Bush jokes about Cheney’s secrecy.
By on Jan 28th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Bush jokes about Cheney’s secrecy.
At the Alfalfa Club dinner on Saturday night, President Bush made light of Vice President Cheney’s penchant for secrecy while joking about Jenna Bush’s bridal shower earlier that day. “My sister Doro had a wedding shower for Jenna, who got lots of great stuff,” joked Bush. “Mom gave her a toaster. Karen Hughes gave her a Cuisinart. Dick [Cheney] here sent over a gift I could tell he’d picked out personally…a paper shredder.”
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As someone pointed out, George's sister's name is:
Dorothy Bush Koch
??!!!
January 28th, 2008 at 10:33 amThe sicko speak's...What a slap in the face he continue's to give the american people......The day this bunch is behind bar's will be a good day for the world....Blessings
January 28th, 2008 at 10:34 amAnd Cheney gave her a nice gift , a DVD 'The love of oil' .
January 28th, 2008 at 10:35 amhere's a real funny joke meester boosh... one worthy of impeachment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKX6luiMINQ&eurl=http://content2.clipmarks.com/content/0992D697-A8D6-451C-8C67-F5EA8109B5BC/
January 28th, 2008 at 10:36 amThe ALFALA club? Was Spanky there?
January 28th, 2008 at 10:36 amAlfalfa? Spell much in the morning?
January 28th, 2008 at 10:37 amRUC @5,
I'd be Buckwheat wasn't.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:37 ambet
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January 28th, 2008 at 10:39 amYou sure it wasn't the Iron Maiden?
January 28th, 2008 at 10:39 amThat GWB- what a kidder.
Remind me to laugh when your sorry ass is out of our White House.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:43 amThe annual dinner of the Alfalfa Club, an exclusive fold of about 200 rich and influential people, is an odd yet entrenched Washington affair.
The Alfalfa Club was founded in 1913 by four Southern gentlemen, apparently for no purpose other than holding an annual dinner on the last Saturday of January (in historical reverence of the Jan. 19 birthday of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.)
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Gotta love those rich people.
They sure know how to fu(k the rest of us over, all the while keeping their sense of humor.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:56 amHah hah! He shreds important government documents! Like the Constitution! Hah hah! Get the joke?
Me either.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:00 amROTFL (rolling on the floor, LAMENTING)
Bush tells "missing WMD" jokes.
Bush tells "secret government" jokes.
Bush IS a joke.
And none of it is funny!
January 28th, 2008 at 11:01 amI like humor as well as the next person. Somehow our President seems to take away that idea from my mind when he opens his mouth and snarls that little way that he does.
I didn't see his name on the list of comedians posted lately?
January 28th, 2008 at 11:02 am"Gotta love those rich people."
Yep, that little corporate chuckle is really endearing.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:03 amOtay, Bush, we're all roflao here at TP.
Apparently, stand up comedy is no more your strong suit than governing.
Any charisma you possessed is long gone. STFU, quit playing God & try to do something that's good for America in your waning days.
Being proud of your VP's super secret charade is laughable, but you're the real joke here.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:04 amNo f_cking clue....
January 28th, 2008 at 11:07 amRemember when he made the Iraq war joke -- "no weapons here..." -- at an Alfalfa Dinner? Good, mature times.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:09 amCant wait for Bushes talk to the nation tonight ?*()?#//
HA HA HA
January 28th, 2008 at 11:10 amY'now, normally when people are able to poke fun at themselves and their foibles, it humanizes them.
Unfortunately, our President has made so clear, so many times, that his sense of humor is not of the self-effacing kind, that this joke falls with a heavy thud. Although I'm sure the members of the "Alfalfa Club" loooooved it.
Now, when Bush jokes about Cheney and his paper shredder, he's really laughing that the Bush Cabal has been able to get away with so much crap and crime that it's funny. To him, at least.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:12 amAny bets on big boo's coming from tonight's teleprompter 'speech'?
January 28th, 2008 at 11:13 amclue? those people don't need clues...
it's already spelled out for them...
why should they worry their "pretty little minds" about anything?
it is a disease... with no cure... ever.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:14 amHILARIOUS!
Dinkledorf's "style" is humor at wildly inappropriate times and with innately unfunny issues such as violating the US Constitution.
PUTZ!
January 28th, 2008 at 11:22 amAdd this to his video mocking his own search for WMDs, Cheney sending a Darth Vader doll to John Stewart, Mukasey hanging a portrait of George Orwell in his office...does anyone else get the idea that this Administration is mocking the American people and rejoicing in their overt criminality? These traitors have been BEGGING for impeachment. I get the feeling that Cheney probably calls Bush at least once a week and says, "I can't believe we got away with that one George, what crazy scheme do you want to try next? What the hell, impeachment seems to be "off the table" no matter what we do!"
January 28th, 2008 at 11:23 amdoes anyone else get the idea that this Administration is mocking the American people and rejoicing in their overt criminality?
Comment by A Patriot Acting — January 28, 2008 @ 11:23 am
Let's all count off, okay?
One.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:24 amdoes their contempt for our American Values have no bounds?
January 28th, 2008 at 11:26 amaye
January 28th, 2008 at 11:27 amor two?
January 28th, 2008 at 11:28 amthree
January 28th, 2008 at 11:29 amLet us not forget, the bushco robbries will continue as long as we have palosi and reid driving the get away free car.....Blessings
January 28th, 2008 at 11:35 amA little self-recognition on g_g's part. finally.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:41 amminus one.
Comment by good_golly
I overestimated you. I thought you were a zero.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:41 amminus one.
Comment by good_golly
I overestimated you. I thought you were a zero.
Comment by shoeless — January 28, 2008 @ 11:41 am
OUCH! That one's gonna leave a mark.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:44 am"minus one"!! We HAVE to remember this and use it often as a response to trolls.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:49 amminus one.
Comment by good_golly
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Aaaah, Republican voting. Too bad you're no better at grasping social issues or economics than you are at learning how to take a simple tally of numbers.
Someone ban Goon_Golly already, or is she being kept around for comedic purposes?
January 28th, 2008 at 11:51 ampiltdown-
Put me down for one vote for "comedic purposes"
January 28th, 2008 at 11:52 amDid Spanky, Darla, Froggy and Buckwheat attend the Alfalfa dinner?
January 28th, 2008 at 11:58 amBush can expect no foreign dignatories to visit him in his last 11 months
Thats would be a kiss of death for anyone
January 28th, 2008 at 12:00 pmSomeone ban Goon_Golly already, or is she being kept around for comedic purposes?
Comment by piltdown
Comedy or compost, take your pick.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:00 pmSounds like Bush attended the Ollie North School of Comedy.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:03 pmMust be for comedy, we don't need bad compost on our garden's..To buggie......Blessings
January 28th, 2008 at 12:03 pmfour
not to be derailed.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:04 pmWhat an ass.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:05 pmminus one.
Comment by good_golly
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Aaaah, Republican voting.
Comment by piltdown
I thought Republicans only subtracted votes made by black people.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:08 pmIs this a public confession of crime?
Never mind... nothing will happen to them. In the past 7 years they have been commiting all sort of crimes against the American people, and nothing ever happened.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:23 pmMore comedy out of the white house, cripes, I've been laughing so hard for 7 years that my head hurts.
Repukian humor just isn't funny, why do they not know who to do a joke right, is it the timing, the writers, the audience? Just not funny.
Buck FUsh
January 28th, 2008 at 12:23 pmUpon unwrapping Cheney's present, she found the remnants of the Constitution, no dount.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:26 pmdoubt, dammit!! doubt!!
January 28th, 2008 at 12:26 pmAnd five, here...
January 28th, 2008 at 12:29 pmSuch class...anyone who knows anything about manners knows that relatives do not give showers for relatives. It is another faux pas by the crime family.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:35 pmBut you CAN'T hide from God, TRAITORS Bush and Cheney!
He SEES the EVIL that you have done, the LIES that you have spoken, and the MURDER that you have committed.
And you WILL be JUDGED by God for your EVIL.
And I will DANCE, as will the rest of the WORLD, when these MURDERERS have gone to face their JUDGEMENT by God.
And their ETERNAL DAMNATION with their MASTER Satan.
Go God!
January 28th, 2008 at 12:40 pmWhat an F-ing POS. Laughing the integrity of the USA right down the drain. Sick fu(k, making the country and the world miserable and thinks its funny. Somebody should shove a firecracker up his a$$ and see how funny he finds that.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:41 pmNo wonder Wingnuts humor is so dark (although I agree with the final quip):
"Clayton Williams in his own words," a Richards campaign ad touted "On rape. 'It's like the weather. If it's inevitable, relax and enjoy it.' " - Clayton Williams,
http://cbs11tv.com/watercooler/clayton.williams.offers.2.570545.html
Former Congressman Jim Wright says the rape joke not only lost Williams the governor's race, it ultimately put George Bush in the White House.
"If I hadn't been defeated, George wouldn't run for president and he wouldn't be president today, so said, all the troubles in the world are Claytie's fault?," the businessman quipped.
January 28th, 2008 at 1:06 pmVery convenient, an alfalfa dinner for Bush. After all, he's stubborn and stupid.
January 28th, 2008 at 2:11 pm