Lawmakers Respond To Bush: ‘Bullsh*t’ And ‘Malarkey’ That Is ‘Beneath The Dignity’ Of The Oval Office
Lawmakers Respond To Bush: ‘Bullsh*t’ And ‘Malarkey’ That Is ‘Beneath The Dignity’ Of The Oval Office
In strong terms today, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, criticized President Bush’s remarks to the Israeli parliament that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Democrats favor a policy of appeasement toward terrorists. Biden said it was “bullsh*t” and “malarkey” for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country “and make this kind of ridiculous statement.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) directed sharp words towards the president as well, saying that Bush’s comments were “‘beneath the dignity of the office of the president and unworthy of our representation” at the celebration of Israel’s 60th anniversary. Watch it:
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel also noted that Bush had broken from the tradition that “when a U.S. president is overseas, partisan politics stops at the water’s edge.” “President Bush has now taken that principle and turned it on its head: for this White House, partisan politics now begins at the water’s edge,” said Emanuel. He added, “Does the president have no shame?”
In a statement, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said: “Not surprisingly, the engineer of the worst foreign policy in our nation’s history has fired yet another reckless and reprehensible round.”
Earlier today, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) said that Bush “ought to apologize to the American people” while noting that the “Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense have both favored negotiations with Iran.”
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BUSH, SHUT THE HELL UP… – keith olberman
May 15th, 2008 at 2:52 pmBush can’t apologise. At least, not until someone teaches him how to.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:53 pmMaybe if Bush spent more time on the golf course, he would have less opportunity to say stupid, mean and bogus things.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:54 pmBeneath the dignity of the oval office, perhaps, but nothing is beneath the “dignity” of George W. Bush!
May 15th, 2008 at 2:54 pmStill, it’s a pretty fitting statement for a commemoration of genocide.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:55 pmGeorge W. Bush: “What? Wha’d I say?”
May 15th, 2008 at 2:55 pmChuck Feney Says:
Maybe if Bush spent more time on the golf course, he would have less opportunity to say stupid, mean and bogus things.
he can’t. he gave golf up to show real support for the troops… remember?
May 15th, 2008 at 2:55 pmLook at what the public did to the Dixie Chicks for saying what they said on tour in Europe…will we hold singers and performers to higher standards than the President? What has happened to our values?
May 15th, 2008 at 2:56 pmI wonder how many sheep will be more offended by the word “B*llSH!T” than by the message of our warmonger-in-chief?
May 15th, 2008 at 2:56 pmlet’s cut the president some slack here.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:57 pmit was the alcohol talking.
That’s what you get from a cokehead sock-puppet president. There has never been a moment when any decision was made/action taken by the Cheney administration that was not political at its core.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:58 pmGOOD JOB OBAMA!!
An indicator that you’d be on the wrong track is if Bush PRAISES you.
GoBama!!
May 15th, 2008 at 2:58 pmNope, Rahm, our presnit doesn’t have any shame. None exists at the intersection of PNAC and AIPAC.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:59 pmWe anxiously await condemnation for Bush from the Malkins, Bennetts, and other right-wing pundits who had a conniption about democrats who spoke politically while out of the country. Didn’t you all roar about how disgusting it was, and that rightfully, all politics should end at the US border?
May 15th, 2008 at 2:59 pmNo shame ,no conscience,no brain that’s Bush,,,,counting those days until January 20th.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:00 pmIronically many Israelis want peace talks.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
It’s just a little Bush family projection about the Nazis: Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush, and Bush’s great-grandfather, George Herbert Walker, were both cheerleaders for Hitler and the Nazis in the 1930s and the 1940s until FDR stopped their trading with the Nazis in 1942 by invoking the Trading with the Enemy Act.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:01 pm.
So Nancy is upset for being outed as the appeaser of Fascism that she is…
… SO?
Why else is BushCo still in Office?
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May 15th, 2008 at 3:03 pmwhen I was a kid we often went to a park with seals. you could buy a stinky little bag of fish and go over to the tank and feed the seals.
Bush doesn’t know or doesn’t care that what he’s saying is out of bounds. he just knows that the seals will bark and clap for more.
I hope he’s wrong.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:03 pmsharp words? Bullshit. None of these people called for his immediate impeachment. Until they do, they have to be considered fascist supporters. Words mean nothing any longer folks.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:06 pmcage free brown Says:
when I was a kid we often went to a park with seals.
Why didnt you just feed them at home before taking them to the park? [joking =]
May 15th, 2008 at 3:06 pmOh and signing statements , preemptive war, running secret prisons abroad ,spying en masse without a warrant on the American people , undoing habeas corpus and posse comitatus ,and torturing aren’t beneath dignity of the office Miss Nancy “no impeachment” Pelosi?
May 15th, 2008 at 3:08 pmThis congress fails to employ the constitutional remedy to the most disapproved of President in our history as a democracy !
Correct me if I am wrong but I believe without impeachment this president cannot be tried for crimes committed while in office !
Nancy you are a constitutional crisis !A million dead in Iraq on hyped falsehoods and still no blow job.
“Does the president have no shame?”
To pile on what techsong said,
No shame
No honor
No dignity
No worth
No military record
No success
But he has collected a lot of hate and bitterness. And he will be remembered long after he has left the office he squatted in for 8 years.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:09 pmHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) directed sharp words towards the president as well, saying that Bush’s comments were “‘beneath the dignity of the office of the president and unworthy of our representation”
Then have that table delivered and IMPEACH!
May 15th, 2008 at 3:09 pmBy reading the poll I cited above Bush is not representing the wishes of the Israeli people.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:10 pmBush is the reason democrats will be united come the general election. Obama and Clinton supporters can be each others throats but the thought of four more years of Bush will bring us all together. Keep talkin’ W.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:11 pmHe doesn’t represent the wishes of the American people either, so at least he is consistent.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:12 pmHe doesn’t represent the wishes of the American people either, so at least he is consistent. ~upside99
SO?
//snark =/
May 15th, 2008 at 3:15 pmOne world ,One people ,One destiny ! Israelis , and Palestinians are brothers as are we all .
May 15th, 2008 at 3:15 pmIs it just me or does Dubya seem to be providing one continuous sound bite feeding the Democratic Party’s landslide victory in November?
May 15th, 2008 at 3:16 pmThis is where the term “Operation Chaos” is better applied.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:16 pmWell except perhaps for Joe Liebermensch .
May 15th, 2008 at 3:16 pm“‘beneath the dignity of the office of the president and unworthy of our representation”
that’s our Georgie boy!
May 15th, 2008 at 3:17 pmCan we “Dixie Chick” him?
May 15th, 2008 at 3:19 pmHoly God, TP!! The Obama campaign itself issued a civil and decimating retort to Bush’s idiotic claims, and you don’t link to the retort from the FRONTRUNNER? WTF?
If you won’t post it, I will. From Obama today:
It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack. It is time to turn the page on eight years of policies that have strengthened Iran and failed to secure America or our ally Israel. Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all elements of American power — including tough, principled, and direct diplomacy — to pressure countries like Iran and Syria. George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the President’s extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:19 pmupside99 Says:
Is it just me or does Dubya seem to be providing one continuous sound bite feeding the Democratic Party’s landslide victory in November?
Perhaps god is speaking to him again and writing his speeches.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:20 pmhuck Feney Says:
Maybe if Bush spent more time on the golf course, he would have less opportunity to say stupid, mean and bogus things.
He could also help OJ search for Nicole Simpson’s killer.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:22 pmCheck out what J Street is doing:
May 15th, 2008 at 3:23 pmhttp://jstreet.org/campaigns/thats-offensive-mr-president
I’ll try this on this thread (it never appeared on another thread) – basically, this may whip up the “conservatives” and drive them to the polls if the usual suspects – you know, the ones with radio and tv programs to spout their hatefulness – use this as a theme.
It could also unite the Democrats and bring Independents over to Obama’s camp.
What it probably won’t do is unite this country.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:25 pmBush is a spoiled, petulant, whining, stupid, sociopathic barstid.
And there’s a lot more ’sharp words’ where those came from.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:26 pmFrom the ghost of Rummy back on August 31, 2006:
“…the only American politician Rumsfeld mentioned was the late Sen. William Borah, who upon hearing of Hitler’s 1939 invasion of Poland sighed: “Lord, if only I could have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided.” Borah was a Republican isolationist, so perhaps we can understand the aforementioned Democrats’ indignation…
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/31/tyrrell.rumsfeld/index.html
May 15th, 2008 at 3:33 pm911 is the day the USA as the worlds leading terrorist state overthrew the democratically elected government of Chile 30000 were killed and 250 000 tortured in secret concentration camps and all with the support of the US government and the CIA , an organization responsible directly for the deaths of millions of people world wide .
May 15th, 2008 at 3:34 pmThe CIA just attempted a coup in I believe 2004 in venezuala , which failed as a result of such a massive outcry and response from the citizenry that the plotters returned the president unharmed several days later for fear of the reprisals !
Okay, come on, you have to see this:
Democrats are lamenting the President’s remarks as ‘beneath the dignity of the office, but you have Biden (former candidate for president, and current senior Democrat leader) using – bullsh:t – to make the charge.
Separate for the President’s comments (and BTW, he didn’t mention Obama or Clinton – he just said ’some’), can’t anyone here see the irony of this post calling the president’s comments beneath the dignity of the office and Biden responding with ‘bullsh:t’?
Does profanity somehow elevate the level of Biden’s senate office?
May 15th, 2008 at 3:34 pmVICTOR JARA LIVES !
May 15th, 2008 at 3:35 pmfreeman:
you must mean Joe LIE-berputz
there, I fixed it for you
May 15th, 2008 at 3:36 pmhey backup;
as 5-deferment Dickhead Cheney said, Go F**K yourself!
May 15th, 2008 at 3:37 pmWilliam Edgar Borah was a Republican U.S. senator from Idaho for 33 years, best known for his major role at the end of World War I (1918) in preventing the United States from joining the League of Nations and the World Court.
Sounds like he and Georgie were cut from the same cloth.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:39 pmAnd separately, I know Pelosi misspoke, but if you watch the clip, she explains that they have a custom not to criticize the President when he’s on foreign soil. (He’s currently on foreign soil today, BTW). Then in the next breath, she explains that the President’s comments are beneath the dignity of the oval office. So, there’s a custom not to criticize, but I’m going to do it anyway.
I think Bush’s comments are being way overblown by Democrats today. I also believe it signals an insecurity in regards to this issue.
Regardless of that, I think this incident could spark some much needed debate on how we should deal with those that (most feel) Bush has refused to negotiate with (ie. Hamas, Iran, North Korea, etc.)
May 15th, 2008 at 3:40 pmCap’n, I don’t think you really understand the concept of “irony”.
As Uncle Ho pointed out, the obscenity bar was lowered a long, long time ago. Now we’re talking not about bad language, but of poor taste, inappropriate venue, and lack of respect.
No, I don’t think Joe Biden can be accused of irony.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:41 pmYeah, you’re right, Cappy. Let’s continue to observe the rules of decorum while the other side throws them out the window. That’s the way to make your point.
You don’t get it, do you?
May 15th, 2008 at 3:43 pmoctamethyl Says:
“I wonder how many sheep will be more offended by the word “B*llSH!T” than by the message of our warmonger-in-chief?”
backup Says:
“…can’t anyone here see the irony of this post calling the president’s comments beneath the dignity of the office and Biden responding with ‘bullsh:t’?
Does profanity somehow elevate the level of Biden’s senate office?”
there’s one, octamethyl!
May 15th, 2008 at 3:45 pmbtw, does “go fu(k yourself” somehow elevate the level of the VP’s office?
What an embarrassment. Why would ANYONE listen to this whack a do?
May 15th, 2008 at 3:46 pmXisithrus Says:
Ironically many Israelis want peace talks.
And their leaders pay no more attention to them than ours does to us.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:49 pmIt’s high time for censure. From:
http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Censure_vrd.htm
“Less severe than expulsion, a censure (sometimes referred to as condemnation or denouncement) does not remove a senator from office. It is a formal statement of disapproval, however, that can have a powerful psychological effect on a member and his/her relationships in the Senate. In 1834, the Senate censured President Andrew Jackson – the first and only time the Senate censured a president. Since 1789 the Senate has censured nine of its members.”
May 15th, 2008 at 3:49 pmWouldn’t ya just love to see a BushitCo approval poll consisting of the members of Congress?
May 15th, 2008 at 3:49 pmThanks backup, for providing us with another view into the Repugnicunt value system.
It’s ok to lie to your country start a war. Torture, prison camps, abuse of executive privilege, outing a spy for political gains…andonandonandon. That’s ok.
But how dare you use the word b***shit?
The kids can watch waterboarding but get out the earmuffs when someone says a bad word.
Take your phony indignation and shove it up your ass.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:56 pmHey, backup, double standards much???
May 15th, 2008 at 3:58 pmshould have impeached him a long time ago…
May 15th, 2008 at 3:58 pmWhat is Pelosi complaining about???? She allowed the WAR CRIMINAL to remain in office!
May 15th, 2008 at 3:58 pmI think invoking Nazis in front of the Knesset is quite a bit more obscene than the word bullshit.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:59 pmfreeman Says:
This congress fails to employ the constitutional remedy to the most disapproved of President in our history as a democracy !
Correct me if I am wrong but I believe without impeachment this president cannot be tried for crimes committed while in office !
Bush (and Cheney) can indeed be prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity without having been impeached during office. There is no statute of limitation on either crime.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:04 pmHe has no dignity, period.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:18 pmO/T Had to say final farewell to my first guidedog Bentley today. He was getting weaker lately (he was 11) and today he couldn’t get up on his front legs.
The vet said he had a tumor on his spine and didn’t think he could hanlde surgery at this time.
So I was there when he left us with his paw on my arm and his big silly smile to the end.
sorry about the OT
take care
tony and lIDo
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said: “Not surprisingly, the engineer of the worst foreign policy in our nation’s history has fired yet another reckless and reprehensible round.”
… and you continue to do nothing about it.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:19 pm“Emanuel noted Bush had broken from the tradition that “when a U.S. president is overseas, partisan politics stops at the water’s edge.”
Bush also broke the with long-standing gentleman’s agreement that a last term sitting pres doesn’t attack those running for the office. He’s a bastard.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:19 pmFreeman, I have forgotten about Víctor Jara. He is a liberty icon in South America rock/protest scene.
The Clash mention him on:
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=8v07nJNlYJw&feature=related
May 15th, 2008 at 4:31 pmBush himself is a steaming, smelly, heap of the stuff(what Biden said Bush’s comments were).
http://www.bloggerradio.com/2008/05/bbb-bush-biden.html
May 15th, 2008 at 4:34 pmnanlichi.
If your view of the world were accurate, you might have a point. But, that’s the problem, if…
May 15th, 2008 at 4:45 pmAnd there’s plenty of blame to go around:
Jimmy Carter doesn’t hold back much,
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070521/21bushcarter.htm
Bill Clinton doesn’t seem to see any problems,
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/16/politics/main1048605.shtml
Take a deep breath, my Democrat friends, you’re hypocritical attacks against Bush for disagreeing with ’some’ that believe negotiating with terrorists is a mistake, looks more like an insecure overreaction.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:49 pmOk they all talk a good line, how about somebody telling bush he is an idiot. Pelosi had the backbone to tell him New Orleans was drowning where is her backbone today ?
May 15th, 2008 at 4:51 pmbackup Says:
————————————————————-nanlichi.
If your view of the world were accurate, you might have a point. But, that’s the problem, if…
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May 15th, 2008 at 4:51 pmAre you implying that your view is?
BTW, here are the words that many here find ‘notorious’:
“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” Bush said.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:00 pmLet me see where my worldview is so skewed:
Lied to his country to start his war? Check.
Torture? Check.
Prison camps? Check.
Abuse of Executive Privilege? Pat Tillman weighs in on this one and says….Check.
Outing a spy for political gain? Check.
Seems pretty solid, but then again I don’t get my “worldview” from Faux News and hate radio jocks.
I don’t deny that I hate Bush. But I come by it honestly and sincerely, not ideologically. Bush is the worst person ever, and I will celebrate his leaving.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:14 pmIn front of a Jewish audience, for me these are the odious words:
We have an obligation to call this what it is – the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.
Eat shit backup. Bush is comparing Democrats and especially Obama to Nazi appeasers, no matter how you spin it. Even his staff says that that is what was intended.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:21 pmIsn’t “Bullsh*t and Malarkey” redundant? Why is it taking the Democrats so long to voice opinions this strongly? Is this the first stupid thing this stupid idiot has said? (is that redundant?) Only now because it is the political season they want to seem like the same kind of faux macho a$$hole Bush is. Bush has been using Congress as his personal piniata. And they just take it. Democrats in charge my ass. They were given the majority in both Houses to get us out of Iraq and we are as mired there as if there was no election. STOP! the funding for the war with the exception of money to withdraw completely as soon as possible without ANY contingencies. DO NOT pass any legislation giving this warmonger any excuse to bastardize it into permission to start a war with Iran. This guy should be in a straight jacket and muzzled until Jan.20 2009.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:25 pmBentley1 – I’m sorry for your loss. I’ve lost many pets over the years, and know how much it hurts.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:34 pmThe political traitor to America should rightly have been impeached by now.
What he said today was inexcusable. He should suffer consequences, but I see Joe LIEberman, and John Kyl think that what he said was A-OK — ass-kissing, brown-nosed political hacks — they are traitors too.
My calendar says 250 more days — will we survive him?
May 15th, 2008 at 5:38 pmCan someone persuade the stupid one to give up the white house in solidarity and take up golf?
May 15th, 2008 at 5:39 pmSad to hear about your loss Bentley1…..Blessings
May 15th, 2008 at 5:46 pmGod bless, Bentley1.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:09 pmLosing your Dog can Break your Heart. So sorry Bently 1…God bless.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:13 pmthanks all.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:08 pmbeing with me every day for six years makes it even harder.
he went with the dignity he always had.
take care tony and guidedog Lido
Expect stern letters from Reid and Pelosi. But only letters.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:32 pmInsulting the legislators of the aerican government beneath dignity .
May 15th, 2008 at 7:49 pmKilling millions struggling for basic rights and dignity for 60 years as American policy…… ?
Attacking the USA on Sept 11th a crime against humanity .
May 15th, 2008 at 8:02 pmThe USA’s overthrowing the democratically elected government of Chile and killing 30,000 people on Sept 11th , good foreign policy .
Recuerdo.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:03 pmbentley, it sounds like you gave your dog the best life he could have had. Every dog wants to be with his human 24 hours a day, to have a job and to perform it well. It sounds like Bentley had all those things. I’m sorry for your loss but I trust that your Bentley was ready to go, knowing he was leaving you in good paws.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:08 pmWe had a Cairn Terrier who we called Penny after her AKA registered name of Penelope. She went with us to Germany when I was on assignment with my family. About once a month, she would escape from the house and one of our German neighbors would show up at our front door with the Hunde. Bottom line is that Germans favor their pets as family and expect others to follow suit.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:44 pmGeorge Bush is truly one scary man. And aren’t the Israelis in enough trouble without showing adulation for a man Americans hate? Maybe Americans are thinking that “my enemy’s friends are my enemies” stuff. The Democrats get kudos for standing up to this ludicrous event in Israel. Special kudos to Nancy for standing up to that Zionist strong-arm, Harvey Weinstein.
Americans are fed up with Zionists pursuing their selfish interests and using Americans to do it.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:38 amthanks all
May 16th, 2008 at 11:59 amtony and guidedog Lido
nanlichi.
It’s funny how upset progressives get when they are compared to nazi appeasers, when most of them see nothing wrong with comparing conservatives to the actual nazis.
May 16th, 2008 at 8:26 pm