…)”[W]e grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory. … We saved a mere $297 million a year and in the process doomed South Vietnam, which had been ably fighting the war without our troops since 1973.”
January 26th, 2007 at 1:01 amComment by Mr. Evil – Your starting to see grass roots changes in Texas of all places brought on by the Nafta Super Highway, constitutional crises….conservatives are leaving the Republican party in droves. When a party loses it’s base then they are in trouble. Many conservatives will be voting for Ron Paul this year. Ron Paul a Paleo-conservative that has progressive views….far cry from the Reagan years, but en vogue.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:08 amRay gun makes targets feel like they’re on fire
U.S. military interested in weapon that emits 130-degree, non-lethal beam
Oh, sounds like the Anti-anti-war weapon. So, is there a bulletproof for this new federal weapon? If there is, it would be greatly required by the anti-war movement.
January 26th, 2007 at 4:32 amRay gun makes targets feel like they’re on fire
U.S. military interested in weapon that emits 130-degree, non-lethal beam
>Oh, sounds like the Anti-anti-war weapon. So, is there a bulletproof for this new federal weapon? If there is, it would be greatly required by the anti-war movement.
Comment by creasybear — January 26, 2007 @ 4:32 am
>So, is there a bulletproof for this new federal weapon?
Yes Dufus there is.
It is called a ” TIN FOIL BODY WRAP ” to match your TINFOIL HAT! That was just down home hillbilly stupid there for sure for sure. Where do they get people this ignorant?
I didn`t know they stacked sh-t this high in America these days.
Or maybe you`ll be the guy with a beanie cap on smoking a joint when the cameras and news crews come strolling through the crowd.
Like I say, don`t be to the DETRIMENT of the antiwar party by turning America completely off of the idea by looking like a bunch of marauding sex and drug crazed hippies.
Cindy Sheehan already set the anriwar movement back to the stone age about as bad as Iraq is bombed into the stone age today.
Your rendition of ” helping ” could actually extend the war by never getting enough people solidly committed to march together as one by being turned completely off of the idea by the likes of Cindy Sheehan and her media ” blitzkrieg ” style.
My God I wonder how many troops will die because of THAT setback that that overgrown drug crazed hippy Cindy Sheehan caused.
The sad irony is that the very group or groups that wants to end the war and all of the killing associated with it is actually impeding the whole effort and standing in the way of an HONEST and DEMANDING one million person march and rally in Washington DC
My points are out on the table.
January 26th, 2007 at 5:52 amLets hear some real debate on this.
when we act, we create our own reality
the meth does help. Hunter S Thompson (R.I.P) drew the link between meth and would be conquerers pretty well.. totally makes sense that riech-wingers like Haggard would be into meth.. he was probably hooking up people in the whitehaus…just makes sense that one of the administrations most fanatical defenders on this page would be a skinny meth addict pretending to be a lawyer…
January 26th, 2007 at 7:39 amPaul Krugman explains why politics is so partisan and bitter these days: It’s economic and until we have more parity in our economic structure, politics will always be especially bitter.
January 26th, 2007 at 7:49 amNO FEEDING THE TROLLS.
January 26th, 2007 at 7:56 amComment by Joanie Doe – Your whole premiss is based on that this is a war of necessity-a threat. What we now know is that the American public was lied too going into the war. No threat, all threats contained…many greater threats in this world such as the original target…Osama. The war was mismanaged from the Pentegon, with Rumsfield not allowing an “esculation” to help our troops a year into it, because it would have been perceived as a sign of weakness. This is Nation Building and is not a conservative ideal, yet you still harp on it as if it is? If we are going to be the police of the world, then there are far more greater threats such as the loss of our own freedoms right here in America. Why don’t you ever talk about that Rachel?
January 26th, 2007 at 8:15 am“They claim they own the portions of our brains that remember anything,†he said.
From today’s NYT, and why the Bush Government needs secrecy, disregarding normal protocol & information exchange between both parties in a lawsuit connected to NSA illegal wiretaps.
Did you know that Bush owns everything your brain remembers?
January 26th, 2007 at 8:34 amAre you OK with that?
Do ‘we’ own everything Bush remembers?I know, rhetorical question!
Comment by Joanie Doe — January 26, 2007 @ 5:52 am
Debate is not possible because you have no “points,” only pointless smears.
But then, you probably think of yourself as a master-debater.
January 26th, 2007 at 8:36 amBush’s decision making is bordering on delusional and dangerous.
January 26th, 2007 at 8:50 amIt is called a †TIN FOIL BODY WRAP â€
Comment by Joanie Doe
Funny thing is this may be the smartest thing Joanie has said this whole thread. Imagine a group of peaceful protesters wrapped in tinfoil being zapped by a microwave ray gun. Sparks everywhere and the heat would be reflected off. Then the Gestap…I mean the police woul dhave to send in officers to break it up meaning they counldn’t used the Rea gun anymore.
She’s still an idiot though.
January 26th, 2007 at 8:52 amOOoooooooooooh!
SNAP!!!!
January 26th, 2007 at 9:03 amNancy and the Democrats should keep their eyes on the other war about to happen,possibly with Iran….The Republicans lost the Congress after 12 years because they asked no questions and let the Iraq war go on without serious questioning and appropriate investigation on the motives. Nancy will not be a Speaker and the Democrats will be out of office in 2008 if another bigger war starts with Iran,while she and the Democrats stay silent. Just keep talking about the Iraq war is not enough,she and Democrats must not allowed these mistakes to be repeated in another bigger conflict if they have to survive the next elections or have a hope to regain the White House. Some Democrat candidates like Edwards Republican’s Romney calling for war against Iran..Let’s not get euphoric again and examine the facts…
January 26th, 2007 at 9:08 amBWWWHAAAAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Hey Joanie,
WE WON, YOU LOST! GET OVER IT!!!
How’s it feel to be in the minority? How’s it feel to know that no matter how hard you whine, beeyatch, and moan YOU ARE A LOSER.
In the electoral sense, at the very least…
January 26th, 2007 at 9:08 amGreat, more childish rhetoric from the Idiot in the White House.
What a pathetic, little-minded “man”, just like his 28%-ers.
January 26th, 2007 at 9:37 amPelosi doesn’t suffer fools lightly. Good for her. So far I think she has done an excellent job.
I haven’t heard who came up with the idea to have Sen. Jim Webb deliver the Democratic response to the SOTU address but at the time it was announced I weighed in that this decision had Pelosi’s fingerprints all over it.
Frankly, I don’t know why Bush advisors hadn’t pressed Bush the other two times to lean on his Generals to perform. In fact, I thought that was the primary duty of the Commander in Chief. But failed leadership comes easily to George W. Bush. Bush didn’t press for action on Katrina either. Where does that stand today? Hint: total disarray.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:04 am#83, etc…
Don’t feed the trolls.
I did a bit of an experiment last week, and acted as a troll. I was surprised how many people reacted to me ‘anti-lord sinner’ insults. They were meant to look horribly written, too.
We need a big post on this, TP.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:18 amInteresting article in yesterday’s NYT (in their Mental Health section) regarding magical thinking. While such thinking is normal, even among adults to a certain degree, it can be problematic. And in Bush’s case, his delusional thinking is resulting in the deaths of thousands of our own troop’s deaths, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens’ deaths. He must be stopped.
“Those whose magical thoughts can blossom into full-blown delusion and psychosis appear to be a fundamentally different group in their own right, said Mark Lenzenweger, a professor of clinical science, neuroscience and cognitive psychology at Binghamton, part of the State University of New York. “These are people for whom magical thinking is a central part of how they view the world,†not a vague sense of having special powers, he said. “Whereas with most people, if you were to confront them about their magical beliefs, they would back down.â€
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/health/psychology/23magic.html?em&ex=1169787600&en=37014d3d8e36bd57&ei=5087
January 26th, 2007 at 11:12 amGeorge Bush’s incoherent comments are like his unimaginable blunderings. He really just does not get it; the ramifications and consequences of his words and actions. He is like a child in that respect. It is unfortunate for this country that he is a willfull child in desperate need of severe discipline and holds the highest office in the land. The nursery rhyme- Humpty-Dumpty, comes to mind. I just hope that he doesn’t break the country when he falls.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:15 amJoanie’s convinced me that it’s sometimes OK to hit women. Luckily, this is a virtual forum, so I won’t be in jail later today for giving her a fat lip – lucky her. Too bad we didn’t live in the Regressive, anti-hippy America that Joanie and her 28%-er (THAT is a minority, Joanie, in case you didn’t actually know what “minority” means) crowd long for, cause then I could beat her without fear of reprisal or prosecution, the way the Lord intended.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:14 pmLIBERALS HATE TRUTH
Liberals never let facts get in the way of a good argument. That is just one of the undeniable truths of life that must be accepted by all conservatives. A recent posting on this web site from a chronic Bush hater called “bushisacrook†offers up W’s “resume†and accomplishments as president. Unfortunately this posting was full of lies and half truths, witch is the typical basis for a liberal arguments. It would take to much space to address them all individually,
GEORGE W. BUSH RESUME
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
1. I attacked and took over two countries. Yes, this is what Bush did. Without being provoked, George Bush took it upon himself to attack and take over two countries….and we would like to apologize to Canada and Mexico.
2. I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the Treasury.
I shattered the record for biggest annual deficit in history.
I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 2-month period. I set the all-time record for the most foreclosures in a 12-month period. I set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market. Hey, did you hear? We’re bankrupt. I guess the Wall Street Journal missed that story, and for the record, the deficit, as a percentage of GDP, which is the only important measuring stick, is still lower than it’s been in decades. (It’s called Economics 101. Take it. Learn It. Live It.) It is an economic fact that George Bush inherited a U.S. economy that was stalling and beginning to tumble and had to deal with a world that was in a death spiral from Germany to Japan. Then 9/11 wreaked havoc on the the economic center of the universe….All in all, I’d say Bush has done a pretty good job protecting us from a Carter-like malaise.
3. In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history. After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US history. Any third grader probably understands that a president, never has a vacation. Ever. All they do is move the headquarters for the running of the free world from one location to another. If you call having constant, 24 hour, security presence and daily briefings from everyone who works for you a vacation, then you’re right. ( What a bullshit complaint. I probably shouldn’t even have acknowledged it.)
4. In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.
I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history. See Economy 101. And for the record, in the last 8 months nearly 1.5 million new jobs have been created, thanks to Bush tax cuts and economic policy.
5. I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any other president in US history. After Economics 101, check out Civics 102. Amending the constituion requires a super majority vote of both houses of congress, then ratification by the legislative branches of two thirds of the states. It’s a little harder than just a pen stroke.
6. I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed. I presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have. Are you starting to understand why school vouchers are so important. Apparently the person who posted this was not alive when Jimmy Carter was president. I remember gas rationing and the “odd/even†method of being told what day you could buy gas. If Bush would have emptied the national oil reserves the day he took office, it would be making it to the pump right about now….but then again, you’d have to understand a little bit about how the oil industry works to get it.
7. I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. It’s good to be the king.
8. I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history. Thank you. And would the jackasses who kept us in those outdated, irrelevant treaties please stand up.
9. I’ve made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history. How do you know? I mean, wouldn’t the most secret and unaccountable presidency, still be a secret….and unaccountable?
10. I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt. Again, the Wall Street Journal must be sleeping on the job to miss this one.
11. I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world. No, that would be Bill Clinton. On two counts. The Enron and World Com debacles were at fever pitch under Clinton….and do you recall under which administration Ken Lay and all his ilk were exposed and prosecuted?…..
12. I am the first president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the world community. Okay take Economics first period, Civics second period and American History third period. We’ll leave the schedule open after lunch.
13. I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. The United Nations rendered itself irrelevant by failing to do what it said it would and then actively try to thwart enforcement of it’s own directives. By the way, you should also do some reading on the Oil For Food scandal that receives virtually no media attention in this country. The reason the U.N. fought against invading Iraq is because so many U.N. officials and world leaders were making so much money off Sadam being in power, to lose it would be unthinkable.
At this point I’m just tired. If there were at least some factual basis to the remaining claims made by this crazed Bush hater I might enjoy the debate, but when an argument is based on lies, ignorance and willful distortion…there is no debate. In fact, there is nothing worthy of debate, a point I prove with a final challenge.
Our visitor wrote; In a little over two years I have created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided that the US has been since the civil war. This is from the same write who called Bush a liar, a crook, a drunk, a deserter, a murderer and a moron. Who’s dividing the country?
January 26th, 2007 at 4:16 pmJoanie Doe
Who kept on about “With us or against us”?
Who kept on saying “Some people say” when saying something nobody has actually said?
Who claimed Nancy Pelosi would destroy the country?
Tell me Joanie, who is dividing the country, some random blogger, or your intellectual equal in chief?
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