Rove was the source of the Plame leak... so it appears

tico ?!?!

jeez dude, dubya just left this morning for vacation in crawford. five full weeks.

reported to be the longest presidential vacation in over 36 years !

breaking his own previous record.

DTOM, You may have forgotten, but Bush said last year, "This job is hard work." -or something to that effect. LOL

Lets just hope he don't have any more accidental falls or choking incidents.

Personally i would rather a man be a little fat with character than skinny Howdy Doody

(sure wish I got the image thing down pat, but I am sure most can remember howdy doody? If not here is the link http://www.msichicago.org/scrapbook/scrapbook_exhibits/howdy_doody/)

Sunday, October 10, 2004
Secret White House Tapes, Part II
My source inside the White House has leaked me another tape. (For a transcript of the first one, go here.) This one was recorded yesterday inside the Oval Office. A partial transcript follows:


October 9, 2004
10:27 a.m.

SECRETARY
Sir, Ms. Rice, Mr. Rove and the Vice President are here.

BUSH
(breathing hard)
Good. Send their asses in.

ROVE
Good morning, sir. Sir? Where are you?

BUSH
(straining)
Behind the desk, Creepy.

Pause.

RICE
Sir, what are you doing?

BUSH
(straining)
Yoga. Robot Wife Lady told me it'd relax me. Make me less aggressive.

RICE
How'd you get your leg behind your head?

BUSH
(in pain)
If I knew that, Gap Tooth, I'd be able to get the fuckin' thing off.

CHENEY
Do you want me to call the Secret Service?

BUSH
No, they're mad at me cause I stabbed one of ?'em with a pencil after the last debate. Just give me a hand.

The sound of struggling, then a CRASH.

BUSH
Ouch. Goddamn it, now I got a Texas-sized wedgie.

RICE
Can I help you pick it?

BUSH
Keep your hands outta my pants, Gap Tooth. Don't make me get that restraining order.

ROVE
Mr. President, we need to talk to you about the ear piece rumors.

BUSH
On the internets?

CHENEY
It's internet, sir. Singular.

BUSH
(defensive)
I know that. You think I don't know that?

ROVE
Of course, sir. It's just…we've tried our standard denial?-

BUSH
They're not buying it?

ROVE
No, sir. They've finally realized that we've been lying about everything else. They don't trust us anymore.

RICE
Plus they've got pictures of the tranceiver bulge under your jacket.

BUSH
Dammit, if you'd just packed it next to my pecker like you were supposed to, we would've kicked Frankenstein's ass in that first debate.

RICE
We couldn't, sir. There was too much interference.

BUSH
You couldn't have told me that before I let you shave my balls?

The National Security Advisor giggles.

ROVE
(quickly)
Mr. President, if you just hadn't swallowed the ear piece?-

BUSH
I had to. I thought Moderator Guy saw it. But the fuckin' thing got caught in my throat. Why do you think I was drinking so much goddamn water all night?!

ROVE
Sir, please don't get so mad.

BUSH
Don't get mad?! I'm the President, goddammit. This job is hard work. I gotta get up early. People are always talking to me. Handing me pieces of paper with words on ?'em. Hell, I can't even find five minutes to clear that brush outta the Lincoln bedroom.

CHENEY
Sir, please, we really need to hunker down for this last debate. You came across as less than presidential in the first one. In the second one everybody felt you were yelling at them. We need you to be better prepared for Wednesday.

BUSH
Prepared? What the hell else do I gotta know? Saddam attacked us on 9/11. We fuckin' smote his ass. End of story.

RICE
Sir, Saddam didn't attack us.

BUSH
Shut up, Gap Tooth. You're stupider then me and that's sayin' something.

CHENEY
Unfortunately, Condi's right. We've been successful at confusing the American people about Saddam and 9/11, but the 9/11 Commission clearly shows he wasn't responsible and now the Duelfer report shows he was harmless.

RICE
And the press have found the passage which says that the risk of WMD attack has actually increased since we invaded Iraq.

ROVE
Then there are the draft rumors, sir.

BUSH
Dammit, did that plan leak too.

ROVE
No, sir. So far nobody's spilled the beans. But again, the American people have stopped trusting us.

BUSH
We still got our base, though, right?

CHENEY
Maybe.

BUSH
Come again, Fatty?

CHENEY
The fiscal conservatives are outraged that we've run up the biggest deficit in the history of the world, that we've increased non-defense spending by a higher percent than any Democratic president in recent memory, and that the biggest increase in jobs during the last four years have actually been in government.

BUSH
That's it, I'm killing somebody.

ROVE
(alarmed)
Sir?

BUSH
I'm the President, dammit. I gotta be able to execute somebody. It's how I relaxed when I was governor of Texas.

ROVE
Sir, I wouldn't advise?-

BUSH
Shut up, Creepy, and go find me someone to fry.

CHENEY
(under his breath)
Just say yes. He'll forget by this afternoon.

BUSH
I heard that!

The door opens.

SECRETARY
Sir?

BUSH
What?!

SECRETARY
Dr. Phil's on the phone. He wants to talk some more about oral sex.

BUSH
Dammit, that guy's creepier than Karl.
(sighs)
But Robot Wife Lady likes him, so I guess I gotta take it.

RICE
Can I stay?

BUSH
Don't you have work to do?

RICE
(confused)
No. It's Saturday.

BUSH
It is?! What the hell am I doing in the office then?

ROVE
Sir, a President doesn't get the weekend off.

BUSH
Now you tell me.

End of recording.
posted by Fin at 1:01 PM

It's a "working" "vacation." You think if he was really looking to get away from work he'd go to Crawford, Texas? Hey, no offense to Texans or denizens of Crawford, but it's not exactly the Carribean or Martha's Vineyard.

I see he gave a speech today. ("We're at war, make no mistake about it ...")

I imagine he has a pretty full schedule ... just not at the White House.

He took time off his bush clearing to say, "We're at war, make no mistake about..."?

He should've stuck to his weed whacking. We've heard that one already. Umpteen times...

Rove must've thought it was time for some repetition.

Probably so...

"An aide to the prime minister of Canada called President Bush a moron. Well that's not fair. Here's a guy who never worked a day in his life, got rich off his Dad's money, lost the popular vote and ended up president. That's not a moron, that's genius!" ?-Jay Leno

"As of yesterday, the Bush administration still hadn't found the source of the White House leak that outed a woman as a CIA operative. To recap, here are the things President Bush can't find: The source of the leak, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin laden, the link between Saddam and Osama bin laden, the guy who sent the anthrax through the mail, and his butt with two hands and a flashlight." ?-Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update"

"Bush the younger has two things going for him that his father never had. One: an easy charm with regular people and two: the power to make them disappear without a trial." ?-Bill Maher

"President Bush is on a three-week vacation down in Crawford, Texas, and it's what they call a working vacation. And staff say it is an important time because it's time for him to kick back. And I'm thinking, when does this guy kick forward?" --David Letterman

"President Bush is going on his annual vacation. The White House says he goes to his Texas Ranch to unwind. I'm thinking, when does he wind?" --David Letterman

"On this date in 1990 the first President Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act, which allowed, of course, his son George W. to become president of the United States." --Jay Leno

"It looks like there may be more people than just Karl Rove involved in this White House leaking scandal that's been going on. They are saying information may also have been leaked by the Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide -- a man named Scooter Libby. Let me tell you something right now. That is not a good name to have if you're going to prison." --Jay Leno

"I think Karl Rove is getting a little worried. Like today he said the biggest problem facing Americans -- prison rape." --Jay Leno

"I thought this was nice - earlier today Martha Stewart showed Karl Rove how to slip off an ankle monitor." --Jay Leno

"Karl Rove is in a lot of trouble for allegedly leaking the name of a CIA operative. Remember the good old days when the only thing leaking in the White House was President Clinton?" --Jay Leno

"This puts President Bush in kind of a jam because a year ago he said whoever leaked the name of the CIA operative would be fired. It's a case of Bush spoke too soon; like when he said 'Mission Accomplished.'" --Jay Leno