Call Me a Bush-Hater - Molly Ivins is pissed!

[WatchWhatISay]

www.progressive.org/nov03/ivin1103.html

By now, quite a few people who aren't even liberal are starting to say, "Wha the hey?" We got no Osama, we got no Saddam, we got no weapons of mass destruction, the road map to peace in the Middle East is blown to hell, we're stuck in this country for $87 billion just for one year and no one knows how long we'll be there. And still poor Mr. Krauthammer is hard-put to conceive how anyone could conclude that George W. Bush is a poor excuse for a President.

Chuck, honey, it ain't just the 2.6 million jobs we've lost: People are losing their pensions, their health insurance, the cost of health insurance is doubling, tripling in price, the Administration wants to cut off their overtime, and Bush was so too little, too late with extending unemployment compensation that one million Americans were left high and dry. And you wonder why we think he's a lousy President?

[tridim]

1. How DARE she speak the truth!

Molly needs to watch her back, for the goon squad cometh.

[CBHagman]

2. Given that the Washington Post...

...continually publishes Richard Cohen opinion pieces on how darn likeable Schwarzenegger and Bush are, and given that they ran a Howard Kurtz article on hatred of Bush, with ample quotations from "experts" like Laura Ingraham (!) on how wrong the haters were, it's high time Moll testified. Tell 'em, Sister Molly!

[ewagner]

3. Wouldn't it be great

to see Molly take on Ann Coulter?

[achildleftbehind]

4. Too good for Coulter

Molly Ivins probably wouldn't even want to dignify her with a debate.

[kstewart33]

5. Molly Ivins at her best

She's on a roll, and I'm enjoying the ride. Go get 'em, Molly!

[lovedems]

6. I saw on television last night that Bu$hco. had put aside millions

of dollars to talk to children about the values of marriage! I am married and not against it but how many children will people be "talking" to who come from single parent households that will somehow feel cheated? It is a part of the faith based initiative and it was in interview with a congressman from Penn. Granted, it was on the local catholic channel but I found it interesting that the person conducting the interview was against government being involved in religion. My point is millions of dollars are set aside for things a hell of alot less important than marriage values. Millions of americans are left high and dry and this administration doesn't give two shits.

[cosmicdot]

7. "...what do we get? ...

... Hell's own conservative and dick for compassion."

His entire first eight months was tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts for the rich, and he lied and said the tax cuts would help average Americans. Again and again, the "average" tax cut would be $1,000. That means you get $100, and the millionaire gets $92,000, and that's how they "averaged" it out. Then came 9/11, and we all rallied. Ready to give blood, get out of our cars and ride bicycles, whatever. Shop, said the President. And more tax cuts for the rich.

By now, we're starting to notice Bush's bait-and-switch. Make a deal with Ted Kennedy to improve education and then fail to put money into it. Promise $15 billion in new money to combat AIDS in Africa (wow!) but it turns out to be a cheap con, almost no new money. Bush comes to praise a job training effort, then cuts the money. Bush says AmeriCorps is great, then cuts the money. Gee, what could we possibly have against this guy? We go along with the war in Afghanistan, and we still don't have bin Laden.

Then suddenly, in the greatest bait-and-switch of all time, Osama bin doesn't matter at all, and we have to go after Saddam Hussein, who had nothing to do with 9/11. But he does have horrible weapons of mass destruction, and our President "without doubt," without question, knows all about them, even unto the amounts--tons of sarin, pounds of anthrax. So we take out Saddam Hussein, and there are no weapons of mass destruction. Furthermore, the Iraqis are not overjoyed to see us.

... and, in a fund-rasier in Alabama, they sprung to their feet cheering his rhetoric ...

"The enemy in Iraq believes America will run," Mr Bush said. "That's why they're willing to kill innocent civilians, relief workers, coalition troops. America will never run. America will do what is necessary to make our country more secure."

Mr Bush did not take questions from reporters. He glared at one reporter who, not observing the usual protocol, shouted as Mr Bush walked from Air Force One to his limousine: "How long will US troops be in Iraq?"

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/04/1067708209058.html

"He's phenomenal," said Jeremy Sauder, standing only 10 yards from Bush.
http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031103/APN/311030856

Oh, he's 'phenomenal' alright, Jeremy.
His trip to Alabama raked in nearly $2 million, and you were part of the backdrop.

Speech at CraneWorks
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031103/dcm052_1.html

[izzie]

8. Really good.

she can say it all

[dad]

9. F yah

I've gotta buy her book next.
PS
Michael Moore's book rules .

[Wetzelbill]

10. I'd marry Molly Ivins

Decades apart in the age category, but, wow, that woman is awesome.

[Myra]

15. I'd marry her too, and I'm a straight woman

But I'd have to insist that Jon Stewart
sleep between us. It'd be in the prenup.

[hippywife]

11. Funny

I heard her talking on NPR this weekend and she said she didn't hate him at all...just his policies. They went to different high schools but had mutual friends and he's a real affable guy...on and on like that.

[glitch]

12. I heard her say he has a good heart.

:puke:

[Manix]

13. Give 'em hell Molly!!

She speaks the truth.

[alapolitical]

14. I am very ashamed that my fellow Alabamians buy into the Bush lie so much.

[Patty]

16. a little over the top

Oh, I stretch memory way back, so far back, all the way back to--our last President.
Well, not exactly. My GOP friends say that it started with Nixon (drumming him out of office) and that we liberals were pretty nasty to Reagan. Have to admit that they have a point.

Your basic liberal--milk of human kindness flowing through every vein, and heart bleeding over everyone from the milk-shy Hottentot to the glandular obese--is pretty much a strikeout on the hatred front.
;-) LOL Molly cracks me up. We give as good as we get. That's what the game is all about. I refuse to think of myself as handicapped!

[schmalvern]

17. Gotta love Molly...

This is one of the best summaries I've read. I'm going to forward this to my conservative associates. And Molly may be more of a grown-up than me, but I'm sorry, I hate him!