February 13, 2007
Waxing Eloquent
According to the Lovely Laura the President isn't very good at remembering Valentine's Day. He claims to have been otherwise occupied.
Proof from Melinda Henneberger of the Huffington Post.
President Bush said this morning that a full schedule had, alas, so far prevented him from following any of the Congressional debate on the troop escalation in Iraq."In terms of watching the debate, I've got a lot to do," he told C-SPAN. "I've had meetings up until now."
After being apprised that the debate had not actually started yet -- and wouldn't until Tuesday, after yet another delay -- he laughed and said, "I've got a lot to do tomorrow," too, as luck would have it.
I suspect he's just procrastinator.
More cogent quotes from Bush via Melinda -- regarding Poppy:
"I'm more concerned about him than I've ever been in my life," he said, "because he's been paying too much attention to the news" -- perhaps even planning to tune in to the Congressional debate over his son's war.....
And in the delusional category:
When asked what images "Bush Republican" might summon for future generations ....."Compassionate conservatism" was his legacy, he declared, and referred to the faith-based initiatives we haven't heard much about in subsequent years. "I made a name by being compassionate."
It's really been rolling off his tongue this week.. BBC News reports:
Democrats say they see parallels with the run-up to the Iraq war, when the US made a case for action on the basis of weapons which were never found.But Mr Bush dismissed such speculation of an attack as "noise" by his critics.
"I guess my reaction to all the noise about, you know, 'he wants to go to war', is first of all I don't understand the tactics, and I guess I would say it's political," he told CSPAN television.
From ABC News:
"The Iranian people are good, honest, decent people and they've got a government that is belligerent, loud, noisy, threatening a government which is in defiance of the rest of the world and says, 'We want a nuclear weapon,'" Bush said. "So our objective is to keep the pressure so rational folks will show up and say it's not worth the isolation."
As they say on the playground - takes one to know one.
Hey what about all us rational folks who keep showing up right right under Bush's nose? I fear we are expendable
Photo note: A primitve man with a hole in his head to match his big mouth.
Posted by Dakota at February 13, 2007 06:15 AM