Bush denies losing clout, vows to press on

President Bush on Tuesday rejected talk he is losing his political clout early in his second term, insisted "things don't happen instantly in Washington" and vowed to fight on for his top priorities.

"Things don't happen instantly in Washington, D.C. I know that part of your job is to follow the process and follow the politics, and who's up and who's down. But I've been around here long enough now to tell you, and tell the people listening, things just don't happen overnight," he said.

...

"When they're ready, we'll come home. And I hope that's sooner rather than later," he said.

The Iraqi insurgency, he said, realizes the stakes of having a democracy in the heart of the Middle East. "And that's why they want to blow people up, indiscriminately kill in order to shake the will of the Iraqis or perhaps create a civil war or get us to withdraw early," he said.

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When you have to say out loud that you're not losing your political clout - you're losing your political clout. Enjoy the taste of failure schmuck - it's a stench that will stick to you for the rest of your term.

It is going to be a real pleasure watching that idiot slowly sink into total irrelevance.

It would have been a greater pleasure to see him defeated in November but we have to take what we can get.

Um, assbag, YOU'RE ON YOUR FIFTH YEAR of . . . er . . . "running" this country and you've not done one correct or positive thing, NOT ONE, since you and that corpulent fuck Rove cheated your way to that puffy seat. You're not even the damned president. You're a corporate/PNAC Lambchop (muchas apologies to the late Shari Lewis)!! History isn't going to bullshit your presidency as a masterpiece as it did with Reagan. You're a failure and always will be.

My thoughts exactly.

Find him a position as "neighbor of the White House" or something. That oughta do it.

Next most stupid MFers are the morans who continue to swallow bush's bushit again & again & again, no matter how many times bush's bushit is exposed & his supporters are shown to be silly fools.

the bushbots don't care what he does.

Who is the bigger fool: the fool or the fools who follow him?

Thanks!

:shrug:

:toast:

can't remember how fast that happened!!

well, we all know the rest.

That handwriting was on the wall a long time ago. But, nevermind, bush doesn't read and he has his info stovepiped to him by the likes of Chalabi and from Curveball via his proxy Judith Miller of The NYT.

:eyes:

Basra out of control, says chief of police

Families can still stroll but militia gangs hold power in port city

Rory Carroll in Basra
Tuesday May 31, 2005
The Guardian

The chief of police in Basra admitted yesterday that he had effectively lost control of three-quarters of his officers and that sectarian militias had infiltrated the force and were using their posts to assassinate opponents.

Speaking to the Guardian, General Hassan al-Sade said half of his 13,750-strong force was secretly working for political parties in Iraq's second city and that some officers were involved in ambushes.

Other officers were politically neutral but had no interest in policing and did not follow his orders, he told the Guardian.

"I trust 25% of my force, no more."
(snip)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1495800,00.html
http://www.antiwar.com/

"And that's why they want to blow people up, indiscriminately..."


The attacks are not indiscriminate, they are deliberate towards Iraqi police and military, against the government officials, against the occupation forces and against rival religious leaders.

If we withdraw early, the terrorists have won. You don't want the terrorists to win do you?

"The United States is committed to liberating the Iraqi people, not to becoming an occupying force"
- Paul Wolfowitz, 2003

In that sense he is right.

can't wait to see what he says once he's out of office...

http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.14744291

The more you sling, George, the more that sticks!

LIAR!

I think sometimes we get to worked up about the current administration in regards to his childish words and actions. Sometimes, you just have to say, "OK! Georgie..." "Whatever..." and then go off and have a hearty laugh. Oh and don't forget to roll your eyes when you say, "Whatever..."
:eyes:

little ineffectual voice from a plastic dimestore cowboy...

I like the following quote: "things don't happen instantly in Washington"

Something to keep in mind as America moves toward impeaching his criminal ass.

...Lame Duck, Lame Duck, Lame Duck, Etc., Etc., Etc..This should be our vengeance and our plan to minimalize this criminal regime and it's importance in politics...Will he pass SS "reform"?...No-he's a Lame Duck. Will he get his "energy bill"? No -he's a Lame Duck. Will he be impeached? Maybe, but it doesn't matter because he's a (dare I repeat it?) LAME DUCK!!!!! Marginalize the moron early and often to every supporter you can find and start sowing now the seeds of discontent and disbelief, even amonst his staunch supporters. Much of our national debate these last years have depended on "framing".This framing of our national direction can be our secret war against the regime.

I promise to do my part to pass on that message. LAME DUCK! HA! dang that felt good.

Bush tried to sell his savings accounts for social security and he decried the Amnesty International report on US human rights abuses under Bush.

Bush was 0 for 2.

about Downing Street Memo. Or did I miss it? If no one asked, it is showing that the Press is very much controlled by the Bush & Co.

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Here's hoping the asshole and his administration stay on the defensive until 2008!

WASHINGTON - President Bush, faced with a string of setbacks on Capitol Hill, shrugged off questions about his political clout and promised Tuesday to keep pushing the Republican-led Congress for a Social Security overhaul.


Looking ahead, the president also acknowledged he was thinking about a Supreme Court vacancy, widely expected this year. That was a departure from the White House's usual refusal to publicly discuss how Bush would approach filling a job that, while not now empty, has groups across the political spectrum already gearing up for battle.

He pledged to consult senators at "an appropriate time," though he didn't say how early in the process those talks would come or whether he would seek input from Democrats as well as Republicans. He suggested that a recent compromise ending a Senate showdown over judicial nominees wouldn't necessarily lead him to lean to a more centrist pick for the high court.

"I told the American people I would find people of a certain temperament that would serve on the bench, and I intend to do that," Bush said in his seventh news conference in the seven months since his election to a second term.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050531/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush;_ylt=AtfbFgD26DcaowhVeGsg_ECs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

Gees, he really is dumb as a box of rocks isn't he?

We all know he never budges an inch,doesn't know compromise or diplomacy or democracy for that matter.Bush is a dope.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/politics/31cnd-bush.html
" 'What is 'absurd' is President Bush's attempt to deny the deliberate policies of his administration, which has detained individuals without charge or trial in prisons at Guantánamo Bay, Bagram Air Base and other locations,' he said in a statement. 'What is 'absurd' and indeed outrageous is the Bush administration's failure to undertake a full independent investigation.'

Dr. Schulz added, 'This administration never finds it 'absurd' when we criticize Cuba or China, or when we condemned the violations in Iraq under Saddam Hussein.' "

Hear that, Demos? That's how it's done.

I mean Reform... I mean Privatization, no, Private Accounts. Yeah. Well, wait... not he said "Personal." Yeah, personal.

Didn't work on the "Ell-dur-lee."
Didn't work on the "middle-class."
Didn't work with people of "Ku-lur."

So, now he's going after the ones coming in over the borders and our youth. Yeah. Nothing like "Divide and Conquer." He says he'll not give up till he dismantles the entire system, "including" Disability and Survivors benefits. Think of your moms, grandparents, dads, aunts, sisters, children and grandchildren, etc., etc., etc.

Source: The Baltimore Sun paper today, Tue May 31, 2005.

P.S. He makes me sick :puke: Truly sick!

College student calls it Gambling and my 26 year old, who makes $12/hour, calls it making Wall Streeet Brokers richer.

Freepers are quoting a Zogby poll saying 55% of Americans FAVOR Bush's plan. Who are they surveying? Wall Street?

as a lame duck today so far!(abc, cnn)

Welcome to my .sig line, chimpy!

http://www.google.com/search?q=bush+%22lame+duck%22&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official_s&start=0&sa=N

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usbush014285611jun01,0,2950408.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines

Weary Bush to renew agenda
As public approval plummets in polls, he pledges stronger push for Congress to act on benefits, other issues

BY CRAIG GORDON
WASHINGTON BUREAU

June 1, 2005

WASHINGTON -- With his agenda stalled and approval ratings slumping, President George W. Bush brushed off talk of a second-term funk yesterday and pressed Congress to act - even as he acknowledged that progress at times might be no faster than "water cutting through a rock."

Bush displayed a hint of exasperation as he discussed case after case in which the Republican-controlled Congress has resisted, whether on a Social Security overhaul, United Nations nominee John Bolton or stem-cell research. On Social Security, Bush said bluntly, "Nothing is happening."

Bush also said the U.S.- backed Iraqi government would be able to quell the insurgency despite rising bloodshed, and defended the pace of negotiations that so far have failed to deter North Korea's nuclear weapons program. He labeled "absurd" an Amnesty International report last week calling the Guantanamo Bay war-on-terror prison a "gulag."

But facing approval ratings hovering near his all-time low of 45 percent in a March Gallup poll, Bush asked Americans for patience, appealing to them not to count him out of legislative fights where he is lagging.

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concerns. He only needs them to vote for him so he can help his corporate donors.

regret voting for him. In fact, they piss me off because they put him in office, when they should've known better.


http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.14743812

(Soothing voice) Your eyelids are so heavy you can barely keep them open.....You will sleep for 3 years....You are Rip Van Dubya....

take a nap. take a long nap.

The laziest president in history is "weary"? From what? Cutting brush at his fake ranch?

His noggin is trying to run a mega-power plant with a couple of AAA batteries.

...that's the best news there is when it comes to a bu$hit agenda. I don't WANT anything to happen that has anything to do with bu$h's agenda or policies. They stink.

Let's hope NOTHING continues to happen that bu$h wants. We'll all be better off.

Here's to "Nothing is Happening" with the bu$hit agenda :toast:

...his brain disconnect is getting worse, like his polling numbers. It is bizarre that this guy is the President of the USA.

It's hard work, ayep. Hard, hard work, that's what the man said. Especially havin' to wrestle with all those big words, like nucular and Eye-raq.

Go away, george, go far far away.

agenda (and political capitol) are going down the tubes.

That'll work!

Why doesn't commander cuckoobananas just stick his fingers in his ears and sing La La La La really, really loudly?

but is now bald as an egg nonetheless.

Look for Dubya to begin sporting an highly unconvincing "clout combover" in the near future.

C ya,

THe Plaid Adder