BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.

Subject: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 07:31 PM

Coming soon to a station near you.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 07:46 PM

If he tells it in his usual fashion, we'll be none the wiser.

So why bother? It'll be a crock o' s**t anyway.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Azizi
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 07:57 PM

Will he carry his guitar for a singalong and have Condi tap dance accompaniment in her new shoes?

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 08:02 PM

His side of what story? He wasn't impacted by the hurricane, if that is what we're discussing.

Unless he is going to give us a sad story about how he had to evacuate the ranch at Crawford (sniff--sob) two days early to oversee that crack job of responding to the disaster.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 08:02 PM

Or is it his side of the story as to why he didn't have the human decency to wait until Rehnquist was buried before naming his successor?

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 08:44 PM

If there is only one side to a story then get the rope because the conclusion is decided.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Azizi
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 09:00 PM

Are all three Guest posting at 05 Sep 05 - 08:02 PM; at 05 Sep 05 - 08:02 PM and at 05 Sep 05 - 08:44 PM the same person, two different people, or three different people?

It would help greatly if you could select and use some tag name even if it were hyphenated with Guest.

Sign me,

confused

[though some might say that is nothing new for me to be confused, they at least know who they are saying it to and about]

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 09:03 PM

And has Said Successor even been approved yet???

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 09:07 PM

In fact he is telling his side (his excuse) of the story through a brash mouthed general who today intervened when a question regarding poor response and preparedness was asked. The general said "Bull Shit, we were mobilizing immediately!"

He has had more soft spoken generals on C-Span telling the administration side of the story with the aid of statistics.
"A storm such as this is considered to be a once in every 200 year event. So we were 99.5% assured that such a storm would not strike this year."

Additionally the Rove strategy of 'Blame the locals'* is getting play everywhere.

*especially the upitty mayor of New Orleans.



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Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 09:09 PM

He will be.

"Getting a new chief justice of Bush's choosing in place quickly avoids the scenario of having liberal Justice John Paul Stevens presiding over court sessions, leading private meetings of the justices and thereby influencing court deliberations."

From here.

If he is NOT approved, that will be the first sign that maybe Bush is finished--if his reaction to Katrina hasn't dropped his profile so far below the political horizon that the 2006 elections are already beyond his influence.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 11:54 PM

It would be fair at least if he got to do that.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Sep 05 - 01:45 AM

He'll chortle about someday getting to sit on the porch of Trent Lott's new, GRANDER house. Lott lost his "entire house" to Katrina, you know.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 06 Sep 05 - 03:22 AM

there once was a fellow called Bush
his advisors said, try to appear in a rush
you see theres been a flood
and it doesn't look good
to be apparently, sat on your tush

sorry wrong thread!

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Tam the man
Date: 06 Sep 05 - 06:58 AM

he's a politician and like all politicions when they open their mouths they lie

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Sep 05 - 07:16 AM

Old Joke:

How do you know when a Politican is lying?

His lips are moving.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Sep 05 - 07:24 AM

"humany decency to wait".some of you hatemongers were denigrating Rehnquist within hours of his death!

Can you sat 'two faced'?

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Sep 05 - 07:31 AM

I think they were at him before he died mate!

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Peace
Date: 06 Sep 05 - 05:46 PM

"some of you hatemongers were denigrating Rehnquist within hours of his death!"

And what IS your point?

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Sep 05 - 06:25 PM

Was that one of those same GUESTs or another nameless one entirely? White Noise...

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: curmudgeon
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 12:54 PM

And if you thought George's public utterences were callous, read these!

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 01:05 PM

How did find out this is true? any way for me to verify?

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Skivee
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 12:51 AM

RE: Perported Bush outbursts.
I'm not any kind of fan of our dear President, but to my mind this smacks of being a dumb advertisement for the book mentioned in the "article".
Revisionist history is wrong from EITHER side of the political spectrum.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Snuffy
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 09:13 AM

Lots of false allegations about the country's preparedness.

But watch out - GW knows who the allegators are!

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Amos
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 09:21 AM

Hey, he's up to his ass in allegators, man!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Amos
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 10:08 AM

Besides, he's the kinda guy who wants to claim ALL sides to any story as his own.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Tam the man
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 08:13 AM

It might be an old Joke but it's true

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: hilda fish
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 08:17 AM

Does he have a story??????? Is he real or cgi?????? If both answers are 'yes' which I'm so sure they are that I just cannot think beyond any other sort of possibly, then whose story is it??????? These things keep me awake at night.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 12:55 PM

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naw, he'd never say that.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: LilyFestre
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 01:30 PM

Hmmm....I think HIS side of the story will go something like this:

It wasn't my fault. I'll have an investigation into this. I think I'll have to go look around again to see the damage first hand, maybe make a few promises that I know I'll never carry though with...oh wait....that's when my vacation is rescheduled for.........blah blah blah

The whole thing just makes me angry.....

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 01:37 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: KIMCHEE
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 01:58 PM

Amazing, we have a US Senator, no names mentioned, but initials of Robert F. Kennedy Jr who stated that it was Bush's fault for the hurricane hitting and doing massive damage not to mention the lives that were lost and still missing. What we would all like to know, how could Mr. Bush control the storms, wind, rain and all the other elements to cause such a tragedy? It is in an opinion that when such a tragedy occurs, their is a chain of command that the governments, city, state and national go thru to request and seek out assistance.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 02:04 PM

And that's part of the problem, Kimchee. When things run smoothly, and people know what they're doing, the chain of command works as it should. Unfortunately, when something like this happens, there isn't time for requests for aide to go through all the channels and all the people in the chain. Someone needs to be able to make the decisions and say, "This is what needs to happen." The president is pinpointed as that man because of his position. In reality, he's not that man because he has to rely on all the consultants and advisors, etc, that make up his "team". Bureaucratic red tape has cost lives and whole hell of a lot of money...

E

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: LilyFestre
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 03:02 PM

Of course GW isn't responsible for the actual storm...that's just silly. He is, whether some of us like it or not, the President Of The United States...he has the authority to override all that time consuming chain ladder stuff in times of emergency, which this obviously was/is.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Amos
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 03:09 PM

Kimchee:

I profoundly doubt the statement that RFK Junior, or anyone with his initials would make a claim that W is responsible for the storm itself. That exceeds event he absurdity of which the Senate is capable.

At the moment it was declared a Federal Emergency, which happened before landfall, he assumed responsibililty for the storm's results on the United States and specifically on Louisiana.

What he did with it is a matter of record.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 03:19 PM

Amos, Kim is just reacting to the latest Rush Limbaugh rhetoric.
What is sad is that kim "believes".


Being inside the beltway/loop to the federal goverment I was aware of the gutting of FEMA under Bush. over 1,000 natural disaster response experts in FEMA were put in terrorist threat jobs and nearly that many left for private consulting jobs after the budget was cut in half.
What FEMA is best geared up to do now-a-days is to react to biological and radiological disasters with a strong emphasis on quarantine and restricted access. Unfortunately that is the exact opposite for what a hurricaine response should be.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Wesley S
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 04:25 PM

Bush's side of the story is that he wants to cut the wages of the very folks who will be hired to rebuild. This is a story that is from the "Bush cyts wages - QUICK" thread. Sorry about the cross post but this one amazed me. Here's a link.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/08/news/economy/katrina_wages.reut/

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 06:57 PM

Link here.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 07:22 PM

Those Bush quotes are very much in line with the way old Nixon used to go on.   Or Johnson for that matter, except he was capable of being fuinny with it.

I think cutting funding specifically needed to look after the New Orelans levees should be seen as aiding and abetting the hurricane, and should be appropriately penalised. And I really would have thought that that would be something on which everybody could be agreed.

The way people over in the States seem to trim their judgement on things like that according to political labels seems very strange indeed to an outsider.   

Yes, it happens like that to some extent everywhere - but I've just been looking at a news story about an ABC News poll taken at a time the screens were filled with unimaginable horrors from New Orleans, and when there was no sign of the Federal Government doing anything effective at all - and apparently some 74 per cent of Republicans said they approved of the way Bush was handling the crisis.

I just cannot conceive of that kind of result in an analogous situation back here, regardless of which party was in power nationally or locally.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 07:37 PM

HJR 114--when that vote was taken it seems to have included yea sayers from both parties.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 07:58 PM

I don't think THIS guy will be paying cut rates for labour.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: LilyFestre
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 09:31 PM

When I saw the title of this thread, here's what I thought about Bush and HIS side of the story.

My Thoughts

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: LilyFestre
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 09:34 PM

Let's try this again....What I Think...

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: LilyFestre
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 09:36 PM

Awwwwwwwww heck....neither link works...

Subject: RE: BS: Bush to tell HIS side of story.
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 10:05 PM

Well, I was tryin' to click on Tweedsblues but I reckon it's got a party line with Krl Rove's office an' I got a rough draft of a speech that Bush is gettin' ready to unleash, perhaps tomorrow, on the American people... Here's the part I intercepted:

"My fellow Americans, the danged Democrats brought us Katrina and then have politicized it but I'm here to say that being your president is hard work...

The Dems don't know nuthin' about hard work since they all they do is complain, complain, complain...

Hey, I'm the president, ain't I??? And I'm sayin' that's it's hard work...

Hey; like my mom said,Katrina is the best thing that ever happened to them folks down there...

Well, all I gotta say is that being yer president is hard work...

God Bless America...