Bush insider says administration is out of control.
By on Jul 27th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Bush insider says administration is out of control.
A senior administration official tells U.S. News, “‘The real problem for Bush now is that it looks like he doesn’t have control over the government.’ … White House officials say Bush will emerge from the doldrums as he begins to confront the Democrat-controlled Congress with vetoes of spending bills that he considers excessive.”
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This is a news flash?????????
July 27th, 2007 at 5:09 pmA senior administration official tells U.S. News, “‘The real problem for Bush now is that it looks like he doesn’t have control over the government.’
I don’t like anonymous sourcing when anyone does it. The only thing significant about this is the shift it represents in the media narrative … in a US N & WR article that uses “Democrat-controlled”, no less.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:10 pm.
“vetoes of spending bills that he considers excessive.â€
Now that it’s the other party, the spending is ‘excessive’, but when his party had total control, they upped discretionary spending 48%. Hypocrite much?
July 27th, 2007 at 5:10 pmBush insider says trolls are out of control.
Tell us something we didn’t know.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:11 pm“Spending bills that he considers excessive:” (n.)
1. Expanding the CHIP program for states so that impoverished children can have some hope of decent medical care
2. Broadening the availability of federal student aid so that economically-disadvantaged students have some hope for college.
3. Restoring and expanding VA benefits so that the men and women who sacrificed so valiantly for this country have some hope for a quality life.
Veto away, jackass! Let the GOP defend your actions and themselves to their constituents, who have long since expressed support for all of these initiatives!
July 27th, 2007 at 5:11 pmVeto’ing money that our troops need is going to help Bush’s slump?
I think not.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:11 pmSurprised? Anyone? Bueller?
July 27th, 2007 at 5:12 pm“Looks like?” How about Acts like or just is.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:12 pmHypocrite much?
Like Dick Cheney in Vietnam, Republicans have “other priorities” when it comes to spending. A military pay raise and better healthcare for injured soldiers are Democrats’ priorities. Republicans prefer to spend money on their sugar daddies.
That is, after all, how Republicans get elected. None dare call it embezzlement.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:13 pm.
I agree with Grand Moff Texan. Unamed sources don’t hold much water.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:15 pmEmerge from the doldrums?? Ever the optimists, these clowns. They’ll be too busy fighting and attempting to cover their asses for the balance of their term.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:15 pmI suspect that he will be getting few spending bills to veto unless the Repugs agree to ending the war. If he vetoes those bills there will be enough votes to override him. It is a win/win for everybody but King George the Dumb and his obsequious sycophants in Congress who don’t really count.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:18 pmThat headline is kinda misleading–the “unnamed source” says the problem is that it *looks* like he’s out of control, not that it *is* out of control.
Not an issue for me, as clearly the administration *is* out of control–but you don’t win points for incorrectly claiming that “insiders say that bush is out of control” when they’re only concerned about perception.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:18 pmI’ll say the Bush administration is out of control. And it will stay that way as long as they feel safe from the threat of Impeachment. If Nancy Pelosi would just put Impeachment on the table, things will be different. She doesn’t have to use it immediately, just put it on the table for gods sake. As long as the Bush Administration feels safe from the threat of Impeachment they will continue to thumb their noses in the face of Congress and in our faces.
Personally, I think that Bush is in a melt-down. The last couple of times I saw him speak in public he sounded seriously drugged up. I suspect they have him on some pretty heavy drugs trying to keep him from imploding.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:20 pmClinton was out of control.
Sorry, I just wanted to see what it felt like to say something totally stupid.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:22 pmSounds good to me! The last 6-1/2 years when this administration had the government “under control” like to have ruined America!
July 27th, 2007 at 5:22 pmPersonally, I think that Bush is in a melt-down. The last couple of times I saw him speak in public he sounded seriously drugged up. I suspect they have him on some pretty heavy drugs trying to keep him from imploding.
Comment by bilbobaggins — July 27, 2007 @ 5:20 pm
I tend to agree with you. I think he’s toast at this point.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:22 pmIt’s “DEMOCRATIC congress” not “Democrat” congress. The GOP is like a junior high school bully refusing to call you by your right name. How do you deal with a bully? Push back.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:23 pm“Democrat-controlled”
USNews was always right-leaning, but I guess they’re not even pretending anymore (haven’t actually read it in years). Looking at the link, there’s a story about how Bush has Democrats on the defensive. I’m sure if I had scrolled down, I’d have seen one about Attorney General Gonzales’ brilliant and forthcoming testimony.
Did Mort Zuckerman just turn the whole show over to Michael Barone and John Leo?
July 27th, 2007 at 5:24 pmCrump’s Brother — I think what this statement means is that congress has “vetoes of spending bills that he considers excessive.â€
July 27th, 2007 at 5:24 pmin other words, Bush thinks congresses vetos are excessive.
correct me if i am wrong though.
BEAST
I don’t make sense
I got my pride
Don’t need no meaning
I feel no shame
I will not believe
I got no choice
I’m out of control
… And I love it!!!
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I’m a man who’s sick,
But I got class,
‘Cuz you only get respect
When you’re kickin’ ass.
- Kapt’n K.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:24 pmI didn’t realize that the president was supposed to “control” the government. Wasn’t that why three co-equal branches were created?
The label should have read that he doesn’t have the ability to control the congress…nor should he or any president.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:25 pmLet’s doldrum him out of office.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:26 pmThe last time I heard clips of Bush speaking he was almost hysterical as he defended his frequent citations of Al-Qaeda saying that of course AQ in Iraq was affiliated with Bin Laden, and that if they weren’t it would be “news to Bin Laden (heh heh)” as though he’d made a funny joke. And I thought, “How does he know what Bin Laden thinks?!”
It sounded reckless and, frankly, unhinged.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:27 pmGood Point there Margaret()My greatgrandmother margaret recently passed away , god rest her soul.)
July 27th, 2007 at 5:31 pmIt sounded reckless and, frankly, unhinged.
Republicans admitted they were not sure if OBL was still alive or not.
AND IF OBL ISN,T ALIVE,THEN, WHO ARE WE FIGHTING? AND WHY?
QUESTIONS,QUESTIONS,QUESTIONS,QUESTIONS,QUESTIONS,QUESTIONS,
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
July 27th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
This is not news…this is just obvious fact.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:33 pm> Bush will confront the Democrat-controlled Congress with vetoes of spending bills that he considers excessive.
$500B for Iraq so far with biggest tax cuts to corporations and upper 1-2% of Americans and looting of the US treasury for his cronies.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:34 pmBush is one helluva deluded SOB
Bush never had control – cheney did/does
July 27th, 2007 at 5:34 pmWasn,t OBL the #1 Terrorist involved in the “Lest we forget”911?
July 27th, 2007 at 5:35 pmMe tinks, alot of people forgot allready!
I remember a snippet from the book The Power of the Presidency, written about 1960, paraphrasing Ike when someone asked him what the presidency was like. He said something to the effect that the president is a glorified clerk, his only power deriving from the ability to use the “bully pulpit” of the office to persuade individuals that what he wanted them to do was in their own best self interest.
Bush clearly has no clue how to do that, as such, he is powerless to influence those around him.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:35 pmAnd in the vacuum rushes, Darth/Rove/???
Bush is going to bring in Terri Schiavo as press-secretary to improve the Whitehouse image.
-GSD
July 27th, 2007 at 5:48 pmWho thought Bush really ever ran anything?
July 27th, 2007 at 5:48 pmThe only spending that is out of control is for this illegal war.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:50 pmThis proves what an exceptionally dangerous time we live in.
The ONLY way to reclaim control of the government, the agenda, and the people, is to ATTACK THEM with a false flag attack blamed on Iran AND the proclamation of a FALSE PANDEMIC to keep you locked inside your house.
These are wild cornered animals whose only instinct is self-preservation.
You need to arrest them. Impeachment is not enough.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:51 pmOh come on.
I don’t like propaganda when the right does it and I thinkit is cheap and intellectually facile when we do it.
The article doesn’t say or even imply that the Administration is “out of control”, it says that it does not control Congress.
These are two different things and if you are going to argue semantics (”Well, isn’t that another way to say “out of control”?) then I say that is too cute by half.
With all the complete insanity and lawlessness coming out of this Administration why are you posting this kind of lazy snideness?
That it is Friday afternoon is no excuse.
I expect more from ya’ll. This is disappointing.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:52 pmYeah, another misleading, dishonest headline. At least this time the people pointing it out aren’t being called trolls or republicans…yet.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:58 pmI expect more from ya’ll. This is disappointing.
Comment by nathanhj — July 27, 2007 @ 5:52 pm
July 27th, 2007 at 6:07 pmIf you can do better, By all means. Please Do.
Do you know something WE don’t?
The FACT IS , IS THAT THE WAR (OFFENSE)AGAINST TERROR TURNED OUT TO BE THE WAR(DEFENSE) FOR FREEDUMBS!
QUOTE ME IF I AM WRONG!
The real problem for Bush now is that it looks like he doesn’t have control over the government.
which government???Ours or the Iraqi’s???
July 27th, 2007 at 6:08 pmSo , is war for freedom Defense or Offense?
NEWS FAIR AND BALANCED!
YOU DECIDE
July 27th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Comment by nathanhj — July 27, 2007 @ 5:52 pm
I’m with you Nathan. TP, report the facts. Let us commenters distort them.
July 27th, 2007 at 6:12 pmNow that it’s the other party, the spending is ‘excessive’, but when his party had total control, they upped discretionary spending 48%. Hypocrite much?
So is your party, Crumps!
July 27th, 2007 at 6:13 pmComment by nathanhj — July 27, 2007 @ 5:52 pm
I’m with you Nathan. TP, report the facts. Let us commenters distort them.
Comment by Egreggious —
TWO
July 27th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Not only out of control but everyone is looking to save themselves from the crimes that have been going on for 6 1/2 years. Look alot of people have been on the White House pay roll even Judges and other top officials. Lies are the major part of this White House and now the rats are turning on each other. Some loyal Bushies are mad because they didn’t get the famous executive privilege or the get out of jail care like Libby got. The GOP made big money for all those involved to do as they were ordered even Journalist got their pockets lined. Chris Matthews is on two sides now trying to do what he’s paid by the GOP to do and still keep his job at NBC. O’Reilly is out of his mine now that the GOP will lose big time. Fox will have to let him go. Tony Snow needs the medical insurance and will do anything and everything he’s told. Bush must be really drinking alot more now with his secrets coming out and the other World Leaders publicly speaking out about how stupid he is. Like all things Evil they don’t last for long until another criminal comes to light. Ralph Reed is really needed now by the GOP to spread some more lies to the Church people.
July 27th, 2007 at 6:17 pm#
Now that it’s the other party, the spending is ‘excessive’, but when his party had total control, they upped discretionary spending 48%. Hypocrite much?
So is your party, Crumps!
Comment by m12 — Ju
MISREAD IT?
HERE, this is what it says!
House officials say Bush will emerge from the doldrums as he begins to confront the Democrat-controlled Congress with vetoes of spending bills that he considers excessive.â€
that he considers?????????????sh*t!
July 27th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
BUSH CONSIDERS 500 BILLION DOLLARS FOR WAR IS WHAT????
July 27th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
BUSH CONSIDERS…IMAO. HOW SAD!!!
July 27th, 2007 at 6:21 pmWHEN WILL BUSH CONSIDER RESIGNING?
Hypocrite much?
Comment by Crump’s Brother
Hypocrite WAY WAY much!
July 27th, 2007 at 6:24 pmSomeday trolls will realize that they are in the minority…they are only talking to the other bottom dwelling, knuckle dragging, morons in the 26%tile. Trolls are idiot troglodytes.
July 27th, 2007 at 6:24 pmLIBTROLL ALERT!!!
Waaay too many libtrolls on this thread!
July 27th, 2007 at 6:27 pmSomeday trolls will realize that they are in the minority
Comment by kasinca #49
…Not until they’re FORCED to…
…extinct the conservative base…
July 27th, 2007 at 6:28 pmAn entertaiing story about GOP loser trolls….
Guy who lost online trollfight drives 1300 miles, burns dude’s trailer
A dude on the internet referred to Navy Fire Controlman 2nd Class Petty Officer Russell Tavares as “a nerd” in an online trollfight. In one of the more dramatic tales of internet rage we’ve seen lately, the 27-year-old Tavares, who believed himself to not be a nerd, hopped in his car and sped off 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas, where the name-caller lived.
Tavares photographed road snapshots along his route, and posted the images online, as if to prove to his internet peers that he was not a luzer. When he got to there, he burned the dude’s trailer down. Tavares has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for arson.
complete story here
July 27th, 2007 at 6:34 pmhttp://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/27/guy_who_lost_online_.html
The whitehouse is out of control. It sounds as though somebody just woke up to a fact that all of us have been living with for nearly 7 yrs. I think it might be a little late in coming and maybe this person can help us stop it, but as usual they haven’t got the guts to sign their names and still continue to co sign whatever the admin. wants done. It makes me sicker everyday.
July 27th, 2007 at 6:38 pmWaaay too many libtrolls on this thread!
Comment by Mr. President — July 27, 2007
So much effort **snicker… snicker** and so damned little to show for it.
July 27th, 2007 at 6:39 pm“Bush insider says administration is out of control”
This is not news. This has gone on since the swearing-in on the first day of this most corrupt administration.
July 27th, 2007 at 6:50 pmComment by km4 — July 27, 2007 @ 6:34 pm
Beautiful!
If Tavares had not been a member of the military, I would have believed him to be C**T.
July 27th, 2007 at 6:51 pmHe still controls the “Military”, thats where is real test will be. Not a lot of need to waste time on a piss fight over bills. I don’t think that the Cheney/Bush gang can elude the consequences of events on 911, without the power and protection of martial law.
July 27th, 2007 at 6:52 pmBush doesn’t have control??? What a surprise. This guy has been a loser at everything he’s done, why should it change now? Only problem is, Daddy won’t be able to fix this screw-up like he’s done every other time in the past.
July 27th, 2007 at 6:57 pmNot that we needed the confirmation, but it’s nice to have it.
The irony is two-fold: He blames the Democrats for his seemingly lack of control, when he singlehandedly shot himself in the foot when he decided to invade Iraq, and he threatens to veto spending bill he considers “excessive” when his administration is spending money like there is no tomorrow; George “Appropriation Bills” Bush.
July 27th, 2007 at 8:01 pmDaddy & Uber Daddy Cheney can help arrange another false flag 911, ie., Operation American Hiroshima,” so the little sociopath can have his wet dream of nuking Iran, martial law, a complete fascist state, and the bottling up of those 325,000 Americans on the goverment “terrorist” list into the detention camps.
Then Shrub can puff up, talk tuff, smirk some more and make those strange O shaped chimp lip gestures for the foreseeable future.
July 27th, 2007 at 8:09 pmDuh! The Administration does not have control of Congress any longer.
Commander Codpiece, who could not find his vetoing ass under floodslights in the past six years, is suddenly brandishing his pen.
Do we really have to suffer another 18 months with this abomination of a government, or is God going to take pity on us?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:26 pmhttp://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072607A.shtml
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Truthout has obtained previously undisclosed GOP campaign emails from the 2004 presidential race that reveal and detail strategies to disenfranchise voters in crucial swing states.
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July 28th, 2007 at 12:35 am“‘The real problem for Bush now is that it looks like he doesn’t have control over the government.’ … ”
And people wonder why Time left him off the list of the Top 100 Most Influential People.
July 28th, 2007 at 12:42 am“They also expect him to get a lift in the polls for being a strong leader, at least in the view of conservatives, as he continues to block anti-war legislators in Congress from requiring a fast withdrawal from Iraq.”
Stupidity is the mark of a “strong leader”????
July 28th, 2007 at 1:00 amIt’s “DEMOCRATIC congress†not “Democrat†congress. The GOP is like a junior high school bully refusing to call you by your right name. How do you deal with a bully? Push back.
Comment by simplicio — July 27, 2007 @ 5:23 pm
I’d push back, but I’m confused. The Repubs obviously don’t know an adjective from a noun, which I see as revealing a lack of education on their part. And stupidity on their part if they think bad grammar is supposed to insult us somehow.
How do I “push back”? Call them “Republics”? That just makes me look like an idiot.
July 28th, 2007 at 1:05 am“Bush will emerge from the doldrums as he begins to confront the Democrat-controlled Congress with vetoes of spending bills that he considers excessive.”
* * *
–The War in Iraq costs $9 billion a month.
–Bush’s tax cuts have cost the federal government over $1 trillion in revenue.
I’ll feel better when we impeach leaders whose idiocy is excessive.
July 28th, 2007 at 10:05 amMeltdown! Meltdown!
I totally agree with bilbobaggins as the temperature in Washington must be approaching 1,000 degrees. Everything is melting.
Gee, all of the billions of dollars going to Bush’s cronies are probably being stored in freezers. I wonder if billion-dollar bills freeze? I haven’t seen a billion-dollar bill for a long, long, long time ( sure ), but I could put a dollar bill in my freezer and see if it freezes.
I’m sure Washington SNOWcones are melting in about .0000000000001 seconds. Tony Snow is in a meltdown mode, too.
Tony Snow’s statement about how Congress hadn’t laid a glove on Alberto Gonzales was laughable.
I still remember Bush shortly after the November 2004 election? He was CROWING about his masterful political skills and how he was going to be play his political chips Sure, George! Sure, George!
Bush will be eating crow for the rest of his life.
July 28th, 2007 at 11:36 amHe’ll perk up when he gets to veto the children…
July 28th, 2007 at 11:56 amRegressives, #65, Regressives.
July 28th, 2007 at 11:58 amThe thing that the thugs of the WH don’t understand is that they are only talking to 26% of the constituents. The 74% that remains knows that Dubya is a miserable failure and his administration is made of of thugs running the government as if it is a crime family. They can talk crap all they want but most people, 74% are smarter than they are. Anytime they talk their spin, they are only addressing the bottom feeding, knuckle dragging, troglodytes of the 26% base.
July 28th, 2007 at 1:37 pmImpeach Cheney.
July 29th, 2007 at 9:48 amImpeach Bush.
Bush insider says administration is out of control.
Where ? Got a link ?
Because all you supplied was this quote below where he says no such thing…
A senior administration official tells U.S. News, “‘The real problem for Bush now is that it looks like he doesn’t have control over the government.’ … White House officials say Bush will emerge from the doldrums as he begins to confront the Democrat-controlled Congress with vetoes of spending bills that he considers excessive.†July 27, 2007 5:05 pm | Comment (71)
July 30th, 2007 at 8:22 am