Bush has a peculiar way of admitting to his mistakes
George W. Bush held his last press conference this morning, and he was asked, once again, if he thought he'd made any mistakes:
Q Four years ago, you were asked if you had made any mistakes. [Ed. note: You may recall, he was unable to give an answer.]
THE PRESIDENT: Yes.
Q And I'm not trying to play "gotcha," but I wonder, when you look back over the long arc of your presidency, do you think, in retrospect, that you have made any mistakes? And if so, what is the single biggest mistake that you may have made?
THE PRESIDENT: Gotcha. I have often said that history will look back and determine that which could have been done better, or, you know, mistakes I made. Clearly putting a "Mission Accomplished" on a aircraft carrier was a mistake. It sent the wrong message. We were trying to say something differently, but nevertheless, it conveyed a different message. Obviously, some of my rhetoric has been a mistake.
I've thought long and hard about Katrina -- you know, could I have done something differently, like land Air Force One either in New Orleans or Baton Rouge. The problem with that and -- is that law enforcement would have been pulled away from the mission. And then your questions, I suspect, would have been, how could you possibly have flown Air Force One into Baton Rouge, and police officers that were needed to expedite traffic out of New Orleans were taken off the task to look after you?
I believe that running the Social Security idea right after the '04 elections was a mistake. I should have argued for immigration reform. And the reason why is, is that -- you know, one of the lessons I learned as governor of Texas, by the way, is legislative branches tend to be risk-adverse. In other words, sometimes legislatures have the tendency to ask, why should I take on a hard task when a crisis is not imminent? And the crisis was not imminent for Social Security as far as many members of Congress was concerned.
As an aside, one thing I proved is that you can actually campaign on the issue and get elected. In other words, I don't believe talking about Social Security is the third rail of American politics. I, matter of fact, think that in the future, not talking about how you intend to fix Social Security is going to be the third rail of American politics.
One thing about the presidency is that you can make -- only make decisions, you know, on the information at hand. You don't get to have information after you've made the decision. That's not the way it works. And you stand by your decisions, and you do your best to explain why you made the decisions you made.
There have been disappointments. Abu Ghraib obviously was a huge disappointment during the presidency. Not having weapons of mass destruction was a significant disappointment. I don't know if you want to call those mistakes or not, but they were -- things didn't go according to plan, let's put it that way.
Anyway, I think historians will look back and they'll be able to have a better look at mistakes after some time has passed. Along Jake's question, there is no such thing as short-term history. I don't think you can possibly get the full breadth of an administration until time has passed: Where does a President's -- did a President's decisions have the impact that he thought they would, or he thought they would, over time? Or how did this President compare to future Presidents, given a set of circumstances that may be similar or not similar? I mean, there's -- it's just impossible to do. And I'm comfortable with that.
A quick rundown of these "mistakes" reveals that he mostly regrets poorly executed symbolic gestures. Otherwise, he's perfectly comfortable with the policies he's enacted and doesn't think he made any mistakes in that regard. Evidently, the economic and foreign-policy wastelands he has created were only the result of bad symbolism.
Take his explanation of Katrina, for example: What could he have done differently? Well, Bush can only think of how maybe he should've landed his plane in Baton Rouge but then realized it might be its own set of bad optics, so he stayed away and went to cut a birthday cake with John McCain instead.
But the Katrina disaster was directly related to the failures of conservative governance, as Kevin Drum enumerated in detail at the time, summing up:
So. A crony with no relevant experience was installed as head of FEMA. Mitigation budgets for New Orleans were slashed even though it was known to be one of the top three risks in the country. FEMA was deliberately downsized as part of the Bush administration's conservative agenda to reduce the role of government. After DHS was created, FEMA's preparation and planning functions were taken away.
Actions have consequences. No one could predict that a hurricane the size of Katrina would hit this year, but the slow federal response when it did happen was no accident. It was the result of four years of deliberate Republican policy and budget choices that favor ideology and partisan loyalty at the expense of operational competence. It's the Bush administration in a nutshell.
Or, as Paul Krugman put it the other day, "what happened with Katrina wasn’t that the administration started to fail; what happened was that for the first time its failures were visible to all."
Even more revealing, perhaps, is Bush's explanation for the misleading rationalizations under which we invaded Iraq: "Not having weapons of mass destruction was a significant disappointment." Bush, we know now, was determined to invade Iraq and "take out Saddam" no matter what. His disappointment, as he tells it now, clearly was not that he relied on deliberately skewed intelligence that told him what he wanted to hear, but rather simply that Saddam didn't have the damned things. It's all that darned Saddam's fault we invaded Iraq under false pretenses.
I think Ben Sargent's retrospective on the Bush Legacy says it all, really:
let me see, he came into office with what, about 400 billion in the bank? No wars, people had JOBS. Now that he is leaveing, what is he leaveing for the next Presedent. A FUBAR country and world. thanks.
to retreat in triumph to Crawford to renew his great with brushness.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Dallas, actually, in that recently whites-only neighborhood that we're paying to have re-gated.
(And of course that South American compound with the air strip and massive freshwater resource and custom-written amnesty for American soldiers written into law.)
Given all he has achieved for the military industrial congressional
mediatainment big pharma insurance israeili complex, I can't believe
they haven't named a city after him. It's early yet.
I remember after Nixon resigned ( it took a few years) the MSM
started interviewing Nixon on policy issues. Can you imagine 10
years from now David Gregory interviewing Bush asking him about
what he thinks about currnet affairs? I can see it happening.
As Dick Cheney said recently, "If you didn't impeach us, we didn't do anything wrong."
Cheney's got a point, I'm not saying that they did nothing wrong but if you commit a crime and everyone knows, but nobody does anything about it, is it still a crime?
And for the good of our country we need to answer these criminals back by clearly saying YES YOU COMMITTED A CRIME, and then we can put them on trial (a real trial, not a US Gov't Show Trial) and show the world that we are serious about real change. Until we do that, we can't even step up to the table becuase we are not holding any chips.
"we are not holding any chips", just 1 chimp.
if we are to look forward the entire chimpanzee population can begin to recover its image in the world community. Let the chimp comparisons end. Chimps did nothing to earn him.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Dumbya does NOT admit to mistakes. He didn't actually accept blame for anything there -- it's always someone else's fault or some unavoidable outside influence.
*
Dry drunk?
sopping wet.
Where does a President's -- did a President's decisions have the impact that he thought they would, or he thought they would, over time? Or how did this President compare to future Presidents, given a set of circumstances that may be similar or not similar? I mean, there's -- it's just impossible to do. And I'm comfortable with that.
I've got the impact for you, right now, Mr. President: Worst. President. Ever.
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
Was the first thing that came to mind when he thought about Katrina?
umm....WTF???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
too busy playing guitar for McCain's birthday party. His actions and inactions concerning Katrina were crimes against humanity. If he wasn't a sociopath/psychopath he might actually have felt compassion. But this sick failure claims success was the number of people helicoptered off of roofs. Eight years is a long time to flush this turd.
I found that very telling. He seemed to think that was the only problem and he was ready for what the reporters would have said if he had landed. Amazing that he even brought that up and very much all about him.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
And if that number was accurate(30,000 saved off rooftops), this devil would have been screaming it a long time ago.
No one could have guessed that airplanes would be used as weapons.
No one could have guessed that we would have the storm of the century.
No one could have guessed that there would be no weapons of mass destruction.
No one could have guessed that there would be an insurgency.
No one could have guessed that record tax cuts for the rich and pork barrel projects would have led to the largest deficits in history.
No one could have guessed that the stop loss program would destroy morale and decimate armed forces enrollment.
No one could have guessed that the use of torture would destroy the ability to convict "terrorists".
No one could have guessed that offering rewards in impoverished nations for "terrorists" would cause people to turn in their neighbors, without cause, so they could simply collect the money.
No one could have guessed that ignoring the Palestinian problem would exacerbate Middle East tensions.
Geeez...no one could have guessed that the idiot son of a former President...a son with no business acumen and a record of failure in every undertaking he has been involved in...would become the most pathetic, inept and quite possibly the worst President, of ALL TIME.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Funny as hell! And welcome back.
Might have to steal that.
He was a great President for the top 1% of earners.
He was a great President if your a General or an Admiral.
He was a great president if your a defense contractor.
He was a great President if your and evangelical.
He was a great President if you own Halliburton stock.
Let's see...
No. No. No. Definitely not... and No.
Heh.
Tell that to Shinseki and Zinni!
He never ceases to amaze me. After all this, he still thinks he did everything right and his mistakes were the bad PR that made everyone think that things went wrong.
"Not having planted weapons of mass destruction was a significant disappointment. I don't know if you want to call those mistakes or not, but they were -- things didn't go according to plan, let's put it that way.Well, OK they did, just not everyone knew what the real plan was."
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
And he can go home and look at himself in the mirror and feel proud. Proud of what? Proud that he listened to no one with a lick of sense and ruined this whole fu*king country?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
this idiot has ever excelled at was to be an abject failure. He's never had to worry about success because he's a trust fund fuckup with enough money and well connected wealth to buy him out of his mistakes. Only this time he's giving the tab to the whole world.
"things didn't go according to plan, let's put it that way."
no, george? really? ok, we'll 'put it that way'.
now i am waiting with baited breath to see who you scapegoat
Does baited breath mean you eat worms?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
i think it does....
my bad
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We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
I can't seem to view any of the videos that David Neiwert posts here. All the ones posted by other people work fine. Playing on Media Player Classic allows just the audio, but video doesn't work; the current Windows Media Player just says "can't read this file". Other people obviously can play them, so can someone tell me what's up???
of them ever work for me here since the change over, I just go find them at their source now
Exactly the same here. I haven't been able to play any of them unless I download them first.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I can't even get the dl's to work
BTW the you tube screens work just fine for me when they have them
Yep, youtube works great for me too.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Your puter hates David.
Dang, not sure. I made sure this worked on all the links before I posted, and they still work for me. Anyone else having issues?
The files are a little large -- the wmv is slightly over 10MB and and the mov just slightly under. But that shouldn't affect you.
In some cases, like this morning's Coulter-Huckabee post, I'd miscoded it at 1 am the morning before. My bad. It's fixed now.
"One thing about the presidency is that you can make -- only make decisions, you know, on the information at hand. You don't get to have information after you've made the decision. That's not the way it works. And you stand by your decisions, and you do your best to explain why you made the decisions you made."
True to some extent, but when you have new information that effects your decision you can readjust your plans. Just because you thought there was a burgler in your house and called the cops, only to find out the noise you heard was your cat, there's no reason that you can't call the cops back and tell them no need to come. You made the decision to call but when the situation changed and you knew more, you would cancel your first decision.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Paraphrasing Colbert ~ pResident Bush believes the same thing on Wednesday that he beieved on Monday, no matter what happened on Tuesday.
True to form, oblivious to the end.
woodguy
He's rambling.... If he wasn't such a pompous asshole, I might have even felt sorry for him.
I'll let Bill Maher capture the Bush crime family, perfectly....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressrelease...
"I think the President is losing it. The BBC is reporting that Bush told a group of Palestinian ministers that God told him to invade Iraq. You see, that's what happens when you mix the New Testament and Old Milwaukee." --Bill Maher
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
9/11 terrorist: "Allah told me to smash into those buildings."
So, how are Bush and the terrorist different?
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
When I heard him say that, it brought back the memories of Brewster Williams, the front company for the CIA. Valerie Plame was involved with that company. It had been reported that her team was successful at stopping the smuggling of WMDs from Turkey. I believe that was the real disappointment. They weren't able to find any WMDs because Brewster Williams was able to stop them from being smuggled into Iraq.
And that was the reason to take Brewster Williams (and Valerie Plame) out.
Correction: I think that was Brewster Jennings.
self-deception is a powerful protective mechanism. BUSH has plenty of advisors/consultants telling him that the people just don't understand. we needed to be involved in middle east and afghanistan/pakistan before china and /or russia for resources.
A friend speaking of other evil people use to say, "We've go the wall, the five men, the rifles, a blank round, why can't we use 'em?" I use to say because it would be immoral. Now....we've got the shoes, the five men.....
nola???
no, they were pissed that he played air guitar and sang happy d-day while people were dying...then flew over and cocked his head...as more people were dying
would it have killed him to have set up a command and control immediatly??
GEORGE BUSH DOESNT CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE
OR ANY PEOPLE
nice of him to finally admit that his office put up the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED SIGN
for years, they blamed the sailors
is it the 20th yet???
If it looks like shit and smells like shit.....
WMDs not found was a disappointment? Hundreds of thousands dead and millions displaced and he smiles.
"Clearly putting a "Mission Accomplished" on a aircraft carrier was a mistake."
Oh:and there was the 9/11 thing.
Not listening to the Clinton Administrations repeated and dire warnings to concentrate on Terrorism,rather than say,sinking billions into a pointless,untenable and unrealistic "Star Wars" defense system.
There was that as well.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
That and going on vacation.
08/03/2001 - Updated 12:02 PM ET
White House to move to Texas for a while
By Laurence McQuillan, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Six months after taking office, President Bush will begin a month-long vacation Saturday that is significantly longer than the average American's annual getaway. If Bush returns as scheduled on Labor Day, he'll tie the modern record for presidential absence from the White House, held by Richard Nixon at 30 days. Ronald Reagan took trips as long as 28 days.
Let the interviews begin. Call them interrogations. Talk about the mistakes and try them all on their "mistakes". "Mistake" at this level of "mistake" is a whimps' word for "plan". I want to see alot of these treasonous criminals on TV. Then "on trial". Then "the gallows". That's the parting picture we Americans need to show our children. It's an "era" they forced upon us. This thing ain't over! You don't corrupt America and rob the people without paying the piper, kids.
Just think of the TV ratings if they were on trial. Sponsors could be Haliburton, all the Financial companies and maybe even the Auto Industry.
This man deserves nothing better than a place in Hell.
Hell won't take him.
recycled souls thing is true, I think a Sudanese/Somali kid would fit him.
Or a baby seal, or a whale.
Any endangered species would do since he's doing his level best to put them all in peril.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
How about?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/image...
http://www.coconutstudio.com/Shoreline%20Mamm...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
i wonder if he'll pay a visit to his old friend the bottle.
My jaw dropped when I heard that as well. I suppose at this point its kind of pointless to find new evidence that Bush is a callous jerk but I can't help pointing out that if Sadam DID have WMD he almost certainly would have used them during the invasion against our troops and/or against Israel. What did he have to loose at that point? So Bush wishes lots more people had died in order to give him a better justification for what he already knew he was gong to do.
I want the terms gotcha in requarded to a spontanious question, to go away, and the Bush administration creation "Homeland", which was never used before Bush and should never be used anymore.
Add to that list the phrase "sooner rather than later"
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Let's not forget not only did the federal government bungle the aftermath of Katrina, but the bigger issue is that the ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS are RESPONSIBLE for the destruction of New Orleans in the first place. The flood control protection system was under exclusive federal control. The locals had no power without the approval of the Army Corps of Engineers, and they designed and implemented DEFECTIVE flood protection which failed during Katrina and directly caused the flooding of the city. Even if Bush had appointed someone competent to head FEMA, the disaster was created by the Feds, and specifically the Army Corps of Engineers who have not been held accountable even though it's been proven it was their fault. This is why we need an investigation into the Corps and the 8/29 commission. See: http://levees.org/ and America's Worst Engineering Disasater.
Here is a Democracy Now! story by Greg Pallast on how expert warnings about the levees were ignored: http://www.democracynow.org/2006/8/28/top_hur...
No matter how bad it gets when we think of Bush remember; this is a man who lost a fight with a pretzel. That will be his historic legacy.
I will never buy his pretzel story. If you are alone and choke on something to the point that you pass out I would think you would die, not just wake up.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
But it was better than saying he got loaded on Jack Daniels to the point that even Laura looked good, but when he went after her she hit him with a Ronald Reagan commemorative plate then kneed him in the bean bag, sending him into a cabinet, taking out his collection of Hummel figurines of dead babies.
Yes, choking on a pretzel may have been easier to explain the bruises.
this could have all been prevented back in November 1999:
http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol...
I cry at this missed opportunity.
I'll bet that trucker has already committed suicude from overwhelming guilt.
Can't believe some of the posters (about 12%) on the NYT article about this "press conference" actually say he has been a doing a good job and thank him for keeping America safe. The kool-aid is still being sold.
As had been said before Worst.President.Ever
Bush needs to take all those nut jobs back to his Texas farm so they can spend their days telling him how great he was. Build a fence around Texas and keep them there.
Lazy, brain(damaged)washed, wretchedly lost souls who believe whatever they're told to. They've got blood on their hands and don't know it.
Do not blame Texas for this ass. Many of us hate that idiot here too. I was really sad that he didn't take a dump truck in the kisser back in Nov 1999. It was a sign. Do ytou blame California for Nixon? Illinois for Reagan? Masschusetts for Bush I? And technically, Connecticut for the dipshit?
California fucked him up.
I've always called him the Connecticut Yankee.
And Texans new that being governor of this state was not much of a claim, since it's the Lt. Governor who really runs things.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Ann Richards pointed out to us that he was a self proclaimed "oil man" who had found no oil. That should have gived us all the clue we needed to send him back to Momma.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
All of those comments were probably written by his mom using all sorts of fake names.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Hit the post button too soon. I meant his ranch, not Texas proper. I have relatives who live in Dallas that hate him also.
It would be so easy for mainstream media to dispense with that lame "We got faulty intel" excuse once and for all.
For example...
Bush: We invaded Iraq because we got faulty intel.
MSM: What do you mean? The pre-invasion intel was totally accurate.
Bush: Huh?
MSM: Sure. Weeks before you invaded, the latest intel coming from the international inspectors, including our own David Kay, was that Iraq did not have stockpiles of WMD, did not have the capability of manufacturing them and did not pose a threat to our national security or that of its neighbors in the region, the very opposite of the basis on which Congress authorized you to use military force.
Everybody heard about it. It was in all the papers and all over the electronic media. And many nations pleaded with you to let the inspectors finish their job rather than invade and create a tremendously expensive and counterproductive mess of things for everyone for no reason.
Even the Dixie Chicks understood an invasion would violate the Congressional authorization under those circumstances.
Yet you invaded Iraq anyway. Why?
Bush: Sorry, gotta' go.
Your one and only mistake was your entire presidency. Next question?
So the only thing he didn't do to reinforce my belief that he is insane is take out the steel bearings and roll them ala Commander Queeg. His attempt to put a human face on his crime boss of eight years was pathetic. Pathetic is the operative word for his political career.
If anyone had any doubts as to whether or not this primate is clinically crazy (a la DSM IV), then this latest deluded, psychotic, cognitive dump should be that to rest. The man is mad, period.
"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.
well as obama said!crimes ? what crimes ? i dont see no crimes !
I was in St Louis when Katrina hit and watched the horror unfold from the comfort of a living room in Tucson. From the very first minute it was obvious the government were going to do nothing to save these people. Phone calls from people trapped in their attics in rising waters - it was heart wrenching.
For many of the guys in 'governance', Katrina was a wonderful windfall (excuse the pun) in real estate. Many have profited.
Sickening.
I just thought of something. The downbeat whenever Bush pisses on himself during a press conference has been a vamp (musical form) by the Republicans that echoes what he is saying in words that sentient life forms will understand. But so far only ominous silence from the Belt Way; not so much as even a word by the lickspittle Joe Lieberman. This could be the sign that Bush really has come to an end; not even the cult of Bush can raise him from the dead.
SALSA FOR EVERYBODY!!! AND DON'T FORGET HIS RUBY WINGTIPS!!!
Wow, Alka-Seltzer Cold Plus is a lot better than I remembered.
Wait 'till he tries to click the heels of his RUBY WINGTIPS together three times.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The man is so stupid that he doesn't even realize how stupid he is. He thinks he's a freaking genius. Of course, he's had Dick Cheney whispering in his ear telling him how brilliant and statesmanlike he is for the past eight years.
And the traditional media still don't admit that Bush, everyone and everything associated with him is absolutely hated by the American people even after the republicans have been slaughtered in the past two election cycles.
Wake up journalist sheep!
If anything came out positive while this imbecile was in office, is the Americans now know how to define the words, "imbecile, idiot, moron,stupid,ignorant,liar,nutjob,mentally ill,Right wing nut, Christian, the list goes on.
Remember those who are in Washington D.C. as Bush flys off into yonder, Flip him the bird.
I thought the administration said the "Mission Accomplished" banner was the fault of the SOLDIERS on the ship, not anyone associated with him (despite being printed on a White House printer). If so, how can he consider it his own mistake?
Oh wait, I think I figured this one out...
If he had run on this issue he would have Definitely lost the 2004 PE. He only brought this up after winning in reference to political capital (which he never had)
Paul Krugman was an economist? When did Paul Krugman become the expert on everything? No offense here, and maybe you'all should think about it a bit, but shouldn't we lefts, and liberals find more than one intellectual to speak for us? Using the same person all the time does nothing to increase support for arguments. Paul Krugman said this, Paul Krugman said that...for a man that explicitly said he didn't want to be a member of government, he sure is making alot of headlines all the time. Is there no other person worth speaking to about anything, but Paul Krugman?
and illegal under international laws, US law, and common decency.
just one huge failure of government ethics and standards.
Did this give you a hint that some of your advisers were either crooks, incompetent or both!!!
Lets try using intelligence in the sense of using ones brain, not fantasy gossip from paid traitors.
hard to believe isnt it
I recommend using an ethanol water mix to treat the PTSD symptoms tuesday week evening, or wait until the following friday for the bender of benders ;)
Perhaps some initial early doses will accelerate the treatment? (Please say yes)
he only had to land in Baton Rouge and the whole thing would have disappeared like a bad dream.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
and see an ignorant asshole who acts like a fucking child. Is it the 20th yet?
NOBODY 2012
Not significant enough not to make jokes about not finding WMD's AFTER thousands of Iraqis had been slaugtered by his dumb ass.
On the ", you know"-Caroline Kennedy Scale, I counted only four ", you know,"'s in about three minutes of uninterrupted speech.
but you are f*cking nuts. Your mistake during Katrina was not dropping in on AF1 for a look-see and photo-op? But of course that would have tied up LE to protect you from hungry half-drowned brown and black people!
And on and on. Truly rubber-room-ready psychopath talk. I didn't think I could be any more shocked by this.....what can you call him? "man" just doesn't seem to fit.
Folks still don't get it. George W. Bush and his handlers accomplished everything they set out to do.... ROB THE U.S. TREASURY!
For eight years they have funneled money... no bid military contracts, billions unaccounted for in Iraq, energy price gouging, faith based kick backs and now the Wall Street Heist... into their own pockets.
W. is the greatest Bush of all... better than Prescott the Hitler financier... far better than Poppy the meddler or Neil the small time hood... George W. Bush stole everything that wasn't nailed down and in broad daylight.
George W. Bush is rich bitch! What does he care what we think?
It seems like eons ago when Bush entered the White House to find that the Clinton's had removed the W's from all the keyboards.
Frank Zappa - Make A Jazz Noise Here
If Bush wasn't so stupid he would realize that his biggest mistake was not planning for the possibility of making mistakes or recognizing them after they were made. But then, he will never get it.
YES. Yes yes yes.
Criminal charges, please. Since he admitted to knowing about the torture and ordering it, can we please get the trials in The Hague going already?
No, only idiots and maniacs stand by bad decisions and keep doing the wrong things. Intelligent public servants who care about the citizens of their nation actually CHANGE PLANS when they're proven ineffective or based on factually incorrect information.
That is not waffling. It is rational management.
JEEBUS. Nothing expresses his total lack of understanding (much less competence) better than his continued insistence that you need to just keep doing what you're doing and justify like mad.
Compared to him, a box of rocks is a genius.
He has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Just leave and shut the fuck up.
Jesus wept.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
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