If anyone is wondering why Karen Hughes is MIA

[burythehatchet]

Hughes' office has room to improve

A new feature of the administration's proposed budget for 2007 is a Web site, www.expectmore.gov, that tracks how various government programs are performing.

Buried amid the welter of things that mainly concern efficiency geeks is an item of political interest: a program judged as "not performing" is the office of public diplomacy at the State Department.

The office is the operation headed up by Karen Hughes, Bush's longtime communications adviser, who joined the State Department last year to help improve the country's image abroad, particularly among Muslims.

Hughes' tenure at the State Department has been short and bumpy.

:rofl:Looks like Ms. Hughes should devote more time to her family.

[emulatorloo]

1. I saw her fingerprints all over the SOTU

all that "achievment" nonsense, etc

I think they are reeling Karen in so she can promote Bushboy with her "PR skills"

[madame defarge]

8. Maybe not...

Check out this article from the New Yorker about Michael Gerson, then President Bush’s chief speechwriter in the New Yorker. This is the guy who is putting the words in George's mouth and truly beleives what he writes. It's a little scary...

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060213fa_fact1
THE BELIEVER
George W. Bush’s loyal speechwriter.
by JEFFREY GOLDBERG

[yurbud]

2. or she's back at the White House, covering for Karl on his legal problem

days

[donco6]

3. Or maybe they've hit the PR "brick wall."

There's only so much PR can do. Once people are on to your lies, there's no amount of PR that will help.

I guess I'm saying it's not her fault the Repigs are all so horribly stupid.

[tsuki]

4. Uppity woman. She should be chained to the stove. n/t

[EFerrari]

6. I don't think the stove would agree. n/t

[burythehatchet]

7. No. Incompetent woman whose talent is lying and spinning

She was lat shuttled out of the WH to spend time with family.

[rodeodance]

12. her talent is 4 letter sentences conjured up for Bush

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. I LOVED the women who stood up to her, YELLED at her...

...CHALLENGED her and asked "How dare you tell us how to live OUR lives?"

It appears that many of the people on Karen's "U.S.A. is A-OK" tour really DO love their "freedoms," particularly their freedom of speech when an overbearing hack tries to ram her tired ideology down their throats.

Say goodnight, Karen.



:scared:

:evilgrin:

[rodeodance]

11. yuk that pic is sickening!

[Olney Blue]

30. Why do you hate stoves?

:)

[emulatorloo]

31. Karen Hughes' LYING BS is not a Feminist Issue

JMHO

[rodeodance]

5. so, she is busy writing measurable 'performance outcomes" teh

......She returned to Washington and was sworn in as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy in September.

The new Web site includes her office's plans for improving its performance.

[rodeodance]

10. see this DU thread. a post says see was spotted Thrus. nite.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=392697&mesg_id=392697

[Fridays Child]

13. Something about that woman is unsettling, disturbing...

I've never been able to put my finger on it, though. She's not terribly unattractive or anything like that. But there's something...maybe it's that her eyes don't convey any humanity. I mean, take Condi. She looks angry all the time but at least there's some expression in her eyes. Rove's eyes convey a sense of extreme pleasure, even if it is with himself for his nefarious plots. Cheney looks plain mean and hateful. Karen just looks empty behind those beady little eyes of hers.

[burythehatchet]

15. I know what you mean

its just her facial expressions, the persed lips, that give me the heebee-geebies. But not as disguisting as shrub's other nanny, Condi, and definitely not as despicable as Mary Matalin.

[Fridays Child]

17. You gotta wonder what happens when the ugliest...

Democratic activist and the ugliest Republican activist get together. I mean has anyone ever actually seen the kids of James Carville and Mary Matalin?

(Note: I love the "Ragin' Cajun" but, damn, he's uglier than the north end of a southbound bull.)

[mitchum]

21. Very fortunate for Carville and Matalin's brats that they will inherit...

lots of $$$$$$$$$
They will be able to afford a sex life

[burythehatchet]

19. NOT FAIR...PLEASE ISSUE WARNING

[Fridays Child]

22. She should also do something about that goiter.

Her neck looks like it's about to pop.

(Sorry about the pic. That was mean.) :spank:

[Olney Blue]

20. Anyone who could come out and defend Shrub after those miserable

debate performances is a delusional, desperate hack.

And our federal taxes are paying her salary- :banghead:

[I Have A Dream]

24. I agree. I can't really figure out what bothers me about her...

but I always recoil from her pictures.

[mwb970]

33. I agree.

It puts my teeth on edge to look at her. She's so ungainly, like something that would stomp around an art museum licking the paintings.

[Olney Blue]

14. She's a henhawk.

She got skeered when she saw the reality of the hatred in the Middle East.

[burythehatchet]

16. "henhawk" - heh heh - she certainly laid a bunch of eggs

on her freedom tour.

[susu369]

18. She's ALIVE, she's ALIVE

06/February/middleeast_February390.xml§ion=middleeast&col=

Top US imagemaker to visit UAE, Qatar
(AFP)

12 February 2006

WASHINGTON — Karen Hughes, the US administration’s top imagemaker, will visit Qatar and the UAE in the Gulf and Germany on February 17-22, the State Department said on Friday.

Hughes, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs and a close adviser to President George W. Bush, will travel first to Qatar, where she will participate in a forum on the United States and the Muslim world organised in Doha on February 18.

She also is scheduled to visit the UAE amid a Muslim outcry over the Western publication of the blasphemous cartoons.

==snip==

[KittyWampus]

27. She's probably working the PR to start the war with Iran

I wonder if the WHIGs or their staff were in contact with the editor of that Danish newspaper.

[Supersedeas]

32. does she have a flowery speech full of vagaries to appease Muslim protests

[Lefty48197]

23. Thanks to Karen's hard work, Muslims worldwide now love the USA

Hughesie, you're doin' a heck of a job.

[Dr. Jones]

25. We should all embrace Karen Hughes...

she's yet another example of how incompetent people are put in positions of power by incompent people (Bush specifically). Just like how Gonzo the other day brilliantly informed the American people that former Presidents such as George Washington, etc. have legally authorized the use of electronic evesdropping on U.S. Citizens.

The question is, will the Dems be SMART about this and use it to their advantage, i.e., shout it from the rooftops that this administration is run by incompetents hiring incompetents.

[Cleita]

26. I really hope the Democrats throw the gauntlet down this time

and get down and dirty with the GOP. They should throw all their stupidity, ignorance and incompetence in their faces, not only once but over and over until they can't spin answers and lies anymore.

[Dr. Jones]

28. My sentiments exactly!

That's precisely what they need to do.

[burythehatchet]

29. I always got the feeling that they created this office so the

"girls" could travel and have some fun.

[Tulum_Moon]

34. Maybe Dick shot her.

On accident of course.
Stop scarring me with those pictures. I just woke up.