Liar, Chicken, Arrogant Ass

You asked for a plan. The Democrats gave you a plan. You don't like the plan. It doesn't allow for your friends to set up shop as Iraq, Inc. So you make a protective wall of several war veterans and families as another prop (who looked petrified to be there, by the way), and talk tough.

Bush appeared at the White House alongside veterans and family members of troops to accuse Democrats of staging nothing more than "political theater..."

Talk about theater. Andrew Lloyd Weber would be proud.

Guess what, George? Outside the shrinking crowd of pro-Bush pundits, no one's buying the tough guy act anymore. It's painfully obvious you cannot, will not challenge Congress by yourself. Your addiction to human shields shows incredible weakness, and frankly, we're fed up. With the attitude, with the hubris and with you.

Comments

[oldgringo]

Well, Sir Hoff, ya really got to the gut o' the matter this time....GOOOODDD ON YA, AND GIVE HELL!

[scavok]

Does W honestly think that he is going to get a spending bill without a timetable in it anymore? This isn't the rubber stamp Congress he is used to. He better swallow hard and sign it or the next one is going to be even more restrictive.

Besides, he'll just do a signing statement to ignore the parts he doesn't like anyway, right?
(Actually that was a rhetorical question because the signing statements aren't going to fly anymore either)

[rhoda]

Where are wounded soldiers in the background, and devasted families, and our grandchildren who will be paying for this moron's folly?

[Thomas Ware]

I believe it violates The Uniform Code of Military Justice to appear in uniform at political events.

[Tod Hunter]

I would never have used that headline.

"Chicken" is too colloquial. I would have said "Coward."

[maryc]

I don't know about you, but it kind of reminds me of the photo of Saddam with the British "guests" just before The Gulf War...

[ted]

Something comes to mind from a while back..... something about being "a uniter, not a divider". Must have been just another lie by Bush.

[Washingon]

I almost agree with this one. GW has failed to stand up to the whiners and say we are going to get this done TODAY! The strength went of the IRAQ effort after the bombing of Bagdad because of the whiners (the Left) who were more worried about someones feelings than getting the mission accomplished in a short, effective manner.
We should have been out in a year, but no, folks like Murtha started playing Monday morning quarterback in front of the cameras; rather than constructive criticism where it could be used it was partisan politics in front of a camera.
Combine a less than firm COC with the left media and a few whiners who like seeing their mug on the TV and you have the mess we have today! Everyone has dirty hands on this one!!!

[Mark Richards]

I just wonder where he dredged up this collection as his backdrop. Anyone have an idea? How is it that, moments after the house vote, whose schedule was not known precisely, the mal-administrator had this retinue to serve as a backdrop? Who are these people? Who was the little girl (what a travesty to drag her in - and she looked completely terrified).

So what are we supposed to think? A little "pork" in the bill and a date by which we ought to get the hell out of this mess prevents this shrub from signing the bill? Well then the responsibility is on HIM for not funding. He got the money. So deal. Does he not understand that the majority of Americans want out of that hell hole?

I should think Congress needs to send this nitwit yet another message: get with the program, or get the hell out.

[vwcat]

I noticed that Bush's voice sounded kinda shaken at first. He got bitch slapped by congress and not being used to being defied, he got all shaken.
Poor George. He Can't Help it. He was Born Arrogant and stupid.

[Arthur Riddick]

"Washington", that's pure bullshit.

This war was started on lies. It could never be "won" no matter who was running things, let alone by this gang of crazy, criminal, inept, halfwits. The fact that it was never necessary to begin with (and therefore, illegal) doomed it to failure from the very beginning.

Period, end of story.

[kali yuga]

What a petulant little prick. The Democrats vote to hand the Decider another 125 BILLION dollars to flush down the shitter into the Halliburton sewer AND to let him and his goons in the military continue their murder spree well into the foreseeable future, and he's still whining like the little Republican piece of excrement that he is. Is there a Republican alive who isn't just total human waste?

And you gotta love the dupes and the families of the dupes lining up behind their beloved "war preznit." Mindless thugs led by a chickenhawk bully-- the perfect representation of what this country has become. A shame Bush didn't take the opportunity to drag out Mr. Bojangles to hop around and dance a little jig in support of the death and destruction:
http://tinyurl.com/37qp52

Now that would have been pure poetry . . .

[crabapple]

Let's see. Democrats won't vote to cut off funds to continue the war for fear of being seen as "not supporting the troops", but the decider gets all the funding he asked for from the House and has no qualms about threatening a veto of the final product if it looks like the House version.

KEY RICED!

[C.P.T.L.]

Rep. Dennis Kucinich

"First of all, the Democrats were too quick to compromise. For the president to call it political theater shows the contempt he has for Congress. And Congress has a responsibility to challenge this administration’s conduct of the war; they didn’t do it. They gave the president a license to continue to prosecute the war, and the president said, look, I’m not going along with any restrictions you want to put on me. He doesn’t intend to. He intends to keep this war going. And when you consider that 218 Democrats or 216 Democrats voted for this bill and you match that to the 212 Republicans, or, excuse me, 208—I believe it was 210 Republicans that voted against it—the president has enough support in the Congress to keep the war going. That’s pretty clear. What about what the American people think? Isn’t this supposed to be representative government? Do you think that support for the war has really grown? Not by a long shot has it grown. What’s happened is that support for the war is being tolerated inside the Congress. This is upside down. If the Democrats had told the American people in October 2006, “Vote Democrat, we’ll keep the war going till the end of Bush’s term; vote Democrat, we’ll privatize Iraq’s oil; vote Democrat, we’ll give the president enough money to attack Iran if he so chooses,” the American people would have never voted Democrat. But guess what, they did vote Democrat, and the Democrats have turned around and handed the president a license to keep that war going, and that’s not even enough for him. Because he doesn’t want any restrictions placed on him, and the fact of the matter is even if they put restrictions on him he wouldn’t follow them anyhow."

[kali yuga]

Well put by Kucinich.

A couple of other worthwhile quotes from the sane world:

"Tonight I must make it plain and clear that as a human being, as a citizen of the world, as a citizen of America, as a Member of Congress, as an individual committed to a world at peace with itself, I will not and I cannot in good conscience vote for another dollar or another dime to support this war."
Rep. John Lewis, March 19, 2007 House floor

"Only in the Beltway can a $124 BILLION dollar spending bill for continued military occupation of Iraq be spun as anti-war legislation." Bill Moyer, Director of the Backbone Campaign.

[sammy1]

Only 667 days left of this nightmare.
I pray we can survive.

[Happenstance]

Mark Richards: I seem to remember another scared little pissant dictator who hid behind children while making veiled threats against America; he was great pals with Donald Rumsfeld, too. Whatever happened to him? Oh, that's right...

Sammy1: Assuming, of course, Li'l Dubbie doesn't declare himself "Ultimate American #1" and announce we're going to "stay the course" because "we're at war" and "9-11 changed everything"...then he'll have to be removed. (oh please oh please oh please)

Kali Yuga: It's true...but some of these are desperate people who cannot accept that their children are dead--or at risk of death or injury--"for no good reason." Each and every one of them will eventually face reality somewhere down the line, and it won't be pretty.

Washington: Thank you for your troll contribution. Occasionally, we'll need a reminder of the defensive, hypocritical posturing and spin the tough-talkin'-but-totally-gutless creeps on the right will be relying on for the rest of all our lives regarding the Worst Administration Ever.

[Mad as Hell]

Did anyone catch Bill Maher last night? David Frum is all rethugs. Defend the little bastard to the very end. No people on this earth are as ignorant and self absorbed as the rethugs. They are incapable of admitting they could have possibly made a collosal mistake. Go to the mat with the belief that this war was just and Saddam's involvement in 9/11 completely justified it. I want to explode! Wouldn't it just be the end of the world if the Dem's actually did withhold the financing for this Goddamn war, and our kids were forced to come home? Hey, as a registered Dem in good standing, I would have no problem living with that.

[clichy]

There's a law against using military personnel as props in political ads, something Bush does constantly although not usually as baldly as this.

I can't friggin wait to be rid of this stain on America's bedsheets.

[dagored]

Will this Demo congress hold the chimp accountable in the Iraq war? How many more soldiers must die for Bush and company's mistakes and arrogance? Not one more...impeach the whole lot and throw them on scrap heap where they belong!!! Clean house and get rid of them....they are scrondels and war criminals and do not represent the American people!
';"'

[Newsguy]

Ever since the Dems won Congress, Bush has gotten more and more belligerent as he has gotten more and more frightened that the jig may be up. I am sure he and his tight little circle are aware that a lot of us out here are calling for his impeachment. An endless string of scandals has taken its toll, and produced an endless string of lies. Even Bush knows that the lies can't go on forever without serious consequences to him and his administration.

It is still all about his buddies geting a huge cut of Iraq oil production. It has not happened yet but that is what is behind Chimp's refusal to bring the troups home.

jdjr

[KTM Anchorage]

Hey Washington, get over yourself and your so called drug addled alcoholic Viet Nam dodging office stealing Jacka$$. What's Murtha got to do with the lack of body armor, equipment,leadership? Our poor, brave, soldiers have been put into the unenviable position of GUARDING THIS ADMINISTRATIONS OIL INTERESTS AND BABYSITTING FRICKIN' HALIBURTONS A$$...... AMERICAN TAXPAYERS,you, well maybe not you,but myself and a whole bunch of other folks are sick of bankrolling THIS BAND OF TWO FACED,MURDERING,LYING,THIEVES.......I'm out

[rhoda]

Washington. Regarding your comment about "we should have been out in a year, but no, folks like Murtha started playing Monday morning quarterback..."

According to Wikepedia (which can be wrong):

Murtha voted for the October 10, 2002 resolution[11] that as a last resort authorized the use of force against Iraq. However, he later began expressing doubts about the war. On 17 March 2004, when Republicans offered a “War in Iraq Anniversary Resolution” that “affirms that the United States and the world have been made safer with the removal of Saddam Hussein and his regime from power in Iraq”,[12] when JD Hayworth called for a recorded vote, Murtha then voted against it.[13]
Still, in early 2005 Murtha argued against the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. “A premature withdrawal of our troops based on a political timetable could rapidly devolve into a civil war which would leave America’s foreign policy in disarray as countries question not only America’s judgment but also its perseverance”, he stated.[14]
In May 2005, he said that the problems that the military had in Iraq were due to a “lack of planning” by Pentagon chiefs and “the direction has got to be changed or it is unwinnable”.
On November 17, 2005 he touched off a firestorm when he called for the redeployment of U.S. troops in Iraq, saying, "The U.S. cannot accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily. It is time to bring them home.”[15] Murtha later stated that he was calling for redeployment as opposed to a withdrawal, noting that he supported the establishment of an “over-the-horizon” presence of Marines within the region.

It appears to me Murtha gave it much more than a year and the whiner-in-chief is our drecky prez. And you know what ... our representatives have a right, as our representatives, to question his motives, actions and inactions. But your misguided majority enabled him to screw up the handling of the war, not to mention the reasons for going to war. So I lay the blame for all this at your republic feet.

Lies, Lies, Lies

Lies about Pat Tillman
Lies about the cost of medicare
Lies about firing attorneys
Lies about domestic wiretapping
Lies about WMD
Lies about "last throes"
Lies about the CIA and "bad intelligence"
Lies about Iran
Lies about Katrina
Lies about supporting the troops
Lies about Jack Abramoff
Lies about torture
Lies about secret CIA prisons
Lies about extraordinary rendition
Lies about white phosphorous
Lies about Democrats
Lies about Richard Clarke
Lies about Paul O'Neill
Lies about Rumsfeld
Lies about the "commanders on the ground"

These guys just lie, lie, lie, lie and they won't stop until they're out of office. I'm sick of it.