Boy did he bristle over "unchecked power"...

[Flubadubya]

When it really hits home, it really hurts, doesn't it Shrubby? He then says the first check is is oath to uphold the law. Yeah, right Mr. Chucklenuts... we really trust your word, don't we... NOT!!!! :grr::puke:

[leftofthedial]

1. AND didn't answer the question

ecept to repeat his lie that he got the approval of Congress.

[Clark2008]

20. Lie or not, Congress can't give him permission to break the law.

The only way unchecked spying on American citizens could be legal is if Congress repealed the Fourth Amendment, which it didn't.

[leftofthedial]

22. yup

unless the Constitution is indeed dead, his goose is cooked

he has confessed to breaking the law

asking your lawyer to tell you it's okay doesn't immunize you

informing congress doesn't immunize you

owning the media doesn't immunize you

this is THE test of whether America truly is dead.

[electropop]

29. Informing 2 members and making them vow secrecy does not make it OK.

In what sense is it Congressional approval to do that? It's like when they defied people to name those who had been spied on under the Patriot Act, knowing full well it would be illegal to answer, and then saying "See, they can't even name one example!" Assholes.

[tabasco]

33. Congress can't repeal constitutional amendments.

Of course, you knew that.

[Marie26]

44. Did you notice how he made the reporter

repeat the question before he answered it? He did the same thing a few days ago when a woman asked him about the false links he made between Iraq & 9/11. This is classic Bush - if you ask him a question that makes him uncomfortable, he will try to make you feel uncomfortable too.

[Prefix]

2. that was the most important question

he didn't quite take the reporter's bait, i.e. trap him into outing himself as a fascist, but the reaction was quite telling.

[newyawker99]

16. Hi Prefix!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

3. Yes, he said the famous, "I reject that!" I want to buy the reporter who

asked it a drink!

Awesome! MKJ

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. *lol* I thought you wanted to buy the reporter, as so many have been

bought and paid for as of late.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

6. I can't afford a reporter, LOL. n/t

MKJ

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. True, they don't come cheap

[yurbud]

10. We should start a market to bid on questions

or pool our bucks and buy a mainstream reporter.

Maybe we should contact the New York Times and ask how much they were paid to pretend Judy Miller was a reporter.

[electropop]

30. I think Judy Miller is cheap

now that she's unemployed. :evilgrin:

[grasswire]

5. who asked that?

I hope someone can ID the asker.

[Prefix]

7. another thread named him- Peter Baker

nm

[killbotfactory]

21. I bet his phone will be tapped shortly

in the interests of national security, of course.

[C_U_L8R]

8. He whiffed the answer...

seems he thinks his oath is an official "check and balance"

the one thing he has totally avoided is speaking about the role of the judiciary.
I assumes that congress gave him permission to wiretap.....
but he need subpoenas... from a court.

Is he deluded or is he deceiving ????

[Flubadubya]

14. Deceiving AND deluded... but in this case

more deceiving than deluded. He certainly is deluded in that he feels he is entitled to unbridled power, but in this case he is trying to make the American people believe a lie... that it was legal for him to engage in domestic spying. He knows better!

[POAS]

11. Unchecked Power? That would be Laura

[insane_cratic_gal]

12. LOL ya you could see his skin

just poke up! The more defensive posture of W I've ever seen. He knows he's a smuck and the American people don't approve.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. ** sees enemies everywhere. What a paranoid little worm.

[alfredo]

15. He's already made it clear he wants uncheaked power.

[opihimoimoi]

18. Germany 1934

[alfredo]

24. he also liked to speak surrounded by military audiences.

He would don military garb for such speeches, but unlike bush, he didn't shirk his duty. He actually fought at the front.

The world is smarter now. I don't think bush can continue his Lebensraum unchecked.

[opihimoimoi]

25. Bush is always smirking, a sign of FOOLING US and getting away with it

To FOOL is to RULE

[alfredo]

26. I want to see that smirk at the Hague.

[opihimoimoi]

28. Me too and perhaps 6 Billion others

[alfredo]

38. He is forcing a constitutional crisis here. He seems sure congress

will not impeach him. If he is not impeached he will have absolute power, he will be "The Dictator." Congress needs to stand up to him.

[opihimoimoi]

39. Delusional Arrogance: as in the past, all those infected surely FAIL

But then, the peeps suffer untold misery because they let it slide too long. Pathetically sad.

[alfredo]

40. I have written my congressman and told him to stand up

against bush or pack his bags.

[opihimoimoi]

45. Bush is too easy, its his Backers, the Pub party that put him there

Its THEY that gatta go....

[alfredo]

46. Why have a congress at all?

[opihimoimoi]

47. I guess its something called JOBS....what would they do? LOL

[alfredo]

48. That's right, they have no marketable skills.

[opihimoimoi]

49. Think of what it would do to the UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS....

[alfredo]

50. Let's see them have to eat day old bread and drink cheap malt liquor.

I want to see them shopping at Shoe Carnival.

[opihimoimoi]

51. Bush would look bad cause the unemployment numbers would go up

He can't have that can he?

So the Pub machine woiuld continue the status quo and keep on bilking the people...making believe they know what they doing when in fact...they don know shit.

[alfredo]

52. What they know doesn't relate to reality

[opihimoimoi]

53. Just enough to get elected/re-elected......thats about it.

only a few actually know whats going on and do the job the best way they know how....they be mostly DEMs.

[alfredo]

55. They are so enamored with the business world, they

tried to apply its rules to government. Business is not democratic, it is totalitarian.

[opihimoimoi]

56. Bush is confirmation/proof/prime example.......him being MBA an all...LOL

answer to : Alfredo

[alfredo]

57. He doesn't even have good experience in business. He'd run a business

into the ground then his daddy's rich buddies would bail him out. No wonder he has faith in the business world.

[opihimoimoi]

58. This guy would go broke selling snow cones in a crowed desert...

[alfredo]

59. Here's the gold standard of trust:

Would you buy a used car from him?

[opihimoimoi]

60. LOL, only the demented or the Lolos would....

[tavalon]

31. Ah yes, you bring to mind my sig line of last year

It's not 2003, it's not even 1984. It's 1934 and I am NOT a good German.

I had them pegged as fascists from mid 2003. I'm sure others here had them pegged from even earlier. It's the sheeple who will hopefully be jolted into recognition.

[opihimoimoi]

43. Some Germans remained Brainwashed even til the Fall...ready to die

till the last man.....such is the power to sway the mind....

[carolinalady]

17. Why are they going to let him get away with it? I am listening to

Feingold and he is saying all the Pres needs to do is come to them and tell them that he needs the law changed, etc. WHY ARE THEY LETTING HIM GET AWAY WITH BREAKING THE LAW?????

HE NEEDS TO BE THROWN OUT (then jailed).

end of :rant:

[ladjf]

23. An ordinary American can be jailed for carrying a couple of

joints while Bush remains in power despite numerous illegal acts.

[loudsue]

27. WHAT IN THE HELL is Feingold THINKING?? Change the LAW?

To allow spying on American citizens?? Feingold needs to go back and read the damned constitution!!! We're (the OWNERS of the Constitution) NOT going to change any such fucking law!!! Don't even go there!!

:kick:

[Wordie]

34. I'm pretty sure that Feingold was saying that *if* there was a problem

the law as it stood, then Bush, rather than breaking the law, should have requested that congress fix the law. He wasn't actually suggesting himself that the law needed changing, only that there was a legal way for Bush to solve any problem that he thought there was with the law.

But that is all academic, as there really wasn't a problem with the law, the problem is with Bush.

[Marie26]

42. They couldn't get it changed

Gonzales admitted in his press conference that they didn't change the FISA law because Congressional leaders told them these changes would not be approved. He said this. So he's basically admitting that if Congress won't change to make it legal, Bush will go ahead and do it anyway.

[Arkana]

19. We know that asshole had his toes crossed when he was taking

the Oath of Office. None of it matters to him--he's an amoral scumbag.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

32. K & R. Favorite thread from the live talk during the press conference.

He got all vaklempt...it was a beautiful thing. MKJ

[Peachhead22]

35. "I am not a dictator"

Nixon, 1973: "I am not a crook"

Bush, Dec. 19, 2005: "I am not a dictator"

[bigtree]

36. From Blah3.com Catapulting the Propaganda

http://blah3.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=927

Bush today:
"To say `unchecked power' basically is ascribing some kind of dictatorial position to the president, which I strongly reject," he said angrily in a finger-pointing answer. "I am doing what you expect me to do, and at the same time, safeguarding the civil liberties of the country."


"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier." Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas. (Governing Magazine 7/98)
http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/2002/10/29_Dictator.html

"I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." CNN.com, December 18, 2000
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."Business Week, July 30, 2001
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jul2001/nf20010730_347.htm

"You Have To Keep Repeating Things To Catapult The Propaganda"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/05/25/BL2005052501250.html

"See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
AUDIO: http://www.newsgateway.ca/Bush_propaganda_quote.htm

[XOKCowboy]

37. The video is on CrooksandLiars

That question really got him. I love his response. To paraphrase, it's OK since I did it. You can trust me. I'm the President.

[shanti]

41. a hit dog squeals first

ain't that the truth, ruth!

[oasis]

54. Chimpy's paranioa set in. His "What you talkin' 'bout Willis?" moment.

I'd love to see that again on the Daily Show.