Former egomaniac Bush speechwriter Gerson admits the gov't budget can fund Liberal ideas!
By John Amato Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 3:48pm
It's typical of a Bushie to now try and hijack the Democratic platform to save the GOP from disaster. Of course the Grover Norquists will freak out if they watch this clip. Listen to the ex-Bushie screech-writer Michael Gerson and you'll see what I mean.
Stewart: Here's what it sounds like to me. What you're describing is the Democratic Party. Those seem like platforms for the Democratic Party. How does a fiscal conservative pay for that?
Gerson: The fact of the matter is we've got plenty of money in the budget.
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Jane Hamsher turned me on to this hysterical article about the three Bush speech writers in the September Atlantic Monthly." Mathew Scully writes:
The only person the speechwriter Michael Gerson made look better than President Bush was Michael Gerson. The shaping of a Washington reputation, as witnessed by a White House colleague.
You need to have a subscription or buy the magazine for the full story, but I was rolling. Scully calls Gerson a liar and a credit hog throughout while pandering to Bush. And Gerson has a secret plan to save the GOP. He's going from the phony "Compassionate Conservative" to the "Heroic Conservative." Comedy Gold...I can see him now---Red Cape at his back as he swoops down on the evil Sylar---sucking the powers out of him that he has stolen from all the other Heroes!
Michael Gerson
Book: Heroic Conservatism
70% increase in condom distribution. True or false and who distributed them?
Mentions help for couples. Is the condom distribution only for couples?
Sees a move in the conservative movement. Where? Is he part of the Evangelical movement that is caring more about these policies as Bill Moyers has done some segments on?
Stewart: Here's what it sounds like to me. What you're describing is the Democratic Party. Those seem like platforms for the Democratic Party. How does a fiscal conservative pay for that?
Gerson: The fact of the matter is we've got plenty of money in the budget.
Gerson: My most disappointing moment in the White House was after Katrina. Only concern was how are we going to pay for it.
Gerson: Free market answers.
Stewart: Free market solutions in Iraq have created a Cataserf&#k.
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Michael Gerson: "Yes. conservatism has been an abject failure. But that's only because they didn't do it my way."
I has no problem with the comment section. But typing with one hand is a problem, especially when the one hand is my left one :)
There is another name for "compassionate (or heroic) conservative" and that is "liberal democrat". You don't have to put the prefix "compassionate" in front of the word "liberal" because compassion is built in to that word. You must, however, put the word "compassionate" in front of "conservative" if you want to differentiate yourself from the typical non-compassionate conservative.
"Heroic Conservatism" is that like conservatism with a reach around and spit?
Do we get a free Menocu buttplug in the mail?
I think what Mr. Gerson is suggestin' is for the GOP to position themselves mere inches to the right of the Democratic Party- the same way Nixon did it.
the government doesnt have the money. We are borrowing an alarming amount from china everyday.
michael gerson is a professional liar... just sayin'
as bush's former speech writer (see, lie-writer) in the run up to operation iraqi liberation (OIL), and now as a WashPost oped contributor, gerson uses his rhetorical flare to spread misinformation, disinformation and pure lies--with the implicit intention of making a functional democracy nearly impossible.
here's a bit of fun: washpost has a comment section. every time gerson lies an oped piece feel free to remind people (since the washpost does NOT) just what kind of 'moral christian' a man gerson really is.
oh yeah, the notion that there is a FREE market is pure, unadulterated bullshit.
LIBRULZ CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?!
This man, he from cuckcoo land .....
Andy K @ 6:
And they have the best flip floppin candidates in the country to make it happen.
Can we waterboard him..please...can we huh huh...please please...can we huh huh..can we...
"Former egomaniac"!!?? LOL!
Now that is hilarious.
This guy has a huge pumpkin on his shoulders, how appropriate.
he's a former speechifier, NOT a former egomaniac.
I about choked last night on my drink when he pooped up.
What load of BS, this guy is a joke.
Hell, this country is a joke, some one pull the cord I want the hell off.
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Vic @ 15:
Nice!
Former egomaniac!!?? LOL
Now that is hilarious.
This turd has a huge pumpkin on his shoulders.
don't let these fascist bush cabal colaborators fool you....
round every last one of them up so that they can face charges of treason and face the consequences of their actions.
StirFry @ 11:
Look, I consider myself a Yellow Dog Democrat, but in my childhood- before I could vote- the governor here in Michigan was Bill Milliken. Milliken, like Nixon, stayed a hair to the right of the Democrats. He was able to push through a lot of bi-partisan legislation concernin' the enviroment, education, civil rights and urban policy- reformin' from the left of the political spectrum (the guy made deals with Coleman Young, fer Chrissakes). Hell, Milliken endorsed John Kerry in '04! Milliken was no flip-flopper! He's 85 now, but if he were to run fer Governor again, I'd vote fer him.
Gerson is everywhere. His poisonous op-eds are in the Boston Globe all the time. The MSM seems to love him because, although he's one of Satan's pool boys, he doesn't smell of sulphur the way David Brooks and the others do. Such a nice boy.
Oh, well then it must be true....
Satan's pool boy - I love it! I read that article - he's more than a mere egomaniac; he is a plagiarist, a liar and a back-stabber. The people he worked with began by laughing it off, but by the end of their tenure, they couldn't stand him.
Sound like a bad joke: How can you tell when there is an election in the offing? Conservatives talk about compassion.
Regardless of what this guy Gerson says, there is no money to pay for anything more for any program in any state. We have to borrow in excess now of $3 billion a day. If we had sooooooo much money, why the need to borrow so much?
This guy is completely off his rocker.
And just so that people are clear, there is absolutely NOTHING present going on in Iraq by any stretch of the imagination that can in any way be called "free markets". Calling what is going on in Iraq anything "free" is like calling freedom slavery.
I am so sick and tired of idiots like Gerson going around telling people that there are free market principles going on Iraq. And I am even more sick of mindless numbnuts like John Stewart who lap it up and actually believe that free markets are the cause for the problems in Iraq. Really, that has got to be the most ignorant thing he has ever said on his show. When wars are going on in a country, FREE MARKETS are ABSENT. The most easy way of seeing this is that true free markets are 100% peaceful. Free markets mean nobody has the right to violate others, it means that people trade voluntarily and by their own free will. Everybody's standard of living rises in this way.
When government invade other countries, it is a travesty and absolutely pathetic that there is anyone who even puts the word "free" in a sentence. The word "free" is losing its proper meaning in the minds of people, and it looks like Orwell was more right than he knew, for the people are not being subjigated by force, they are going along WILLINGLY by becoming more and more ignorant and stupid about the most basic things imaginable.
Never in a hundred years would I have expected John Stewart to not even know what "free" means anymore. For Pete's sake, he is (supposed to be) one of the fighters against Bush by educating the public. NOW he is actually going on national TV and telling his audience that Iraq is the "free market" in action.
This country is so f%^ked up and hopelessly lost. I cannot believe what is going on in this country anymore. I cannot believe that supposedly smart people like Stewart do not even know what "free" means anymore. If people like him lose this knowledge (if they ever had it), what about the masses of people? Scary.
I actually agree with some of Mr. Gerson's points, and I'm a die-hard Liberal.
I like when he says that if the "Republican party doesn't addopt some of the ideas like Global warming, Aids, and other issues, they will lose, and deserve to lose". That's a great point.
Don't you just love all these neoCons who foisted the facist Bush regime on us coming out now and corroborating what the liberals have been saying all along? Makes you think they know now they have nothing to lose.
If true (Bush wanted to do all these things but the Republican Congress wouldn't let him), why didn't bush rail against the Republican Congress the way he rails against the current Democratic Congress every single day now?
Because it's not true, of course.
Michael Gerson is a liar and a waste of time. He also helped bring about policies that were directly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
Sounds like his conscience is eating at him to some degree, but he just can't get to the point where he says "it was all a big mistake".
'Free Market Answers' have vested interests in not satisfying their contracts, not solving what they're hired to solve, as long as they're paid in the meanwhile. If only payment feasibly could come upon successful satisfaction of their contracts...
Yeah, except it's a total fucking snow job. The man is a professional liar. Anyway they already tried this one in 2000, when they called it "compassionate Conservatism".
Ohh, poor poor little prick... Sounds like he's having himself one hell of a kool-aid hangover... And yet, appears like if he could have his druthers, he'd fillerup and swig away again... I guess we're all suppose to Okie-dokie its all good now that he reveals the Bushco moralists don't mind handing out rubbers in Africa anymore... Ahhh fuck off Gerson, you're still a pig, I don't care how many dumbass phony mea-culpa books you write...JD
I think his interview made a lot of sense. The truth is that we have to find solutions that reach across ideologies. We are all Americans, and we all have an interest in seeing our country solve problems in a positive and pragmatic way.
Wow, this guy might as well be punching himself in the nose...trying to get real compassion from a concervative? ah ha ha, oh, please stop it now, I can't breath!!!
that's one of the funniest things I've ever heard of. The whole reason a person is a concervative is to keep what he has and get more of it...fuck his neighbor, fuck everyone else, as long as mr conservative gets his...that's all that matters! except if he thinks you might be doing something he doesn't approve of, then he wants to be in your business all of a sudden.
I'm sick of these repub "writing geniuses" like Gerson and Frum getting golden parachutes
kaT @ 25:
True. Or everything to lose if they don't.
Yeah, it made a lot of sense and Coke IS the "real thing". Jesus Christ. It's as if the last 7 years didn't even happen. Get it straight: the Republicans have NO interest in solving your or the nation's problems. NONE. N-O-N-E.
It's hard for him to be cynical of the government???? He's a bloody neo-con, by nature they are cynical of government. It's their favorite quote from their favorite hero "The scariest words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'?"
Yes we do have plenty of money in the budget. . . we can pay for SCHIP except for Bush's stupid war. . . he says we have problems of race? Didn't Tony Snow say racism doesn't exist any more.
Wow Democrats need to adopt ideals that are part of the Democratic party . . . wow, just wow
Ah yet another rethug on my list to pimpslap!
There's just somethin about these right wing whitey mcwhitersons that makes me just want to beat the stuffin out of them all!
Conservatism can't fail, it can only BE failed.
What a douchebag.
DirtyFuckingHippie @ 37:
I beg to differ, since we have advanced dramatically over the length of time that humans have recorded history, I think it's fair to say not only that conservatism has failed, but in general failed consistently. If conservatives had always had their ways, we would still be sleeping in caves, cold, because we didn't have fire.
Anyone that's wants votes, lotsa votes, follow my plan. Stop invading contries illegally, stop spending trillions of dollars on the war machine and torture, and illegal spying, stop being hypocritical, and stop lying to the public. Now, was that soooo hard?
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