And your surprised? This guy is a real study in 'abnormal behavior.'
"As the president has made clear," Gates said, "we simply cannot afford to fail in the Middle East. Failure in Iraq at this juncture would be a calamity that would haunt our nation, impair our credibility and endanger Americans for decades to come."
Gee Gates, I've got a hot newsflash for ya.
Posted by Judith at December 20, 2006 03:15 AM"Bush sees himself as blameless"
Well, Bush never joined AA, and so never admitted to being an alcoholic either (an essential step to recovery, since only when one admits to being an alcoholic can one begin to take responsibility for it). "Bush is lost in his magic world of denial," as noted by Justin A. Frank, M.D., psychoanalyst. That is what makes him so dangerous.
Posted by Judith at December 20, 2006 03:45 AMWe're all in deeper shit than we can imagine with this guy, and you know, it is OUR fault. We didn't mob the WH last year when we should've to drag him out, strip him, cuff him and hand him over to Britney Spears, Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton, Princess Anne and the woman German Chancellor, for torture.
Merry Christmas y'all. Might be the last good one we'll ever know.
Posted by Mal Feasance at December 20, 2006 05:08 AMThe conscious mindlessness of conservatives
Posted by Joseph at December 20, 2006 05:44 AMWork with Democrats on Immigration? How?
By rounding up migrant workers at swift meat packing plants under the guise of identity theft; painting them as criminals; denying them access to due process; separating them from their children and families; allowing the employers to get off scott free and keeping the workers last check; only in bu$h'$ America!
"Bush told the Post Tuesday he is willing to work with Democrats on immigration, expanding school accountability requirements, and Social Security."
The best prediction of future behavior is past behavior. How stupid can people be?
Posted by Judith at December 20, 2006 05:54 AMhi jude ! still homeless ( the truck hopped off the tz. on it's own )
mal; do you think given daddy's boys and 9/11 taking to the streets isn't just the excuse there looking for ? i only say this because i was interrogated by the police for stopping to light-up a smoke ten feet from where they giving a non-white motorist a ticket. i'm sure if i hadn't id or money in my pocket fun with girls
would not have been my fate .... you're far too kind.
ps. this christmas is shaping up to be as crummy as last year's ( i just had to lay-off four men, a week before christmas, that sucked! )
Posted by mark miller at December 20, 2006 06:03 AMMal, so right you are. Two more years of hand wringing and playing the 'an't it awful game.' One lesson Bush has taught the American people, (among others), is that no act is impeachable. Another precedent set by this WH.
Posted by Judith at December 20, 2006 06:03 AMhere's Bush's money quote from yesterday - "the president said he interpreted the Democratic election victories six weeks ago not as a mandate to bring the U.S. involvement in Iraq to an end but as a call to find new ways to make the mission there succeed.” This is delusion, purely. Not even Rove could make that statement and mean it. This should indicate to everyone that the mental state of the president is not well. At what point does "unfit to serve" come in?
Posted by T2 at December 20, 2006 06:06 AMNero Jr either believes these statements about the meaning of the election (and is delusional) or doesn't believe what he is saying (and is knowingly lying). Take your pick. A statesmean for the ages.
We've moved into the complete insanity phase of the Cheney "presidency", with the frontman changing the topic and "catch-phrase" every half week. Waiting for ISG begat ISG. ISG begat No Way Nowhere. No Way Nowhere begat Surge. Surge begat Bigger Military. Bigger Military will beget "The Long War" which will be the centerpiece of the upcoming 2007 "Course (Un)Change(d)" Super-Speeech.
To alter this dynamic of nonsense and crazy scene changes, the Dems will have to start openly saying that the nation does not trust Nero on any matter, has no faith whatever in his judgement, has had enough of his malfeasance, delusion and lies and that his daily topic changes are irrelevant.
Hopefully a new dynamic can get going when the news cycles have a Dem Speaker and a Dem majority leader who will have to be given airtime by the vile television news teams. All we can do is hope that Reid and Pelosi will be willing to SAY SOMETHING that openly confronts the absurd lies and nonsense of Bushco and openly challenges the daily insanity that we are having to endure right now.
mark miller, I've been thinking about you! Glad to see you're still kicking. Sucks about the truck and laying people off. I agree that Bush is just itching to use those internment camps he's having Haliburton build; unruly hippie-types stopping traffic would be the excuse they need to start locking away liberals. Besides millions took to the streets around the world and Bush thumbed his nose at everyone; another march wouldn't phase the psycho.
Posted by iamcoyote at December 20, 2006 06:58 AMIt's official, INCREASED TROOPS!
Posted by Judith at December 20, 2006 07:04 AMSTAY THE FUCKING COURSE!
Posted by at December 20, 2006 07:06 AMMark Miller, welcome back. Same old crew hanging around.
Posted by Judith at December 20, 2006 07:07 AMYou know, you have to admit that this Bigger Military scheme really is pretty rich, and shows the level of dysfunction in our democracy.
That ANY elected official could conclude that the voters of 2006 were voting for a Bigger Military and are clearly on board with funding a substantial increase in ground troops to escalate the "boots on the ground" component of the "War on Terra" really is beyond the pale. It literally borders on whooping lunacy.
Dems? The ball is now in your court. Will this Nerovian Lunacy be treated with "due consideration" or openly characterized as the height of out-of-touch insanity? Your call.
Posted by euzoius at December 20, 2006 07:30 AMJumped the gun, although I could swear I heard Bush say officially that there would be a troop increase. Oh well, I'll have to wait until January to get the offical proclamation.
Posted by Judith at December 20, 2006 07:30 AMHow many ways does Bush have express his insanity before someone marches up to the Hill and tells him it's over?
Posted by Judith at December 20, 2006 07:33 AMIn case you don't know it, Bush is on TV right now with a press conference.
Posted by Judith at December 20, 2006 07:35 AMAir sickness bags at the ready, full spin ahead, chimpy.
Posted by TIKI AL at December 20, 2006 07:40 AMlet us concentrate on removing bush, cheney, roberts, scalito and numerous others from public and put them in prison where they belong.
any talk of anything less is counterproductive and gives gigot the impression people don't hate him and think he is a criminal and are putting him in jail for the remainder of his fucked up life for treason.
we really need to find out why our new government is the same as the old one?
Oldtree, ditto.
Everytime I hear Bush use the word bipartism, I want to vomit.
Posted by Judith at December 20, 2006 07:51 AMOK, which reporters are going to Crawford? "For those of you who are lucky enough to go to Crawford, I might see you there."
Posted by Judith at December 20, 2006 07:52 AMMy public radio station is about to receive a lump of coal from me by polluting the airwaves with that "press conference." How anyone can think this is suitable fair the week before Christmas is beyond me. And he just lies and lies and lies. How about how he claims that "we proved you can keep taxes low and still cut the deficit." That is such a baldfaced lie that don't understand how he doesn't have a nose two meters long. Please, lord, get this guy off my radio!
Posted by Mary at December 20, 2006 07:55 AMNow bu$h is calling the elections a referendum on bi-partisan work in government. He doesn't realize the elections were an obvious call against everyone of his stupid freaking policies!
Posted by Seven of Six at December 20, 2006 07:57 AM"I encourage you to go shopping more."
And with that great instruction of sacrifice for a nation at war, he is off to clear whatever brush is left in Crawford.
Did I ever mention that I'm really a Canadian?
Posted by TIKI AL at December 20, 2006 07:59 AMHe never mentions the hike in poverty, foreclosures or homelessness for some reason?
Posted by Seven of Six at December 20, 2006 08:10 AMhay kids !
this is all too f#$ked to think around. we now have speed-bumps on all streets leading out of the village and sets of two 190 degree cameras at all main intersections. i had to laugh, my sixteen year-old daughter tried to convince me that the courts would never use any evidence gathered from this surveillance.
so it's working; all this terror talk and war, my daughter just wants to be safe regardless of the fact that more then two of her
friends congregating in site of one of those cameras is a punishable offense in this village of 20,000 mostly white upper-class americans.
ps. thanks to all. i've been sandbagging, depending on where i end up from couch to couch and uncoded wifi's, i kind-of keep up reading but i've been too angry (drinking too much too ) to write. maybe punk-blogging is the answer ? (endless pages of " f#@k bush ! ", jpeg's of blown-up children juxtaposed with happy wall-mart shoppers ? ) i don't have enough hair left on top to sport a orange mohawk and voting (knowingly) well ....
Posted by mark miller at December 20, 2006 09:16 AMoh, Judith, you always support me, and I appreciate it. Hope you and yours have a merry Xmas. Do you know my mom's internist says that the Bush Admin wants to do away with her miracle drug that is helping her leukemia from advancing? Jess like 'ol Hitler, kill off the elderly, the sick, the homeless. I read where Pickles had a tumor removed; too bad it wasn't the one she's married to.
If the Dem's don't take action this upcoming session against this Satanic mess in the Oval Office, not only will it be the formal end of Democracy, but the end of government..and we'll have chaos in the streets. But let the bastard Boy King bring back the draft. That'll be the end of the the GOP, which I realize now stands for Grand Old Perverts.
Posted by Mal Feasance at December 20, 2006 10:13 AMThat’s right, Bush sees himself as blameless for the GOP’s November losses. It was all Congress’s fault.
Forget the bad toupee and occasional lapses into Dixie nostalgia, the GOP Senate elected Trent Lott for this reason. They picked a guy with arguably the biggest ax to grind against Bush. I think this is payback time. Trent is going to deliver a lot of votes to Harry Reid.
Posted by Daryl at December 20, 2006 11:29 AM"I read where Pickles had a tumor removed; too bad it wasn't the one she's married to."
HAHAHA - Good one
Mal, and a very happy Christmas Season to you and your family. I hope things are well in Loudown County.
Posted by Judith at December 20, 2006 04:39 PM