LOL !!! - From A Capitol Hill Republican Strategist... On Bush's Speech

WillyT

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Sat Sep-15-07 12:43 PM
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LOL !!! - From A Capitol Hill Republican Strategist... On Bush's Speech

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Backfire?

Massimo Calabresi writes for Time: "Bush's trumpeting of what he called a 'return on success' could end up backfiring. Bringing the war into America's living rooms is never a safe political bet. And if news of a slow drawdown may be popular, Bush himself still is not. Some key Hill Republicans, in fact, were upset that he returned front and center on the issue at a time when the White House had so carefully ceded the selling of the surge to Petraeus and Crocker. 'Why would he threaten the momentum we have?' says one frustrated Capitol Hill Republican strategist with ties to the GOP leadership. 'You have an unpopular President going onto prime time television, interrupting Americans' TV programs, to remind them of why they don't like him.'"

Hill Republicans, Calabresi writes, claim Bush is "'hitching his wagon' to the popular and respected Petraeus because he knows his place in history is at stake. 'He's more concerned about his legacy than he is about helping his Capitol Hill Republican colleagues,' says the Republican strategist."

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Link (Froomkin): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

Seems like rePuke support of BunnyPants is getting paper thin.

:shrug:

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rodeodance

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Sat Sep-15-07 01:00 PM
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1. HOOT, HOOT

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TomInTib

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Sat Sep-15-07 01:05 PM
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2. The Snake is biting itself. KnR nt

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billybob537

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Sat Sep-15-07 01:13 PM
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3. No Honor among thieves.

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sueh

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Sat Sep-15-07 01:23 PM
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4. Oh, dear. Those poor, poor Republicans.

Their Dear Leader is not doing what they want him to do. And they CAN'T get their Dear leader to do what they want. Now they know how WE feel. Impeach. NOW.

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Roy

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Sat Sep-15-07 02:29 PM
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5. This snippet proves without a doubt that they place the welfare.....

and of the republican party over the country and everything else including the dead, wounded military, and all of those yet to die in this unnecessary war.

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TahitiNut

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Sat Sep-15-07 02:36 PM
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6. "interrupting Americans' TV programs"

Yep. That's the sin. The empire relies on bread and circuses. God forbid the circuses are interrupted.

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Catshrink

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Sat Sep-15-07 02:42 PM
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7. He's always only cared about his own damn self...

"He's more concerned about his legacy than he is about helping his Capitol Hill Republican colleagues,' says the Republican strategist."

This shouldn't be a surprise.

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