Forget this foolishness Joe, no amount of truth or facts will stop their train of deception and chicanery.
How about important topics for now, such as more photos of Petey. Please?
Indigo
· 10 months ago
Okay he makes decisions and stands by them. True.
He makes ignorant decisions based on bad information and maintains them in the face of solid information with that stubborn consistency born of genuine stupidity.
All true.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 10 months ago
Back in 2000 someone, in an op-ed, said, "Karl Rove can get you elected but he has no clue how to govern." This article sounds like more Rovian spin about someone who never had any business holding elected office higher than perhaps dog catcher in Crawford. But I am not angry at these assholes. I am angry at the American people for buying into the whole "cowboy boots" image that they put out there of the regular joe, etc. We deserve the sewer we are swimming in right now. Far too many people voted for this little frat boy asshole in 2000 to cause what happened at all vis a vis Al Gore. The world would be vastly different right now if people had actually put some effort, in 2000, into knowing real facts about the candidates.
grandma
· 10 months ago
When is the GOP going to grow up.........no one cares what they say anymore.....they will say anything to try to make themselves look good..........Krugman has a good editorial in the NY Times today....how the GOP is the Party of whiners.....
"If the Bush administration became a byword for policy bungles, for government by the unqualified, well, it was just following the advice of leading conservative think tanks: after the 2000 election the Heritage Foundation specifically urged the new team to “make appointments based on loyalty first and expertise second.”
Loyalty trumps competence..........what a way to run a country. I should say 'ruin' instead of 'run'.
Gbennett
· 10 months ago
Krugman's thesis, in this column, is that the Republican's forty year old "Southern Strategy", based on racial backlash, culminated w/ Bush, and has now been superceded by more inclusivity and tolerance in the country. Apparently the Dems haven't realized this, and are still trying to cater to the old intolerant forces. How else do you explain the need to put Rick Warren up on the stage during the Inaugauguration to do the invocation! It would have been more courageous to treat the forces of intolerance for what they are... a fringe minority deserving pity but not recognition. Does Obama believe that homophobia is a wedge issue he can exploit for political gain?
rivamer
· 10 months ago
The "you can fool some of the people all of the time" adage is so true Mr. Lincoln. Apparently you can fool one forth of the people all of the time. What else explains the dead-enders who still support this criminal bunch? Do they have to be knocked over the head and robbed personally to see the truth? What horrific events would have to transpire for these people to wake up?
grandma
· 10 months ago
From MNCampaignReport:
T Minus 19 - Bush Almighty
Thu Jan 01, 2009 at 10:49:18 AM CST "I'm conscious not to be trying to substitute myself for God." -- George orWell Bush, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, January 1st, 2006
Yesterday, we saw Dumbya suffers a divorce from reality. Today's quote clearly indicates a Messianic Complex might be Boy Blunder's Achille's Heel, although some learned folk think Bush The Lesser suffers from a Napoleonanic Complex. Others not so learned have suggested Dumbya simply had too many converstations with a southern gentlemen by the name of Jack; Mr. Daniels is unavailable for comment. Regardless, I thank God that after 19 short days, January 20th will mark The End Of An Error.
Wow, talk about delusional! And that twerp, Contennetti (sp?) from the Weekly Standard was just on CSPAN1 trying to rehab the entire Rethug Party. Luckily, lots of callers, including a couple of Rethugs, begged to differ...
Bottom line? The Rethugs are desperate and will continue lying, as their natures dictate.
Abe Turany
· 10 months ago
Here, here! And that Continnetti from the Weekly Standard seemed like he just grasping at straws!! Thanks for the comments!
Pete
· 10 months ago
Re: "Rethugs."
I always preferred "Reich-publicans," but it never seemed to catch on. I do think it describes their party well, though.
KeithNovo
· 10 months ago
Republicans keep Warren Harding as the worst president, instead of "below average" Richard Nixon. Well, both are failures with Ulysses Grant, and Schrub combines Harding and Nixon to pass Nixon as the worst. In fact, I never thought in my lifetime I would see a president worse than Nixon. I find myself taking Nixon's side that he was better than Schrub! Schrub does prove the wisdom of the Founding Fathers. We need a republic, where the entire country competes for the presidency, rather than an inherited monarchy. As John Quincy Adams, Benjamin Harrison, and Schrub showed, decendants of presidents do not have better qualifications than anyone else. The only exception I can think was possible was Robert Francis Kennedy, and Sihran Bishara Sihran stole our chance!
Abe Turany
· 10 months ago
This is a question(s) to the direct quote by Josh Bolton, "He's a good decision-maker". Are you talking about George Bush when you say this? This must mean that George Bush is a good decision maker for him and his own because he sure isn't a good decision maker for the country. He's a good decision maker for Halliburton, which had an inside track to Pentagon contracts/moved its corporate headquarters to the country of Dubai, which is a part of OPEQ/isn't "scrutinizing" over these companies that move there. He’s never cared about the American people, and neither has the real “decision maker” (i.e. Chenney) who’s only job was to break tie-votes in the Senate while the President that he was working with was still in office (though thought the Exec. branch had Leg. powers, and used colorful language on the Senate floor). They never made good decisions for the country or the people living in it.
Older_Wiser
· 10 months ago
Mary Beth Maxwell, head of "American Rights at Work" is on CSPAN1 right now, explaining the Free Choice legislation which, unfortunately, Obama is putting on the back burner. It may be a while before workers can get full rights on deciding on a union...
gwpriester
· 10 months ago
He is after all, The Decider.
And he has an almost perfect record. Just about every decision he has made has helped destroy the country.
lynchie
· 10 months ago
Hadley and Bolton. Two Bush appointees who join the long line of totally incompetent fools this President put into positions of power because of their willingness to lick the back of his balls. I would like anyone to name a single person in his cabinet or who he placed in a position of power or who his cabinet placed in a position who did a good job. I can't think of one. As far as decisions yeah he made a whole bunch of them but they were all BAD. He lacks the ability to weigh information, formulate a plan and make a decision based on facts. This is a man who rejects global warming, rejects pollution as being harmful, sees no value in stem cell research, believes abstinence reduces teen pregnancy, talks to god, has never succeeded at any position he ever held because of the same BAD decisions. You can put horseshit in a bag, seal it up, but when you open it there is nothing in the bag but horseshit.
wild weasel
· 10 months ago
Hmmm
A.Political
· 10 months ago
Let the revisionism reign!!!!
putaro
· 10 months ago
My Magic 8-ball is a good decision maker as well. We'd probably be in less trouble if we'd used one of those instead of Bush the last 8 years.
A.Political
· 10 months ago
All signs point to 'hell yes'.
wearing out my F key
· 10 months ago
"But everybody who has actual personal exposure to the president, almost everybody, appreciates what a good leader he is, how smart he is and, especially, how humane he is."
they must be talking about some other president. certainly not bush. maybe nixon.
RitornaVincitor
· 10 months ago
Isn't it revealing that at the end of eight years his aides would feel the need to say that Bush is a good, smart and humane leader?
woodroad34
· 10 months ago
Exactly. With all their reknowned publicity talents the Republicans really can't make Bush appear anything other than self-serving, stupid, drunk, a bad-decision maker, and somewhat autistic. Bolton is just wasting his breath as one of the 23%ers.
RitornaVincitor
· 10 months ago
I think what they are saying is, "The only reason the public thinks Bush is a bad, stupid and inhumane leader is because that's all they see." And they're right about that. That's all we've seen of Bush. Now, it may be comforting for Bolten and Hadley to say that there really is a different man that we all don't get to see. But so what? Even if it were true about Bush the man, President Bush is a bad, stupid, and inhumane leader. And I think your assessment of Bush the man is correct.
And do we really believe that all of those 23% who say they approve really approve? Maybe I'm being a bit naive, but surely some percentage of them know what a disaster Bush is and secretly disapprove, but would never say so. Surely that many can't really approve. And don't call me Shirley. ;0)
vkobaya
· 10 months ago
Goes to prove that everything coming out of the mouth of Republicans mouth are lies and the exact opposite of the truth. "Good, smart and humane leader?" More like bad, stupid andbrutal, vicious, hateful murderous killer.
wearing out my F key
· 10 months ago
"he's a good listener... he doesn't just wait to talk, he really listens..... and, um....oh! he can take a hundred pounds and lift it right over his head!"
Jay
· 10 months ago
Yes they did, Joe.
But it was 62 million morons who made it all possible. Don't excuse them from blame.
Older_Wiser
· 10 months ago
OT, but a keyhole look at what Grand Theft does to an economy...
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- It has been a year of record misery: the largest bankruptcy, bank failure and Ponzi scheme in U.S. history; $720 billion in writedowns and losses by financial institutions; $30.1 trillion in market valuation wiped out.
The biggest loss and the hardest thing to recover, though, may be something that can’t be precisely measured -- confidence in the markets and the firms that rely on them.
“The wholesale funding model lost its credibility,” said David Hendler, senior analyst at New York-based CreditSights Inc. “That started the semi-nationalization of funding in the financial markets. It’s a real chink in the armor of capitalism as supposedly the best process for allocating capital. The government is now deciding who gets access to capital.”
And Bank of America is now the largest bank in the country, with $2.7 Trillion in assets...even so, it got $25 Billion from Paulson. Why? Well, that will pay half of the $50 Billion it paid for Merrill Lynch, I suppose...which made it the largest bank. Even so, it's not too large to fail, either.
Indigo
· 10 months ago
The key issue in my thinking is "confidence in the markets." I truly believe, maybe hope is a better word, that with the departure of the Bushistas and the arrival of the Obama administration, a measure of the confidence will return and with it, the beginnings of recovery.
Older_Wiser
· 10 months ago
Hopefully...I would hate to see the misery people went through in the 30s repeat itself. But for the average American, that would mean a return of JOBS to this country, not confidence in the stock market which is actually something experienced by only a small % of Americans. Without a return to some basic mfg and related industries, only American companies with foreign interests will profit. Outsourcing, IMHO, was the bellweather for this slide. A "service" economy with its low "servant style" wages is just not going to ensure prosperity for most people.
Indigo
· 10 months ago
True that.
wearing out my F key
· 10 months ago
""Maybe in the beginning of the sixth year of a presidency, that's a quixotic task. . . . "
george bush thinks a "quixotic task" is something ranchers do to keep wild dogs from poaching their sheep heards.
wearing out my F key
· 10 months ago
upon finishing my second cup of coffee, it became clear that what i meant to write was "herd". my first impulse was to wait for the caffeine to kick in, but then the "quixotic" joke hit me, and i just jumped in and went for it. too bad, because i thought that had the potential to be a good joke.
Steve_in_CNJ
· 10 months ago
What cokie roberts should have said in 2003: Bush should not be going into Iraq -- it makes him look quixotic.
Gbennett
· 10 months ago
Bush was a terrible decision maker, if you base your judgment on the ability to assess a situation accurately and to then apply solutions that fit, based on the best information available. I believe Bush's terms can be viewed through a lens of family dynamics. One of the main thrusts of Bush's presidency was to overcome the "wimp factor" that his father's presidency was accused of. Hence, you have the Iraq war and the focus on taking out Sadam, carry overs from his father's day. Plus, Bush needed to show he could win a second term at all costs. The war served this Rovian purpose as well. Bush II was battling some internal psychological demons having little to do with the reality on the ground.
RitornaVincitor
· 10 months ago
I agree that Bush was battling internal demons. I see him as trying to impress and outdo his father. You've got a spoiled, alcoholic rich kid with a questionable military record in the "Champagne Unit" of the Reserves, who went on to ruin every business venture he embarked upon. He needed to outdo daddy, and in the end he failed spectacularly.
AdrianBrowne
· 10 months ago
Is it unusual for a president's *legacy* to be what DIDN'T happen?
Griffon
· 10 months ago
Let us understand that this was not an isolated gang of henchmen who wandered into the White House and began pulling levers indiscriminately.
This 'blasted heath' administration owes a staggering amount of their success to the US media, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid (including their FISA and telecom immunity approval, with Obama's guidance, waterboarding approval, and impeachment derailment.) and the myriad 'little Eichmanns' who did not object, did not speak out, who clutched their power hoping to spin their cowardice.
That the bush lackeys are beneath contempt is an indisputable fact, but Reid, Conyers and Pelosi belong in the exodus and conviction of bush enablers, together with a host of so-called 'blue-dog' democrats and media corporations.
No, these bush officials had a great deal of help
Jay
· 10 months ago
FAUX News and right-wing talk radio did everything they could to help Bush destroy the country.
Thanks a lot, Hannity and Limbaugh - pieces of trash.
W Action
· 10 months ago
If you sincerely thought your boss was a humane, compassionate and decisive person but almost everyone else thought he was a selfish boor, you would contradict them because they don't really know him. On the other hand, if he was a bozo but you'd look like a fool and never work again if you admitted it, you'd ALSO say they don't really know him. So either way, it's what a subordinate to a failed executive would say, isn't it? I suppose they'll each write books about Bush's unappreciated accomplishments and their roles in it, too.
RitornaVincitor
· 10 months ago
I'm beginning to understand. America has failed George Bush. We could not see what a great decision maker he is because we were only willing to look at what terrible decisions they were. We failed to see what a humane and compassionate man he is, because we could only see the body count. We called him arrogant simply because he stole the presidency, called it a mandate, and led us in the wrong direction with total self assurance. No wonder Bolton and Hadley are frustrated.
Brak
· 10 months ago
You say that like it's a bad thing.
You forget the wealth created by Bush. Literally hundreds of CEOs became billionaires, or close to it, under the Bush economy. Even while their companies flagged, incredible wealth was created! For them.
Harry R. Sohl
· 10 months ago
But everybody who has actual personal exposure to [him], almost everybody, appreciates what a good leader he is, how smart he is and, especially, how humane he is.
Also chiseled on the graves off each of Ted Bundy's victims.
Not unlike Bush, most of them were never found.
mpower1952
· 10 months ago
"He's a good decision-maker," Bolten said.
Perhaps all the confusion over this statement can be explained with a few parentheses.
He's a (good decision) maker in Bolton's view or He's a good (decision maker) as in he's decides quickly with no second thoughts.
The latter is Bush's problem. He doesn't have second thoughts because he thinks he's like the Pope with infallibility on governing issues. Like the Pope, he's deluded.
feeler
· 10 months ago
And Laura, Condi with her ugly smile, The other Bushes (i.e., Herbert Walker, Jeb, the kiddies: Jenny & the other one who just got married). My point is that they were all equally complicit and have to be called by name. I'm even willing to include Powell for lying to the UN. True, it will take a monument the size of Washington memorial to list them all, but that we must do.
UncleGlenny
· 10 months ago
Joe, where's your English comprehension? The quote is, and obviously whoever transcribed it knew what it meant,
"He's a good decision-maker."
It didn't say
"He's a good-decision maker."
English has all kinds of ways to get around ambiguities like this. The quote doesn't say he makes good decisions!
woodroad34
· 10 months ago
Well, you're right of course and I love it! My dad always loved the signs along the highway that read "Eat here and get gas" -- he would grin and ask my mom to make sure we had Pepto Bismol packed. Bush reminds me of those signs.
CMHShoffstall
· 10 months ago
DANG, beat me to it!
With these clowns and their ability to use newspeak, it makes me wonder if he thought about this alternate reading of that statement.
UncleGlenny
· 10 months ago
Dunno. I mean, all the other compliments were just out-and-out lies, no doubt part of the Bush Legacy Project...
woodroad34
· 10 months ago
Of course Bolton would stand up for this pretzel-choking, "It's haaaard"-whining, shoe dodging President, who will never let anyone from the real world close to him. Bush is sociopathic, immature, stupid, and a bad decision maker--his whole history from Yale to Texas to Washington is riddled with bad decisions, ruinous acts, and selfish behaviors -- (one of his bad decisions was to have Bolton--another sociopath -- be the UN Amabassador to further denigrate our image abroad).
boloboffin
· 10 months ago
Say what you want about George W. Bush, he can definitely make a decision.
This Is No Compliment. Any adult can make a decision. Next they will be touting his remarkable ability to breathe.
Jeff
· 10 months ago
The man is a mass murderer (along with such henchmen as these) and US journalism is still stuck on what a cool dude he is? Why does the MSM even give these people any space at all to spew this rubbish?
devlzadvocate
· 10 months ago
He isn't a good anything. He just isn't good. He's just baaaadd. And he still is proud and practicing at being a bad president signing midnight regulations and ignoring the Middle East conflicts.
He is the shit I scrape off my shoes.
Every day I wake up and count down another day.
benb
· 10 months ago
'Failed miserably' to raise Bush's popularity by getting the rest of America to see the likable boss he saw in private?
A Bad Decision Maker telling us Bush is a Good Decision Maker?
Brak
· 10 months ago
You're with me or you're against me. Bring it on. I'm just not all that concerned about bin Laden. Vacationing while NO drowned. Dissent equated with disloyalty. Rewarding friendship and loyalty while steadfastly ignoring issues of competence. Unprecendented expansion of presidential power. It's not torture when we do it.
Have we ever had a more arrogant president than this? Not since 1930, at least, but perhaps no president of the USA has been this arrogant.
Mike_G
· 10 months ago
...especially, how humane he is."
On launching the massive 'shock and awe' bombing campaign preceding the invasion of Iraq, resulting in thousands of deaths: "Feels good!" (pumps fist).
All Comments
How about important topics for now, such as more photos of Petey. Please?
He makes ignorant decisions based on bad information and maintains them in the face of solid information with that stubborn consistency born of genuine stupidity.
All true.
"If the Bush administration became a byword for policy bungles, for government by the unqualified, well, it was just following the advice of leading conservative think tanks: after the 2000 election the Heritage Foundation specifically urged the new team to “make appointments based on loyalty first and expertise second.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/opinion/02kru...
Loyalty trumps competence..........what a way to run a country. I should say 'ruin' instead of 'run'.
T Minus 19 - Bush Almighty
Thu Jan 01, 2009 at 10:49:18 AM CST
"I'm conscious not to be trying to substitute myself for God." -- George orWell Bush, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, January 1st, 2006
Yesterday, we saw Dumbya suffers a divorce from reality. Today's quote clearly indicates a Messianic Complex might be Boy Blunder's Achille's Heel, although some learned folk think Bush The Lesser suffers from a Napoleonanic Complex. Others not so learned have suggested Dumbya simply had too many converstations with a southern gentlemen by the name of Jack; Mr. Daniels is unavailable for comment. Regardless, I thank God that after 19 short days, January 20th will mark The End Of An Error.
http://www.mncampaignreport.com/diary/2392/t-mi...
Bottom line? The Rethugs are desperate and will continue lying, as their natures dictate.
I always preferred "Reich-publicans," but it never seemed to catch on. I do think it describes their party well, though.
Schrub does prove the wisdom of the Founding Fathers. We need a republic, where the entire country competes for the presidency, rather than an inherited monarchy. As John Quincy Adams, Benjamin Harrison, and Schrub showed, decendants of presidents do not have better qualifications than anyone else. The only exception I can think was possible was Robert Francis Kennedy, and Sihran Bishara Sihran stole our chance!
And he has an almost perfect record. Just about every decision he has made has helped destroy the country.
You can put horseshit in a bag, seal it up, but when you open it there is nothing in the bag but horseshit.
they must be talking about some other president. certainly not bush. maybe nixon.
And do we really believe that all of those 23% who say they approve really approve? Maybe I'm being a bit naive, but surely some percentage of them know what a disaster Bush is and secretly disapprove, but would never say so. Surely that many can't really approve. And don't call me Shirley. ;0)
But it was 62 million morons who made it all possible. Don't excuse them from blame.
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- It has been a year of record misery: the largest bankruptcy, bank failure and Ponzi scheme in U.S. history; $720 billion in writedowns and losses by financial institutions; $30.1 trillion in market valuation wiped out.
The biggest loss and the hardest thing to recover, though, may be something that can’t be precisely measured -- confidence in the markets and the firms that rely on them.
“The wholesale funding model lost its credibility,” said David Hendler, senior analyst at New York-based CreditSights Inc. “That started the semi-nationalization of funding in the financial markets. It’s a real chink in the armor of capitalism as supposedly the best process for allocating capital. The government is now deciding who gets access to capital.”
More at Bloomberg.com
And Bank of America is now the largest bank in the country, with $2.7 Trillion in assets...even so, it got $25 Billion from Paulson. Why? Well, that will pay half of the $50 Billion it paid for Merrill Lynch, I suppose...which made it the largest bank. Even so, it's not too large to fail, either.
george bush thinks a "quixotic task" is something ranchers do to keep wild dogs from poaching their sheep heards.
This 'blasted heath' administration owes a staggering amount of their success to the US media, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid (including their FISA and telecom immunity approval, with Obama's guidance, waterboarding approval, and impeachment derailment.) and the myriad 'little Eichmanns' who did not object, did not speak out, who clutched their power hoping to spin their cowardice.
That the bush lackeys are beneath contempt is an indisputable fact, but Reid, Conyers and Pelosi belong in the exodus and conviction of bush enablers, together with a host of so-called 'blue-dog' democrats and media corporations.
No, these bush officials had a great deal of help
Thanks a lot, Hannity and Limbaugh - pieces of trash.
You forget the wealth created by Bush. Literally hundreds of CEOs became billionaires, or close to it, under the Bush economy. Even while their companies flagged, incredible wealth was created! For them.
Also chiseled on the graves off each of Ted Bundy's victims.
Not unlike Bush, most of them were never found.
Perhaps all the confusion over this statement can be explained with a few parentheses.
He's a (good decision) maker in Bolton's view or He's a good (decision maker) as in he's decides quickly with no second thoughts.
The latter is Bush's problem. He doesn't have second thoughts because he thinks he's like the Pope with infallibility on governing issues. Like the Pope, he's deluded.
"He's a good decision-maker."
It didn't say
"He's a good-decision maker."
English has all kinds of ways to get around ambiguities like this. The quote doesn't say he makes good decisions!
With these clowns and their ability to use newspeak, it makes me wonder if he thought about this alternate reading of that statement.
no doubt part of the Bush Legacy Project...
This Is No Compliment. Any adult can make a decision. Next they will be touting his remarkable ability to breathe.
He is the shit I scrape off my shoes.
Every day I wake up and count down another day.
A Bad Decision Maker telling us Bush is a Good Decision Maker?
Have we ever had a more arrogant president than this? Not since 1930, at least, but perhaps no president of the USA has been this arrogant.
On launching the massive 'shock and awe' bombing campaign preceding the invasion of Iraq, resulting in thousands of deaths: "Feels good!" (pumps fist).