How is the plan working out? Exactly how they wanted it to. Haliburton and others are stealing billions of our tax dollars with more and more on the way. They want it as long and drawn out as possible. Does anyone think there was more to the "plan" than that? Ok also the free oil....;)

And who is going to make the "gusty decision" to bring the troops home from the Boosh crime family and their war for oil? If the Repuglithugs want war then let them start the draft and see how well that goes over with the American public.

We need a nice old draft, let the American people feel the burden of the war close to home Hoorahh!

Only a "real man" can send people off to war over lies.

I don't think GW is a victim of Dick. Heck, GW's daddy and Dick go way back, dude.

"most presidents wouldn‘t have made that gutsy decision to go into…"

Unless "gutsy" means from the gut and not the brain. Maybe Tweety is onto something (or on something). Maybe Tweety means the pResident is stupid to blunder into a war based on nothing more than his "gut instinct" (or believe the liars who talked him into it).
Either way, they are both idiots - bush and tweety.

"Big boned" is a way of saying someone you love or care about is fat (dinosaurs are big boned)

"Gutsy" is a way of saying someone you love or care about is foolish.

If you'd like to think the Bush Crime family is about to come crumbling down, well...
1. Iraq is not a failure according to the goals of PNAC.
2. We are one catalyzing event from dictatorship.

Neo-con Instant Translator TM

Talking to wingnuts made simple. Enter the English word and instantly see the neo-con translation!

Gutsy = Reckless

Gutsy doesn't mean smart or well-founded .

[Goodbye, "Rush". I wish I could say it was nice knowing you]

I think I would respect Matthews more if he invited Bush onto his show, strapped knee-pads on, and proceeded to actually suck Presidential cock on live TV.

I don't think I could respect him less than I do now, however.

@19: Rush, take more oxycontin.

On August 25. 2007, I blogged about Ann Coulter in The very definition of crazy. Here’s the excerpt:

Think back, if you are old enough, to the time when they showed a cartoon before the movies. Sure, Betty Boop had some creative horsepower behind it, but it was not what brought people into the theaters week after week. What the cartoons did was this: they shifted the boundaries of reality. Theater, including cinema, requires that the folks in the audience willingly suspend disbelief. For something like a cartoon, it is an easy sell, because they are comedic. Then, when the main feature comes on, the shift is toward a more real representation, and so, the feature movie is more emotionally engaging.
Ms. Coulter is the Daffy Duck of political discourse. When she speaks, you shake your head and wonder if you really heard what you thought you heard. Then when someone on Faux News comes on and says, “we must fight the terrorists in Iraq, so we don’t fight them here,” it sounds like the voice of sweet reason. Compared to daffy Ann Coulter, it is so much easier to accept the talking head, who in this analogy might be compared to, say, Orson Wells’ War of the Worlds.
Why the War of the Worlds? Because some people believe it and do batshit crazy stuff.

Today, on Chris Matthews’ Hardball we see the proof of what I was saying.

Armstrong Williams was talking about Ann Coulter’s appearance yesterday on his show. For those who missed it, she was confronted by Elizabeth Edwards, who gently rebuked her for hateful speech. Ms. Coulter had alleged that John Edwards has a bumper sticker which says, “Ask me about my dead son.” As the mother of that deceased boy, Mrs. Edwards found it offensive.

Armstrong Williams, for those who missed it, used to be on the White House’s payroll as a propagandist, which is criminal. Chris Matthews asked Williams if thought it was “over the line” to attack the Edwards for having a bumper sticker that says, “Ask me about my dead boy.” Armstrong said, “no.” Why? Because he believed the Edwards actually had such a bumper sticker.

That was my point when I said, “some people believe it and do batshit crazy stuff.” For those who missed it.

“… and tell ’em Big Mitch sent ya!”

Who's Mathews?

Tweety has to go. Putting that shrill bitch on his show for a full hour was the final straw!

It's workin' out so well that that 'gutsy move' has Rethuglican Rats elbowing each other our of the way in a frantic effort to reach the dock
as the SS Bush takes on water.....

On it's way to the bottom.

Most Presidents wouldn’t have let the VP (Cheney) make most policy decisions in their administration.

Only one that I know of.

The decision to go to war was about as gutsy as Tweety's comment pertainin' to said decision. Rather to say, not gutsy at all.

Clinton made a gutsy decision when, in the face of an unsupportive populace and Congress, committed US forces to haltin' genocide in the rapidly disintegratin' Yugoslavia. Whether those campaigns would be effective or not, Clinton could not know at the time- but he did know that the campaigns were completely justified.

On the grounds of haltin' Saddam's genocide against the the Kurds and the Shi'a Bush might have built a reasonably justifiable argument to invade Iraq. Bushco took the easy way out by playin' not to the sense of outrage at Saddam's treatment of his own people, but rather raisin' the bogus bogie-men WMD and Saddam's links to al Quaeda (less than one year after the events of 9/11, iirc). That's not guts. It's political expediency.

In my mind when someone talks about making a "gutsy decision" if would involve doing the right thing despite all the pressure to do the easy thing. A "gutsy decision" would involve doing whats best overall and the long range prospects of good in the future. Bush's decision to attack Iraq WAS the easy decision. They very much knew who was going to benefit and who was going to lose it was not for the benefit of the Iraqi people. They also knew that they were going to get a short term political boost, that is the main reason they planned it and went forward before the inspectors finished. Perpetual war for perpetual peace is not a "gutsy" foreign policy.

ubblue @ 36:

Let me ask this. What good has it done to write, telephone, email MSNBC about the so called "journalism" practiced by the likes ot Tim Russert, Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson et al? No matter how much pressure the people put on the mainstream media nothing changes. It's still the same talking points and Republican spin. How much more can the people tolerate before the gates of the Bastille are stormed?

It has to happen in bulk. We are working on it now....

http://showthepresswedocare.blogspot.com/

ubblue @ 36:

Let me ask this. What good has it done to write, telephone, email MSNBC about the so called "journalism" practiced by the likes ot Tim Russert, Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson et al? No matter how much pressure the people put on the mainstream media nothing changes. It's still the same talking points and Republican spin. How much more can the people tolerate before the gates of the Bastille are stormed?

We can only hurt them one way- kick 'em square in the Blue Books. Arbitron ratins determine the bottom line to TV folks.

The right wingers don't uderstand. We would like them to stop lying.

dixie blood @ 34:

Congress needs to immediately begin breaking up the media monopoly that started under Ronnie RayGun and then continued into the Clinton administration who screwed us too!!

Good point. Don't hold your breath if Mrs. Clinton is the Democratic nominee. We'll be seeing lots of Ann Coulter. They need each other.

Armstrong Williams thinks that because they lie all the time that everybody does . The guy took a paycheck from the administration to write opeds about no child left behind. Then he accuses Elizabeth Edwards of lying?

Tweety just wants to suck Ann's cock. I mean, like, love is in the air.

I would like to see our current President and Vice President be supportive of more international affairs that affect our place in this world. We should not forget the commitment made towards the U.N. Millennium Goals (a pact of ending extreme world hunger by the year 2025) in 2000. According to The Borgen Project, an annual $19 billion dollars is needed to eliminate half of the extreme poverty affecting the world by the year 2015. To my sense, it is almost unacceptable to have spent so far more than $340 billion in Iraq only, when we have more than war immunities to change the world and eliminate poverty.

Gutsy doesn't always have positive connotations. Gutsy means it takes nerves. Hitler was Gutsy; so were the 9/11 attackers (in addition to brave)

Give Chris Matthews a break, anyone who actually watches the show knows he's clearly against this war and George Bush.

Tweety wants so hard to be a "real man."

But, alas, he's forced to sit and comment while others cause the blood of innocents to flow.

Jeff @ 1:

How is the plan working out? Exactly how they wanted it to. Haliburton and others are stealing billions of our tax dollars with more and more on the way. They want it as long and drawn out as possible. Does anyone think there was more to the "plan" than that? Ok also the free oil....;)

Actually you forgot Polan...I mean, actually you forgot to include that they got RE-ELECTED in '04! That 2002 meeting at the Crawford ranch, where Rove kept parroting "run on the war, run on the war" like a malicious mina bird wasn't just an excuse to make Haliburton rich. It was an election strategy. Although, the two are obviously related, since, the more money Haliburton gets, the more they can pump back into Republican election coffers.

this is ridiuclous. Sometimes chris matthews, or as you call him "Tweety," can be a bit loose with his words, but if any of you watched hardball on a consistent basis you'd know that he abhors the neocon worldview which seeks to remake the middleeast with baghdad as its shining beacon of democracy. Occasionally he'll play it down the middle a bit, but just because he comes short of a scathing indictment of the administration every time he opens his mouth doesn't mean he's a tool for them. An intelligent viewer of hardball would realize he respects the game, he likes to portray the players in that game, albeit in broad strokes at times, but that he has no love for the bush admistration.

Was it also gutsy of boosh to desert the Air National Guard?

Tweety:

"I love the smell of English Leather in the morning.
Smells like.........

Fred?, was that you?"

Fortunately, my current level of satellite TV does not provide MSNBC, so I don't have to even think about watching the Fluffball show... By CM's bit o' illogic, Hitler was "gutsy" when he ordered the invasions of Denmark and France. CM is just another pathetic Reich-wing whore...

james k. sayre @ 65:

Fortunately, my current level of satellite TV does not provide MSNBC, so I don't have to even think about watching the Fluffball show... By CM's bit o' illogic, Hitler was "gutsy" when he ordered the invasions of Denmark and France. CM is just another pathetic Reich-wing whore...

Ha! I swear I didn't read your comment before I posted mine.

Guess the Bush/Hitler analogy is too obvious to miss.