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AM Feed - May 23: Three Years Later, Bush Tries to Change Tone on Iraq

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• Yesterday President Bush delivered a speech in Chicago on the Iraq War in which he repeatedly described progress as “incremental.” This represents a marked shift in language for the White House, which has long favored hyperbole: President Bush’s favorite descriptive phrase has been that “Freedom is on the march.” Apparently now it’s only marching “incrementally.” After his speech, Bush took questions from the audience, although he failed to answer when one woman blurted, “What about the weapons of mass destruction?” [link]
• The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has failed to release reports on security updates to Congress, even though many were due as long ago as 2003, according to two Democratic House members who sit on the committee that oversees DHS. Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Kendrick Meek (D-FL) wrote in a letter that, “The American people deserve more from the Department of Homeland Security than missed deadlines, especially when our nation’s security is at risk.” In all, 118 security plans involving mass transit, trains, aviation, ports and borders have not been released on time. [link]

Quote of the Day

The following is an excerpt from an interview between NBC White House Correspondent David Gregory and President Bush, aired on 5/19:

DAVID GREGORY: Let me ask you about your leadership. In the most recent survey, your disapproval rating is now one point lower than Richard Nixon’s before he resigned the presidency. You are laughing.

PRES. BUSH: I’m not laughing…

GREGORY: Why? Why do you think that is?

BUSH: Because we are at war, and war unsettles people. Listen, we got a great economy. We’ve added 5.2 million jobs in the last two and a half years. People are unsettled.

GREGORY: But they’re not just unsettled sir. They disapprove of the job you’re doing.

BUSH: That’s unsettled.

Morning Snark

• If Bush was really sticking to his talking points, he would have told David Gregory that progress on his approval rating was “incremental.”

1. Unbelievable!! Laughable!! Is there anything the Bush Administration has done that was done right? And he still has an approval rating in the 20’s???? Who ARE these people, unwavering in their obstinacy that they continue to support him? What a dismal testament to our citizenry and woe to our beloved country to have such a man at the helm for another 2 years.
   — jen    May 23, 11:06    #
2. We’ll have Bush for another 2 years and 9 months, Jen – but I sure can understand the temptation to round that number down to 2. It is said that Bush has 2 core constituencies: millionaires and fools. But, isn’t it amazing that despite the Stalinist-style propaganda disseminated by almost all of the media, over 70% aren’t buying the regressives’ talking points and issue-framing?
   — John    May 23, 11:16    #
3. John, the Russian people knew how to read Pravda at odd angles and obliquely to divine the truth within the Soviet propaganda. For instance, if it was reported that Ukraine had a bumper crop of wheat, we knew that a famine was occuring there. Everybody knew they were being lied to so the propaganda lost all of its power to misdirect, deceive and otherwise fool the masses.
   Jen, in any society there is a percentage, around 25%, of people who will bow and scrape and fawn and operate in full-servile mode to leaders, all leaders, under any conditions, at all times. They are society’s weak and corrupt. You can see that Bush has just about lost all support from the other 75%. Cheney has managed to achieve the statistically improbable, that is, he has dipped well below that rock-bottom of 25%.
   — Countess Sofia Belinskaya    May 23, 11:31    #
4. For those 25% that Sofia talks of I would say, “Sure you can trust your government – just ask an Indian!”
   — Healing Bear    May 23, 11:33    #
5. Give Bush an inch, and he thinks he’s a ruler!
   — Teekleman    May 23, 11:35    #
6. Jen, that 25% are the ones that should go to Jail with him when he’s prosecuted. He is without a doubt the most lying SOB we have had in the White House in a century and that includes Nixon. Nixon knew he was lying but Bushka doesn’t seem to know or care. After all we are his subjects and he doesn’t owe us anything.
   — Rosalie Stern    May 23, 14:16    #
7. Rosalie, did you hear that Rep. Conyers is now backing away from saying Bush should be impeached, but only investigated? The Dems never fail to cower when confronted, do they?
   — John    May 23, 14:36    #
8. I won’t justify Conyers backing down, but it would be impossible to get Articles of Impeachment passed until after the election.Maybe we all have to work to change Congress and then Petition Congress for Impeachment.
   — Rosalie Stern    May 23, 18:02    #
9. The same people that approve of the job Bush is doing also believe the world is flat.
   — Judge    May 23, 23:54    #
10. The important thing about changing Congress is stopping Bush from getting rubber stamp approval of so many of his activities, and being able to actually investigate some of the things that need investigation. He needs to be weakened to the point where he can do no more harm. The possibility of impeachment may be emotionally satisfying, but (a) wouldn’t come until after investigations anyway and (b) wouldn’t accomplish much, if it made Cheney president. Now, if Cheney gets impeached as well… Who would be speaker of the house if the Dems are in control?
    — S.    May 24, 02:31    #
11. S is right; impeaching Bush would only put Cheney in charge! We would not want Cheney to be President either. The chances of a double impeachment, not going to happen. We do need to change the face of Congress this next election. Checks and balances must be restored.
    — jen    May 24, 06:44    #
12. I can only sum it up one way:
    Bush is an idiot and the people that voted for him TWICE are even bigger idiots.
    
    I know that’s not nice or clever or diplomatic, but I just don’t know how else to word it.
    
    WAKE UP AMERIKA !!!!!!!! Do you want to live in a world like this? Do you want to grow old in a country, a world, where poor people are hated by those in power? Where old people are useless and just not much of a consideration unless someone can make money off of them? Where if you are not a christian you have to pretend to be one or you won’t be able to get a job? Where the air is not breathable and the water is fouled and only available to the rich?
    Oh but we got our ipods and cable and budwiser don’t we?
    
    What a great world we have created, eh?
    — MO    May 24, 09:45    #
13. Please stress the math on our national debt. It is now costing over $one billion per day for interest alone—called “debt service”. America would have to export $hundreds of billions more than we import annually just to pay interest on this dangerous national debt. Even scarier: We are borrowing much of this money from China, and the deficits as well as the accumulated debt are growing by the minute!
    — Ron Carpenter    May 24, 19:00    #
14. I’ve never been embarassed to think what others in other countries think of Americans…I hope they are realizing with all the press about the approval polls that there are millions of us who have hated this bastard from the start, and that more Americans feel this way. I fear for this country, and I fear for my 17 year old son, who will be living with me in Canada if someone doesn’t stop this administration.
    — julie burgess    May 25, 09:37    #
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