WTF Is It Now?!?

Run away!

Robert Kuttner writes, "Bush's New York speech on corporate accountability was one of the weakest of his presidency. It was long on platitudes, short on structural reforms. The Dow Jones responded to his call for restored confidence in America's financial markets by plunging 189 points. Ever since he took office, Bush's short run political strategy has been to blur differences with Democrats... But America's corporate meltdown is real, and Bush is way behind the curve. It's more than a little ironic that Bush's mandateless presidency was rescued by a foreign policy crisis that is now being upstaged by what could be the most serious economic threat since the Great Depression. For Bush's own rise to fame and fortune in Texas was a small-bore version of the Enron and WorldCom scandals. There is no way that Bush can do a Nixon-to-China on this issue and get back ahead of the curve because Bush's closest cronies epitomize precisely the kind of capitalism that is imploding." (via email from Democrats.com)



LOL - Check out Bushspeak's Bush Speech Generator: "Yes, He Really Did Say All Of These Things!"




Quotes: "[I]t's becoming increasingly difficult to find anyone but the truest I-believe-everything-Ari-Fleischer-says jingoists who actually believes this "war" has become anything but a grand excuse, a marvelously leveragable plaything which the Bush cadre can point to as their very own personal holy shroud, some sort of sacrosanct shield to protect them from criticism and claims of blatant impropriety and selling the nation's soul for pennies on the barrel." - Mark Morford, The San Francisco Chronicle.

"Why didn't Bush address the issue that's at the root of the present corporate mess? Isn't the answer obvious? Like Bush's plan to deal with the Middle East crisis, he's not really interested in solving the problem, he's interested in papering it over until he's out of office, mouthing some vague words about the situation and appealing to a targeted voting base." - Politex, at Bushwatch.




Did he or didn't he? There's a new Dumb-ya story going around the internet: the Baroness Williams of Crosby recently recounted to an audience in Brighton that "my good friend Tony Blair" told her the following anecdote: "Blair, Bush and Jacques Chirac were discussing economics and, in particular, the decline of the French economy. 'The problem with the French,' Bush confided to Blair, 'is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur.' "




Ow !!

"The unelected regime of George W. Bush sits at the supreme position of power in the world, placed there by an extra-legal act of a corrupt, partisan Supreme Court, which accomplished the deed by stopping the counting of votes, the most essential activity of a democratic society. Once in power, Bush proceeded to contemptuously defy the will of the majority at every turn, transparently serving only the interests of the small minority that forks over the cash at election time.

"Prince George, who has said repeatedly that he would prefer being a dictator, and who has forced through legislation that gives him dictatorial power over his subjects, now sits on his would-be throne smirking at America and the world."

- From HeadBlast.