Bush: 'I Am Relevant' »
Posted By Beau7890 1 year, 8 months ago in NewsA defensive President Bush insisted that he was still relevant this morning in a news conference dominated by his bitter complaints about the Democratic Congress. Asked how he found himself vetoing the SCHIP bill that had passed Congress with bipartisan support, Bush insisted that using a veto is "one way to ensure I am relevant."
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Beau78901 year, 8 months ago
"Bush insisted that using a veto is "one way to ensure I am relevant."
Sure it is. But it's an unbelievably petty and childish way to ensure it. Using the veto against the wishes of a majority of both parties representatives and the public is like the kid who's losing at kickball at recess crying, "I'm taking my ball and going home."
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PapaWolf1 year, 8 months ago
How about:
'"I was trying to get your attention focused on the fact that major pieces of legislation aren't moving, and those that are, are at a snail's pace. And I hope I did that. I hope I was able to accomplish that."'
Is he saying that he wanted to get our attention, or he's the cause of the legislation moving at a snail's pace?
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NoWayMan1 year, 8 months ago
want to see how relevant bush and the neocons really are? and for the matter al qaeda?
the power of nightmares:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8813210...
a BBC doc in three parts. one hour each part.
here's the ten minute clip from the doc concerning the invention of alqaeda: http://youtube.com/watch?v=SYH8eM910fs
the neocons and al qaeda are two sides of the same coin.
pretty scary to know that the fear is manufactured.
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not2needy1 year, 8 months ago
I reported it. Why do people think it's acceptable to disrupt debate with such stupid chit!
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denjil1 year, 8 months ago
I am new to propeller and noticed the same thing. glad to see it wasnt just my eyes playing tricks on me. by the way, i gave it a negative.
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vor1 year, 8 months ago
"Congress has little to show for all the time that has gone by" since Democrats gained control in January of both the House and the Senate, Bush said."
Nice to see that Bush believes the GOP talking points. "Democrats gained control...". Is it surprising that Bush doesn't know how our governmental system functions? Clearly the Dems have little control and thus have accomplished nothing. Control of committee's and having a simple majority in both wings means nothing without the ability to override vetos. Gridlock is the inevitable result. The only things that have passed with bipartisan support have been bad pieces of legislation and bad for the American people (see eradication of 4th Amendment). For anyone to be surprised by the Democrats lack of progress only shows their inability to grasp simple facts.
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Beau78901 year, 8 months ago
V.O.R., I'll give him this: he has chutzpah.
An example of chutzpah is the child who's brought into court for killing his parents, pleading for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan.
Saying that Congress has little to show at the same time as saying that using a veto on every piece of major legislation is one way to ensure that he's relevant is...chutzpah.
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Mintyfunk1 year, 8 months ago
Maybe if they'd submit some spending bills instead of trying to expand government subsidized health care meant for the poor to the middle class and trying to stop the government from performing surveillance on terrorist, they might have gotten somewhere.
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djn3nunez31 year, 8 months ago
Oh he's still relevent to others as well. In a real negative sort of way. He is still one of the most power men in the world, which is still a scarey thing concidering how many people have needlessly lost their lives while he has been President. His presidency is directly responsible for the spike in oil prices as well as the falling value of the dollar. The effects of his presidency will have the same negative relevancy after they're out of office as well.
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
Bush's Faith Run Over by History
Religion â;; Bush, nearly five years after he launched the war, remains confident of victory, just as he was confident he would win that second UN resolution. There is no sign that his confidence is any more firmly rooted in reality now than it was then. Instead of reality we have faith - in himself, in a deity...
http://religion.propeller.com/story/2007/10/18/...
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Mintyfunk1 year, 8 months ago
I believe the Democrats inability to push legislation past him makes him relevant. He got what he wanted in terms of Telecom protections in the FISA bill, He stopped the expansion of SCHIP beyond it's manadate while offering a compromise that would increase funding to the program, just not at the levels favored by Democrats, and it looks like they won't be able to overturn that veto. Seems pretty relevant to me.
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PapaWolf1 year, 8 months ago
Mintyfunk
>>He stopped the expansion of SCHIP beyond it's manadate while offering a compromise that would increase funding to the program, just not at the levels favored by Democrats,
The bill sent to him WAS a compromise. It was much less than the Democrats wanted and much more than the Republicans wanted. THAT is why it had bipartisan support. This is a DEMOCRACY!!!! When 2 opposing ideas are discussed & modified to give something to both sides, that's what we want congress to do. Dipsht W comes in and says "All my way or nothing."
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Daylight1 year, 8 months ago
Well he needs to remind his people on and off because of popularity.
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jordan111 year, 8 months ago
Of course there's a "lot of unfinished business!" Neocons have sat on their asses for more than a decade and accomplished nothing. Democrats have barely had this majority for 10 months, & are thwarted at every turn by Senate Filibusters. Who does the fool think he's telling? Americans know why business is unfinished. And no amount of trying to heap their failures onto democrats is going to work....with people who use their brains, anyway.
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gamahuche1 year, 8 months ago
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned "Bush on Torture" yet.
Below find obfuscation of the first order.
I'll just quote the exchange. I'm too busy tearing my hair out to do much more than that - anyway it speaks for itself, even if he doesn't..
Comment below is also from the WP article.
"QUESTION: What's your definition of the word torture?
"BUSH: Of what?
"QUESTION: The word torture, what's your definition?
"BUSH: That's defined in U.S. law, and we don't torture.
"QUESTION: Can you give me your version of it, sir?
"BUSH: No. Whatever the law says."
Bush has consistently refused to say what he means when he says "we don't torture," rendering the phrase essentially meaningless. Saying "whatever the law says" doesn't clear things up at all. It just means that if we do it, his lawyers have found a way not to call it torture.
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not2needy1 year, 8 months ago
A terrible thing for him to 'veto' SCHIP so he can insure his relevancy, all the while demanding 190 billion more for his war, with at the very least 9 billion missing from the previously issued war funding.
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joey-evans1 year, 8 months ago
Hmmmm, I wonder where are mr relevent's apologists?
Normally, this thread would be infested with shrub's neocants lemmings falling over each other to defend this idiot and his failures not only as president, but as a man.
They all must be attending a church revival handling snakes and faith healing for profit.
JOEY EVANS
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willottica1 year, 8 months ago
Okay... so Bush himself is (although not directly) saying that we should impeach him. Okay, it's a stretch... but one of the main arguments against impeachment is that he's irrelevant - he'll be gone in a year anyway.
Obviously because 'The Decider' has 'decided' that he's relevant, he is. Therefore, it's time to treat him as relevant and kick his sorry @ss out of the Oval Office.
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Beau78901 year, 8 months ago
It's like he's daring us to try to impeach him so he can drop a nuke on Iran to prove how relevant he is.
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BravoSierra1 year, 8 months ago
I can't imagine why I'm posting this here...Self-Defeating Personality Disorder is diagnosed with five of the following:
1. Chooses people and situations that lead to disappointment, failure, or mistreatment even when better options are clearly available...starts wars rather than using effective diplomacy
2. Rejects or renders ineffective the attempts of others to help him or her..rejects all advice, even of trusted family friends like James Baker.
3. Following positive personal events (e.g., new achievement), responds with depression, guilt, or a behavior that produces pain - gets elected starts a war.
4. Incites angry or rejecting responses from others and then feels hurt, defeated, or humiliated...says he's misunderstood and history will vindicate him despite having such low satisfaction ratings.
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BravoSierra1 year, 8 months ago
5. Rejects opportunities for pleasure, or is reluctant to acknowledge enjoying himself or herself (despite having adequate social skills and the capacity for pleasure). ???
6. Fails to accomplish tasks crucial to his or her personal objectives despite demonstrated ability to do so, e.g., helps fellow students write papers, but is unable to write his or her own...tells everyone how to run their countries but has screwed up all his own business ventures.
7. Is uninterested in or rejects people who consistently treat him or her well. I don't think there are many of those left...
8. Engages in excessive self-sacrifice that is unsolicited by the intended recipients of the sacrifice...Claims he is enduring the slings and arrows of our disregard to save us from ourselves
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AbuAmirah1 year, 8 months ago
This dumb ass will be relevant for f'n forever. Because that's how long it will take to fix his f_ck up's.
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afoaf1 year, 8 months ago
FTA: Bush said that "now it's time to put politics aside and seek common ground."
See...he's a uniter, not a divider.
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hamy1 year, 8 months ago
Uh huh? Yeah! NOW he wants to try and say something about uniting us. What about the last 7 years of purposefully and successfully dividing us in half? Huh? What about that Georgie?
He and Rove pushed every non-important splitting issue to the political forefront and NOW he wants us to put our politicial differences aside.
Idiot.
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BravoSierra1 year, 8 months ago
This one is so funny I don't know which way to vote on it... He comes around to everything a couple years to late. He's the guy who laughs at the punch line to a joke 3 days late because he just got it...
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Poulenc1 year, 8 months ago
Relevant to what? Or to whom?
Pathetic; but also a recognition that something is slip-sliding away. Which is the first good news, even by implication, that we've had from him. That is, it indicates a...pulse in re reality.
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