ramblings on bushie

[katekat]

does it bother anyone else that most of the time, when Bush gives press conferences, he sounds like he's being heckled to death and barely restraining the need to whine?  As if he wishes the reporters would just shut up because he doesn't have all the answers and as if he's the one being put upon?   I listened to some questions posed to him from a snippet of an NPR news conference, and it's something that's always bothered me about him.  The moment he gets a tough question he sounds like he's stuck between an whine and a temper tantrum.

For more in interesting Bushy crap, read what Amy's Robot said about his neo-New Deal.  And gods are they right.  We're about to get a whole new domestic agenda shoved down our collective throats, funded with NOTHING (or promises of more budget cuts in other areas -- what other areas can be cut exactly?  Oh, maybe the war?  I don't know of any other domestic program that *can* be cut, since they've all been screwed for the last four years on Bush's time anyway).  Oh, no, PRIVATE INDUSTRY will swoop in and save the day.  Because that's worked *so* well before.

From Amy's Robot:
Up to now, neo-conservatism has been defined by its foreign policy agenda. Its domestic agenda -- to the extent that it even exists -- has been the subject of much less attention. However, just as 9/11 gave the neo-conservatives the chance to apply their ideas to the real world, I believe that Katrina will offer them a similar opportunity to shape and apply their domestic agenda.  [read the rest here]

Comments

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm at the point where I'm speechless. Did you read the post where the lights all came on in the FQ for Bush's speech? And gee whiz, went out an hour after he left.

I'm used to being out of the mainstream, but I sure hope mainstream America is getting this--- we have an incompetent idiot in charge.

Sigh. Kinda ticked off tonight.

[katekat]

i completely understand - there are times when i'm afraid to listen to the news because i know it's going to drive me up the wall - it's only as i've become more politically aware over the years (and more politically frustrated) that i find myself understanding that stupid boy impulse to punch the wall.

[dara-starscream.livejournal.com]

Domestic policy? We have a domestic policy?

Unless it has to do with the fucked-up hero shit Bushie-poo's got goin on where Iraq is concerned, our President could care less. And the establishment is letting him get away with it for their own benefit.

Hey, you know that recession we're not having? Here it comes. And it's brining a party.
-BJ

[katekat]

Yeah, well, I think the domestic policy was that the country would take care of itself as long as he spent more on the military and less on education. You know, cuz that's always worked.

And yeah, I'm wondering if the recession's going to give way to a crash soon. I mean, the entire country seems like it's on the verge of going up in flames sometimes... tetering on the edge....

[elizabuffy.livejournal.com]

Totally agree with you. Dad and I were just discussing this tonight at dinner, even.

Now, onto important matters: how are you?! I love seeing Kate posts!

*snuggles you*

~e!

[katekat]

I'm good!! Neil's parents are coming this weekend (arrive tomorrow) so I'm trying to motivate to do homework (can you tell how great that's going) because they're here from Saturday - Tuesday... and I have a paper due on Tuesday. *shudder* I may pull an all nighter or something.

How are YOU?

*snuggles you back*

[elizabuffy.livejournal.com]

Awk! Oh god! that sucks so, so much. *snuggles you*

I wouldn't recommend an all-nighter on monday night, tho'...tuesdays are hard enough already :(

I'm doing well...just got back from butte. bought a wireless router! yay! will let you know if that works. cell phone they sent me was defective, so i'm still phoneless *pouts*

mum's out of town...'til sunday, so it's just me and dad and sassy.

~e!

[pixelleate.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the links. I do think that the Bush admin. is going to use this as an excuse to shape a very scarey conservative agenda. We should all be afraid.

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, it's always been one of my main reasons for disliking Bush: he never seemed to go beyond the whole "but I'm right" thing. His response to everything seems to say "but why would you think that?"

I often feel it's a mistake not to elect a lawyer, to be honest. Lawyers may be devious little things but they're often required to argue a point of view they may not agree with, to understand another side's argument and to compromise. Bush is a businessman (ahem) and in that world tagging on the line "but I understand why people think this won't work" is really not a plus point: slogging away selling your idea/product even when common wisdom says you're wrong is seen as strength of character, not pig-headed madness.

On the other hand, Tony Blair was a lawyer, so maybe it's not that good an argument.

- laphroaig
http://boringman.blogspot.com