George Bush has always shied away from question-and -answer sessions with the White House Press Corps; he granted fewer press conferences than any President in modern times.
This was good policy, considering his tendency to wax incoherent and to mangle the simplest English phrases.
It was bad policy in that it confirmed that the Bush Administration was indifferent to public opinion and was not anwerable to the people.
Until October of last year, when another Republican electoral debacle was looming on the horizen, Bush potentates persisted in their lofty disdain for questions about their performance or their place in history.
In recent months, however, all of the clueless Bushies, led by Cheney, Rice, Rove, and the whole sorry cast of corrupt incompetents, engaged in a systematic campaign to burnish their individual and collective images.
Each of the disgraced Bush operatives made untruthful claims about their actions and their success. Bush, Cheney, and Rice lamented "faulty intelligence" without any reference to the irregular way in which Cheney manufactured it, and by which Bush and Rice promoted "facts" that were lies.
It is not more than 6 months since Cheney adamently denied that there was any failure of intelligence, even though the rest of the western world seems to have evaluated correctly the threats in Iraq.
In today's News Conference, Bush became petulent when confronted with the wide-spread recognition that his incompetent administration (staffed entirely with unqualified party hacks) had failed in the management of Hurricane Katrina.
Bush lamented the "wrong impression" of the "Mission Accomplished" photo session, without any recognition of how this event underscored the "unreal" world in which his administration operated.
Not a word about the collapse of Reaganomics, the stark recognition that "government is the problem" fails as an organizing principle for a political party.
Not a word about the protection of bigotry, the massive give-aways of Aamerican natural resources to Big Oil, the uncounted billions showered on Republican military contractors, the deaths in his reckless war, or the damage to science and learning in the United Staes.
Finally, Bush denies that the standing of the United States was damaged by our embrace of every tactic of despots, and our full retreat from international law.
Heck of a job, Georgie.
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If I didn't already like you, Peter, this would have done it.
I was torn between watching this final wretched poutfest or avoiding it altogether. I have to admit I chose avoidance. I've been outraged, disgusted, insulted, infuriated, lied to, smirked at, ignored, and misdirected for eight miserable years, the misery of which was partly contributed to by this puppet villain and his administration; I chose, for once, to wait a week and watch a conference given by a President who can speak his native language, and not with a forked tongue, either.
What's even sadder to me is that these women agree to be "sent out" - or stayed involved. They are individuals with choices, and are responsible for continuing to make the wrong choices.
And they will all try to explain it away with lies. Lies, and more lies...deceit...the tools of their trade. And their trade is NOT governance. It's theft. So witness once again...the GOP mantra at work:
Lie. Repeat. Lie. Repeat. Lie. Repeat. Lie. Repeat. Distract with attack on Democrats, Liberals or Obama. [*insert scare word, eg., Socialism.*]. Lie. Repeat. Lie. Repeat. Lie. Repeat. Lie. Repeat. Start over.
Regards.
Doyle I <~~~~~
(Let's hope the damage this filthy maggots have done to the GOP lasts a VERY long time....but with the assualt on Education....they have a ignorant base just waiting to be scared and exploited.)
Excellent summary, Doyle.
I don't understand any of the Bush women, Sheryl and Sandy.
I confess that there was a time, many years ago, when I respected Barbara Bush.
But, like Libby Dole, every time you think there is a reasonable woman in there, she shoots off some outrageous and mean-spirited nonsense.
For me, the most difficult emotion to endure is the recognition that this utter ass may escape any consequence of his horror show.
Yes it is, Marilyn, very interesting.
It could even be inspiring if some one were to acknowledge the consequences of the "way they see things".
Bush has been poison on the campaign trail since 2006, when Republican candidates did not want to appear with him.
But, until 2008, Bush continued on the money-raising circuit which, due to the unprecedented secrecy of this administration, seldom made the news.
One of the remarkable things that none of the right wingnuts will mention on Gather is the degree to which Republican dollars dried up in 2008.
The Republican money machine is entirely broken, and there is no one to prime the pump.
Look at the number of Republican Senators who are going to scurry off the rotting ship in 2010!
It was a pathetic performance, once again.
Richard Nixon
Did you intend to "bring people together" through a shared laothing of the incompetence and corruption of the GOP?
Would "Crap on you" be more effective?
You're digging yourself in deeper, Anthony.
Even your ludicrous "insults" are copied from my remarks to you.
Here's a clue: If you want to convince others that you are not cribbing your remarks from other sources, you might want to stop stealing others' comments and retorts.
I suppose one can't expect any more from someone like you who strings together a few anecdotes and claims to be making an argument.
Even more upsetting is he thinks if he speaks to the American People tonight, he will be seen in a better light. How sad.
"Sad" is one word. "Delusional"," insulated", "clueless", or "ridiculous", are some others that might apply.
Not yet, Mary Louise.
If he ever suffered a single consequences of his ridiculous posturing, I might feel some sympathy for him.