Bush Unleashes a New Round of "WTF?"

The little crackhead's living in Dreamland. Seriously. We really need to drug-test our elected officials.

President Bush today covered a range of issues at a news conference in Washington. Bush said:

• He would submit a budget that cuts the deficit in half and maintains strict spending discipline
• Iraqi elections in January "are the beginning of a process, and it is important for the American people to understand that"
• Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is "doing a very fine job"

First of all, he's got some real chutzpah to make the deficit look like something he's going to fix. The little bastard blasted through the surplus and drove it into a record deficit in just three years. Now he's telling us to give him another FIVE years to make it only halfway back? Make that SIX - it's for the 2006 budget. You owe us big time, you maniac. You can start by making companies produce durable goods here instead of importing them from China - thereby hiring Americans - thereby giving them money to spend - thereby turning the economy around. But as long as the WalMarts of the nation keep stuffing your pockets, that's a very slim possibility. As far as "spending discipline," please - that was NEVER in the White House playbook.

Secondly, it's important for HIM to know that his Iraq project is sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss. If the United States had 1/100th of the chaos Iraq is going through on November 1st, you can damn well bet our own election day would have been suspended. We've had Saddam in custody for over a year. If that was the Iraqis' fervent wish, why are they still killing us and why are we still killing them? And again, we wonder why they don't understand why the Iraqi citizenry now views us as the enemy. If God still speaks to Bush, maybe He can clue him in.

Finally - If "a very fine job" means rubber-stamping death notices, chiding our troops for requesting protection against attacks, admitting the "army we have" wasn't sufficient enough, refusing to condemn prisoner abuses, completely misreading the room by thinking invading Iraq would be a cakewalk with flowers and chocolates, and in general being a heartless, gutless, clueless waste of oxygen - then yeah. A lot of us can do a fine job in that post, too. My 18-year-old dog Jesse is a good choice. Better, in fact, since she's trained not to crap on our troops.

And having spoken, President Crackhead will now spend the next infinite number of weeks clearing even more brush in Crawford, Texas.

Cripes, if the brush isn't cleared down there by now, you can chalk that up as another mission he can't accomplish.

Comments

[Ben Hurst]

On an ass-kicking scale of 1-10, you scored a big 40. Howard for president!

[Tailspin]

Try not to hold back, Hoff.

[LosKairos]

Folks at MainLineWatch.com love ya Howard.

Go get that fundamentalist puppet and expose him for the quayle he is.

Peace without concession,

Los Kairos

[mobud]

NOT MY PREZNIT , NOT MY W-AR !

FW

[Nancy]

Bush also told reporters he was not going to negotiate with himself over Social Security.

Reminds me of the time years and years ago that a friend said her daughter came to her and said, "Mommy! My self hurts" The child was about 4 years old and my friend asked her where she was hurting. The child kept saying "My self hurts".
It finally dawned on my friend that everytime her daughter would put her hand down there and scratch, she would tell her to stop scratching herself.

[Brian de Ford]

That would be a nice analysis if your assumptions were correct.

You assume that Bush and his handlers care that Iraq is a tar baby which the US will never get rid of. These evil fuckers WANT the US to stay in Iraq (and eventually ANY country that has oil, including Venezuela, Mexico and Canada) so they can steal the oil and so the profits go into their rich backers' pockets. There's no way they want Iraq to stabilize so they have to leave.

You assum that Bush and his handlers care about the ordinary American. Bush is wrecking Social Security (which is likely to last for at least 40 years without problems) because doing so will push money into their rich backers' pockets. They have every intention of screwing the economy into the ground so their cronies can buy shares at a penny on the dollar and then hand it over to the Dems to turn it around so those cronies become even richer.

Bush is doing what he and the rest of his family are best at: stealing from the rest of us. Bush is the moronic fuckwit of the family, but he still knows his familial duty (as long as the minders who shake it for him after he pisses tell him what to do).

You're preaching to the choir when you tell them that Bush is a fucking disaster for the ordinary guy. But it's only when you tell them why he's going to keep doing it that they'll get angry enough to do something about it.

[Tony]

I want to just secede, rename the red States "Dumbfuckistan" and get on with my life. Perhaps working together the rest of us can keep a few bits of America out of the hands of the Chinese or the Thieves or the Theo-nauts waiting for the Second-Coming the week after next.

[Bubba]

Thanks Brian de Ford, I've been scratching my head as to why. I think you hit the nail on the head. The question is. Will we survive their qreed? I don't think we will if they are not held to account by the people of the U.S. If we take this shit, then we're telling the rest of the world. America can't wipe it's own ass. And they will do it for us.

[Dogfo Nam]

bush lost in 2000 and he wasn't elected in 2004. How much proof do we need? We have enough already. Take any survey, any poll, ask any person. Let's see anyone find the majority that we were hoodwinked into seeing appear in the election results this year. Yeah exactly. Media controlled by the money, vote counting controlled by the money, investigations controlled by the money, war controlled by the money, our elected representatives controlled by the money, our soldiers controlled by the money, and we are controlled by the money.

What is it going to take for us to stand up for our country?
National strike time? If we don't do something peacefully it will lead to an inevitable bloody civil war. The people in Washington (and corporations) are not doing what we Americans want for our country. I do believe that is what we sent them there for.

Red state, blue state, bullshit. Americans, all of us. Why do we continue to let the money dictate our conscience? Read the constitution. We the people have the power. When are we the people going to use it? Red state people don't want incompetence anymore than blue state people. Red state people don't want to see our country die.

Wake up America, wake up. They are playing us. Time to change the rules back to what our founding fathers gave us when they formed our union. We the people, not the rich, not the corporations, not the elitist. These people are making us look bad and if we continue to allow this there may be no more We the People.

[Bubba]

Dogfo Nam, Were in a hell of a mess because our best hope deserted us. Kerry made us all look like a bunch of fools when he conceded without a fight. The people are without a leader. Untill one emerges, if one does. We will continue to be inefective in our resistance. I think Kerry ought to give us our money back to establish an independant T.V. station that will tell the truth. Then maybe "We the people" could unite.

[Katherine]

Bush created the deficit on purpose. It's an old Republican trick... when the lending ceiling has to be raised [their] buddies; i.e. investors buy bonds to secure the debt. As the interest rate goes up (which it will soon, trust me), the interest payments on the bonds skyrocket. The investors make more money on securing the national debt than they ever could on the free market. Taxpayers monies which could be going into social and environmental programs are used only to pay the interest on the bonds that secure the debt. It is free money because the investors pay absolutely no taxes on the interest payments they are receiving off the backs of the American tax payers... it is considered "debt repayment," not "earned income."

Bush is the biggest crook I have ever witnessed. Yet again, he is literally taking food out of children's mouths for the profit of the rich.

[RICHARD]

RE"""Kerry made us all look like a bunch of fools when he conceded without a fight. """
On the above comment made about Kerry .
Mr Kerry saw the writing on the wall and probably got a phone call or visit and was told something like """John dont make waves.John Q Publik is not suffiently raped yet.We need more time.So be a good "Skull a Bone boy" and sit back.Let these others make a stink about the votes and you stay out of it and we will back you next time.You can then use the voting problems in your campaign.
America will be tired of us by then and will want to switch.You are still our man but it is not your time yet.POSSIBLE??

[Dogfo Nam]

I must admit that I was totally blindsided by Kerry's wimpy reaction to the fraudulant election. I think maybe the swift boat guys were onto something after all. It's a sad statement but seems to now have some merit.
Yes we do need a leader. I am not waving his flag but Howard Dean comes a lot closer to saying what needs to be said to be a leader who could take us in the direction that would be good for America. Badgage or not he seems to be the only man with balls these days in the democratic party. There is some truth in the idea that the democrats and Kerry were the real driving forces behind Doctor Deans demise. Jusat knowing that is enough to make the average guy take a better look at Doctor Dean. There had to be some serious fear put into the pocket books of the richies when they thought about Howard Dean as the president.

[anonymous]

What can you and I in America do about this?

The internet, along with word of mouth, is the primary avenue of communication "we the people" have left - now that our airwaves have been removed from our control by "our" representatives in Congress who turned them over to corporations for free. And it is an extremely powerful communication tool, in many ways potentially more powerful than the "mass media" which enters our homes daily and attempts to confuse and misinform us as to the happenings in our communities, the nation and the world. For accurate news we must henceforth rely primarily on the internet, on free and illuminating news resources, like "Common Dreams", "Information Clearing House", "Truthout" and other such informative websites which bring news from all around the country and the world to us instantly and capably, and without interpretation. And it is on the internet that we can band together in instant communication, a virtual national and even international community of "we the people" that can speak, and make demands of each other and from our government representatives, from the authority of great numbers, such as has been done by "Moveon.org", as only one of many examples.

Right now, today, we must make our demands known that we will not accept another four years of Bush, or a continuation of the savage war against the Iraq people which he continues conducting to gain control of Iraq's oil fields and refineries. You and I are also still free to pass news of fraud, conspiracy or discrimination and form powerful associations to bust open the veil of silence of the corporate media. We must all communicate with them and tell them we will stop buying their papers and watching their shows if they don't immediately, prominently disclose the investigations of election fraud that are going forth by numerous non-corporate organizations, groups and parties.

Never before in the history of America have there been as many claims of computer errors and abuse of voter rights as has happened this year. To hear nothing about it in the press and on TV is the ultimate in cover-ups. Tell them we will not tolerate that. Point out that the only radio shows that are reporting what is really happening are those that are non-profit, publicly backed, such as Pacifica. Ask them why, with such limited budgets do they have more complete and accurate news than the multimillion dollar networks which have big bucks but are so silent?

Ken Reiner, is a Contributing Editor for theU.N. OBSERVER & International Report

[Meme]

I am not one to trash Kerry.

As someone posted, he saw the writing on the wall. Bush was too good at stealing the votes.

Personally, I think Kerry has the courage to know when to hold them, know when to fold them. And know when to play and raise the stakes.

Just watch. He will be back. Although he's going to have to address the "Teresa problem" for all those special voters who like Bush prodded, voted for Bush just so Laura, apple-pie, gal and pal killer from Texas could reign for one more term.

[mimi]

The timing of the murder of Paul Wellstone was a puzzle to me until today. Finally, it hit me. Paul Wellstone was a threat because he was the only senator with the courage and independence to stand with the Congresional Black Caucus and protest the outcome of the 2000 election. So he had to be eliminated.

Now, we're facing the same challenge again. Will any of our senators be courageous enough to take a stand and protest this bogus election? If so, let's find a way to get bodyguards for them, starting today and lasting through the first week of January.

[mimi]

Whoops. That last post should say Congressional. So I can fix a typographical error; I wish I could fix all that's wrong with America under bush--and thus under siege.

[Art Durand]

And plus, there have already been so many smoking guns discovered in so many areas. What do these people have to do to be discredited,impeached and jailed, fuck small farm animals on national T.V.?