What’s on tap today: Obama to address economy, Bush to pardon turkey.
By on Nov 26th, 2008 at 10:25 am
What’s on tap today: Obama to address economy, Bush to pardon turkey.
This MSNBC chryon tells the story:
Yglesias extrapolates: “The president-elect working hard while the president is hardly working. Of course, given what we’ve seen from the Bush administration it’s probably just as well that he stick to pardoning turkeys and leave the policy response to Obama’s team. If only he’d thought of this strategy when he first moved in to the White House.”
Featured Comment: McWars comments: “Bush pardons turkey as economy gets slaughtered in the background.”
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What’s on tap today: Obama to address economy, Bush to pardon turkey
From each according to his ability...
November 26th, 2008 at 10:27 amWhy any President indulges in this idiotic tradition is beyond me. I'm sure it was hilarious and whimsical the first time, but the joke was over as soon as it was made.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:31 am"Bush pardons turkey as economy gets slaughtered in the background"
November 26th, 2008 at 10:31 amTo bush the economy is just another Katrina. He has his. Let the others drown.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:38 am- - Well, McWars beat me to the punch. Well played.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:38 amfixed.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:38 amAt least Bush has the capacity to be competent at something. Not only has he damned the economy with his willing ignorance to the crisis, but he also is damning the meat industry by giving them one less turkey to sell.
Well done, Bush.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:40 amThe metaphorical impact of those two headlines juxtaposed in the chyron says all we need to know about the two men.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:44 amBush met with Olmert yesterday. Slaughter could be on the table after all, according to Olmert.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:44 amI thought the President couldn't pardon himself.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:45 amSpose we'll see Bush pardoning himself whilst other turkeys are getting slaughtered in the background??
November 26th, 2008 at 10:47 amCongratulations on the feature, Wars. 'Twas hilarious.
...but chillingly true.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:49 amWhat’s on tap today: Obama to address economy, Bush to pardon turkey.
Which Turkey? Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld? I know he cannot pardon himself...
November 26th, 2008 at 10:49 amNice work, McWars.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:51 amWe can only hope that there is some grownup willing to step in and grab George's hand before he pushes the button.
Can you imagine being sworn in as President the day after we nuke a non-threatening country? This is what I really fear Bush will do.
Won't somebody please stop this madness?
November 26th, 2008 at 10:52 amIsn't this exactly what Bush did when first elected in 2000... perform a few ceremonial tasks and then hide in Crawford? He was effectively the anti-president until 9/11 forced him to step up (for better or worse).
November 26th, 2008 at 10:53 amRumsfeld is out for now, and Cheney will retire (I would hope) once Bush leaves office. I'd say that George should pardon himself for his mistakes and *then* bail-out our struggling meat companies by tossing Rove to them. Hey, at least America would be able to compete with Poland.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:54 amToday is just a warm-up for GDumbya . . . today, one turkey pardoned; January 19th, hundreds of turkeys pardoned.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:56 amI'm not confident Bush will be able to pull this off...
November 26th, 2008 at 10:57 amBush is Pardoning Sarah Palin? What did she do? ;)
November 26th, 2008 at 11:03 amHe's gonna f___ it up and pardon a pigeon instead. Given his track record you just know it.
November 26th, 2008 at 11:03 amtom Says:
Today is just a warm-up for GDumbya . . . today, one turkey pardoned; January 19th, hundreds of turkeys pardoned.
Now THAT is funny!
November 26th, 2008 at 11:15 amNow, this is all well and good, but I want to know who is going to don their gay apparel, travel afar dashing through the snow, and fight against this War On Christmas!
Priorities, people, priorities!
November 26th, 2008 at 11:22 amThanks everybody! TP sure loves their posters!
November 26th, 2008 at 11:23 amThough the Turkey is being pardoned according to a long standing public tradition, sources say the President has written a secret executive order that also grants the Turkey immunity for infinity-plus-one, the Congressional Medal of Freedom, a tax break, a no-bid cost-plus government contract worth %500 million and a $4 billion "bailout" without government oversight.
In addition, citing 'unitary executive powers' Bush has attached a signing statement declaring himself guardian and executor of the Turkey's newly enlarged estate.
"Me an' this gobbler got a lot to be thankful with" said Bush.
November 26th, 2008 at 11:35 amBush met with Olmert yesterday. Slaughter could be on the table after all, according to Olmert.
I'm personally sick to death of this county's national security being tied to Israel. A lame duck president and a disgraced PM thinking about making a colossal decision about attacking Iran will endanger us all. Both in this country and throughout the middle eastern region. Insanity. It would also give both of them the excuse they want to delay the inaugeration of a new President here in the U.S., and delay elections in Israel in February.
Over sixty years of guilt over our failure to step in when we KNEW about the Holocaust is long enough. And now we seem to be defending a country that never signed the NPR, and created nuclear weapons secretly, against a country which DID sign the NPR and have every right to nuclear energy in their country. Considering the threats that the Bush administration has made against Iran for the last almost eight years, I can't even blame them to trying to develop nuclear weapons as a deterrent. Such threats and a refusal to "talk" to North Korea resulted in their ability to build nukes now also. And our own government wants to build NEW nukes.
Oppenheimer had it right when he quoted from the Bhagavad Gita, "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
November 26th, 2008 at 11:35 amI'd say with bush's:
* pardon of of the criminal Liddy and cover-up of other Plame outing criminals
* massive pre-emptive pardons yet to come of his administration's criminals
* bestowing civilian medals on the biggest disastrous screw-ups/most craven failures of Americas like Brenner and Tenet
* fight of retroactive immunity for his and telecom crimes
that pardoning a turkey is apropos for bush. Keeping him away from doing for the economy what he did for Iraq, New Orleans, Foreign Relations, and countless other disasters is a good thing.
November 26th, 2008 at 11:36 amThanks for the chuckles, y'all. Especially you, McWars. ;o)
~ A
November 26th, 2008 at 12:00 pmOf course, the commercial turkey is so fat and un-exercised that it still dies shortly thereafter.
November 26th, 2008 at 12:25 pmPasture poultry is the only way to go.
November 26th, 2008 at 12:36 pmPardon? Bush hasn't been on the job since the summertime (much earlier if you start connecting the policy and decision dots). I'd like to think the turkey could make better policy decisions than Dubya even without the head attached.
The only thing a turkey has in common with Bush is that they both can't fly, even though one wants to much more than the other.
November 26th, 2008 at 12:37 pmRUCerious Says:
Spose we’ll see Bush pardoning himself whilst other turkeys are getting slaughtered in the background??
When did Scooter Libby and Ted Stevens arrive at the White House?!
November 26th, 2008 at 12:41 pmBush - "I'm just phoning it in, get me another beer."
Obama - "Well, someone has to get the job done, Bush sure isn't going to do it."
November 26th, 2008 at 12:44 pm.
My question is this:
Why are people clamoring to know what Obama is going to do?
Uh... Hello?
It's still Bush's watch for the next 2 months. Sure it's only two months away, however a lot can happen in that two months, NO? And who's in charge right now? So it's free giveaways until then?
Q U E S T I O N
How come no one is talking about this sum total of free handouts?
$8.4 TRILLION DOLLARS!!!
November 26th, 2008 at 1:04 pmLook, we all know that MSNBC delights in chyrons that make Republicans look foolish. But you gotta give them credit, it's not like they have to stretch the truth to make it happen.
November 26th, 2008 at 2:51 pm"What’s on tap today: Obama to address economy, Bush to pardon turkey."
And that will be Bush's legacy: Pardoning a turkey. The American people and the entire world are waiting for President-elected Obama to be sworned in on January 20, 2009. We all are suffering Bush fatigue.
As McWars said, Bush pardons a turkey as the economy gets slaughtered to the ground. Bush chooses to spare a turkey but not the economy and the American people that are hurting. Amazing. It's 55 days and counting to when the clown President has to turn over his keys over to the White House to Obama.
November 26th, 2008 at 3:08 pm