I say Americans should boycott Bush's Economic Presser tonight
By John Amato Tuesday Sep 23, 2008 4:05pmWhy should anybody listen to what Mr. 30 %er has to say given that it's because of his administration we have FISA, torture, endless signing statements, Iraq and now a complete meltdown in the financial markets. Did you notice that North Korea is laughing at him too? Why should anybody care what he has to say except goodbye from office. If anything, he'll only weaken the confidence of the American people in the coming days.
I'll probabaly force myself to watch because I have to cover this, but Americans shouldn't. So please join me in C&L's boycott of President Bush's 6/9 PM presser. And I say tune out the networks that cover him also. Go check out TNT's Law and Order or something else and then try the Son's of Anarchy on FX instead. It's the Sopranos on bikes.
He'll probably try to blame the Democratic Congress anyway...
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You know what he's gonna say:
Financial Crisis BOO! Congressional Democrats are threatening to ruin us all BOO! Give me what I want or else Financial Crisis BOO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYxTzDFofZQ
curiouser and curiouser.... down the rabbit hole we go
military on US soil being used for police work, 'crowd control'?
say it ain't so...
Pres Chimpy has nothing to say
My fellow Americans since I wasn't impeached before fucking up everything and there's nothing left to fuck up I resign. Wild cheers arise
The only reason to listen to Bush the Lesser this evening is to pick up on obscure clues to what his "October Surprise" will be.
I don't imagine that the Wall Street Bailout is the only thing he planned to spring on us to keep his administration out of jail.
The President has no clothes. The Republicans and Paulson have no clothes. Republicans are taking off their Republican uniforms (as Chris Matthews has pointed out) and running as fast as they can from the Bush administration and all of their complicit rubber stamping the last eight years.
Many Republicans are ripping off their uniforms but they have Abu Gharib, Guantanamo ,Iraq and deregulation branded on their naked asses.
I have watched a couple of Sons of Anarchy episodes. Katey Sagal has got a very good Lady MacBeth thing going but I have never been much a fan of "Sociopaths R Us" t.v. programs. I am on the fence for the time being.
Why just tonight...I never watch stumble boy.
But think about the Social Security scheme. The more Bush spoke, the more people hated it.
I like the idea but sorry, it's like driving past a horrible traffic accident and not looking.
Just too hard to not look.
Maybe i can find a repeat of "House" on.
I can never watch the smirking moron, I can't afford to keep replacing televisions he makes me smash.
He's going to say "the economy is great" the surge worked and hey, Katrina was a mass hallucination.
Does anyone think that 73 of McCain's campaign lobbyists didn't know what other lobbyists knew while he was suspending his campaign? (you know DeLay and Santorum creamed their jeans...months of their ghoulish drooling to bring back Romney from HIS suspension)
From the K-street comes this "....The deal on the "bail out" is 98% done. Treasury has capitulated on almost every point. A draft is circulating on the Hill now. No one needs McCain to help do the remaining 2%....except the White House who has no standing on this matter on the Hill with either Democrats or Republicans.
FYI . .yesterday an outsourced car parts factory's employees in India KILLED the CEO who did a mass layoff of employees . . to protect his gonzo bonus.
We don't got no teevee at our house, but I might go to my Comrade's house next door to watch his teevee.
What's the matter, John? You don't want to watch the Yankees tonight?
I see....only watch them them they are playoff-bound.
Whenever this administration would "bring on da fear", I would recall the old Star Trek Episode "The Corbomite Maneuver". I would envision Rove as Ron Howard's brother Clint with Bush playing the part of the big-eyed green skinned monster Balok used to scare the crew of the Enterprise. Of course it was bluster but the only thing different tonight is Balok will be speaking alone.
(off topic) I keep getting 'We are experiencing technical difficulties. Please check back in a few minutes.' messages all day.
Is the site under attack? Or just getting too popular?
I just gotta' point out, Israel must be imploding their sphincters that the very nation they pimp for billions is busted broke and now they have to find another punter . . N Korea is laughing their butts off, Merkel in Germany is saying 'neener, neener' and well, we know that choreographed and Republican funded Taliban is going off the orthodox wagon and popping champagne corks in caves around Tora Bora.
The Bush Economy
I was walking
down the isle
of the grocery store
and I heard
a little boy
ask his mother,
"Mommy,
can we buy
dog food
with
food stamps?"
poem by John Hulse from the book The Best and Worst Job I Ever Had
I already know he can read. Why watch?
I will be asleep when he says whatever he's going to say. I am curious if he will call McCain and Obama back to Washington as McCain suggested he should.
Man, I am having all kinds of trouble here at this site this afternoon. Any time I click on something I get the message saying there are problems and I should try later. Let's get a vet in here to check out the health of the hamsters running on the wheels. I think one of them may be feeling bad or something. Maybe one of the hamsters has something stuck in one of his tubes ;)
amilius @ 4:
I usually boycott anything Bush does on TV - I can't bear to hear the man's voice. Tonight I've decided I need to watch precisely because of that "surprise" many of us expect. I just have to make sure I've taken a xanax or had enough to drink first and all loose objects are well away from the TV. Mr. G tends to get a bit emotional (read- madder than hell) when the chimp is on.
The financial crisis is blown up.
I've already got the popcorn! Watching the Moron-in-Chief crapping his pants on national teevee is just too good to pass up. It will be a treat to see the upcoming spectacle tonight...kinda like watching a slow motion train wreck. After his usual senseless blather, he should be promptly arrested, if for nothing else, a lifetime of wholesale and wanton butchering of the Queen's english.
I wasn't going to watch it anyway. Bush is so out of it. His credibility left the building a long time ago. He is cheerleading for a team that has 1 second left to play and his team is losing 99 to zip.
I have never been able to listen to Bush speak for more than a couple of minutes, it makes my brain hurt. Besides he will just bad-mouth dems and say they need to pass the bill quickly or they will be responsible for the mess. This Ass bag got us into this mess with all of his and the GOP's Deregulation.
Obama/Biden 08
The channels should rotate the following pieces over and over. The contrast from then to today is so huge you would have to be unconscious not to see it.
The President on Deck (It's so peppy! Ha Ha...):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-GJUGUYsm68
Mission Accomplished (Yeah. USA, USA!):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CFijzDyJnVE
Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt U.S. (2004):
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/01/binladen.tape/
WTF could he possibly say that we would need to hear other than "I am arresting my cabinet, then resigning!"
"Please prosecute us to the fullest extent of the law, here is my signed confession!"
That is easy for me, i turn anything off with his bumbling voice on it.
Who cares what he has to say? The comment thread will be the entertaining part.
baby jesus will suspend all images of mom on shower curtains and tree stumps until the financial crisis is over
Didn't intend to watch anything, anyone still boycotting ABC with me for Path to 9/11?
I agree John, we should not watch it. but I have to see it, we can always catch the clip on C&L once it's posted.
I approach Bushco and the Republicans in general with a Keep My Enemies Closer mentality. So I try to pay attention to everything they say, that helps me to know how they contradict themselves from their words to their actions.
And as long as Bushco and the Repugs are going to hate me for my freedoms, I will always keep an eye on them.
The next and only time I want to lay eyes on the "man" is looking at his back as he makes his Nixonian shameful departure from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a helicopter.
Good riddance and may his God have mercy on his soul for what he's done.
baby jesus @ 27:
Biggest sacrifice since the Crucifixion.
We've got last night's Stewart & Colbert to watch...........plus the RAYS(I think there's a game)......We need more COWBELL!!!
~Power to the Peaceful
Obama~Biden
Black_Knight @ 28:
I have been a hater of ABC since long before they put up the
LiesPath to 9/11My only trouble is I'm a Lost fan so I have to look for the episodes online after they air, just to avoid tuning into the Mouse!
isn't it a bitch that the worst news outlets in American are the Fox and the Mouse?
No problem boycotting. I can not stomach listening to, or looking at, that incredible a-hole
I'm watching the Food Channel tonight.
Hey George. Don't let the door bump you in the ass when you FINALLY leave the White House.
I watch the Daily Show, Colbert, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and occasionally some football.
I've been boycotting Bush's speeches, photo ops, smirks, confused looks... in fact every time he comes on the tube since 2000. Why would tonight be any different?
Leadership @ 24:
Have you been eavesdropping on my fantasies?
I say George W. Bush's execution should be put on Pay Per View.
baby jesus @ 28:
Damn, that is so decent of you. I'm thinking you're going to grow up to be legendary.
Hey all you stupid voters who want health care give my rich friends some money. If you don't, I'll let the next intelligence report go unheeded.
no pressure!
I'll tap dance if ya want.
To borrow a phrase from Frazier Craine, "I'd rather a tarantula lay eggs in my ear" than to watch that idiot for a single second.
The GOP are Satans Angels @ 44:
seriously, the little peekaboo action he did last week was enough.
Who is going to believe anything Bush says? only 23% or so of Americans who believe anything he says.
President wants to BS us tonight? Time to turn on my PlayStation 3!
Congress can learn a lot from video games. When a madman appears and threatens to destroy us, you're supposed to stand up and STOP HIM. Not give him more ammo.
Game Over.
Dumbya is going to cry, beg, pray and wet his panties, so Congress will please bail him out of the terrible mess the bastard put all Americans in by raising all our taxes.
Maybe we'll have a Palin sighting?
Don't watch Georgie on T.V. talkin bullshit tonight?? Yea, I can do that..BTW Chimpy, your legacy called, wanted me to let you know that you too are fucked numbnuts.... IF Bozo the Chimp thinks history will regard him with anything other than total contempt after the smoke of his trainwreck presidency clears out..?? well, maybe he ain't as dry a drunk as some would like to think..... Shorter story...
Bush Jr. the president is pathetic..... JD
I have been boycotting network and most cable TV for 8 years!
Bush the Chimp is such a clueless, inept, jerkoff of the highest magnitude. I do not plan to watch him. Maybe I'll go to my favorite bar down the street, one which I haven't been to in a long while. They're sure to have a sporting event on TV, not this Bush crap.
I do have a feeling, however, that he might pull some fast one like claim we are in a crisis, entirely take over the government himself with Cheney, and declare martial law. Aren't there some conspiracies out there about the so-called Presidential Directive "51"?
SurveyUSA snap polls McCain's political stunt
The first debate between John McCain and Barack Obama is scheduled to take place in two days. Should the debate be held as scheduled? Should the debate be held, but the format changed to focus on the economy? Or, should the debate be postponed?
Hold as scheduled 50
Hold with focus on economy 36
Postpone 10
Is the right response to the turmoil on Wall Street to suspend the campaigns for president? To continue the campaigns as though there is no crisis? Or, to re-focus the campaigns with a unique emphasis on the turmoil on Wall Street?
Suspend 14
Continue 31
Refocus the campaign 48
If Friday's presidential debate does not take place, would that be good for America? Bad for America? Or would it make no difference?
Good for America 14
Bad for America 46
No difference 35
Black_Knight @ 29:
HELL YES......right along with the other ones. TEEVEE is TOXIC WASTE, with a few exceptions.
Black_Knight @ 29:
I boycotted the whole thing.
**** the ****** teevee, it's a tool of the corporate government.
General Jack D. Ripper @ 52:
For the 6,893,617th time, Bush and Cheney are not idiots! He has perpetrated the biggest swindle in world history and will get
away with it. Their precious work will continue to cripple working people and enrich the plutocrats for decades. Not the work of
idiots.
I have no intention of watching that goofball continue to tread water. Besides, it's clear this speech is just a sales job.
As long as Rachel Maddow is still on instead, I'll be paying attention to her.
I PROMISE, ON THE GRAVES OF MY PARENTS AND ALL MY DEPARTED CANINE COMPANIONS, AND ON THE MEMORY OF MY LOST LOVES, THAT I SHALL NOT WATCH OR LISTEN TO, OR ATTEND EVEN A SINGLE MINUTE OF TONITE'S PRESIDENTIAL PRESSER.
signed, Woody...
The Mets are playing the Cubs tonight on ESPN!
Far more at stake in Shea Stadium than what Curious George has to say, unless he says it was all his fault.
You don't fix bad debt with more bad debt, hello!?
I say boycott the speech and play Green Day's American Idiot in its wake.
Ruthless People @ 31:
I dunno, if they were transporting his corpse in an open casket, I'd probably look, just to be sure it was him and he was dead...
John--
Thanks for taking one for the team and watching the irrelevant Chimperor spout inanities so the rest of us don't have to.
Gollum
azmtdog @ 61:
Geaux animaux d'ours
Thankfully blogs like C&L watch and digest the crap GWB and his minions spew. I prefer leaving my bullshit detector in the off position and just assume all Gopers are lying so why waste time listening to them. I do enjoy viewing the shiny nuggets bloggers find and hold up for public ridicule though.
Mr. 30%, please you are giving him too much credit. The most recent poll found that his approval rating was at 19%, an all time low for any president!
Tune in for another episode of Bush's browbeating?
No thank you.
We put our television out of its misery a long time ago.
I can't watch that twat anyway. He always speaks like his audience is a child
that just doesn't understand what he's saying - like we're the ones that are stupid.
He's just a colossal waste of stem cells and a pretty poor advertisement for a Harvard MBA.
Sorry I'll just have to miss it. I have some paint to watch dry while listening to the song: "Lier Lier".
please resign tonight... please... PLEASE... pleaaase resign
just think F*ck up in Chief, you're approval rating will skyrocket and we'll be able to say you did at least one thing right during your sorry excuse of a presidency
PLEASE.... RESIGN ... you don't have to admit shame or guilt
just go the f*ck away ... go hunting with Cheney
Maybe Governor Bush will be shitfaced drunk (or whatever) again like he was at the U.N. the other day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW16F-vi86o
It's too bad he doesn't have to drive any more, it deprives us of potentially hilarious dash cam footage.
"your" hehe... anger got the best of me
dilly @ 17:
Says who ?
I think people have been boycotting Bush speeches for quite some time now. It is not like any rational person expects any solution or reasonable ideas to come from Bush. Bush will accuse the Democrats of playing "political theatre." It has become his catch-phrase whenever he doesn't get his way.
I'm watching the Cubs game but holding my nose for them to win only for the Brewers wildcard chances.
Not watch? count me in!
As Moe said to Curly in one of the old Three Stooges' one-reeler films, "Every time you open your mouth you weaken the nation." Same thing could be said about Boosh.
Yup - love my "Law and Order" - will spew my dinner if I watch the Prez who isn't one more time.....
This may be just too hard to turn away from tonight. It's like passing a traffic accident on the highway; one just has to slow down and gawk. The President most likely will make a bad situation worse even though the rest of the grown-ups in Washington are close to a deal. If he places the blame for the mess on the Democrats, then he will have deliberately sunk his own plan. Now, why would he want to do that?
woody, tokin librul @ 64:
That you could probably see. The over 4,000 American soldiers he's killed you can't.
Why would I waste any moment of my life listening to that freakin loser? Here's all we need to know about the current crisis:
Some in Congress and in Wall St. positions have suggested that if we don't at least ATTEMPT to use this $700 billion dollar bailout right now, things could possibly get worse later down the road. Well, perhaps....kinda like if we don't invade Iraq then we'll all perish in an onslaught of al Qaeda on the shores of America.
But what would happen if we don't give up $700 billion right now? You know, do what the conservatives preach all the time - allow the market to correct itself. And oh by the way, use this time to install the necessary regulation over Wall St. that should never have been allowed to be removed by Phil Gramm and company.
I'd rather take a chance on the market correcting itself and be wrong, and not toss good money after bad and "hope" the same people who screwed us before will play really nice - without any regulation - and not do anything but good with a blank check of almost a trillion dollars.
Oh yeah, and no chance at recourse or legal action if they blow the $700 billion according to that idiot Paulson.
€Punk @ 15:
I'll second that.
30%'er, huh? I think Ameripoll had him at 19%.
Bush's relevance is at an end. I think I can guess what he's going to say at this point:
* It's not my fault,
* Now is not the time to cast blame or give credit where credit is due,
* Mean old congress is putting the nation at risk unless I get oversight Carte Blanche and a blank check to the US treasury,
* It's not my fault, really. The economy is fundamentally strong. It's those nasty dems are trying to fuck up my shining legacy.
* Terrorist, Terrorist, Terrorist. 9/11, 9/11. God bless America.
So McCain wants to suspend his campaing and save us all. What a load of crap. The Rep's know their toast because the economy is issue one. When the president comes on this evening he will try his best to place fear into the hearts of us all and one must ask why? The answer is simple. If Paulson and Bernanke don't get their 700 Billion, the Federal Reserve will go bankrupt and heaven forbid we return to a US Treasury because that's what the Constitution calls for.
The fiscal year for the Fed ends on the 30th of this month and if the money isn't in place they go by by and that's the way it should be. Understand the truth. Guess where the Federal Reserve is incorporated? Puerto Rico. did you know that every senator and congressman and every agency of the US government are individual corporate entities? They fear bankruptcy and this is something that should have happened decades ago.
I don't think I could stand looking at the ignorant chimp let alone listen to him try and blame everyone else, including the tax payers for all the damage he and his administration of mass destruction have done.
I'd rather watch the season premiere of "Criminal Minds" than hear anymore of the rantings of a criminal mind. Besides which, speaking as a political junkie, I have to wonder why in the hell Darth Cheney is letting Spokesperson Dubya speak tonight. After all, every time the Idiot-in-Chief does a presser, public reaction grows *against* whatever he's trying to push.
-- Rob
Ryoko @ 86:
There. Now I don't have to watch.
From the Orifice of the Preznit:
My fellow 'mercush, I wuz hopin' this disaster would happen after the electionsh so that I wouldn't get blamed fer this too.
Bush: " Give us the money, and nobody get's hurt."
I've boycotted His Chimperial Highness's pressers since day 1.
With all due respect, I disagree with you, John.
Bush has been hiding behind Paulson on this for too long. His cowardly inaction is not acceptable. He needs to stand up and articulate the Administration position. He has not shown any leadership in this crisis, and it's time for him to go on record with what he thinks should be done. I hope this is the one situation where even the Bush Administration tries to govern in a non-campaign mode.
The credit markets are locked up, and banks aren't lending to each other, to companies or to individuals. Money is to the economy as blood is to one's body. Lack of circulation results in immediate disaster. This is no time for politics, folks. If banks don't lend, people can't buy cars, businesses can't grow, and the economy does a hyper-sonic nose dive.
Bush's approval rating was at 19% this morning. He has even lost 8 % of his lunatic following. Even worsre 13 percent approve his
economy
He will never resign has to many neocons in jail that he has to pardon
The only thing that the buffoon could have to say that I'd want to hear is "Vice President Cheney has submitted his resignation, and I intend to do the same thing by the end of the day." Maybe there's a George Romero movie on pay-per-view somewhere.
I think I'll watch a movie, something with Ronald Reagan and a monkey.
Last Thursday we teetered on the edge of an economic disaster that with harm potential much greater than even 9/11. What the Soviet Union failed to do, we almost did to ourselves. The capitalist system sucks in many ways, but unless you can replace it with something better right now, this is not the time to let it all fall to chaos. Save the patient first, get him weaned from his crack addiction later.
If Bush politicizes this disaster, that will be the final nail in his legacy's coffin.
I plan on watching, equipped with a frosty flagon of soda and white rum so that I can live-blog in peace. Then after blogging I shall watch Animal Crackers, starring the Marx Brothers (on DVD).
Despite the fact that I consider him less intelligent than a strategically shaved orangutan (along with the hate mail I get from the League of Orangutans), Bush is still President until January 2009. Like Saruman, he and Cheney are still capable of causing mischief in some mean, small way.
You can't fool all of the people all of the time.
You can fool me once, and shame on you -uh, fool me, uh... you don't get fooled again.
I smell a foolin' comin' on.
A fool and his money are soon parted/some party.
A fool is the tool of a mule.
We will set a bad example if we don't hold this fool accountable for the consequences of his poor decisions.
I pity the fool.
Oh, I'll think I'll listen. I just got back from work, but as of this morning, I've haven't heard a distinction between bailing out securities that have collateral (mortgages secured by a lien in real estate) and these derivatives created by speculators which have no underlying assets and are probably worthless.
I want to hear from someone why this bailout shouldn't be confined to the mortgages, especially in light that the government was initially trying to push through a non-reviewable bailout. Of course, I'll listen to a Democrat explain it, but I haven't seen one step up to the plate to handle that issue.
Thanks for taking the headache for us. I'll check back tomorrow for any video clips worth our ridicule.
Dhalgren @ 13:
Please, now that hurt.lol..it is weird not watching the Yanks in Oct....
Limp-Dick Blimpaugh @ 78:
Good luck. I'd like to see the Brewers in.
"He’ll probably try to blame the Democratic Congress anyway…"
John, How much you wanna bet that's EXACTLY what he does. He can't help it. He's a pathetic Repugnican who cannot EVER take ANY responsibility for his own actions. That requires an actual ADULT.
Here is the advanced text of Bush's speech. "My fellow Americans, the people want to know if their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"
Bush Presser? VOMIT. I'll skip.
*
I can't remember the last time I sat through a Chimpy press conference. It's been years.
I...like the rest of the civilized world...have tuned out this douchebag. I have zero interest in watching his mangle the english language and struggle to string together a coherent thought.
Bush is a shit stain. A moron. An embarrassment. Serve out your remaining 100+ days and disappear. Or better yet, walk away now.
He's a shining example of America's unfortunate decline.
I am probably only going to be one of about a thousand people who respond this way, but glad to oblige the boycott. I can't look at the man, and haven't been able to for 7 years....well, almost 8.
I see where you're coming from with the boycott but I and others want to see his last desperate attempt to gain the support of our citizens. The politics of fear will not work in 2008.
Why should we listen to the Liar-in-chief. He has no credibility and nothing he has to say will be believable.
NoBuddy @ 102:
That's a very good question. You don't hear that addressed head-on. The general inference which I've taken (been sold?) is that securitization is so complex (i.e. the various parties involved in the securitization have differing interests which block rational action).
How to unblock rational action is the current question. Personally, I think Warren Buffet has a good approach: take big chunk of one asset category, let the private sector bid on 5% of that chunk, and match the remaining 95% if the 5% price seems sound.
BUCK FOOSH! He's the reason we're in this!
Mr 30%? How about less than 20%? From American Research Group:
"September 22, 2008
George W. Bush's Overall Job Approval Matches ARG Low
As 82% Say National Economy is Getting Worse
George W. Bush's overall job approval has matched its low in American Research Group monthly polling as 82% of Americans say the national economy is getting worse, according to the latest survey from the American Research Group.
Among all Americans, 19% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 76% disapprove. When it comes to Bush's handling of the economy, 17% approve and 78% disapprove.
Among Americans registered to vote, 19% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 77% disapprove. When it comes to the way Bush is handling the economy, 18% of registered voters approve of the way Bush is handling the economy and 78% disapprove.
A total of 82% of Americans say the national economy is getting worse and 68% say the national economy is in a recession."
T Dubs @ 111:
Dick Cheney probably used those same words when he returned from the Hill yesterday and his meeting with Republicans.
Bush should cancel this because of the looming catastrophe in the McCain campaign.
I'll watch it if Mike Malloy does one of his great voice-overs for it...
..........but do not forget to watch Letterman tonight 10:30ct.
Never watch TV anyway, let alone Arbusto pressers.
Netflix DVDs and streaming, FTW!
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, YEAH!
Ooo...sorry Dub, can't make it. Wednesday night is sock wash night. Family tradition.
Seriously, I have no interest in anything this criminal has to say.
Mr. John, that was very mean! Let me take control of the situation:
I say we torture the crap out of our enemies and throw in the Spaniards while we're at it! Congress, you stop screwing around and give Paulson that 700B asap, because it should not take even you that long to read that 3-page document that was assigned. John and Barack, you guys debate and no more horsing around, John or whoever your handlers are. Sarah, go shoot a moose from a plane. And last, you, Mr. John, get a grip and turn that tv on right now and get to work!
I refuse even to listen to that jerk when he shown on news broadcast or when I hear his voice,Honestly it makes my skin crawl.
I can't grab my remote fast enough to change channels or hit the mute button.
P.S, I'm getting that way will McSAME also.
I just though I'd throw my two cents out there.
Thankfully, Netflix delivered "Clerks" yesterday. Jay and Silent Bob rule.
Like I need to be encouraged to boycott anything that POS has to say.
I wouldn't walk across the street to see Bush! I'd just close my blinds and turn up my stereo! When he comes on my TV I do the same thing that 60% of the American people do....I hit the mute button, or change channels because the sight of him makes me nauseous!
For me, CBS Criminal Minds will do.
Nothing like a good movie. Perhaps I'll watch Enemy of the State.
Mr. 30%'er?
Last I saw he was Mr. 19.
Hey 19 now looks back fondly on the days of 30.
You don't have to ask me twice. I am so NOT THERE. I will be watching Ghost Hunters instead. There be more mental/economic stimulus then I will get w. you know who.
It has nothing to do with boycotting. I have no interest in watching Bush because he's irrelevant. He's proven that this past week, and he's proven it many times before. I'm sure he'll give a speech that's just like the one he gave before the Iraq War authorization vote. He'll substitute "weapons of mass destruction" with "economic crisis" in order to try to railroad through another vote that benefits his rich cronies and which contains no oversight of the Executive Branch. This time, the American people won't fall for it (in its current form), and neither will the Congress, including many Republicans.
He said that we were going to take a crapload of American resources, throw them at the problem, and I'll end up paying for itself.
Hmmm... I could swear I've heard this crap before.
Is it safe (relatively speaking) to turn on the TV yet?
Well, I missed most the speech - asleep at the switch. What I heard was blah, blah, blah. We got to protect the taxpayer - but no specifics on how buying derivatives is going to do that. The effort to lump the debt secured in real estate with the paper that is unsecured continues.
Weapons of Mass Financial Destruction looms, we must act immediately, without thinking the matter through to deal with the imminent threat. I think I've seen this rerun before.
Just Tom @ 92:
We have a winner! Basically, it was 'give us the money and everyone gets to keep their cars, their homes, their jobs and their pensions'.
God do I hate that little shitweasel.
My daughter [22] and I are still watching a TLC marathon of "Jon & Kate Plus Eight." Three year olds [6 of them] are much funnier -- and more petulant -- than Bush.
fastfeat @ 133:
Go for it.
I wouldn't give that dimwit the time of day. Won't, wouldn't and didn't.
Why would anyone want to listen to him? So they can be disrespected and lied too?
He lies, and in doing that shows he has no respect for other people. fuck him.
Gretchen the aspiring elitist @ 137:
Thanks.
Bush's approval rating on the economy is 16%.
Number of people who watched Bush's speech? 0
Number of dogs who watched? 1 (Barney. Miss Beazley was out peeing.)
Wanna know what bewilders me? Okay...gonna tell you's anyway's. The fact that when Georgie Boy was hatched, Pappy Bush did NOT grab Baby Bush up post haste and drown him in a bucket of warm goat piss.
OR...for that matter...he hasn't YET!
Curtsie!
George who? Oh sorry, McCain's trademarked that line, and I didn't even clear it first.
Are you kidding me, there are only five days until baseball season ends, and I'm going to watch ClusterW lecture me about how all the po folks took loans they shoulda shoulda knew better not to take? And how this disrupted the pristine and innocent (and not so accidentally hidden and unregulated) practices of his hunting buddies and now their
maniacal profligacypoor balance sheets are turning over and threatening, gee whiz, your retirement and investments (you remember those, right? Ah, nostalgia) and, if you’d a been so lucky, your Social Security too, but for those darnlibrulsmeddling kids. Oh yeah, and that electing his half-senile awkward-bear-hugging prior whipping-boy come sheepishly and shameslessly back to suckle at the teat of Rovian Kool-Aid politics, and who'd put Gramm, Davis, and Palin in charge of his economic 'Recovery (and Depends-changing) Committee(s),’ is the way out of this mess. Cracker, please!BTW: Tonight we heard for the first time...Suspend the campaign. I predict that we will hear that word again...as in "I as president of the United States of America, acting under regulation's I put in place while "you were sleeping", do here-by suspend the elections of 2008 and do here-by declare martial law and myself has President fer ev'ah"
I could barely stand to look at his smirking face staring out at me from Yahoo's news page, I sure couldn't have stomached seeing (and hearing! BLEAHG!) him on TV.
Can't look at anymore of his tortured, torturous press conferences or addresses. Good suggestion on the "Law & Order" alternative to bullshit Bush and the bullshit msm. Perhaps we will see a future episode complete with Bush, Cheney, Rove and the rest and McCain being frog-marched to the federal pen. If we lived in another time with these bozos in power, the masses would have stormed the White House long ago.
If it means anything, I didn't even know Bush was giving a speech. My mainstream press comes via yahoo. Somehow this was missed by me. Translation: I don't thjink anyone cares about what he has to say. I think McCain trying to dodge the problem he helped create has generated more media coverage. Good or bad given the circumstances? I can't say I know. I'm just hoping we don't end up with an underground economy for basic commodities.
In some brilliant programming I was able to catch "Summer Lovers" on one of the Encore channels. A beautiful (and, dare I mention, largely naked) Darryl Hannah was ample compensation for my missing the Prezidentor's fireside chat. Of course the rest of the movie sucks balls.
(Apologies to women everywhere...this is objectification that should be beneath anyone. God I'm in love with her, though.)
Sorry, I was always taught in school that congress was the power behind the President, so shouldn't the Democratic congress at least share some of the blame that everyone seems to be heaping upon the President? Come on people, the President can't do anything without the approval of the Congress. Congress has the final say so!!! That would be a Democratic majority congress.
Would you ?
Go along 'for the ride' if an airline captain had 143 days of ground school...?
Sail with ship commander with 143 days of school .?
Go to a doctor with 143 days of med school .... ?
Hire an attorney with 143 days of law school ..?
Believe a news reporter with 143 days of on the job training...?
Go to a dentist with 143 days of dental school ......????
Vote for a guy to be Commander In Chief of our Country with 143 days in the Senate ...?
After 143 days of work experience, Obama believes he is ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan.
From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged ONLY 143 days of experience in the Senate.
That's how many days the Senate was actually in session and working.
Where is this country going ... nuts?
McCain/Palin
I got so use to ignoring Bush, that this time, I didn't even miss it. "What speech" Did he talk? I blinked and I missed it.Oh, I did hear somebody say that he blamed it on the poor buying houses they couldn't afford. Way to go......Dumya
Evidently was taught wrong @ 149:
If you're trying to make a point, it's a stupid point. What about Palin's lack of experience. Obama was a Yale Graduate with concentration in Constitutional Studies, a State Senator, then a U.S. Senator after that. You're arguement doesn't hold. How about this: "Would you trust a woman who is afraid that she is being hexed by Witchcraft and has to stand in a churce to have them drive out the demons"...would you trust someone like that with their finger on the button, or would you trust a Yale Graduate with experience in teaching Constitional studies.
You right wingers are beginning to soulnd like a broken record. Why don't you just give up. Obama is going to win by a landslide!!!!!
Instead of watching TV, how about listening to a song?
Also effective for watching without the sound.
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