Bush's not-ready-for-primetime players
US News writes a fawning puff POS on the "craftiness" of Buckeroo Bonehead:
George W. Bush says he isn't interested in spin or stagecraft. But that doesn't mean he won't try to outfox the White House press corps as often as he can--as he did at last week's press conference in the Rose Garden, his first solo run in nearly five months. Bush and senior aides, including new press secretary Scott McClellan, had been planning the encounter for weeks, and Bush had gone over possible questions the day before in the Oval Office. (His staff predicted nearly every one.) To leave nothing to chance, the team decided in advance which journalists Bush would call upon and created a crib sheet of their names. And White House officials gave reporters only 90 minutes' notice--a ploy to prevent them from preparing their questions too carefully and generally to keep them off balance. Bush seemed to enjoy the give-and-take, aides say, but America shouldn't expect a repeat performance anytime soon, and certainly not in prime time. Bush thinks those events tend to become media spectaculars in which reporters preen for the television audience and try to play "gotcha" with him.Translation:Idiotic fuckwit Hopalong Noodlehead, looking doped to the gills, finally screwed up enough [Dutch] courage to face the media for the first time in months, the little chickenshit. His panicky nursemaids had been drilling him for weeks, and even put together a cheat sheet of blatantly fawning asslicking toadies for the yellowbellied little snot to call on. Petrified with fear that the situation could still spin out of control, the WH nannies only gave the
Bunnypants blamed for blackouts
18 Aug 03: The Bush administration rushed to defend itself yesterday from accusations that reluctance to upset its friends in the energy industry was to blame for the regulatory chaos leading to last week's massive power blackout across the north-eastern United States and Canada.
The lights may be barely back on and the cause of the electricity failure still subject to preliminary investigation, but that has not prevented finger-pointing from beginning in earnest. And it is the White House - 18 months after dodging a bullet over the collapse of Enron - that is finding itself in the hot seat.
"Just two years ago, [President Bush] and his allies in Congress blocked a Democratic proposal to invest $350m in upgrading America's electrical grid system," said the Florida Senator Bob Graham. "The blackout is further evidence that America needs to invest in its infrastructure." - - Andrew Gumbel, in the Independant.
FirstEnergy, the utility responsible for the downed Ohio lines, said it did not become aware of the problem fast enough because it was too busy writing checks to the republican party.
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