Nothing to fear but nonsense itself
By Steve Benen Monday Apr 28, 2008 9:02pmAt his White House press conference this morning, the president was asked about GDP figures due to be released and whether he’s concerned that they’ll point to an official recession. After responding with some talk about drilling ANWR, Bush added:
“[I]f you want to send a good signal during these uncertain times, is make the tax cuts permanent, is to let people — send the signal that people are going to be able to keep their money. And I think that will help the psychology of the country.”
He repeated the line a few minutes later:
“I would hope that those who worry about recession, slowdown, whatever you want to call it, make the tax cuts permanent as a way of helping to address this issue — because if you’re somebody out there trying to plan your future and you’re worried about the future and you think your taxes are going to go up, it’s going to cause different behavioral patterns.”
I have no idea what Bush is talking about. Or, more likely, Bush has no idea what he's talking about.
To hear Bush tell it, the economic anxiety Americans feel right now is somehow related to tax cuts that expire in 2011 — tax cuts that primarily don’t help the middle class or low-income families anyway.
In all seriousness, how many people who are worried about their families’ finances right now are going to say, “I’ve been really worried, but now that I know my tax rate will remain the same in 2011 as it is 2010, I’m feeling better again”? That, in essence, is what the president argued with a straight face this morning. The answer for economic angst now is maintenance of existing tax cuts three years from now.
Ben at TP recently offered a competing explanation for economic anxiety.
[M]aybe American negative attitudes toward the economy stem from the housing and credit crises, job losses, rising unemployment, a volatile stock market, high gas prices, high family debt, flat wages, increasing budget deficits, a weak dollar, and rising health care costs — not to mention the effects of the $12 billion per month war in Iraq that is being bankrolled largely on borrowed funds.
Could that have more to do with explaining why Americans are so upset with the economy? Nah. It must have something to do with expectations for tax rates in 2011. After all, as Bush insisted this morning, those three-years-away rates “cause different behavioral patterns.”
That makes a lot more sense. Thank goodness the president and his congressional allies are so in touch with concerns and fears facing American families.
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You see? It's all in our minds! Choosing between gas or food is something you're just imagining.
I feel much better.
I am so fucking sick of this dirty rotten motherfucker I could just spit.
And I am sick to death of the toothless fucking threats by the likes of Leahy and Conyers I could just fucking scream.
Impeach these fuckers already.....Damnit.
Bush talks about this stuff like someone just explained it to him five minutes ago. It's like when a fifth-grader gives an oral book report and he gets and A on it for essentially getting the names of the characters in the story right, regardless of what he or she knows about the plot.
Bush has no idea how the economic system works, and when I say no idea, I mean that literally. It's evident here - he thinks "tax cuts," whatever that is, is the answer to everything fiscally related. he's the equivalent of a parent who thinks beating the crap out of your kids is good parenting cause it keeps 'em quiet.
The Only Thing We Have To Fear , Is A moron President, Who Uses Fear For Votes.
(Or the dude is really class A canidate for this schizophrenia!)
try taxing billionaires at 90% and lowering taxes for middle and working classes. that would be helpful to the majority. in fact, tax billionaires out of existence.
Yeah, it's all the middle classes fault. You know, the peons of the Americans. On MSNBC Financial channel, all day I hear rich analysts gripe how we are at fault. One dirt-bag had the balls to say"Why do Americans consider someone making 100,000 a year is rich! Who came up with those numbers!" So there we go folks! The minority making the big bucks trying to shame hard working Americans.
The retard has spoken
Burn down wall street! Start a new market place thats outside of a greedy city and start anew.
I think somewhere in downtown Michigan would be a start.
learn to live with the poor and help your fellow american! for the love of whatever god you ignore or worship, enough with this me me me MORE MONEY!!!!!!!! shit. how much is enough? how will those who have and those who have not interact?
SHOW some fucking mercy on those that have lost everything and stop with the TMZ parties and showing ppl how a sugar statue is made for a formal gathering.
This is the downfall of america. let those rich pigs enjoy thier turn at the troth, but when the bottom drops out, dont any one of those rich pricks look to the EU To bail you out.
Go sit in the gruel line like the many thousands of hungry and wait your turn at the food table!
with that,, i bid you all a good night. and a even better tomorow.
Best regards,,
Bush is an idiot.....did anyone else watch HOUSE last night and think of Bush? ( the show was on NeuroSyphilis...I am sure I was not the only one that thought about it...)
If you're planning the future of your capital gains and you're panicked that your taxes might go up -- I could give a shit.
Translation - "Pleeeease...oh puleeeease don't take away the money we stole from the treasury in our reverse Robin Hood scheme that has robbed from the poor to give to the rich, we'll be devastated...we..we...we'll have to stop buying Mercedes Benzs, and more homes and no more vacations in exotic locations".
The Bush taxes for fat cats will expire. Pity those fat cats, they will have slightly fewer billions to call their own.
O woe is they. They will lose sleep.
So when people are unemployed, what they worry about most is taxes on money they don't have.
I hope Dim Boy is reincarnated as the poorest untouchable in a Calcutta slum--for a thousand generations.
This guy is a complete horse's ass.
McCain has been talking of the psychological boost of having the gas tax suspended. Is this the new Rovian meme? Control the masses to curtail the recession? The Republican party is the party of the quick fix now, so these statements fall in line with the rebate, rhetoric, etc.
I am waiting for the whole house of cards to come crashing down. Funny how Bush blames the Dems for HIS economic policies. The Bushes and their ilk will have a hard time assimilating when the Finacial Disticts turn to dust. Better start your Victory Gardens my friends
Clinton within 5 points of Obama in NC. That racist GOP ad must be taking affect.
Did you hear his speech? A lot of slurring and making little sense. Is he back on the sauce again?
"Nothing To Fear But Nonsense Itself"
Good title.
How about this one:
"Nothing To Fear But Living In A Country That Would Allow This Nonsense, For Eight Years"
Hummm, tax cuts mixed with record spending mixed with record debt... I think the "conservatives" really need to find a new nick name.
You can't eat money, and you can't milk a dead cash cow.
Grinding down the poor results in ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
It is psychologically uplifting to picture corporate elite getting richer. It's similar to when I was psychologically gratified to know that Iraq was going to be privatized with the military industrial corporatists getting richer. Oh, and also like when I get psychologically aroused every time Wall Street gets bailed out for being so greedy.
Love this President. Let me shit on you...., permanently.
I really think Bush was drunk this morning. What an embarrassment.
To my Canadian friends - INVADE THE USA NOW! PLEASE LIBERATE US! I BEG YOU!
God, what a buffoon. Why didn't he dance on the White House steps like last time? It's going to be a long nine months. And just think if Mccain wins. God, we will be screwed!
“I would hope that those who worry about recession, slowdown, whatever you want to call it, ..........
How about calling it suffering through a devestating moral and economic crisis these past 7 years, the likes of which rank you as amongst the worst, if not singularly the worst, President in United States history?
Yea, thats what I call it.
THE BIGGEST QUESTION THAT NO ONE IS ASKING:
This is the first war in U.S. history that's being fought nearly 100% on credit. When and how are we going to pay off the balance?
There is no such thing as permanent tax cuts when you're in debt. What person in their right mind who is trillions in debt asks his or her boss for a pay cut without even trying to cut their expenses?
We have one of three options:
1. Raise taxes to their 1990s level for EVERYONE and reduce government waste including the Iraq War. Reduce taxes on those making less than $100,000 the budget is balanced.
2. Pass the debt burden onto the millenial generation and let all of us pay 40% in taxes to pay off the debt.
3. Let China, Saudi Arabia, and India foreclose on our entire country in 50 years. When that happens, I vote that India gets control over the Midwestern states!
Yeah dan, How about the Repugs new label as," We have destroyed your childrens future, we are immoral, bigoted, homophobic, treasury stealing, corporation coddlers, environmental terrorists, war mongering, religious hypocrits," Damn, I'm tired of typing. Anymore suggestion my fellow C&Ler?
Mister Anderson @ 27:
It don't matter anyway, the rapture is comin don't ya know!
Honestly, I couldn't care less what "behavioral patterns" the super-rich upper 1% have as a consequence, so long as we have the taxes paid to fix our infrastructure and pay our debts.
The poor SOBs can rub their pearls to dust for all I care.
I'm sorry to use expletives (look what we have become), but what a f-king moron this idiot is.
Reading a news article on his press conference, I am amazed that people still support this fool.
On high gas/oil prices:
But Bush quickly said that he favors longer-term fixes, such as encouraging new oil production in the United States and building new refineries at home. He renewed his call for opening areas of Alaska wilderness to oil exploration and production.
Long term fixes? We want action now. By the time any new refineries are built and any new sources of oil are flowing from beneath American soil, gas prices could be $6 a gal. or more. And if you think that the oil companies are going to pump all that oil to their own refineries and sell it only in America, think again; they are going to sell it on the world market at the then-current prices and make max profit. However, if Bush thinks that all that oil is going to go into Americans' vehicles, does he really expect it to cut prices back to 2008 (or earlier) levels??
[Bush] said he was "open to any ideas," including a proposal backed by presidential contenders John McCain and Hillary Clinton to suspend gas and diesel taxes this summer.
Gas in our area is $3.58 for regular grade as of Sunday. Knock off the 18.4 cents of federal tax and that takes it to $3.40. Filling up my Dodge Neon from empty (12 gal. tank) would save me a whopping $2.16. If I fill up once a week, I'm saving about $9 a month. Wow. But...if I take that $2.16 I'm saving each week and put it in the bank, in 19 weeks I'll have saved up enough money to fill my tank up!
Bush renewed his objection to calls that the government discontinue keeping up the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve supply while oil prices are so high. "If I thought it would affect the price of oil significantly, I would seriously consider it," he said of an idea embraced by many Democrats and some Republicans.
Well well...what a difference 2 years makes. In 2006 what did Bush do? He suspended deposits into the SPR:
In response to a public outcry over rising gasoline prices, President Bush on Tuesday said he has directed the Energy Department to suspend deposits to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve through the summer -- to boost oil supply over the short term.
Bush said the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is "sufficiently large enough to guard against any major supply disruption over the next few months."
By deferring deposits until the fall, he said, "we'll leave a little more oil on the market. Every little bit helps."
In 2000, candidate Bush suggested this very thing to Pres. Clinton to help with rising gas prices. Yet in 2004, he refused this suggestion, made by others incl. his competitor John Kerry. But in 2006 he flip-flopped and suspended deposits. In 2008 he's back to refusing such a move. Certainly doesn't want to piss off his oil industry buddies during presidential election years, huh?
Sources for above quotes:
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/bush-prods-congress-to-act-on-economy/20080...
http://www.crosswalk.com/1393084/
Bitter enigma4ever of Watergate Summer @ 10:
House is mean because the other doctors think he has neurosyphilis.
The patient is nice because the doctors think he has neurosyphilis.
George Bush is extraordinarily...stupid.
It is so clear now; lupus is the only alternative.
Test
BushCo determined to start 3 failed wars for the next president to deal with. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/gates_iran
IMPEACH THIS FUCKER ALREADY!
Mission accomplished, suckers: The Treasury's been sacked, half the country's about to go bankrupt, we're at war, the world hates us, cataclysmic global warming is now inevitable, the Constitution's been shat upon, the Geneva Convention's been shredded, gas prices will soon be over $5 bucks, health care is a sham, food prices are soaring, fresh water is depleted, ecosystems ravaged, species going extinct, rent is up, wages are down, you're unemployed and you owe thousands on high-interest credit cards.
Oh, but Bush is sending you a few hundred bucks, courtesy of...YOURSELF, dumbass; you'll be paying for it with your own tax money. Want another one? Heck, it ain't no skin off Bushy's nose! He's borrowing THREE TRILLION DOLLARS to pay for his little wars in the Middle East. Why stop now?
America has noting to fear but BushCo itself.
I suspect Chimpy's being pressured by the billionaires he promised the tax cut. They want to see it permanent, which is an increasingly unlikely scenario. They invested megabucks in GOP campaigns for this, and are getting rather upset. They don't like McCains prospects for November, either.
They didn't get to plunder Social Security, they didn't get their Iraqi oil delivered, and they REALLY want to keep their tax cut. Conniving scum, all of them.
So Bush is a lame duck president who wants to make tax cuts an election issue and it certainly looks like he has an incentive to take the economy down to a level where tax cuts are perceived to make a difference.
He was rambling. He has no idea what he is talking about and apparently no one on his staff bothers to train him any more. He tries to repeat talking points he memorized from previous pressers and speeches whether the points remotely answer the question or not.
He and his cronies know they have tanked the country but don't care. They will have their fortunes from our raided treasury. They do not care about this country or the American people. They only care about their fortune - maintaining and growing it.
How bad does it have to get for the Democrats in Congress to impeach and imprison these criminals? It's deja vu 1929 - now is it bad enough, Democratic Congressional leaders? Or should we wait til it gets beyond repair?
jimbo92107 @ 35:
But did you hear? Jeremiah Wright said something inflammatory!
Stop being lead by the media. Bush knows sweet FA about economics and that shows by the soft ball questions that he's asked by the press corp. He will always dodge an economic question. Economics = agenda to push for tax cuts that's it with this idiot. That's the extent of his understanding of domestic policy.
jimbo92107 @ 35:
Classic comment. I liked the bold part the best.
Ruthless People, I have been in fear since 2004. All my predictions came true. Who knows, when the markets fall it might take many a tycoon with it. That would be poetic justice.
Ruthless People @ 40:
...from "EnemyOfTheState.com" http://redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/pay_attention_please
EnemyOfTheState.com wants Hllary to be the nominee BAD http://redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/pay_attention_please
P.D. @ 43:
No, because they control when it falls. It's all the poor suckers with retirement funds that lose everything.
Bush just has to keep confirming that he is the biggest moron this country has ever seen as President. Harding, Buchanan, Pierce, whomever used to be rated as the worst president all, when compared with Bush, look like Mensa chapter presidents. He cannot be more dumb. Forrest Gump would make more sense.
John McCain cannot be elected Prez after this idiot. they are both members of the GOP and that party is completely to blame for shoving Bush on this country for about 8 yrs. egad.
It's fascinating that people still complain about Bush.
Shouldn't we be past Bush by now, and on to the more serious question of why the citizens of America have put up with this for eight years?
Don't we get what Bush is saying?
Question: Mr. President, you said blah, blah, blah, but then you said blah, blah, blah.
President: Excuse me ma'am, I think you've confused me with someone who gives a shit about what you think.
YourMom, I, like many Americans have nothing saved. We are living on God's good humor. I have my garden, my children are healthy, and I'm scrappy. I can live without. Can my rich fellow Americans say the same? I can get my hands dirty, working the soil, I wonder how many others can say the same?
breakspear @ 48:
If the Dems continue to bicker, splinter and become apathetic, McCain could very well win.
His base is fixed and they WILL vote - you could probably count his votes right now. It will all come down to whether enough people vote to override those self-destructive idiots.
Think about it - 28% approve of Bush, but (according to the polls) about 50% of all voters will vote for more of the same. What is the disconnect?
P.D. @ 50:
Hey! I was in the garden all day today. I'm with you. My savings are my seed collection!
Please, no more press conferences, Dubya.
Why do I keep hearing Barbara Bush in the background saying, "you know, this is really working out for most of them..."
When the economy is doing good it's because of the tax cuts, when it's doing bad it's because we need tax cuts.
P.D. @ 50:
Unfortunately the only kind of seed available will be genetically modified stock owned by Monsanto and they'll only be selling to approved customers.
Bush is actually trying to say that if his 2002 tax cuts were made permanent (whereas now they are indefinite, like Camp X-Ray, right?) then Americans would feel more secure about saving for their future. He was rambling, of course, but that was his attempt.
So many lowlights from that press conference today. But we deserved this guy.
Ruthless People @ 18:
The only poll that has Clinton that close is SurveyUSA. Coincidentally, their site has a link to NewsMax Corp. Here's the skinny on NewsMax : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsMax.com
These fucking corporate bastards are manipulating polls, the media and anything that isn't nailed down to keep their fat bloated asses floating in gravy for the next thousand years. Do some research before you believe what you read. If you're capable of critical thinking, use it or lose it .
Yeah baby! Make those tax breaks for the filthy rich permanent!
The tax cuts and genocide in Iraq, aren't even PAID for. Face it, we live in a nation of cowards. Otherwise, well I can't say it.
All I see
Acid
rope
gallows
guillotine
bush family
rocket
sun
I do not consider those packages of protoplasm to be of human origin.
He's clearly feeling the pain—the pain of gazillionaires facing the expiration of
their tax cuts.
Its all so surreal. He no longer even tries to mask the fact that his only
concern is his daddy's buddies and their corporate bottom lines.
Someone said it best—we should be past this guy and asking how it all happened.
How so many millions of americans couldn't see what a moron he was and re-elected him.
and this is somebody who went to business school.
Bush 2000-2004 is the 2nd worse president ever! Bush 2004-2008 is the worst ever, since in his 2nd term he had the chance to right mistakes from the 1st term and didn't.
Democractic Congress 2006 is the chickenshitiest and thus the worse since they have not even investigated Bush for impeachable activites. What little they have done is not enuf to debate.
Let me tell ya a story about how tax cuts really help working people. Down here in the Bananna Republic of FloriDUH the people, in their infinite wisdom, recently voted for something called Amendment 1 which basically gave property owners a tax cut they didn't need while allowing affluent home owners to take their current homestead tax exemption and apply it to second, more pricey homes. All the Unions and public interest groups were jumping up and down, shouting "Don't do it! It'll result in cuts in fire and police services, schools closing, administrative fees going up, etc, etc, etc!" I'm a working stiff like everybody else, sweating the mortgage payments every month, but I just didn't see the need for working and poor non-homeowners subsidizing my lifestyle, so I voted against it but, true to form, the majority of Floridians voted for it. At best, it resulted in maybe a $240 per year savings per household. So, how's that tax cut working out? Well, Central Florida is facing a rash of school closings, cuts in fire and police protection, service fees going up, and - this one really sucks - almost resulted in the elimination of the Road Rangers - a free roadside assistance program for motorists. You run out of gas, get a flat, dead battery, what have you, these guys are johnny on the spot-it's a tremendous program (only massive public outcry brought about their funding being restored). So. What's my point? The point is, don't let that retarded sack of shit in the White House (and his minions in the GOP) bullshit you that tax cuts are the answer to your prayers. Tax cuts don't help working people; tax cuts ultimately hurt working people.
THIS IS IT..... RICH PEOPLE WANT TO STAY RICH..... IT IS SMALL AT THEIR END OF THE PYRAMID..... THE PYRAMID SCHEME ONLY WORKS WHEN THE BOTTOM SUPPORTS THE TOP
SO ONCE YOU ARE IN POWER.... SCREW THE POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS
----------WHY IS THERE SUCH A LOOK OF SURPRISE WHEN HE ACTS AS HE DOES
....................YOU KNEW HE WAS A SNAKE BEFORE YOU TOOK HIM IN
hard to decide who's stupider: Bush or the people who still support him. One thing's for sure: they deserve each other.
I love the last line
My irony meter exploded.
I just watched this... Jesus H. Christ, what a disaster. The man cannot even speak in complete, properly phrased sentences. Nowadays, whenever I find someone who still believes in this jerk, or even voted for him, I scold them publicly. The amount of crap that this guy spits out of his mouth is just unbelievable, my barking Labrador makes more sense while being friendlier than this moron.
As it is, the Iraq war is what is really screwing the economy, not just the gas. Oh wait, it could be the looting of the Treasury by the current cabal of thieves, or the mortage crisis, or literally financing a war on credit courtesy of China. Anyway you slice it, first thing we need to do is impeach this idiot and send him to jail.
Just the most craptastic president ever.
The winning touch for me is the expression he wears when he pauses his slurring as if to say "wait till you get a load of this one" and then something incredibly effing stupid. Then looks stern, like, I really meant that.
Ken Lay had nothing on this guy.
Bud Osama @ 24:
before that can happen we need to get rid of our PM who is a wannabe king george.
next the US will have to adopt and start using the metric system
third thing americans will have to start spelling things the way the rest of the world does..ie: colour,metre,litre...etc
and finally learn that your beer is simply terrible and get rid of all US breweries
I kind of feel like our country is in the hands of mentally challenged people, then I feel bad because comparing the mentally challenged to the Conservative Movement is such an insult to the mentally challenged. In addition, with the mentally challenged, you can appeal to their sense of REASON. Lastly, mentally challenged people KNOW they are mentally challenged, whereas movement conservatives, even as our country turns to shit under their misrule, are blissfully confident in both the superiority of themselves and their political movement.
Bush: "...because if you’re somebody out there trying to plan your future and you’re worried about the future and you think your taxes are going to go up, it’s going to cause different behavioral patterns.”
This spoiled frat boy never had to "worry" about his future, daddy's friends were always going to find him a job. Tax cuts? Great. Put it with my other millions.
Why in the hell do middle class/working class people vote republican?
P.D. @ 28:
Nope! That just about sums it up.
DannyEastVillage @ 62:
WHAT business school?
Oh yah
The University of how to NOT succeed and ruin the united states of america
joeedugan @ 71:
A word you might be searching for is egosyntonic: when disturbed people deny that they have a problem.
YourMom @ 51:
That is the big question!
How could anyone vote for a repuke in congress either? After all, they completely supported ALL of Bush's policies. THEY ARE BUSH. The whole freakin' GOP is represented by their moron in chief; greedy, mean-spirited, anti-social, american hating corporate fascist's. How is voting for any of them going to fix the problems they (GOP) created, and want to perpetuate with their "tax-cuts" for the rich will fix any problem idiocy.
With Dubya the right brain doesn't know what the left brain is doing! Up is down, right is left and so shut up I'm in charge.
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 64:
Now they have the dumb bastards where they want them. Now the billionaires who got 90% of those tax cuts swoop down with their privatization schemes to save the school districts and municipalities by offering dirt cheap workers. So the dumb fucks fire thousands of middle class workers and replace them with $7 an hour slave laborers. When the communities lose all those tax dollars from their lost workers and all those people drop out of the real estate market (because $7 an hour won't get you any type of home), the property values will drop 25% overnight. And the districts don't save any money either, because the privatized services suck, and all the tax money simply goes to the billionaire GOP crony who owns the privatization firm.
Yep! Your community might begin to resemble a banana republic, and your house may have lost $75,000 in value, but you got a $240 tax cut from the GOP!!! Why, why, that's a quarter of a tank of gas!
I'll say it again; half the people in this country are so freakin' stupid, they would let the GOP privatize the air supply through Haliburton for a $50 dollar tax cut. And as they took their last dying breath before afixiation, they would use it to curse them damn libruls.
DannyEastVillage @ 66:
The dumb bastards who still support him. As stupid as Bush is, he knows that his own pocket book is benefitting nicely under the current scheme of things. Those dumb bastards who are losing everything on the other hand, yet still support this asshole, are truly a curiosity.
Doesn't this guy have a masters degree in business? Wait, just checked his official biography at whitehouse.gov and sure enough, it claims that he does. I would assume that that would mean he has some basic concept of economics as it was required for me to have them with just a bachelor's in management. So "whatever we want to call it" instead of saying the word "recession" and not being able to explain why his tax cuts actually do something directly for the economy by instead saying that keeping them just makes us all feel better about things and will make the economy be better tells me that he's out of his fucking mind. I know he's got only 9 months left, but someone needs to just stand up and ask the man once and for all to give an actual explanation for something rather than the condescending bullshit that passes through his lips most of the time. I think once, just once, we, the American people, deserve that much from Captain Stupid.
No , you stupid looking retarded motherfucking AWOL coward bitch ; what will help the psychology of this country is arresting and impeaching you and your entire horseshit administration , past and present , and watching you spend the rest of your useless lives in prison where you all belong.............
No sense listening to the guy any longer.....he's simply insane....end of story. We're wasting our time here talking about him as if he is relevant.
We shouln't be talking about drilling for more oil. It shouldn't even be an option. We should be moving 1001% towards alternative energy and weaning ourselves off archaic/dirty oil. The europeans are way ahead of us in this regard.
dosido @ 75:
Never heard that word before. Very useful. Thanks.
The die hard 28%
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oJlwwS_kd4o
Bush is like the captain on the Titanic, with one difference.
Bush is going around and kicking holes in the sides of all the lifeboats...except one...the one he and Cheney plan on using to escape what they caused to sink. Totally pathological. Totally insane. Totally deaf to the suffering of the common man, woman and child. But always attentive to their elitist, permanent-tax-cut pals. Unfortunately, their elitist, permanent-tax-cut pals are going to end up going down with the ship, too, because Bush and Cheney really only care about themselves.
To use another analogy, this one from Bush's younger years...we are all frogs and Bush is holding a bunch of firecrackers.
Of course Bush knows what he is doing.He`s wanting permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% where the oil profits are gushing in:then that money will trickle down to all the miserable people like you and me and our children and their children who are being sapped with this war bill,losing their jobs,while their children lose their lives at war;and the money keeps gushing in and trickling downand police state becomes more of a reality because the miserable people are pissed about the gov screwing them,their banks screwing them,their employer,screwing them,their insurance company screwing them,their church screwing them....So they get pissed off and get the one thing they think they can depend on;their guns,and the miserable people gather to throw tea into Boston Harbor.While unbeknownst to them the small but efficient group of mercenaries known as Blackwater has grown to 280,000 men who have no rules except to keep order at any cost.Sounds outrageous,doesn`t it?Right wing conservatism at its least compassionate.Police state/fascism,anybody?
The Oracle @ 86:
Not just firecrackers;cherry bombs
I love how Bush and the righties throw around the phrase tax cuts all the time, like the tax cuts they propose are some huge boon to us little guys. I suppose the people that travel in their circles make enough for a tax cut to result in some pretty substantial kick-backs. But, I think for the vast majority of people in the US the tax cuts they talk about end up giving us a few hundred bucks extra per year. Who cares? Seriously, anyone? I'd rather our collective pennies be put forth for the greater good. Like protecting the environment, or education, or healthcare, or workers' rights--you know, stuff that we as individuals lack the resources with which to make any really meaningful difference. Supporting those sorts of things are the way to improve the economy.
That said, I'll certainly take the "economic stimulus" money this year. There's no doubt it would be handy at the moment, but overall the program isn't going to do anything positive. It's yet another short sighted "plan" that I suspect, if it follows the usual Bush pattern, will actually make the thing it's intended to fix worse.
Actually, I just realized that I would like some of my tax money back. About 40% of it. The $hit they're spending it on is a waste.
Didn't chimpy say he wasn't very good at economics in school something like he got a C? I think that was more like a pass on condition the condition was that he not enroll in another economics class having to explain it in terms that a dead head like chimpy was just to much for the professor to bear.
Everyone in the beltway doesn't understand the enviroment out here in the really world- after all they are the (new( old) aristocracy) it's all in our heads tell that to the 80,000 that lost their jobs. Same old BS different verse
Can you say Tax Cut, Tax Cut, Tax Cut?
Now say Bush is an IDIOT, Bush is an IDIOT, Bush is an IDIOT!
Now Say McCain = Bush, McCain = Bush, McCain = Bush!
McCain is the next IDIOT!
NoGWBpolicyleftinplace @ 78:
This is amazing. Notice how the MSM does not report on any of this. One has to read a Blog on C&L to even get a hint that this situation exists. Boy, the United States is headed to destruction. It would seem people would see the ruse. The working class and the poor need to get organized. What else can anyone say except McCain = Bush!
YourMom @ 51:
As someone said on another site, fully half of America is as dumb as shit.
He's fucking drunk. I wish American population will realized that they are being rule by an idiot and take back the country. But that's just wishful thinking. And I wish America will make the fucking democrat representative pay for not impeaching this asshole and his hemorrhoid Chenney, and elect a democrat rival in office like Gutsy Cindy Shehan, still this is a wishful thinking. There are too much blood in Chenney and Bush hands soon it will be spilling on every Americans hand. the more they let him stay in office.
bush is an embarrassment to America. The rest of the world assumes that we looked over our 300,000,000+ people and decided that an arrogant, incompetent ex-drunk sociopath would be the ideal leader for our nation. He makes us all look like idiots. Why do we put up with his crap?
Lets be fair now, Shrub is a dry drunk that found god at the bottom of a whiskey bottle which is much worse then just being your average drunk.
dogeatdogi @ 8:
Stop offending retards !
BUSH AND THE REPUBLICANS ARE THE NEW 21st CENTURY FASCIST NAZI PARTY.
diamondmc @ 96:
It was 'arranged' for him to find God so he could run for the GOP nomination. He couldn't SPELL God much less find Him.
karlo @ 98:
Granpappy Prescott would be SOOOOO proud !
Bush reads his speeches like some kid in grade-school who didn't really read the book for his report and then tries to get by with crib-notes, stumbling and not understanding what he says.
Dave @ 19:
Long term brain scarring?
Chico Hussein @ 99:
yep, probably read it backward, witch is interesting.
Live = Evil
Lived = Devil
Mad Dog = God dam
(ok, damn has the n, but bush wont know that.)
The Federal gas tax is 18.4 cents per gallon. Big whoop...
Gas has gone from under $1.40 gallon to around $3.80 per gallon (a 270% increase) since 2000.
George wants to give us a 4.8% discount over the Summer. Shit, I think I will buy a summer home with the money that will "save" me.
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ @ 102:
**witch should read which**
I really don't think Bush should discuss topics such as psychology. There is just something scary and ironic about things like that.
ashton @ 105:
ROTF ... true!!
Be real you all! Most of you voted for this idiot twice! We all deserve what we have brought upon ourselves. The hypocritical "religiousness", the fanatical party affiliations supporting candidates and political ideologies based on egotistical and selfish desires.
We have got a newborn Fascist Government full of radical fanatics of the worse kind, they lie and deceive without regards for anything but their sole motivation to control and profit from the mases of consumers. The media control, the institutionalized politicians who make a great living maintaining the status and their supportive ultimate GOD, the SCOTUS. MC Cain will retain the Dark House of the USA and O'Reilly will join him as the Vice, with Hannity as the pres secretary. I'm about to vomit!!
When are these reichwing thugs gonna get it through their thick skulls that taxes aren't spent as they were in Prince John's day on gold plates and goblets, but on government?
There are only 13 appropriation bills that have to be passed every year, and that's ALL social spending can be found.
The bulk of the budget go to what's called the black book budget that's classified because it funds national security: CIA, DIA, FBI, NSA, Homeland security etc.
Why does he look more intelligent than boosh?
http://www.hellofelix.com/images/blog/primates/thoughtful-bonobo.jpg
Please have more press conferences!! It will confirm again, and again that there has to be a pro-active, united effort to take back the country. McSame should be challenged to support or refute his chief economic advisor/mentor. By the way I think Bush broke a Guiness record yesterday by putting together the longest string of cliches into one incoherent sentence. Another record for the great economist.
jrbluejay @ 107:
Um, "most of you" voted for Bush?????
You might want to restate that one.
The majority of posters here can thread a few words together to make a sentence...
Which probably separates them from the majority of Bush voters.
Apology accepted.
P.D. @ 50:
I am in your camp. I had the wisdom to see this was coming a few years back (2002) and did all I could to pay off debt and consume the least. If people would refrain from buying useless toys and short live garbage they can do without it would help in restraining the markets. The truth is a lot of people are feeling in despair and buy mindlessly simply in an act of denial about their condition. No one likes to be seen as stepping down from what they had "accomplish" in the past. We are too proud and vain and arrogant. We have been raised to believe we are superior to everyone else. Now we are at the bottom of the drum and still oblivious to that reality.
Hail. To. The. Shit. For. Brains.
sully18 @ 87:
Is no surprise the large number of Military carrier men and women who are totally and openly supportive of this "administration" they simply see it as Us (military) against them (non-military) Men of power delight in pompously waking around in their multitude of refrigerator magnet uniforms. They feel proud of whatever it is they are accomplishing or not. It is totally insane. I know a couple that work at the Pentagon and I can say they are the dumbest and most arrogant individuals I know. They have been brainwashed and reformatted to follow and obey at a dear cost to all of us. MERCENARIES?, yes. Fascism?, yes. Militias at the service of the corrupt and powerful. Scary? you bet! Not everyone falls or allows itself to be controlled in this way, some military service men and women do retain their morals and are able to reason.
We should be celebrating everyday as a countdown of getting the uneducated, uncaring moron and his administration out of the White House.
DC @ 92:
That is exactly was is happening down here in FL. Not to mention, they want to cut property taxes again and make up for the revenue in an increased sales tax. Of course it will be on the Nov. ballot. Just watch the voters put the rope around their necks and vote yes!
It is amazing that in a state with so many old people no one is really all that concerned with emergency services and the rise of privatized ambulance companies.
FBush @ 111:
Seriously, taxes. I'm not worried about those. They don't seem to fluctuate as much as gas, medicine, and food.
What an asshole. Big time.
The man is a known multiple felon for Christs sake!! Why is he talking about making tax cuts (for the extremely wealthy that destory our economy) permanant instead of being in a prison cell like our LAWS require??? WHY WHY WHY LORD????
Bush: It's alright everyone! Just remember to clap for the tax cuts, clap really hard like you are clapping for Tinkerbell.
FBush @ 61:
I got news for you. The are STILL so many millions of Americans who think GWB has done a great job as president. It simply boggles the mind that there can be so many Americans this mean spirited and incapable of critical thinking.
I predict a McCain presidency. We are truly fucked as a nation. Thank you dark corporate forces, I hope you have maximized your profits.
P.S. Off topic, but by the way, Newsweek continues to employ Karl Rove to write his special brand of bullshit in their magazine. Any Newsweek subscribers care to join me in canceling their subscriptions?
Throw his sorry, sick ass in prison, then let Scalia decide his "punishment". Oops, my bad, Scalia doesn't think torture is punishment.
Throw em in a gunny sack into the Potomac.
For the people who voted for this joker. Do you talk like this? Do you think like this? Are we sure he graduated from an ivy league school? The rest of the world is laughing their asses off at us. This country is in real deep shit.
karlo @ 98:
Not only Nazi's, but cold-blooded lying Terrorists!
Cant someone translate Chimpy's words? I don't speak dumb fuck.
NoGWBpolicyleftinplace @ 78:
It could be worse! You could live out here in CalifPORNIA! Here the MEDIAN cost for a home is $400K!!! And WHY are prices so bloody high? Because during the "Dot-Com Boom" several years ago a bunch of out of state
speculumeaters.... OOPS!... er... eh... speculators decided that if they bought up everything in sight and splashed around a little paint they could charge what ever they could wring out of the neuvo-dot-com-rich who were at the time spending their new found wealth like it was water! And DAMNED if they weren't right! The problem came with the "Dot-Com-Bust" that it seems almost nobody was bright enough to foresee! So here are all of these real-estate Einsteins up to their ears in over prices properties who were not about to take the proverbial bath on them. So now WE are paying through every orifice on our bodies for THIER mistakes! GEEBUS!Every year there is talk about the bottom dropping out and rumors about the bottom dropping out, yet as long as idiots are willing to pay these other idiots the obscene prices they are asking the idiocy will prevail! I was born and raised in this state, I've even owned a home here once (paid $64,000 for a 2bdr that NOW goes for $365,000!) and the prospect of my spouse and I EVER getting back into the housing market are between nil and zip. Why? Because we aren't idiots who are willing to over pay for a $64K home. SHEEZE!
And HOW is Bush's "No Child Lefty Behind" helping students? My best friend, a teacher for 19 years was laid off... WHY? Because her high school records were damaged and she cant PROVE by them (a requirement of NCLB) that she graduated high school! "What about her diploma?" you may ask. It doesn't count! WHY? Because some bright crayon at the Homeland Insecurity Office decided that such a document could possibly be forged! OYE VEY! What a Numnill! Where do they GET these Nimrods? Wall-Mart? So this brilliant woman, who spent her career working with the most hard core "special education" cases is working for Merry Maids cleaning houses! Now THERE is a GREAT use of her training and skills!
Thank you George. No! I really mean that. Because if it weren't for you I'd never know the joys of living like the dirt poor in the richest state in the country. WHEEE.
Robert Nicholson @ 38:
Robert, honey, for all intents and purposes, Bush was a lame duck the FIRST time he took for office!
this man( a child, actually) IS ON DRUGS.....there is no doubt in my mind
To make it short: The U.S. gov. has become a criminal enterprise. To call it organized crime would be giving too much credit to the morons. Eventually they will pay.
In the meantime we will all have to suffer the consequences of their actions. It amazes me that there are still idiots out there that believe in and support the GOP.
Hang 'em all, right now
Tax cuts are the last thing on my mind as I enter my sixth month of unemployment with no job prospects on the horizon. I don't make enough to pay taxes anyway. What planet are these assholes living on anyway?
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