After Returning From Four Days At The Olympics, Bush Criticizes Congress’s ‘Vacation’
After Returning From Four Days At The Olympics, Bush Criticizes Congress’s ‘Vacation’
Yesterday, after meeting with an oil industry front group, President Bush rebuked the congressional leadership for taking a “vacation” without holding a vote on offshore oil drilling:
Last month I acted and I lifted an executive branch restriction on offshore oil exploration. And then I called on Congress to join me and…end the legislative ban. Unfortunately, the Democratic leadership in Congress decided to go on a five-week vacation, a recess, rather than act on behalf of the American consumer.
Bush’s dig at Congress for being on vacation is ironic, as he rivals Ronald Reagan for the title of “presidential vacation-time record holder.” Some highlights of Bush’s time away from the office:
– Attended 95 sports-related events.
– Made 74 trips to his Crawford ranch, for a total of 466 days.
– Made 142 trips to Camp David, for a total of 450 days.
– Attended 327 fundraising events for Republican candidates and causes.
Over the course of his presidency, national catastrophes have taken shape while Bush has been on vacation. When he was in Crawford before 9/11, Bush ignored an infamous memo about an impending bin Laden attack. Similarly, Bush brushed off warnings of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 while at the ranch.
While congressional conservatives held political stunts on the House floor, Bush was kicking back at the Olympics. And as Russia invaded Georgia, Bush attended baseball, basketball, swimming, and softball games in Beijing, where he also made time for an hour of mountain-biking and playing beach volleyball with the U.S. team.
“I think the highlight was getting my picture taken with the teams,” he reflected. The AP observed: “Bush was in the mood to talk sports, not policy”:
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That little row of pictures at the bottom... 2nd one from the left...
Is that man NOT totally sh*t-faced?
Leader of the Free World, my Cheney...
August 13th, 2008 at 11:22 amAnd you got the flag BACKWARDS!
August 13th, 2008 at 11:22 amThe fact that protestors have been outside of Crawford Ranch, rather than in DC, speaks volumes. In order to protest this president, you have to catch him at his vacation home. Did I mention we have two wars going on, in multiple fronts?
August 13th, 2008 at 11:22 amOn his right, the woman is glaring at his stupidity of displaying the flag backwards.
What a fcuking dolt.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:23 amI guess Bush has realized that he doesn't even have to try and look presidential. The media will just give him the free pass as usual and let him get away with anything.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:23 amUnfortunately, the Democratic leadership in Congress decided to go on a five-week vacation, a recess, rather than act on behalf of the American consumer.
You mean act on behalf of your wealthy friends in the oil industry because consumers aren't going to see anything from offshore drilling, other than dirty beaches and oil soaked birds that is.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
August 13th, 2008 at 11:23 amThe republicans held the majority in congress for more than 10 years, and the presidency during 7 of those years. During that time, the price of gas tripled.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:24 amYup. GDumbya is home from his second overseas "farewell tour". Now he's taking on the Russian/Georgia conflict.
It's going to be tough but I just know that we can count on GDumbya to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:25 amAdded up he spent three years on vacation between Crawford, Tx and Camp David, doing this while he started a war and single handidly put our economy into the crapper. Gee,just think of the damage he could have done if he wouldn`t have spent so much time on vacation.....Thanks for taking those vacations on our dime, moron.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:25 amThe GOP gang of ten trying to re-open the House over offshore drilling. Any drilling won't increase supply for approx. ten years. It is a political stunt. Boehner has ben caught playing golf. Shameless pandering to the bottom feeders.
Congress has been closed during this time every year. Meanwhile, the more they are off the less damage they can do to our country.
As for Bush, no one is listening to him anymore, so let him spit out more lies and propaganda. It will remind us of how much he is hated and how fast we want to be rid of him.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:26 amThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
That little row of pictures at the bottom… 2nd one from the left…
Is that man NOT totally sh*t-faced?
Yep, I have seen my share of sh!t-faced buffoons, Bush is clearly 3 sheets into the wind there.
Our Presinut in his highest glory.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:28 amHow freekin embarrassing.
Jan 2009 cannot come soon enough.
Drilling..banking..vacationing..murdering. Every thing Republican is done offshore!
August 13th, 2008 at 11:30 amDieNowForPeace Says:
On his right, the woman is glaring at his stupidity of displaying the flag backwards.
What a fcuking dolt.
With him at the helm of this country, it should actually be displayed upside down, by proper protocol. This whole country is in distress with this moron as Presinut.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:31 amThose that control the 'spice'...set the price!
August 13th, 2008 at 11:33 amHe is such an embarrassment. He is kind of like the drunk uncle at Thanksgiving, he is spouting off at dinner, and you are sitting there cringing and hoping he will shut up.
He is a fine one to talk about someone taking a vacation! His record on vacations is very clear, he likes them!
Sad thing is that he is POTUS. OMFG!
August 13th, 2008 at 11:33 amobamagr8,
Bush's destabilizing of the Middle East drove up gas prices for the entire world.
-- Even countries with good energy policies, such as Germany which gets 30% of its energy from renewables.
In 1992 I was paying 95 cents per gallon when every conservative said Clinton would give us $2 gallon gas if elected. Eight years later, I was still paying 95 cents.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:33 amWhy is obamagr8 so obsessed with the price of gas?
August 13th, 2008 at 11:34 amDoes anyone else think he may be drinking again? Kind of looks like it.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:35 amfor Obamagr8, daryll, et.al.
from the Onion
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"The result will be an astonishing combination of ignorance, offensiveness, and sheer idiocy," Mylenek said.
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According to media critic Judy Turner, this type of behavior is not uncommon among idiots.
"Brandon's comments in particular contain a degree of unoriginality and stupidity that you only see in the most muttonheaded and imbecilic Internet commenters," Turner said. Mylenek concluded his press conference with a solemn vow to uphold the awful, unintelligible, anger-inducing quality of his past Internet comments.
"I promise everyone that this post will be exactly what you have come to expect from an idiot like myself," he said.
obamagr8 Says:
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All I am saying is that they had plenty of time to do whatever they thought would help oil prices. If they wanted to drill, import more, export less, "jawbone the Saudis", whatever they thought they could do to bring down oil prices, they had their time to do it. During that time, nothing was done. Several domestic leases have been extended to the oil companies and they refuse to drill on them. We export 580 million barrels of oil per year, so regardless if we drilled more, it would do NOTHING to affaect the price. It would, however, make Exxon executives richer, since they would have more oil to sell to Europe - but they already got that with their recent contract in Europe.
This is a political stunt. The funny part, is that they decided to do it during the olympics, so no one is watching.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:37 amobamagr8 Says:
That 10 year period encompasses roughly 3,600 days. How many mornings did the sun come up?
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Oh, good Dog, this is just asinine. The GOOP has been a complete disaster for this country and the world. The dollar has been in a steady decline the entire time Botch has been occupying the WH. The deficit has sky rocketed. He's got us mired down in not one but TWO wars in Asia... torture, illegal wire-tapping, a cooked DoJ... and you think all you have to do to demolish peoples' arguments is post clever tripe like the above...
FFFFFFFFFFF-in' pathetic, O8...
August 13th, 2008 at 11:38 amlarkohio...When did he stop drinking????????????
August 13th, 2008 at 11:39 amYa know, I've always joked that Preznut Bush was a closeted homosexual.
I retract that statement.
He is clearly restraining himself in the above pic (and other pics noted in the Think Fast thread), from "patting that a$$".
And his drunken smirk while not so subtly glaring at the two beach girl's posteriors?
August 13th, 2008 at 11:40 amPriceless!
Your illustrius leader
August 13th, 2008 at 11:40 amIf the problem is the fact there is not enough supply, wouldn't the recent contracts in Iraq with Exxon, Total, BP and Shell make up for that?
August 13th, 2008 at 11:41 amobamagr8,
August 13th, 2008 at 11:43 amThe more progressive countries of the world do not have $800 Billion annual trade deficits and $580 Billion annual budget deficits. They are not owned by China. Japan, and the EU. They do not have 47 million without healthcare. They do not have one single citizen without healthcare.
Name a more conservative nation than the US that is doing better. Hint: Never in the history of the world.
He's lashing out because he knows his drilling "solution" is a farce and won't do a thing to oil prices. Oil has dropped in the last few weeks; no drilling was started. So it has no connection...
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/
August 13th, 2008 at 11:45 amYep, others were at work while Dubya was drunk, AGAIN.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:45 amYikes...someone's back on the wagon..
And how is the man going to criticize Congress for taking a vacation? Has he not taken more vacation days than any other President in history??
http://liberalretort.blogspot.com/
August 13th, 2008 at 11:47 amEver how how the Dow Jones always drops as the prez speaks on tv?
August 13th, 2008 at 11:47 amThis is pretty dumb when you consider how many people the sun has stopped coming up for since bush read my pet goat.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:49 amThe picture of GDumbya displaying the flag backwards could be an iconic symbol of his entire presi-dunce-y:
Do the job in a half-assed fashion.
Show incredible incompetence and lack of attention to detail.
Do it all while being a closeted active alcoholic.
Don't take any personal responsibility for consequences of bad judgement or choices but expect to be praised for making the effort.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:50 amWeak, weak attempt at trolling, princess. Try again, cupcake.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:50 amreality a little tough for ya?
August 13th, 2008 at 11:51 amLook at the last pic in the lower right-hand corner.
The most uncooridnated d0uchebag on the planet , is attempting to give out 'pointers' on volleyball ?
Yeah , just what world class athletes need and are looking for ; tips on how to play their game from a former cheerleader ...........
August 13th, 2008 at 11:53 amdennis Says:
Are you proud of your president who cannot control his drinking long enough to make a public appearace while representing America abroad.....and proclaiming to be a christain at the same time?
August 13th, 2008 at 11:53 amdennis Says:
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The Republic of Stupidity Says: The deficit has sky rocketed. He’s got us mired down in not one but TWO wars in Asia… torture, illegal wire-tapping, a cooked DoJ… and you think all you have to do to demolish peoples’ arguments is post clever tripe like the above…
FFFFFFFFFFF-in’ pathetic, O8…
Tell me one comment here so far that you could say you were proud to be associated with. Or that wasn’t as you say, the regular tripe.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:47 am
All of them ...........Save Obie's.
And of course , your useless shit.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:54 am“I think the highlight was getting my picture taken with the teams,” he reflected.
"Followed closely by being given a cookie and a coloring book on Air Force 1" , he added..........
August 13th, 2008 at 11:58 amThe woman looking at his backwards flag is his daughter Barbara, right?
August 13th, 2008 at 11:59 amEven weaker attempt at trolling, princess. You're off your game, princess. What's wrong, princess, ran out of adult diapers and you have to use a toilet for once or did you have a bad day on the front nine, princess?
Try again, princess, we'll wait.....
August 13th, 2008 at 12:00 pmJFK drank a bit, but he didn't destroy the country.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:00 pmdennis Says:
You are nothing here if you don't answer the question:
Are you proud of bush being drunk while abroad while representing the USA?
August 13th, 2008 at 12:01 pmKeith Says:
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The woman looking at his backwards flag is his daughter Barbara, right?
August 13th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Says a lot about the "1st family" when both his wife and daughter don't tell the clod that he's holding the flag backwards , doesn't it ?
August 13th, 2008 at 12:02 pmdennis Says:
Time for a Hitler reference from you? Or are you waiting till the 100th post?
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Mighty Aphrodite, is that you? Do you ever discuss the subject of the thread, or is this your usual? Why don't you tell us how the republicans took less days on vacation when they were in congress? Or how openng more areas for drilling will bring down the price of gas? Oh, yeah, you don't have an argument for either of those. Toodles!
August 13th, 2008 at 12:04 pmHi Dennis:
August 13th, 2008 at 12:09 pmSo about your thoughts on presidential vacationing? I used to live down the road from this clan and they spend a lot of time screwing off when they could be add to GDP. Oh I'm sorry, did you want to talk about something else?
Says a lot about the “1st family” when both his wife and daughter don’t tell the clod that he’s holding the flag backwards , doesn’t it ?
Enablers, co-dependents and fellow addicts just don't do that.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:11 pmI would like to mention this again since it's on topic.
bush so drunk that it takes 4 or 5 secret service men to hold him up.....in public.
Look I'm nearly 60 and I have never in my life been in the situation that bush finds himself, drinking or otherwise.
He is a national embarrassment. Don't worry, I,ve been saying that for some time now.
If that bothers you then you don't belong in America. You had no problem dragging Clinton's personal failings into the public eye.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:13 pm159 Days and Counting.
I've just started reading "The Final Days" about the final days of the Nixon White House.
Has anyone here ever read this?
August 13th, 2008 at 12:14 pmI would love to be a fly on the wall watching Criminal Bush setting up his legal defence team to protect him against Crimes of Treason (9/11) and for War Crimes (prisoner abuse, secret prisons, renditions) and overall Crimes Against Humanity.
Princess is scrambling over to drudge and mccgrampa.com to pick-up so new talking points to C&P.
She wants to get the McGrampa golf visor.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pmBush is an incurious, lazy as*hole, but that doesn't excused Congress from going on a five-week vacation, in my opinion. They should be throwing Rove, Miers, and Bolten in jail, impeaching Mukasey, and holding impeachment hearings on Bush and Cheney (even if it comes to nothing; that would at least put the issue in front of the people).
August 13th, 2008 at 12:16 pmTheir five-week vacation is a slap in the face to hard-working people in this country, who can barely make ends meet. I think the Democrats are afraid to stay in session. They might have to actually do something about Suskind's memo revelations other Constitutionally-mandated issues.
It's deja vu all over again, Kay. I am sure that the "final days" of GDumbya's White House will be at least as pathetic and depressing as Tricky Dicky's.
I can easily imagine GDumbya getting blind drunk late every night and stumbling around the White House yelling at the portraits of past presidents, too.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:17 pmAw geez, Kay... it's simple...
Botch is gonna pardon HIMSELF... then award himself a Medal of Freedom™... and there will, of course, be cookies and ice cream... vanilla ice cream, no doubt...
... and then high tail it for Paraguay as fast as possible.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:17 pmyour illustrius leader too drunk to stand on his own in public.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:17 pmFlag dennis. Spam trolling without even a pretense of contributing, tsk, tsk, tsk.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:18 pmdennis'mighty aphrodite? Says:
Tell me one comment here so far that you could say you were proud to be associated with. Or that wasn’t as you say, the regular tripe.
Every single one of them! It's called freedom of speech!
And the drunk accusations are justified because:
A) Preznut Bush is drunk, and acting like an idiot.
B) Preznut Bush is a dry drunk, is sober, and acting like an idiot.
Either way, he's acting like an idiot. Pardon us for expecting more from an elected(?) leader!
August 13th, 2008 at 12:18 pmPelosi is key.
She was wiretapped by the Krime Team Bush.
They have some real juicy dirt on her.
She's just as Morally Bankrupt as the rest of BushCO. She's just waiting for these 159 days to pass.
Meanwhile, Cindy Sheehan is snapping at her a_s. Come November how the mighty will fall.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:20 pmThe reich-wingers must be proud: Dow Jones tumbles 150 points on retail sales, oil prices
August 13th, 2008 at 12:21 pmSaaaaaaaaay... what's that over there...
Oh... look... it's a lemming... a poor, frightened, helpless little lemming...
August 13th, 2008 at 12:21 pmOh, crap....The "leader of the free world" is a drunken buffoon.
Pass me my Unknown American bag, would you please? :o/
August 13th, 2008 at 12:21 pm*yawn* flag, ignore, move on
August 13th, 2008 at 12:21 pmFunny how all obama8 does is defend Ted Stevens, a bridge with almost no traffic and little chance for large increases of traffic, the oil industry and Dubya's dry-drunk actions.
I say he is either in the oil or oil service industry or is a paid member of a Repug politician or a lobbyist.
Care to comment?
August 13th, 2008 at 12:23 pmLook at Mr. P cr@pping all over himself. TP remember the last time McPsycho here scr@wed up the site?
August 13th, 2008 at 12:24 pmbarack_hussein_obama Says:
flagged for a pathetic attempt at satire.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:24 pmbarack_hussein_obama:
August 13th, 2008 at 12:24 pmWhat's up? I never saw one person drink a Mai-Tai when I was in Hawaii. Maybe you should try the spam -loco
No lemmings, today we eat TROLLS!
August 13th, 2008 at 12:25 pmRepukians could kill puppies and kittens on the white house lawn and the MSM would give them a pass on it.
They know who their corporate masters are and what message they have been told to sell.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:25 pmHe shoulda been a rodeo clown, but he's afraid of horses!
August 13th, 2008 at 12:26 pmobamagr8 Says:
That 10 year period encompasses roughly 3,600 days. How many mornings did the sun come up?
And while the republicans did a bad job on fuel prices, surely there were progressive and liberal nations that did much better and saw fuel prices remain stable during that same period. Where might that be?
Uber-lame post from an uber-lame troll.
Obamagr8, are the Republicans responsible for anything bad that they do? What does the sun rise have to do with the amoutn of time one spends on vacation?
August 13th, 2008 at 12:26 pmbarack_hussein_obama Says:
And I, Barack-Hussein-Obama, thank you America. Only in America can we the politicians vote themselves raises and take vacations at critical times in history.
Thanks sucka’s
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Spoken like someone who's voted straight GOOP the last 8 years while his elected officials ran up enormous deficits, gutted the dollar and the Constitution, and looted the public treasury.
Take vacations at critical times??? Ya mean, like Botch clearing brush in Crawford before 9/11? Or Von Rumsfeld attending a baseball game during Katrina? Or Botch getting blitzed at the Olympics in front of the whole world?
August 13th, 2008 at 12:27 pmya know, satire usually works when there's humor involved.
Obviously, Mr.P does not know that.
Flagged for stupidity
August 13th, 2008 at 12:27 pmIs Bill O'Reilly going to demand we find out who is paying money to the MSM to cover up the story of W's drunken, disgusting behavior at the Olympics? And how long has this drinking been out of control and who has been covering it up?
August 13th, 2008 at 12:28 pmShayne Says:
No lemmings, today we eat TROLLS!
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EWWWWWWWWWWWWW... how can you stand the taste?
August 13th, 2008 at 12:28 pmbarack_hussein_obama:
August 13th, 2008 at 12:28 pmCensorship involves preventing real ideas from being aired. You aren't doing that. You appear instead just interested in farting around. If you have some real point which has something to do with the topic, do share...
barack_hussein_obama Says:
Did I tell you all that I stopped doing crack cocaine? I still smoke, but now I’m smokin the green.
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That would explain the smoke coming from yer Cheney...
August 13th, 2008 at 12:29 pmbho farts:
Only in America can we the politicians vote themselves raises and take vacations at critical times in history.
How does one week in Hawaii (where Obama spent part of his childhood) compare to the years Bush took vacation while supposedly running the country?
Weak sauce that lame post of yours...
August 13th, 2008 at 12:30 pmSome shit never changes. Kids with CB radios, social outcasts with keyboards. In the end it is all just a cry for attention....
August 13th, 2008 at 12:31 pmI can't but it's the best way to get rid of the trolls. I'll make the sacrifice.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:31 pmIf this Corporate Controlled Sychophantic Press won't reveal/go after Bush's Rampant Alcoholism -- do you really think this Lamestream Press will reveal that:
BushCO. caused 9/11?
nah.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:31 pmYeah, I was upset too when congress in the early 2000's were only working 4 days a week and taking the same vacations while we were fighting an un-justified war and our economy was set to fail.
They also ignored an inevitable and predictable energy crisis but fiddled away at flag burning legislation, etc. oh and they wanted to privatize social security too when they were actually there......guess you should be glad for some things.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:31 pmdbadass Says:
barack_hussein_obama:
Censorship involves preventing real ideas from being aired. You aren’t doing that. You appear instead just interested in farting around. If you have some real point which has something to do with the topic, do share…
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Actually, dbadass, this our Bill of Rights in action!
This twit has a Constitutionally-protected Right To Be Heard™... fortunately for us, that doesn't guarantee the twit to a parallel Right To Be Taken Seriously™...
August 13th, 2008 at 12:32 pmGeorge Bush is what you get when your election system isn't a priority and your media is allowed to produce propaganda 24-7 that's tailored to the highest bidder.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pmThe picture second from the left made the area newspaper's Picture of the Day. I laughed my butt off when I saw it and it is now on my refrigerator.
My Canadian friends tell me that they'll miss him because he's been so much fun to mock. Yah, he's really made us all proud (gag).
August 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pmbarack_hussein_obama Says:
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Getting racist here... let the flagging begin!!!!!!!!
August 13th, 2008 at 12:34 pmBush was babbling like an idiot at his press conference. He wants congress to come back and vote on a bill, but only a "clean bill" with out anything extra about the future of energy. And why wouldn't the Republicans vote against speculation in the market that really drives up the price. The Democrats need to start talking about the crap these GOPfers are trying to pull.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:35 pmShayne Says:
Is Bill O’Reilly going to demand we find out who is paying money to the MSM to cover up the story of W’s drunken, disgusting behavior at the Olympics? And how long has this drinking been out of control and who has been covering it up?
Look at the bottom picture, second from left.
It's a classic belch from way too much "suds", too quickly.
It's almost as if he was going to say something, got too much air in his esophagus, felt a tremendous beer belch erupting, and instead signaled the every things "O.K." whilst hiding (albeit not very well) a major beer fueled, gaseous burp!!!
That, or he's an unmannered idiot!
August 13th, 2008 at 12:36 pmbarack_hussein_obama Says:
They got some good Maui-Wowi over here too.
Did I tell you all that I stopped doing crack cocaine? I still smoke, but now I’m smokin the green.
Wow. Uncreative. Lame. Unfunny. Stupidly misses the mark.
What kind of grass does Georgie like? Oh wait, he's probably still doing lines...nevermind.
Flippin' eejit.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:36 pm#16 larkohio - There is a book about First Families in which the author states that when George Sr was in the White House, Barbara made sure that George Jr was seated far away from the honored guest at state dinners because she was always afraid he would say something stupid and embarassing.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:37 pmmary, my daughter asked me yesterday during Colbert what they're going to do once Bush is out of office. Of course if McCain ends up getting the election stolen for him they'll have plenty of material.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:38 pmShayne Says:
I can’t but it’s the best way to get rid of the trolls. I’ll make the sacrifice.
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Sniff... sniff... you make me proud ta be an Ammurikan...
August 13th, 2008 at 12:38 pmbarack_hussein_obama Says:
What's McCain's attendance record for these "critical" debates over energy policy?
You're whack dude.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:38 pmsista? What is your major malfunction? So you don't like Mr Obama. Fine. Whatever. That's fine with me. I am more interested in what motivates you to sit around trying to get attention and aggrevate others in an electronic environment. Might you share your drivers with us? I am particularly interested in the basis of negative attention seeking. Thanks.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:39 pmbarack_hussein_obama Says:
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nononono, you got me all wrong sista dbadass.
I am just as pissed as you all about Bush going to the Olympics.
He should have stayed in Washington and used his executive authority to call Congress back into session so that they could debate the energy policy.
Hey wait, that would mean that I would need to leave Hawaii and go back to Washington to vote.
Never mind. Hey waiter, were is the basketball court at?
August 13th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
What was the last vote McMoron took part in ?
Vetoing the Vet's bill ?
BTW What's that sound ?
Is McStupid yelling at one of his maids/butlers to bring him his Depends and can of Ensure ?
August 13th, 2008 at 12:39 pmIt's become a clown show.
We have an international crisis that even right wingers are calling the beginning of World War III--but George stays put.
Just like he did when the planes struck the towers.
Just like he did when Katrina hit.
Maybe it's because he realizes deep down that his only function is to be on stage.
And the rest of the party? Finally bestirred by the howls of pain from the electorate, they come up with a solution that a) won't work, and b) will enrich their friends. Why, just like the invasion of Iraq and the Katrina cleanup!
The soaring price of gas is due to lack of supply,they say! Funny how there's been no change in the supply, and the oil companies' profits have entered the ionosphere. Increase the supply and prices will go down! Of course, what they're saying is increasing the supply in ten years will cause prices to come down now.
Voodoo economics? With voodoo you need nail clippings.
Recently the price of gas has come down a little--and thee Republicans have run around honking their little horns and spraying each other with water and taking credit for it. But if the price went up because of lack of supply, and their big solution is to increase supply, wouldn't the only reason for the price lowering more supply? Doesn't seem to have happened.
The American public would like lower gas prices--but what they really want is their electric cars. They want to be free of the stranglehold. They want out.
A conservative friend of mine sent me a heartfelt note about the problem. We built the atomic bomb in under three yeas. We landed a man on the moon in under 9. We're the greatest country in the world--we should hitch up our belts and come up with a solution to this. We did it before--we can do it again.
That, I'm convinced, is what the Repiublicans want to hear. That's what the democrats want to hear. Not this clown show.
John McCain, if he wants to be President, should stand up and say that if elected I will launch the Thunderbolt Project, developing electric cars for America in tandem with auto manufacturers, so that in five years there will be a million electric vehicles on the road and within ten there will not be a single cr or truck made in America that will only run on gasoline.
He might even win if he did that.
And of course it's telling that nobody, not on the Left or the Right, expects our current president to do anything but embarrass himself on stage.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:40 pmtweedster,
You are just witnessing our mr. p in a self-medicated rant. Gets that way when he is between classes at his 3rd tier school.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:40 pmDRxJ, there's links to pictures above where they have to hold the old sot up. Pathetic but when he's drunk at least he has an excuse for being so stupid. One would think that McCain must have a little thing for beer and his senility could actually be alcohol induced dementia.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:41 pmdbadass Says:
sista? What is your major malfunction? So you don’t like Mr Obama. Fine. Whatever. That’s fine with me. I am more interested in what motivates you to sit around trying to get attention and aggrevate others in an electronic environment. Might you share your drivers with us? I am particularly interested in the basis of negative attention seeking. Thanks.
dbadass - BHO is clearly crying out for help of some kind. Desperation is a stinky cologne his posts reek. I mean, he/she/it is obviously humor deficient, devoid of any sense of irony (Bush's wink-wink acknowledgment of drug use compared to someone honest and candid about his "experimentation," the number of days on vacation etc. etc.), and pretty dim to boot.
I guess he's a prototype troll. Sad truth is, they all su<k in their own lil ways.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:43 pmGood call upside99...these poor trolls are going to have a real tough time of it once the Repugs are marched out of Washington.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:44 pmI think Mr. P just cooked up a fresh batch of crystal meth and sample a little too much of the product. What else are you going to do when you're out of school and live in a trailer park in virginia. He's too fat to do anything outside without children laughing at him.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:46 pmThe UK. Petrol prices have only risen about 30% in the past 8 years.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:47 pmLooks like mr. p/bho just got flushed.
Always happens when turds start to stink up the place.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:48 pmJust on the news, Bush has to delay his trip to Crawford because of the situation in Georgia. The little b@tch whining about the congress gets back from one trip and is leaving for another one and complaining about everybody else taking time off. Of course congress, unlike this stooge, has an election coming up and maybe they're meeting with their constituents. Isn't that part of their job.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:53 pmAnybody else notice that aside from the few camera op moments of feigned seriousness when dissing Congress our boy king seems to be having the time of his life acting like America's ceo? In a period of multiple domestic crises, multiple military fronts, countless crimes to cover up and a plummetting economy he sure seems pretty damned happy. That sure is one helluva bubble!
Perhaps the reason that republcons in the Senate are so ardent in their support for "off shore drilling" is because they think it's got something to do with tropical beaches and underage boy prostitutes? Just sayin'
August 13th, 2008 at 12:53 pmThank you TP for removing the feces that is P.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:55 pmI haven't read this entire thread yet, and this may have already been mentioned.
Yes, Dubya's hypocrisy about vacations is fairly obvious. He's pretty much spent his career impersonating Nero -- fiddling while Rome is burning -- and at the same time criticizing others for taking vacation.
What he fails to address is the fact that Congress always takes a summer vacation -- it's not that big a deal, UNLESS there is pressing business (such as voting on a declaration of war following a foreign attack on our country) that can't wait.
Energy is not a sudden, recent concern -- it's been an issue for years now. And putting more money in the hands of the oil greedheads isn't likely to do anything to benefit the consumer.
Thinking people can see this for the political stunt it is. Our only hope is that there are enough thinking people in this country.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:57 pmPicture second from left.
Bush was just asked what his contribution to the betterment of the USA has been in his eight years squatting in the White House.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:59 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
I agree with you completely!
Look at his last overseas ‘junket’ and his trip to the Olympics and they look like Spring Break trips of a senior, just before graduation; no cares, no worries, just get sh!tfaced on alcohol, drugs and lecherous activities, have fun and who gives a flying fu(k what it looks like or how it might reflect on your school or family.
Maybe a bad comparison, but sure seems to fit, and is something Dubya has had a LOT of practice at over his miserable life!
August 13th, 2008 at 1:07 pmdennis Says:
Or how about getting really nasty and going for the jugular, tell us how you think Bush is drinking again. I don’t think it’s been mentioned enough.
It is never mentioned by the so-called "liberal mainstream news media". Bush was hungover as hell during his interview with Bob Costas. Apparently, Laura doesn't care if Bush reverts back to drunken frat boy, since they will be splitting up in a few months anyway.
I would care less how much he drinks if it wasn't for the incredible hypocrisy of using his supposed moral strength of character in overcoming alcoholism as a main theme in his campaigns. You gullible fools bought it, and still believe that BS.
Here is some advice dennis, if you want people to stop pointing out the outrageous hypocrisy of your dear leaders, stop voting for outrageous hypocrites.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:07 pmIs Bush going to take credit for Michael Phelps getting so many gold medals in swimming?
August 13th, 2008 at 1:07 pmThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
Shayne Says:
No lemmings, today we eat TROLLS!
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EWWWWWWWWWWWWW… how can you stand the taste?
Thank you Shayne for your sacrifice! I here they taste like chicken that's been marinated in urine, is that true?
August 13th, 2008 at 1:10 pm159 days 10 hours 46 min 30 sec 29 sec 28 sec
August 13th, 2008 at 1:11 pm01.20.09 party at my house.
Or is Bush going to cop a feel of Michael Phelp's Speedo?
August 13th, 2008 at 1:12 pmdennis Says:
Or how about getting really nasty and going for the jugular, tell us how you think Bush is drinking again. I don’t think it’s been mentioned enough.
Dennis,
Let me ask you this; are you proud of Dubya's behavior as the representative of your country? Would you accept this behavior if it came from Obama or Hillary?
I would like your HONEST answer, OK?
August 13th, 2008 at 1:13 pm'A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work.'-Ronald Reagan May 17, 1986.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:14 pmThis is really pretty funny coming from the right......think about it.....who brought us the win at any cost, go for the throat political mentality?
August 13th, 2008 at 1:14 pmMore like the chicken sh*t they really are, p*ss soaked, of course.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:16 pmdbadass Says:
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barack_hussein_obama:
Censorship involves preventing real ideas from being aired. You aren’t doing that. You appear instead just interested in farting around. If you have some real point which has something to do with the topic, do share…
That's scary dbadass. So who gets to decide what "real ideas" are? Are we going to leave that task to our government? A specific group of people, regardless of political affiliation?
Please, enlighten me on your beliefs about free speach.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:17 pmGood one nanlichi!
Shayne, that's so cool that you can watch Colbert with your daughter! I wish Bush would just go away forever but I imagine we'll be tortured with his visage for years. Everyone who wants to tap into what's left of the treasury will still line up to pander to him. Gross.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:19 pmWe should preserve these photos of the chimp-in-chief.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:20 pmWas he falling down drunk, too? More photos at Wonkette of him being helped up by SS agents.
Unexplained abrasion on his arm.
we do, it's called democracy......read about it if you can find a library in your neighborhood that the bush administration hasn't shut down.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:21 pmAside from holding the flag backward - he was also seen tapping the flag on his knee, and checking his watch several times.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:22 pme must hae been the whining kid in the back seat -- "are we there yet?"
Thanks for asking Tim43:
If you look a little more closely you will see that I never suggested censoring anyone. What I pointed out was that coming to an electronic community to just post stupid shit that has nothing to do with the topic being discussed because you might be a frustrated nobody in need of attention and getting flagged for it is not the same thing as censorship.
Bong Hits for Jesus!!!
August 13th, 2008 at 1:26 pmFred Says:
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we do, it’s called democracy……read about it if you can find a library in your neighborhood that the bush administration hasn’t shut down.
We do? All of us, or just a few of us, Fred?
Actually Fred, the only thing in Washington that is shut down right now is Congress. I wonder why?
August 13th, 2008 at 1:27 pmobamagr8 Says:
That 10 year period encompasses roughly 3,600 days. How many mornings did the sun come up?
August 13th, 2008 at 11:28 am
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3,600 times. That means there were 3,600 missed opportunities to collect solar power and wean ourselves off of fossil fuels.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:28 pmYou seem to be struggling to make a point but I will try to extract your meaning the best I am able. You don't seem to be capable of making a point.
If just a few of us vote to have you banned then it probably won't work. However if the majority of us vote to have you banned then it will probably happen. Does that help?
August 13th, 2008 at 1:34 pmTim43 Says:
Actually Fred, the only thing in Washington that is shut down right now is Congress. I wonder why?
It's called the August recess you jackass. It happens every year about this time.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:36 pmTim43 Says:
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Actually Fred, the only thing in Washington that is shut down right now is Congress. I wonder why?
August 13th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Guess the way it's been since 1970 should be changed , because you feel it should ?
August 13th, 2008 at 1:40 pmThe Bush freak can't even hold the flag right! He kinda brushed off his cross-eyed pet goat wife Laura next to him! I look at that second image from the left and ask myself: How could we have allowed this idiot's rise to power? Big money has the power to place idiots above everything in this world. That's the sad truth! Dysfunctional, stoned, drunk, wired, and even sober, this idiot just can't do anything right!
August 13th, 2008 at 1:43 pmW is leaving for his Crawford ranch so apparently the Oval Office is shut down as well as Congress.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:47 pmHey stupid boy Bush... yeah you, the stupid looking one... when Congress is NOT in session, the members are back in their districts meeting with their constituents. Joe Sestak, PA 7th CD has his office open 7 days/week, hours 9am to 10pm. As a matter of fact Joe Sestak was at his office until 10pm on Tuesday evening. Doesn't sound like much of a vacation to me.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:48 pmKeith Says:
And you got the flag BACKWARDS!
No it's not. It's the right direction for Bush, just the wrong direction for us. Pretty much a description of his entire administration.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:51 pmCats r Flyfishn Says:
Doesn’t sound like much of a vacation to me.
Spending weeks on end in Crawford, TX playing cowboy on a fake ranch doesn't sound like much of a vacation to me, either. But, to each his own.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:51 pmWayne Says:
Is that man NOT totally sh*t-faced?
Yep, I have seen my share of sh!t-faced buffoons, Bush is clearly 3 sheets into the wind there.
Here are some pictures of his being hauled out of the stands by the secret service:
http://wonkette.com/401833/was-bush-falling-down-drunk-at-olympics
Doesn't look like he is any longer a "dry" drunk, does it.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:56 pmI think the rethugs WANT to stay in DC because they are afraid to go home and answer to their constituents.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:58 pmShayne Says:
I think the rethugs WANT to stay in DC because they are afraid to go home and answer to their constituents.
And the weather is so nice at this time of year. Why would you want to be anywhere else?
August 13th, 2008 at 2:04 pmshoeless Says:
Spending weeks on end in Crawford, TX playing cowboy on a fake ranch doesn’t sound like much of a vacation to me, either. But, to each his own.
Apparently the ranch is being sold as soon as Bush leaves office. Laura wants a house in Houston. The ranch in Crawford was only for show and only to make the nation think that Bush is really a Texan.
August 13th, 2008 at 2:12 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says
August 13th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
The ranch in Crawford was only for show and only to make the nation think that Bush is really a Texan.
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Just like Fred Thompson's red pickup -- but on a larger scale.
I can just hear the conversation his handlers must have had with real estate agents: "yes, we want a ranch -- not a working ranch, but one that has enough brush on it that it would take exactly eight years to clear it all off..."
August 13th, 2008 at 2:21 pmgummitch Says:
And the weather is so nice at this time of year. Why would you want to be anywhere else?
Is the air conditioning on for their dark diatribes in the House? Are they reembersing the government for the expense?
August 13th, 2008 at 2:24 pmHere's another thing: I've been searching for any photographic evidence of what has been going on in this supposed republican "conference," but have been unable to locate any pictures of this stunt, actually taking place on the House floor.
Is there a ban of some sort, or are they merely not recording what's going on? Sad to say, I think they're just sitting around, eating taxpayer-subsidized donuts, and writing constituent letter replies on their laptops, to pass the time.
August 13th, 2008 at 2:36 pmI think W has taken the plug out of the jug.
August 13th, 2008 at 8:16 pmWell, considering the Republicans didn't do anything while they had control of the Congress and when Congress was actually supposed to be in session, they might as well try and pretend that they are going to get something done when everybody else has gone home.
Then when Congress comes back in session, the Republicans can take their turn at vacation.
-Dan Cheek
August 13th, 2008 at 8:25 pmBetter photo of goofing bush:
August 13th, 2008 at 8:38 pmhttp://img385.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sheshavedherofflg4.jpg