Bush supporters, take a good look at your pathetic president.
If you guys have not read Maureen Dowd's New York Times OpEd piece of today...you really should.
The moron in chief simply cannot help but make an ass of himself.
Maureen talks about why that is.
Did I hear a report that Dick Cheney was overheard accidentally talking into a live mike, saying:
"Thank god the as shole is out there fukin' up. It sure has taken the heat off of me."
you always manage to spill my coffee.
Quote:Maureen Dowd's New York Times OpEd piece of today
Do you have a link for that piece ?
freedom4free wrote:
you always manage to spill my coffee.
Glad it didn't spill into your keyboard!
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Quote:Maureen Dowd's New York Times OpEd piece of today
Do you have a link for that piece ?
No can do.
I read it hard-copy in today's paper.
You have to be a member to get the Dowd column on-line.
In essence, Dowd's column says "president Bush has enshrined immnaturity and insularity, turning every environment he inhabits into a comfortable frat house."
cicerone imposter wrote:People like Brandon doesn't understand the difference between a citizen and the president of the US - who happens to be the more powerful head of state of this world.
When we say something, it impacts only our own lives. When the president says something, it impacts not only Americans but people all around this world.
Some people lack any common sense or logic. It doesn't matter if "we" are embarrased; it only hurts ourselves.
You can find something to use against anyone, if you have enough people looking continuously, particularly if they're not very honest. It signifies nothing.
I especially liked the one where he was talking about the size of his dick!
That's true, but the world doesn't care whether I pick my nose, phart in public, or not.
You can bet your bottom dollar, if Bush does either, and it's recorded on film or tape, it'll be splashed in newspapers and tv all across the world.
BTW, that last picture of Bush shows how "intelligent" he really is - the most immature leader of the world.
And now, the other side:
An idiot:
A criminal:
A G-8 Groper:
A spy:
A torturer:
A propagandist:
And, last but not least, an imbecile:
Okie said:
"I've said this before, cicerone, but I think it needs repeating. I support Bush, not because I think of him as nearing perfection, but because I do not see the evil in his personality that some here so viciously label him with. So therefore I don't think he deserves that much of an attack. I therefore defend him, and this is interpreted as meaning I follow him all the way, which I do not."
What a reason to support Bush -- "I do not see evil in his personality." Forget about competence, wisdom, compassion, intelligence, etc. He is probably the worst president ever.
McG, I loved the photo of him when he was a young guardsman. Some fighter! He deserted from the guard.
His pappy got him off scot free from going AWOL, and bought his degrees at Yale and Harvard.
The the "political" images this administration tries to sell the US public and the world no longer fools people; they know Bush for the incompetence that he is after six long years to prove himself.
cicerone imposter wrote:His pappy got him off scot free from going AWOL, and bought his degrees at Yale and Harvard.
The the "political" images this administration tries to sell the US public and the world no longer fools people; they know Bush for the incompetence that he is after six long years to prove himself.
Can you provide,in detail,exactly how his dad "got him off scot free from going AWOL, and bought his degrees at Yale and Harvard."
You and others have said that often,but none of you have provided any evidence to back up your claims.
If you have proof,lets see it.
cicerone imposter wrote:His pappy got him off scot free from going AWOL, and bought his degrees at Yale and Harvard.
The the "political" images this administration tries to sell the US public and the world no longer fools people; they know Bush for the incompetence that he is after six long years to prove himself.
For what its worth, I respect Bush more than some of the posters here, cicerone. Are some of you so depraved that you need to do this to build yourself up and make yourself feel better? How can some of you be so consumed with this? I doubt if terrorists sit in their caves and spend this much time making fun of George Bush.
okie wrote:cicerone imposter wrote:His pappy got him off scot free from going AWOL, and bought his degrees at Yale and Harvard.
The the "political" images this administration tries to sell the US public and the world no longer fools people; they know Bush for the incompetence that he is after six long years to prove himself.
For what its worth, I respect Bush more than some of the posters here, cicerone. Are some of you so depraved that you need to do this to build yourself up and make yourself feel better? How can some of you be so consumed with this? I doubt if terrorists sit in their caves and spend this much time making fun of George Bush.
He ain't their president!
Bush is a moron...an insult to the office he holds...and an insult to our country. We don't need terrorists in caves making fun of George Bush...he does one hell of a fine job of that himself.
How anyone can support this man...even the conservative think tanks are having second thoughts and criticizing him....Norm Onrstein of the American Enterprise Institute for example cited in the previous issue of Washington Monthly (no longer available online). He is crude and rude and a terrible representative of our country. He is the biggest failure but you would never know it in the right wing mind set.
The Broken Promises of George W. Bush:
Rhetoric vs. RealityPresident Bush made a lot of promises during his 2000 presidential campaign. The record shows it was all talk.
HEALTH CARE RHETORIC
"There are 43 million uninsured Americans - 4 million more than when the current administration took office. George W. Bush will reverse this trend by making health insurance affordable for hard-working, low-income families." [Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 website]
REALITY
In the first two years Bush was in office, the number of uninsured American increased by nearly four million. Since Bush took office, health insurance premiums have risen by an average rate of 12.5 percent per year. According to a major study, "widespread adoption [of Bush's major health care plan] could drive up the annual deductible paid by workers." [Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 7/8/04; Kaiser Family Foundation, 4/04; USA Today, 4/25/04]
HEALTH CARE RHETORIC
"George W. Bush will establish the 'Healthy Communities Innovation Fund' to provide $500 million in grants over five years to fund innovative projects addressing targeted health risks, such as childhood diabetes."
[Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 website]
REALITY
Bush never established this fund. [Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1/20/04]
ENVIRONMENTAL RHETORIC
George W. Bush "will also ensure that the federal government, which is the country's largest polluter, complies with all environmental laws."
[Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 website]
REALITY
For the past three years, the Department of Defense has requested that Congress exempt it from environmental laws and regulations like the Clean Air Act of 1970. The exemptions were requested despite the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency has thus far declined to apply the policies to the military training facilities in question.
[Source: Government Executive Magazine, 4/6/04]
HIGHER ED RHETORIC
George W. Bush will "fully fund the Pell grant program for first-year students by increasing the maximum grant amount by more than 50 percent, to $5,100."
[Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 - Education website]
REALITY
President Bush has frozen the maximum Pell Grant at $4,050 in his FY 2005 education budget. This is the third year in a row that Bush has frozen or cut the maximum Pell Grant. [Source: House Committee on Education and the Work Force 2/2/04]
WELFARE RHETORIC
"To encourage states to help families in crisis, Governor Bush will provide states an additional $1 billion over five years for preventative services to keep children in, or return them to, their homes whenever safely possible." [Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 - Child Welfare website]
REALITY
Bush has proposed allowing states to use the federal funds currently earmarked for foster care room-and-board payments to be used for preventative services. In exchange, states must accept a spending cap on the amount of foster care funding they receive. [Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, 3/24/04]
ENERGY RHETORIC
"To provide energy assistance to low-income Households and Address Short-Term Supply Threats, Governor Bush will expand the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) by seeking the release of $155 million, and directing a portion of oil and gas royalty payments to the program, costing $1 billion over ten years." [Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 - Energy website]
REALITY
Bush's first budget, for the 2002 fiscal year, cut LIHEAP funding by $300 million as compared with the previous year, despite higher unemployment and a colder winter. [Source: CBS, 12/11/02]
JUDICIAL RHETORIC
"To restore confidence in government, George W. Bush will...return civility to the nomination process." [Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 website]
REALITY
When Democrats objected to the nomination of William Pryor to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the White House stood by its allies who leveled charges of anti-Catholic bias at the Democrats. When Sen. Patrick Leahy confronted Vice President Cheney about the impropriety of this charge on the Senate floor, Cheney civilly told him to "F*** off." [Source: CBS, 6/25/04]
NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION RHETORIC"In an act of foresight and statesmanship, [Senator Lugar and Senator Sam Nunn in 1991] realized that existing Russian nuclear facilities were in danger of being compromised. The next president must press for an accurate inventory of all this material. [George W. Bush will] ask the Congress to increase substantially our assistance to Russia in dismantling as many of their weapons as possible, as quickly as possible." [Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 - Foreign Policy website]
REALITY
Despite repeated claims this spring that he favors further expansion of the successful Nunn-Lugar program, Bush's proposed budget for FY 2005 cuts funding for Nunn-Lugar by 10 percent and cuts the Department of Energy's Russian nuclear security funding by 8 percent. [Source: Carnegie Endowment for Peace, 3/3/0/04]
Presidential candidate George W. Bush promised to be a fiscal conservative, and not destroy the surplus that had been created during the 1990s. But as the record shows, he has overseen the worst budget deterioration in modern American history - and misled the country about who will receive his tax cuts.
SPENDING RHETORIC
"To restore confidence in government, [George W. Bush] will...attack pork-barrel spending."
[Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 website]
REALITY
Since assuming office, President Bush has failed to veto a single bill, despite the enormous amount of pork that has crossed his desk. Even conservatives are getting frustrated. The Heritage Foundation recently wrote, "Budget discipline clearly isn't a priority of this administration, so why pretend it will get tough on frivolous measures like these?"
[Source: Heritage Foundation, 6/28/04]
TAX RHETORIC
"y far the vast majority of my tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum." [Source: George W. Bush, 2/15/00]
The top 20 percent of earners received 69.8 percent of President Bush's tax cuts. [Source: CBPP, 4/23/04, p. 17]
"Governor Bush's income tax cuts will benefit all Americans, but they are especially focused on low and moderate income families."
[Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 - Taxes website]
REALITY
Millionaires received an average tax cut of $123,000. Those in the bottom quintile of earners received an average tax cuts of $27. Those in the second to bottom quintile received an average cut of $317. [Source: CBPP, 4/23/04, p. 17]
DEFICIT RHETORIC
"As President, Governor Bush willÂ…pay the debt down to a historically low level."
[Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 website]
REALITY
As of July 30, the national debt stood at $7,316,567,571,232.89, a record high. This year's budget will also create a record deficit: $445 billion, according to the White House. [Source: Treasury Department, 8/3/04, Reuters, 7/31/04]
SOCIAL SECURITY RHETORIC
"The Social Security surplus must be locked away only for Social Security." [Source: Bush-Cheney 2000 - Social Security website]
REALITY
During 2002, the first fiscal year for which Bush was responsible, he spent $159 billion of the Social Security Trust Fund surplus.
[Source: CBO Historical Budget Data, ]
