Instead of setting agenda, Bush and GOP lawmakers are changing the subject

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Instead of setting the agenda, Bush and GOP lawmakers are changing the subject

By DAVID ESPO
ASSOCIATED PRESS


WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 — Normally, President Bush and the Republican majority in Congress set the agenda. Lately, they're spending a lot of time trying to change the subject.


At the White House, that means appointing the new chairman of the Federal Reserve three months before the current one departs. It means opening the Capitol Rotunda for the casket of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, the first woman so honored.

''I've got a job to do,'' Bush said 10 days ago after he was asked about the difficulties confronting him. ''Part of my job is to work with others to fashion a world that'll be peaceful for future generations. And I've got a job to do to make sure this economy continues to grow.''

As the White House anticipated, his problems soon multiplied amid the worst polls of his tenure in office.Harriet Miers, battered by criticism from conservatives, withdrew as a Supreme Court nominee. Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice in the CIA leak investigation; top presidential aide Karl Rove remained in legal limbo; the same probe shone an unwelcome spotlight on the vice president and his role in the push to war in Iraq.

Bush adhered to a schedule that scarcely took notice of the unfolding events. Instead, he stood in the White House and named Ben S. Bernanke to succeed Alan Greenspan at the head of the Fed; traveled to Florida to review relief efforts after Hurricane Wilma; flew to Virginia to rally support for a war that has claimed the lives of more than 2,000 U.S. troops; and looked ahead to a speech Monday detailing his plans for countering the threat of worldwide pandemics.

Yeah, right.....

know how to do it.

:crazy:

California's Rep. David Dreier. He is the one who Republicans always choose to give the story an unimaginable spin...

Democrats should really study his presentation of misinformation. He will always monopolize the time (and usually the host will permit this). He usually interrupts if his opponent is making any headway...and indicates that the point that is being discussed is a trivial one.

The one thing that he does (as well as Hughes, Rice, and Melman) that is fascinating to me, is how they speak in such a way that no one can get a word in. Most polite debaters will wait for that pause at the END of the sentence so they can begin their rebuttal. These three people in particular know this....so....they only pause in THE MIDDLE of a sentence because they know they will not be interrupted. They take a breath in the middle of the sentence and they just run the end of the sentence into the next one without pause. It is ingenious! The polite opponents are always waiting for the pause AT THE END of the sentence....and of course, it never comes. Fascinating, how these three have mastered this technique. And the opponent always seems disappointed that they never get a chance to talk!

Whenever David Dreier appears....the "breathless spin" begins.

not polite debators, they are nothing but spinners.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5187570
thread title (10/27): LA Times: "White House Plans to Deflect" - WH post-indictment game plans

Later I'll post more examples of following these predictions. Good to put together the picture to show the conscious acting out of spin by the Bushies.