Bush faces new challenge amid flood of bad news

[DudeAsInCool]

Dude, i like wonkette's reaction much better than yours

So do I...

[method77]

he fooled your Hollywood ass...

[MrBag]

That Guy who is sitting on the higest post of our country,, makes me SICK.

[DudeAsInCool]

Breach of a myth

After Katrina, the country no longer believes in Bush the protector. His presidency is ruined.

Sept. 15, 2005  |  Bush's America is gone with the wind. It lasted just short of four years, from Sept. 11, 2001, to Aug. 29, 2005. The devastation of New Orleans was the watery equivalent of a dirty bomb, but Hurricane Katrina approached the homeland with advance warnings, scientific anticipation and a personal briefing of the president by the director of the National Hurricane Center, alerting him about a possible breaching of the levees. It was as predictable as though Osama bin Laden had phoned in every detail to the television networks. No future terrorist attack would or could be as completely foreseen as Katrina.

Bush's entire presidency and reelection campaign were organized around one master idea: He stood as the protector and savior of the American people under siege.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/20...myth/print.html

[DudeAsInCool]

Disney on Parade

The president, as he fondly recalled the other day, used to get well lit in New Orleans. Not any more.

...All Andrew Jackson's horses, and all the Boy King's men could not put Humpty Dumpty together again. His gladiatorial walk across the darkened greensward, past a St. Louis Cathedral bathed in moon glow from White House klieg lights, just seemed to intensify the sense of an isolated, out-of-touch president clinging to hollow symbols as his disastrous disaster agency continues to flail.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/opinion/17dowd.html?hp

[slum_goddess]

isn't it rather tasteless, not to mention a waste of energy, to haul in White House generators just to give the president a burnished skin tone and a prettified background?

tasteless? one could say that...along w/whatever he's done in the last five years

nb: notice my restraint!

[DudeAsInCool]

The Missing Link

The president's errant attempt to mix his troubles.

The president must actually believe he's turned the page on Katrina. Why else would he be trying to leverage the national response to the hurricane to bolster confidence in his plan for Iraq? "Americans value human life, and value every person as important," he said yesterday at a luncheon for the Republican Jewish Coalition. "And that stands in stark contrast, by the way, to the terrorists we have to deal with. You see, we look at the destruction caused by Katrina, and our hearts break. They're the kind of people who look at Katrina and they wish they had caused it." In other words, if you hate what the hurricane did to New Orleans, you must logically support taking the war against terrorism to Iraq.

The political problem Bush faces, of course, is that the majority of the country does not support his leadership on either event, or see what they have in common. If most people mention the two in the same breath, it is probably to link them as Bush administration screw-ups. Logic aside, it's hard to see how Bush's political standing will improve through his effort to connect one major policy failure to another.

http://www.slate.com/id/2126754/

[Wolfie]

"They're the kind of people who look at Katrina and they wish they had caused it." In other words, if you hate what the hurricane did to New Orleans, you must logically support taking the war against terrorism to Iraq.

Somehow I knew they'd blame Katrina on the terrorist weather munipulation satallite. Where is James Bond when you need him? :bigsmile:

[slum_goddess]

Wolfie, the preznit and James Bond are just about to get together for the WOW: war on weather.

3 weeks later (from here)

[DudeAsInCool]

A Wolfie in sheep's clothing

2005-10-02 / New York Times / By Maureen Dowd

Paul Wolfowitz is having fun.

"It's fun to have the chance to be a retail politician again," he told Andrew Balls of The Financial Times on a recent trip to India. It was an economic odyssey designed to warm up his image by tipping off the press to record his shirt-sleeve visit to a slum and his street dancing with children in Andhra Pradesh.

When the reporter noted that Wolfowitz's role as No.2 at the Pentagon must seem distant, he agreed, saying, "Yes, it does seem like a long time ago."

A lot has changed for this architect of the Iraq war since he left the scene of the accident. Following the lead of that other wooly-headed war theoretician, Robert McNamara, Wolfie scuttled to the World Bank, where he changed the subject from bollixing up Iraq to fixing up Africa.

Unlike the Powell maxim "If you break it, you own it," the Wolfowitz philosophy is "If you break it, walk away from it."

Where on earth are those who egged on the Iraq civil war? The neoconservatives have moved on to debates about China and Iran. Richard Perle has dropped out of sight, except to pop up, as he did at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual meeting in May, to urge a military raid on Iran if it's "on the verge of a nuclear weapon."

http://www.etaiwannews.com/Opinion/2005/10/02/1128233752.htm

in other words, the wolves have left the hen house behind them and left us the mess :reallymad:

[DudeAsInCool]

Wolfie, the preznit and James Bond are just about to get together for the WOW: war on weather.

on second thought, God help us...

[DudeAsInCool]

Guess Who Briefed Bush on Bin Laden A Month Before 911?

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/ne...t_id=1001221205

[Wolfie]

Wolfie scuttled to the World Bank

It wasn't me!!!!!!!!!

[DudeAsInCool]

George Will: "The President Has Forfeited His Right To Be Trusted As A Custodian Of The Constitution"...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...0400954_pf.html

When the hard core Republican establishment lash out at Bush, you know he's in deep trouble. Yet, he keeps getting every bill and every nominee approved. Does it make any sense?

[slum_goddess]

George Will: "The President Has Forfeited His Right To Be Trusted As A Custodian Of The Constitution"...

duhhhhhh see my 18,000 previous comments about the supreme court

[Kooperman]

George Will: "The President Has Forfeited His Right To Be Trusted As A Custodian Of The Constitution"...

George Will has been performing verbal fellatio on Bush for five years...I guess when he came up for air he saw what his "God" hath wrought. Will is nothing more than an overhyped and high-priced hack.

[DudeAsInCool]

Bush: U.S. Foiled at Least 10 Terror Plots

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Thursday the United States and its allies had foiled at least 10 serious plots by the al-Qaida terror network in the last four years, including plans for Sept. 11-like attacks on both U.S. coasts.

In a speech designed to revive flagging public support for the war in Iraq, the president also said the U.S. and its partners have stopped at least five more efforts by al-Qaida to case targets or infiltrate operatives in the United States.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051007/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_iraq

I wonder whether the NY Subway Terrorist alert & speeches like this were designed

to keep the public off of what's really going on - I've become that cynical

[slum_goddess]

Bush: U.S. Foiled at Least 10 Terror Plots

yeah, right--what bullshit. as if each time it (supposedly) happened, we wouldn't have heard about it enough to come out of our ears.

[DudeAsInCool]

Bush and his speech psychoanalyzed - not sure if it's funny or scary, or both

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/du...h-c_b_8444.html

Also, the reporter's question to Bush about polls---i wish i could have witnessed it (its right below the article ))

[DudeAsInCool]

Bush... His Troubles Get Worse...

CBS POLL:

Country On Wrong Track: 69%...

Bush Job Approval: 37%...

Approve Of Iraq Handling: 32%...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/06/...ain924485.shtml

[Wolfie]

I guess even "God told me to do it" works to a point. <_>

[DudeAsInCool]

The Nexus of Politics and Terror (Keith Olbermann)

Secaucus - Last Thursday on Countdown, I referred to the latest terror threat - the reported bomb plot against the New York City subway system - in terms of its timing. President Bush’s speech about the war on terror had come earlier the same day, as had the breaking news of the possible indictment of Karl Rove in the CIA leak investigation.

I suggested that in the last three years there had been about 13 similar coincidences - a political downturn for the administration, followed by a “terror event” - a change in alert status, an arrest, a warning.

Read more:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

[Wolfie]

Wagging the dog as usual. <_>

[DudeAsInCool]

O’Reilly: “If Rove gets indicted, that could bring down the Bush administration.”

You know things are getting bad when Bill O’Reilly is predicting the downfall of the Bush administration:

O’REILLY: And then you have Libby, vice president’s chief of staff.

SAMMON: Right.

O’REILLY: And you have Rove, all right, both linked into these two reporters.

Now the two reporters are saying one thing to the grand jury. And Rove and Libby are saying another thing.

And now what looks like is Fitzgerald trying to figure out who’s telling the truth and who isn’t. And if Rove gets indicted, that could bring down the Bush administration, I think.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/12/oreilly-rove/

[DudeAsInCool]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House expressed concern on Thursday at reports that the U.S. military has secretly paid Iraqi newspapers to run dozens of pro-American articles written by a special military task force.

The Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday the program began this year and the articles were written in English, translated into Arabic and then given to Baghdad newspapers to print in return for money.

"We're very concerned about the reports. We are seeking more information from the Pentagon," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle....PERS.xml&rpc=22