Somebody needs to kick that man in the sack, repeatedly, for that kind of crap.
Posted by Matt Davis at January 16, 2005 07:50 AMAt some point in the future the American people are going to witness a foreign policy whose primary task is going to be keeping an ex-president and numerous high ranking government employees out of the hands of foreign courts & war crime tribunals.
Even three years ago I could not imagine such a scenerio. Now I am convinced I will live to see it.
That statement by I've got a Mandate Bush, is pure. A man who is never wrong. That is the man we must deal with. And worse, even without a Mandate (2000 vote total) he will still claim one. But the really sad part, is that there is no Media and Press to challenge him on it. Just a few nuts like us, on a blog.
Posted by T2 at January 16, 2005 08:17 AMNow that is some Imperial Hubris...
Here's Carl J. Friedrich's definition of Totalitarianism:
-> Everything run according to the rulers ideology
-> Only the rulers political party
-> Media, Economy, Military controled by the government (strongly centralised)
-> Sophisticated terror system to control population.
Notice how there hasn't been any escalations in the color-coded threat levels since the election?
Posted by Roy Batty at January 16, 2005 08:26 AM"we had an accountability moment" and that was the November elections.
-George W Bush, to the Aashington Post, jan. 02
Posted by Susan at January 16, 2005 08:40 AMDid you all read the whole transcipt of the interview...OMG...just when I think Deer Leader can't possibly be much stupider(yeah stupider) his stupidity continues to overwhelm and thoroughly embarrass me.
Here's a section from the transcript of the interview regarding the "privatization" of SS ( guess that word didn't focus group out too well) that I just couldn't resist posting. I bolded the truly revealing part (we're in discussion with the RNC as to how to word it) but the rest looks like a comedy routine that rivals even the best of Laurel and Hardy. Oh to be a fly on the wall during this.
The Post: Will you talk to Senate Democrats about your privatization plan?
THE PRESIDENT: You mean, the personal savings accounts?
The Post: Yes, exactly. Scott has been --
THE PRESIDENT: We don't want to be editorializing, at least in the questions.
The Post: You used partial privatization yourself last year, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes?
The Post: Yes, three times in one sentence. We had to figure this out, because we're in an argument with the RNC [Republican National Committee] about how we should actually word this. [Post staff writer] Mike Allen, the industrious Mike Allen, found it.
THE PRESIDENT: Allen did what now?
The Post: You used partial privatization.
THE PRESIDENT: I did, personally?
The Post: Right.
THE PRESIDENT: When?
The Post: To describe it.
THE PRESIDENT: When, when was it?
The Post: Mike said it was right around the election.
THE PRESIDENT: Seriously?
The Post: It was right around the election. We'll send it over.
THE PRESIDENT: I'm surprised. Maybe I did. It's amazing what happens when you're tired. Anyway, your question was? I'm sorry for interrupting.
Anyway you got to read the whole interview there are many more interesting tidbits.
Posted by emal at January 16, 2005 08:53 AMno where to go, nowhere to hide.
the only consolation is the blog-orama.
Emal, he has just got to be on drugs to give that kind of a response to a question. That's not stupidity, that is a man, who at that moment, was incapable of holding thoughts together long enough to answer a question. That was a man who could not hold a thought longer than five seconds. That is a man on drugs.
Posted by Judith at January 16, 2005 05:53 PMTurn the page in your history book, Griz, and tell me what Reagan did in 1983 regarding Social Security.
Did you see his response to Walter's "Give me three words that describe you at this moment" question? Telling, very telling. His confusion indicates some dementia operating in that pointy head of his.
Posted by phidipides at January 16, 2005 07:36 PMWhat's worse than one mess? Why two of course.
The neocons are set to take center stage and our nightmare only gets worse.
Get ready for Act II of the G. Warmonger Bu$h administration.
Seymour Hersh reveals in his The New Yorker article that military action is planned soon for Iran
Posted by Joe at January 16, 2005 09:36 PM"His shoes are brown, to match his suits...." Zappa
Posted by zencomix at January 16, 2005 09:46 PMThis from a Socialist Newspaper. Will the world court demand the heads of this Administration?
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians are termed the destruction of terrorist safe houses, the leveling of Fallujah is justified as returning the town to the control of the Iraqi government, and all of this is described as putting “Iraqis in charge of their own destiny”. It recalls the US military’s infamous remark during Vietnam War: to save the village, we had to destroy it.
Not a word of protest has been uttered by the Democrats against this slaughter. Nor has any section of the American media issued a protest. The war crimes are being carried out in the name of the American people with the complete complicity of the entire political establishment which, whatever tactical disagreements may exist, is committed to the neo-colonial subjugation of the Iraqi people and the country’s vast reserves of oil.
These barbaric actions must be condemned by working people around the world. The demand must be raised for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all US and allied forces from Iraq, the payment of reparations to compensate the Iraqi people for their immense suffering, and the prosecution for war crimes of all those who planned and executed the invasion of Iraq
The US media—owned and controlled by a handful of huge corporate conglomerates—play an indispensable role in the mass murder of Iraqi men, women and children. Together with the Bush administration and the two major parties of the US, and the media are complicit in a crime against humanity of immense proportions, one that dwarfs any crimes committed by the various political leaders who have been targeted for destruction by the American ruling elite in recent years: from Panama’s Noriega, to Serbia’s Milosevic, to Saddam Hussein himself.
In reality, the US media’s disinformation operation is among the most striking and significant expressions of the collapse of American democracy.
Posted by Judith at January 16, 2005 10:12 PMHullabaloo has an interesting article on the media and the Armstrong issue, "A Long Time Coming".
Posted by at January 16, 2005 10:50 PMYes, he may be on drugs, but we had a Chief Justice who was on drugs too, and a few years ago elected an Alzheimer's president, so what else is new?
Superbowl XXXIVWXYZ is coming up, and then March Madness.
Posted by degustibus at January 17, 2005 12:59 AMT2, as Moyers said "we don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people". How did we get here so fast??????
Posted by Judith at January 17, 2005 07:56 PMYes, since we're all good Germans, let's bring Prince Harry over and have him as a USA mascot.
Posted by OXY moron at January 18, 2005 02:26 PM