‘Everybody hates George Bush.’
By on May 26th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
‘Everybody hates George Bush.’
Via Atrios, the Dallas Morning News reports that “even Texas Republicans such as Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions are distancing themselves from President Bush”:
The president, Mr. Sessions told a group of eighth-graders visiting the Capitol last week from Akiba Academy in Dallas, “is doing everything he thinks is correct,” and yet “the American people are fed up…. we’ve lost the House and Senate, and everybody hates George Bush.”
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8 years billions of dollars and thousands of lives to late.
May 26th, 2008 at 2:08 pmEighth graders are a super demographic. An investment in brand loyalty now, pays big through a lifetime
May 26th, 2008 at 2:11 pmThe entire world hates his sorry ass.
May 26th, 2008 at 2:12 pmI love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning!!
May 26th, 2008 at 2:14 pmkaty Says:
it’s that ‘policy of “closed press”’ that is most disturbing…
who and what are they hiding?
May 26th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Yes, we all know that there are not enough Democrats in the Senate to remove Bush and Cheney from office, but that does automatically mean that there are not enough Senators with the courage to stand up for the oaths of office they took and defend our Constitution against the likes of Bush and Cheney. I find it disgusting that anyone would want to reduce it to a purely partisan issue. We don’t want Bush and Cheny removed from office just because the Democrats control both House of Congress, we want Bush and Cheney removed because they are reprehensible human beings and they have repeatedly, and with malice aforethought, disregarded the very document they were supposed to place at the top of their priority list – including above “protecting the American people.”
I already told my own Congressman that it was not a valid excuse that just because they didn’t have enough votes to win, it wasn’t worth the effort to even try. The very least they could have done was pin every Republican in Congress down on whether or not they believe that their oath to protect the constitution has any meaning whatsoever, or is it just a mere formality before taking office?
May 26th, 2008 at 2:22 pm*Yawn*-more baiting, not even any real story here.
Your comment only lends credence to the validity of the “real story”.
Otherwise, STFU, m-kay?
May 26th, 2008 at 2:23 pmnot everybody.
May 26th, 2008 at 2:23 pmSorry, but my comment at 2:22 PM was directed at this:
rogers Says:
*Yawn*-more baiting, not even any real story here.
Well, before some lunatic says it, impeachment takes a 2/3ds majority, which the dems don’t have…ok?.
Please, I’m all for it, but please tell me what neo-cons will vote for it, or just don’t say it please!.
May 26th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I have been having copying and pasting problems with this keyboard. My apologies for the confusion. I sure wish we could get a preview box option here. (sigh)
May 26th, 2008 at 2:24 pmIf Bush (actually, Cheney) “is doing everything he thinks is correct,” and the American people hate Bush, then isn’t the obvious conclusion that the American people hate what neoconInc. thinks is correct? Good luck, Mr. McCain, prying yourself from the neconInc. embrace you’ve so willingly and venally displayed.
May 26th, 2008 at 2:25 pmIf they want to get on the right bandwagon in a timely manner, they should get a head start on rejecting Bush 3.
May 26th, 2008 at 2:29 pmFour years ago, an 8 year old voted in his class for Kerry because of my advice. He lost. Now he is 11 and we had a very intelligent conversation on politics; recently I explained why we were right then but too many people didn’t see it – or didn’t want to admit it – now they have come around, and changes are coming next year.
May 26th, 2008 at 2:37 pmEight years from now this youngster will be ready to vote.
Does Barney count?
May 26th, 2008 at 2:44 pmthe use of the ******yawn* as well as the implication of naivity implies a false air of superiority which seems to discount the implied presumption of objective thought of that of the poster
May 26th, 2008 at 2:47 pmJust flag the troll. Its just baiting.
May 26th, 2008 at 2:47 pmbarely story for more naive comments
You should by a pair since that one fits you like a glove.
May 26th, 2008 at 2:47 pmRep. Kay Granger of Fort Worth – vice chairwoman of the House GOP conference-unveiled the official leadership agenda proposal called “Change You Deserve” the Effexor antidepressant drug slogan. The Granger plan is 46-points.
He said: “Sooner as opposed to later, we had better come to decide, as a Republican conference, what does it mean to have an ‘R’ by your name in 2008.”
I thought the presumptive nominee should be leading at setting the party agenda.
McCain does not have the real backing of the GOP. How can he lead a nation if he can’t lead his party?
May 26th, 2008 at 2:48 pmDoes Barney count?
Not since Dumbya began playing “red-rocket” with him.
You see, George likes to be surrounded by dicks.
May 26th, 2008 at 2:48 pmAll I did was tell my children that Shrub took us into an nasty, unnecessary, unwinnable “war”.
Then they decided on their own that he’s a horrible President.
May 26th, 2008 at 2:50 pm“Mr. Sessions told a group of eighth-graders…”
That’s a great start, Mr. Sessions, now please continue to work your way up to addressing colleagues and voting-agers.
May 26th, 2008 at 3:00 pmWhy is my comment ‘awaiting moderation’?
::sigh::
May 26th, 2008 at 3:02 pmOne of the best opinion pieces on this Memorial Day that I read today was by Bob Geiger at Huffington Post.
May 26th, 2008 at 3:02 pmHe also harbors hatred George Bush. What he had to say was a mirror of my feelings as well.
nwmuse-The last line of that piece is great:
May 26th, 2008 at 3:07 pm“The least Bush can do is stay in the White House today, keep his lying mouth shut and understand deep in his craven soul that the next day the Congress should declare a national holiday is January 20, 2009, the day he leaves office and his days of dishonoring our war dead are forever done.”
Last Week:
“…everybody hates George Bush.”— Rep. Pete Sessions (R) to a group of eighth-graders visiting the capitol.
—also—
Official Bush, Cheney, & Rice photo portraits outside the Sate Department press briefing room are defaced. After being cleaned up the defacements reappear…
—the week before—
“..THE REPUBLICAN BRAND IS IN THE TRASH CAN…IF WE WERE DOGFOOD, THEY WOULD TAKE US OFF THE SHELF.” Rep. Tom Davis (R) Virginia, to the House GOP on May 14, 2008
—————–
#5 Leftside Annie & #7 Wayne A. Schneider are right on the money!
All I can say is OBAMA, OH EIGHT!!!!!!! CELLLLL-AH-BRATION TIME, C’MON! IT’S GONNA BE A CELEBRATION!!!!!!
May 26th, 2008 at 3:11 pm19. leftcoast Says:
Rep. Kay Granger of Fort Worth – vice chairwoman of the House GOP conference-unveiled the official leadership agenda proposal called “Change You Deserve” the Effexor antidepressant drug slogan. The Granger plan is 46-points.
He said: “Sooner as opposed to later, we had better come to decide, as a Republican conference, what does it mean to have an ‘R’ by your name in 2008.”
How ’bout, ‘R’-eject.
‘R’-eprobate
‘R’-otten
‘R’-sh*theads (the “r” is silent…)
May 26th, 2008 at 3:17 pm‘Everybody hates George Bush.’
Gee, ya think????
And a very appropriate title for the Mangler-in-chief. He is a man without a country.
May 26th, 2008 at 3:20 pmWatching the Republicans trying to detach themselves from Bush is like watching a man tearing his own face off.
May 26th, 2008 at 3:21 pmThe poor GOoPer Kool-Aid Kidz still can’t wrest themselves from the smothering embrace of G.W. Shitheel. it’s the authoritarian nature of them to want to be embraced by a big daddy.
They need to show distance from him and the BEST thing they could do for themselves is to start impeachment hearings.
-GSD
May 26th, 2008 at 3:24 pm“…what does it mean to have an ‘R’ by your name in 2008.”
‘R’-etired
May 26th, 2008 at 3:24 pmYou have to wonder where GW will go after he leaves office. He will be in a prison of his own making. Think about it. Most of America (and the world) hate him. They hate what he has wrought. It is likely if he leaves the United States, he may well be arrested for international war crimes. The only place he can go is Northern Paraguay, where they don’t have extradition for political crimes (thanks to Bill Clinton).
He will not be able to move around the country or planet freely.
May 26th, 2008 at 3:25 pmWhat goes around comes around.
nwmuse Says:
The only place he can go is Northern Paraguay, where they don’t have extradition for political crimes (thanks to Bill Clinton).
May 26th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Just out of curiosity, I wonder how many other presidents bought land in another country while they were still in office? Shouldn’t that count against them in the “supporting and defending the constitution” column?
May 26th, 2008 at 3:30 pmOn the subject of Impeachment … I’m for PROSECUTION. Impeachment is just too easy-going for me.
Vincent Bugliosi’s new book The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder will be available tomorrow.
I wish I had enough money to buy a copy for every member of Congress & the Senate – but I wonder how many of them would simply toss it in the trash. Considering their record of not reading available material i.e. the NIE report before casting their MOST SERIOUS vote taking us to war with Iraq … even though the weapons inspectors had insisted Saddam had NO WMD. For instance, see http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/28/clinton.iraq/index.html Records: Senators who OK’d war didn’t read key report
Read about Bugliosi’s book here: http://www.alternet.org/rights/86232/ Hmmm – maybe I’ll email a copy of this article to them instead.
May 26th, 2008 at 3:32 pmWell gee, rogers – what does that say about the GOP?
May 26th, 2008 at 3:55 pmrogers Says:
Ppl are really naive..its simply a fact that none of the gop wonuld support impeachment, so it never would have happened anyway.Pelosi is doing you a favour, it would only give them fuel.
May 26th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I’m sorry, but could you please explain the logic of that last sentence. How would defending the constitution against domestic enemies such as Bush and Cheney “give [the Republicans] fuel”? What argument are the Republicans using for allowing Bush and Cheney to ignore the constitution? And why can’t we get them to go on the Congressional Record as saying that their oath of office is meaningless?
May 26th, 2008 at 3:58 pmnwmuse – wasn’t aware the Bill Clinton was responsible for the lack of extradition in Paraguay. Facists have fled there since Bush’s grandfather help start the American Facist Party in 1932.
Obama is our only chance to see numerous cabinet members of the Bush administration held to answer for international war crimes and the murder of 1 million Iraqi civilians.
The world doesn’t hate G. W. Bush – they hate the entire Bush criminal dynasty.
May 26th, 2008 at 4:09 pmKira Says:
Considering their record of not reading available material i.e. the NIE report before casting their MOST SERIOUS vote taking us to war with Iraq
I doubt a single one read the the Patriot Act in its entirety before voting for it.
May 26th, 2008 at 4:10 pmExit Stage Left, like you, I’m afraid they don’t read much of anything they vote on anymore.
Actually, the way they stuff bills with totally unrelated amendments ought to be stopped – YESTERDAY already. Things are so out of control on the hill — it really does feel like we suddenly turned the corner and found ourselves in the Twilight Zone or Bizarro World.
May 26th, 2008 at 4:30 pmLouis Lemire:
http://www.oas.org/ JURIDICO/ MLA/ en/ traites/ en_traites-ext-usa-pry.pdf
We have extradition between the US and Paraguay, but not in the case of a ‘political offense’. (How convenient). This was set up by President Clinton in 1998.
May 26th, 2008 at 4:46 pmThe Paraguayan government has also granted immunity to US military personnel from international war crimes prosecution. Suppose Rumsfeld is going down there too?
I apologize.. That link doesn’t work any more. I will try and find one that shows their extradition law that I was referring to.
May 26th, 2008 at 4:48 pmnwmuse – well it won’t be the first time Bill did something I disagreed with. I was always under the impression that once a fascist stepped foot on Paraguay soil they were safe.
Here’s a good question: Why do we have military in Paraguay? The official White House lie is that they are there for the purposes of fighting terrorism.
It’s amazing isn’t it that our country has been under the control (indirect or direct) of the fascist Bush family for over 75 years now. One of my hopes and dreams is that the current generation get rid of them once and for all (and throw the Clinton’s out with ‘em).
May 26th, 2008 at 4:50 pmHere it is:
May 26th, 2008 at 4:52 pmhttp://www.usextradition.com/paraguay_bi.htm
Louis Lemire, I seem to remember that the location is of great significance. Has something to do with water. I don’t have time to go look for it now.
May 26th, 2008 at 4:53 pmIt’s only natural to hate the poster boy for the criminal rich. You have to wonder what his parents think about their morally bankrupt son.
May 26th, 2008 at 4:55 pmrepublicanSScareme wrote: morally bankrupt son … doesn’t that imply he, at one time, had some morals? Just sayin’ …
May 26th, 2008 at 4:59 pmHere is something on the “water” aspect of the Paraguay land purchase:
May 26th, 2008 at 5:04 pmhttp://poljunk.gloriousnoise.com/2006/10/water_world_the_sequel_paranoid_in_parag.php
Apparently it is near the Guarani Aquifer, the Earth’s largest resource of fresh drinking water.
Bush’s land purchase is near Sun Myung Moon’s purchase of 600,000 hectares of Paraguay’s Chaco (Moon’s stated intention is of erecting an “ecological paradise.”)
May 26th, 2008 at 5:07 pmThis statement according to this blog:
http://rigint.blogspot.com/2006/10/moonshadow.html
Oh what a tangled web…
muse,
May 26th, 2008 at 5:17 pmThat 70,000 acres amounts to approximately 110 square miles. That’s larger than the embassy compound in Baghdad.
nmuse – Dave Lindorff wrote about bu*sh & Paraguay a couple of weeks ago –
May 2, 2008 The Bush Family’s Bad Latin Real Estate Investment
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_dave_lin_080502_the_bush_family_s_ba.htm
“…Only trouble is, Paraguay may not be such a safe haven for long.
Last month, a former Roman Catholic Bishop with leftist, populist tendencies, Fernando Lugo, surprised almost everyone in Paraguay, and no doubt President Bush, by winning the national presidential election, ousting the Colorado Party for the first time in 61 years. There is talk that among other things, Lugo is thinking of returning Paraguay to the community of nations, by signing some of those extradition agreements.
If he does that Bush may be stuck having to hide behind his rump squad of Secret Service agents down at the Crawford Ranch, hoping they can keep the process servers from Brattleboro and Marlboro, VT, with their war crimes arrest warrants, at bay.”
May 26th, 2008 at 5:35 pmSessions’ remarks, like the McCain nomination, are just the beginning steps of the “rebranding” of the Republican party. They know that the upcoming election is going to be a bloodbath. By the 2012 election Bush will be as “hated” by the Republicriminals as he already is by conscientious humans around the world. Though they will “hate” him for “betraying conservative principles” rather than his crimes.
May 26th, 2008 at 5:36 pmpete,
May 26th, 2008 at 5:40 pmYou may only have to wait til 2010. After the midterms, there will be very few Republicans in the Senate.
Walt,
That is a distinct possibility. However, I think it’s more likely that R’s will try the “I’m not that kind of Republican” gambit for the midterms while the party itself will claim to be “different” for the presidential election. Midterms, unless there is a fresh “wedge issue”, tend to be more personal. State and local level office seekers may be better off claiming independence from a broken party. Then, win or lose, they can take credit for any reforms of the party itself.
Heck, it might take more than 2 years for the Psychochristains(TM) to forgive the GOP for letting McCain throw Hagee and Parsly under the bus. How sweet would it be to start seeing powerful figures of the religious right calling for a third party? Cause if the neocons lose their pet “rubber stamps” they may never recover.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:20 pmNevar Says:
“…what does it mean to have an ‘R’ by your name in 2008.”
‘R’-etired
“R-etarded” too.
it will be curious to see all of the military industrialists, Fundamentalists, Rednecks, Klansmen, racists, and Average people in the Midwest and South vote for McInsane. My wife’s two aunts, both Democrats, are saying, “If that N…. Runs, I’m voting for McCain”. This sums up the insanity of this country. Everyday people voting for someone who would be 180 degrees opposite to their best interests.
May 26th, 2008 at 7:51 pmMy wife’s two aunts, both Democrats, are saying, “If that N…. Runs, I’m voting for McCain”.
How quaint. And I’m pretty sure Obama has been running for quite some time, so their stupid response only reinforces the ignorance.
Tell them to please go join the Repukes.
Their attitudes are much more in line with the Right wing, and if they’re even CONSIDERING voting for McInsane, they DEFINITELY belong in the GOP.
WHO ARE THEY KIDDING?
Democrats my white a$$.
p.s. if anyone in your extended family uses that language and you don’t correct them, you’re an accomplice to hate.
May 26th, 2008 at 8:05 pm“…what does it mean to have an ‘R’ by your name in 2008.”
Reprobate, Reckless, Radical, Rapacious, Reprehensible, Rapturite, Ridiculous, Rong (home “school” spelling) and my personal wish and dream: REJECTED.
May 26th, 2008 at 8:26 pm“billions of dollars and thousands of lives to late”… nobody like WAR CRIMINALS!
May 26th, 2008 at 8:57 pmGeorge W. Bush is one of the only two people on this planet whom I hate. The other is Dick Cheney.
May 26th, 2008 at 11:07 pm#61 – agreed and i’d like to throw john f**king bolton in as well
May 26th, 2008 at 11:57 pmAs I understand , the purpose of Impeachment is to eliminate “Executive Priviledge” as an excuse to avoid testimony. It doesn’t apply in an impeachment trial.
May 27th, 2008 at 12:41 amInteresting about the proximity of the Bush and Moon aquisitions to large bodies of fresh water. Thanks for the link.
Not EVERYONE. His Momma still loves him.
May 27th, 2008 at 12:57 amClinton has taken Kentucky and Obama is right there in Oregon.
The Democratic race for nomination is still very much alive – and most likely to be decided by superdelegates – as CNN points out clearly
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/20/primary.wrap/index.html
If you’re tired of waiting around for those super delegates to make a decision already, go to LobbyDelegates.com and push them to support Clinton or Obama
If you haven’t done so yet, please write a message to each of your state’s superdelegates at http://www.lobbydelegates.com
Obama Supporters:
Sending a note to current Obama supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Clinton supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Obama, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Obama. It’s that easy…
Clinton Supporters too …. !
It takes a moment, but what’s a few minutes now worth to get Clinton in office?! Those are really worth !
Sending a note to current Clinton supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Obama supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Clinton, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Clinton. It’s that easy…
May 27th, 2008 at 6:36 amWhy would any sane person vote for more of the Mc/bush/clinton dynasty? It’s time for a real CHANGE. No more Monarchy rule – isn’t that why we had the Revolution in the first place?
May 28th, 2008 at 5:24 pm