Bush: Vote doesn't signal U.S. weakness (does a fip-flop0

[rodeodance]

Bush: Vote doesn't signal U.S. weakness

By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent 56 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - After arguing during the campaign that Democrats would undermine national security,
President Bush changed course Saturday and said America's enemies should not read this week's ground-shaking election results as a sign of U.S. weakness.


Four days after voters threw Republicans from power in the House and Senate, Bush used his weekly radio address to issue a call for unity.

"The message of this week's elections is clear: The American people want their leaders in Washington to set aside partisan differences, conduct ourselves in an ethical manner and work together to address the challenges facing our nation," the president said. "This is important work that will demand the hard effort and good faith of leaders from both sides of the aisle, and I pledge to do my part."

With two years remaining in his presidency, Bush is trying to keep the nation focused on the global war on terror and prevent a pullout of U.S. forces from Iraq before victory is achieved.

[LynnTheDem]

1. Rummy stays for the rest of my term...rummy is fired.

A Dem win = weak America...Dem win doesn't mean weak America.

OBL dead or alive...I don't know where he is and I don't really care.

On and on and on and on and on...

And only the stupid freeping rightwingnuts can't see it.

[ljm2002]

4. It is amazing, isn't it...

...how GWB flips and flops but the label never attaches to him.

I do not attribute it to the stupidity of the American people (well, of course, some of them are) so much as to the depredations of a bought and paid for corporate media. After all, most people do not obsess on politics the way that we do here. They get their information from mainstream sources, and they trust those sources, still believing in the fiction of our American Free Press. Most Americans are not aware that our so-called free press is the laughing stock of the world right now. And their trust has been betrayed by a media that cynically propagandizes them and manipulates their opinions shamelessly.

We really do have to figure out how to combat this.

And by the way, I am proud once again that the American people, however belatedly, kicked the Republican bums out in spite of the onslaught of misinformation and downright lies coming at them nonstop for the last 6 years. Good on them / good on us! Here's hoping it is the start of a Blue Wave so big, that the unholy alliance of NeoCons, FuncyCons and XenoCons will die for once and for all, leaving behind a residue of actual conservatives to provide honest opposition.

[L0oniX]

2. Screw that ...keep stomping on the repukes ...no deals ...impeach the chimp

GWChimp: "This is important work that will demand the hard effort and good faith of leaders from both sides of the aisle, and I pledge to do my part."

[frylock]

9. word up -- boot to the neck..

you do not let up on these monsters. Fuck all this bipartisan BS. I want to see orange jumpsuits.

[gulliver]

3. Like our enemies thought it was a sign of weakness.

Bush insults Democrats and everyone's intelligence again. The truth is plain for all to see. Bush's presidency has been a weakness for the United States. Not just weakness, disease.

[rodeodance]

6. even after the election Bush LECTURED to all about their responsibilites

were.

[AzDar]

5. Jeebus, could this duck GET any more lame? n/t

:eyes:

[rodeodance]

7. Media keeps reminding us what Pelosi called Bush but not this(last par):

During the campaign, Bush had particularly harsh words about the Democrats and their commitment to winning the war on terror. For example, the president said in the closing days of the race: "The Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses. That's what's at stake in this election. The Democrat goal is to get out of Iraq. The Republican goal is to win in Iraq."

[Whoa_Nelly]

8. Bush: Voting in Democrats lets the terrorists win--said so Oct. 30 in GA

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061030-4.html

<snip>
Last week, a senator, a Democrat senator explained her party's position this way. She said: We haven't coalesced around a single plan, but we're in general agreement on basic principles. She's right; the agreement -- they are in agreement on one thing -- they will leave before the job is done. That's what they're in agreement on. (Applause.) They've come up with a lot of creative ways to describe leaving Iraq before the job is done. Sometimes they say, immediate redeployment. Sometimes they say they wouldn't spend another dime on our troops. Sometimes they say the idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong. However they put it, the Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses.

You can't unring a bell, Chimpy. :evilgrin:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

10. Have to start calling him Muddy Mudskipper

Flip-floppin' over everything

[Bushies gotta go]

11. Want to talk pure TREASON?

Chimpy gave the "terra-rists" the fuel to come out with that tape. He hand delivered it with all his campaign BS... and now, he's backpedaling. Too late, chimp-boy, you've set America up.

I'll live to see the perp walk, you scumbag.

[Rose Siding]

12. But wait, Jr -Dems don't want to investigate, surveil or even detain terrorists! Remember?-

SELLERSBURG, Ind., Oct. 28 — In an appearance that amounted to his first traditional campaign rally of the election season, President Bush on Saturday told wildly cheering supporters here that Democrats did not want to investigate, prosecute or even detain terrorists and had no plan for Iraq.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/us/politics/29bush.html?ex=1319774400&en=9f7734912a683dbc&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

[TexasLawyer]

13. Bush: Terror Fight Unchanged by Election Results/ VOA

Bush: Terror Fight Unchanged by Election Results
By Scott Stearns
White House
11 November 2006

U.S. President George Bush says America's fight against terrorism will not be affected by this past week's election in which his political party's lost control of Congress. Opposition Democrats vow to continue that fight, but with some changes.


President Bush speaks at the Veterans Days
ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery

On the day Americans set aside to honor their military veterans, President Bush thanked those men and women in uniform for defending freedoms that include the right to choose their leaders at the ballot box, even in a time of war.

After his Republican Party lost control of Congress in Tuesday's vote, Mr. Bush met with leaders of the opposition Democratic Party and vowed to work together. "The elections will bring changes to Washington. But one thing has not changed: America faces brutal enemies who have attacked us before and want to attack us again," said Mr. Bush. "I have a message for these enemies: Do not confuse the workings of American democracy with a lack of American will. Our nation is committed to bringing you to justice, and we will prevail."

In his weekly radio address, the president said he looks forward to hearing from new congressional leaders about their ideas for supporting U.S. troops in the fight against terrorism. He also reflected on the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld who many Democrats and some Republicans blame for what has gone wrong in Iraq.

<snip>

http://voanews.com/english/2006-11-11-voa19.cfm

[HawkerHurricane]

14. One thing changed...

congress might actually start doing things that will help us actually WIN the war against terrorists.

[Demeter]

15. Since We're Not Actually Doing Anything To Fight Terror, That's True

But to imply that he's fighting terror, Bush lies in his teeth.

[SpiralHawk]

16. Translation: "Who cares what you think?....

...this oil war is bringing in beaucoup megabucks for me and my oil and munitions republicon cronies. So you proles can just shut up and sit down." - Commander AWOL


PS - Commander AWOL Loves You.

[daleo]

17. The vote signaled U.S. strength

The strength of reason, that is.

[Heidi]

18. Kick.

:kick:

[OKIsItJustMe]

19. Reuters: Bush signals change in Iraq policy

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-11-11T154646Z_01_IBO132069_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ.xml

Bush signals change in Iraq policy

Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:47 AM ET

By Claudia Parsons

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - President Bush said on Saturday his chosen new defense secretary was an "agent of change" in a sign of the growing momentum for a new direction in Iraq policy after election defeat for Bush's Republicans.

Two car bombs in a Baghdad market killed eight people and Iraqi security forces were the target of several attacks around the country on Saturday as insurgents and sectarian groups kept up the pressure on the Iraqi government and its U.S. backers.

The Pentagon's top general, Peter Pace, has said U.S. military leaders are preparing to recommend changes in Iraq strategy. The Iraq Study Group, led by Bush family friend and former Secretary of State James Baker and former Congressman Lee Hamilton, is also looking at alternative approaches.

...

"He has experience leading large and complex organizations, and he has shown that he is an agent of change," Bush said in a weekly radio address. "He will provide a fresh outlook on our strategy in Iraq, and what we need to do to prevail."

...

[rodeodance]

20. I tire of these 'signals'

[acmavm]

21. This has got to be killing pResident 'Stay the Course'. I bet

life has to be absolutely miserable around the petty pointy earred nasty cretin.

[Igel]

23. Possibly.

But remember ... "stay the course" and "change the course" aren't antonyms. Or at least aren't antonyms for many people, and weren't antonyms until recently.

I'm fairly sure * hasn't committed to the antonym of "stay the course", which is "leave the course before finishing".

[OKIsItJustMe]

25. What!?

Main Entry: 3 stay
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): stayed /'stAd /; also staid /'stAd/; stay·ing
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French estei-, estai-, stem of ester to stand, stay, from Latin stare -- more at STAND
intransitive verb

1. to stop going forward : PAUSE
2. to stop doing something : CEASE
3. to continue in a place or condition : REMAIN <stayed up all night> <went for a short vacation but stayed on for weeks> <stay put till I come back>
4. to stand firm
5. to take up residence : LODGE
6. to keep even in a contest or rivalry <stay with the leaders>
7. to call a poker bet without raising
8. obsolete : to be in waiting or attendance

transitive verb

1. to wait for : AWAIT
2. to stick or remain with (as a race or trial of endurance) to the end -- usually used in the phrase stay the course
3. to remain during <stayed the whole time>
4. a: to stop or delay the proceeding or advance of by or as if by interposing an obstacle : HALT <stay an execution> b : to check the course of (as a disease) c : ALLAY, PACIFY <stayed tempers> d : to quiet the hunger of temporarily

synonym see DEFER

[NOLADEM]

22. Are they gonna change another term?

Last meeting they held resulted in no change in action, but ironically, they would stop saying 'stay the course' even though they weren't going to change course.

:crazy:

What next?

[C_U_L8R]

24. Is he flapping his arms?

[anotherdrew]

26. but condi just said there would be _no changes_ in iraq policy yesterday

I'd guess condi is getting fired within two weeks tops...

[goclark]

29. Condi is his Baby Sitter, she ain't leaving nt

[struggle4progress]

32. But THAT is their exciting new policy: "NO policy changes"!

And now they have a new talking-head to promote it!

[Lindacooks]

27. FLIP FLOP!!!

I hope everybody points this out.

[struggle4progress]

28. "a fresh outlook on .. what we need to do to prevail" means New Soundbites!

Woo hoo ...

[mom cat]

30. A new outlook from an Iran Contra crook? Pleeeeese!

[struggle4progress]

31. Not too excited about new soundbites?

Perhaps I shouda added that sarcasm dingy ...

[mom cat]

34. Naw! It was self evident

[wishlist]

33. Gates also a master manipulator of intelligence to suit political purposes n/ti

[mom cat]

35. This nomination is a good place to start flexing our muscle!