Bush: "There's excitement in our economy!"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Sound bite from MSNBC a few moments ago from Bush:

"The economy is growing! People are finding work! There's EXCITEMENT in our economy!"

He was looking pretty frantic while mouthing these words.

Is it possible to combine "arrogance" and "whining," or are they mutually exclusive? I'm having a hard time labeling this one.

[ewagner]

1. He meant to say "panic"

forgive him

He gets excitement and panic confused all the time.

[NeonLX]

4. or maybe he meant "excrement"...

...that's what seems to be dribbling out of his mouth, or whatever that thing is that moves whenever you hear his voice...

[havocmom]

12. excitement / excrement Easy mistake for shrub to make (n/t)

[SoCalDem]

26. You took the words right out of my... eeew

well you know what I meant :)

[laylah]

28. My first thought!

Great minds think alike :bounce:

Jenn

[lcordero]

2. Lol

he says that after Greenspan slapped Wall Street.

[burrowowl]

3. Oh!

I thought he said: excrement in our economy.
My bad

[NeonLX]

6. Ha! Great minds think alike?

Looks like we agree here.

[lovedems]

5. Well, I am glad he is feeling it because the average american isn't.

Is it exciting to read the newspapers everyday and see another plant closing, thousands of layoffs, job loss outnumbering job creation? He is such a fool.

[NormanConquest]

7. He meant "excrement" nt

[mhr]

8. Out Of Work 43 Months Here, I'd Sure Like To Find That Excitement!

eom

[Rockholm]

27. Three Months Here

[calimary]

31. Welcome to DU!

[madrchsod]

9. manic panic

the lay-offs and plant closing just keeps going on and on. job growth? it`s called replacement..hiring workers for those who have retired ,fired , quit or they have a job at the expensive of someone else-business moved. there`s no increase of production above the pre bush years and no new factories being built that will hire hundreds of people. i hope little georgie was happy when condi told him the good news

[callous taoboy]

10. Sure, I'm so excited

about losing my health benefits this year due to state budget cutbacks. Found a couple of bucks in a pair of pants I was about to wash. Got real excited.

[Hubert Flottz]

19. Those guys always call it other things than what it is, for instance:

Gassing & Burning = Resettlement!

Weapons Of Mass Destruction = Baby Milk!

Restoring Dignetude to the White House = Grand Theft!

Election 2000 = Grander Theft!

[Sophree]

11. He means Excitement in his pants!

From the lovely "Scott" from Canada. :loveya:

[Hubert Flottz]

13. "IT'S THE STUPID ECONOMY!"

Kenny boy and Cheney keep telling Shrub how good things are for them and he knows things are going great for him and his Daddy! So thinks he is telling the truth! It's another honest oversight like the WMD thing that's all!

Ask Kon-die what he means she speaks his longo!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

14. Brokaw in S.C.: "The economy is issues #1 through 10 here"

Another MSNBC quote, a few moments ago, from Tom Brokaw in reference to tonight's Dem candidate debate. He mentioned the 50,000 textile jobs lost in S.C. as simply the tip of the iceberg.

People are pissed off, people are unemployed, people are feeling betrayed people are excited about a Air Force One making a one-way trip to Crawford.

[rumguy]

17. but we know Bush will continue to eat beef

thank god, where would we be without Bush's consumption of beef?

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

43. Maybe he's got early symptoms

of Mad Cow disease. It would explain a lot.

[mrdmk]

15. Doesn't anybody here trust Our Selected President?

Just asking!

Bring on the flames :nuke:

[OneTwentyoNine]

38. Yeah,I trust that he'll screw this country up even more in 10 months..eom

[hatrack]

16. The only excitement I've seen in the past week was in IA and NH

And I have to admit, I liked the excitement I saw!

[mike1963]

18. Yeah, there's lots of excitement just up the road in Bristow, OK

http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0104/122331.html

[hatrack]

22. Man, that's really EXCITING, mike1963!

But the excitement we feel here is nothing compared to that now being felt in Bristow, Oklahoma!!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

23. Lots of joy in Tennessee, too

Teaser for Lou Dobbs tonight on CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

"Join us for our series of special reports, "Exporting America." We take a look at a rural Appalachian community with a population of 7,000 people. This small Tennessee town has a 15.5 percent jobless rate, and has been struggling since OshKosh started shipping apparel jobs to Mexico and Honduras in the mid 1990s. The plant supported 1,600 jobs, and now less than 20 people work there. We have the story."

You might want to e-mail your Bristow story and comments to Dobbs:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?9

He's become a real whistle-blower for this kind of crap. More people need to know about the lives that are being destroyed.

[mike1963]

24. Good tip. Thanks.

:-(

[Lisa]

20. there's one terrible cheerleader!

Boy, that's the kind of talk that depresses consumer confidence. Anybody watching for the "piehole effect" today?

[hatrack]

21. 790 people in Topeka tasted that excitement this morning

I'd be willing to bet that they're not just excited, they're optimistically excited!!!

[Skidmore]

25. Now that has the makings of a good start to a commercial

...that quote and pictures of all the excitement we're having out here. Is your job secure? Can you afford medical care and/or health and life insurance? Can you afford to send your kids to college any longer? Can your local school afford textbooks or building repairs or teachers? Are your local roads getting repaired?

Yeah, we're excited!!

[loftycity]

29. Excited for the new job he will have in 2005!!!

Yeah, He is real excited ...he gets to go and finish his 18 months of service!
President Clark can order him to finish what he started.
Yes! And we all will be so proud ...Europe will be too!!!
And to top it off...since he has has not traveled much....he can go to Baghdad and work the front and hunt for land mines.
Then he can fantasize all day about the Jackpot of WMDs he's going to find!

[K8-EEE]

30. I'm SOOOO Excited!

It's so thrilling to see the rich get richer.

Woohoo!

[hatrack]

32. Was this on his dog-in-the-manger New Hampshire trip?

I'm sure he had lots of other pearls of wisdom for the unemployed, the underemployed and the soon-to-be-downsized.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

34. Yes, he helped make some peanut butter truffles...

...in a local chocolate shop, then bought a FULL POUND of chocolates for $20!

WOW!!! It's almost like he's "one of us!" The other day he bought ribs, today chocolates!

He stimulated the New Hampshire economy! Everywhere he goes, stimulation follows. I hate to admit it, but I'm kind of stimulated just by typing this.

MORE GOOD NEWS:

"Medicare and Deficit Estimates Revised Upward"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,109869,00.html

A special exciting quote from the article:

"President Bush's 2005 budget proposal estimates that his Medicare bill will cost one-third more than the $400 billion the White House promised, and predicts the largest deficit ever in dollar terms, congressional aides said Thursday."

and:

" The president now estimates that the just-enacted prescription-drug program and Medicare overhaul will cost about $540 billion, and that this year's budget deficit will be about $520 billion, congressional sources told The Associated Press.

That deficit figure would easily surpass the $375 billion shortfall of last year. The new estimates come as Bush braces for a difficult election-season fight with Congress over his spending, which has angered budget watchdogs, including some conservatives."

[hatrack]

35. Gee, such a salt of the earth ordinary guy!

What, I wonder, will be his grocery store scanner moment? Obviously, the FULL POUND of chocolate was his Wal-Mart socks moment.

[kysrsoze]

37. Yup, just like the rest of us, except....

when I go out for ribs, I leave a tip. I leave an even bigger tip when someone else, like the taxpayers, pays for my meal.

[calimary]

33. There's excitement, alright. But it's not the kind he thinks it is.

Judging from what I'm reading, and what I'm getting from posts here that reflect what the 83-year-old boyfriend of my 87-year-old mom, there is change in the air. There is excitement being generated by the Democrats as we slug our way through primary season. There's excitement in the air about some truly viable alternatives to bush. There's excitement in the air among some of us who actually are starting to see indications that, after a very long drought, there are rain clouds gathering overhead.

I think that may actually be what the excitement is. There's more dirt coming out, more than the media is being forced to deal with, from the AWOL controversy to David Kay and the WMD charade to the so-so SOTU to Paul O'Neill's broadsides. All the pounding bush is taking from every telecast of every stump/acceptance/cheer the faithful speech out of the mouths of every Democrat is too much for people to ignore anymore. The campaign season means that the Democrats ARE getting their messages out because that's considered the news that now has to be covered. Mrs. Mariani and her lawyer are going on Joe Scarborough of all people, and he's listening and not interrupting and she's getting her message out. CSPAN is covering all kinds of stuff. It's unavoidable. So people can begin to hear OUR side, and see the cheering and the signs and the crowds and the energy and the blanket hostility to bush - with reasons attached. They're hearing about record turnouts and anger and getting some reasons for that. There is a snowball effect that has begun. If it keeps up, and gathers more momentum, it will roll bush right out of the White House.

There's excitement building out there, george. But it sure as hell isn't about anything good that YOU'VE done. It's about the increasing plausibility that you're on your way out.

This, from someone else's earlier post, really sticks in my mind (and my heart), somehow. WELL worth noting:

From Andrew Sullivan’s website

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

BUSH IS IN DEEP TROUBLE: I'd say something else. The huge turn-out in New Hampshire; the electability factor for Kerry; the passion of the Dean people: all this shows how thoroughly energized the Democrats are to win back the White House. Bush is in the Rove-Cheney cocoon right now. From the SOTU, it looks like he's going to run on 9/11. Bad, backward-looking idea. His coalition is fracturing; his reach out to Hispanics seems to have hurt him more with the base than won him new votes; his spending has independents deeply concerned; Iraq is still a wild card; prescription drugs pandering hasn't swayed any seniors; the religious right wants him to attack gay couples in the Constitution - which will lose him the center. More worrying: I'm not sure he even knows he's in trouble.

http://www.andrewsullivan.com /

[CO Liberal]

36. He Misread His Cue Card

He meant to say "There's excrement in our economy!"

:-)

[Iverson]

39. Excrement in Eric's hominy?

He can kiss my grits, then.

[laruemtt]

40. yeah, it's a real hysteria fest.

come on down and join the fun with us little people, you idiotic POS.

[OneTwentyoNine]

41. You can say crap like that when you own the media...

If any other Dem made an outrageous statment that was a total lie Whore TV would have you on 24/7 with lots of comments. Let see..what'd Dean say,they replayed his outburst over 600-700 times in a week?

David

[rocktivity]

42. When I read about this decade's fastest-growing occupations

I got so excited I wrote a post about it at 1AM last night.


rocknation

[raysr]

44. Bush needs to check out the excitement here

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/29/national/main596622.shtml

[rocktivity]

45. And the excitement just keeps on coming!

IBM cutting 300 jobs in systems group

KB Toys chain says it will cut 3,500 jobs and close at least 375 stores

Sears call hub closing; 800 jobs cut off (by CitiGroup)

Washington Mutual plans layoffs in Cobb (Georgia)

Ford to lay off 1,000 workers at St. Louis-area plant


rocknation

[Skittles]

46. I absolutlely shudder

when think about what the word "excitement" could mean to that fuckwit.

*shudder*

[smirkymonkey]

47. I think it's called denial...

I also think he's about to "hit bottom" and hopefully surrender to a higher power - Truth.

I can't see him pulling off his charade much longer without completely cracking up - I'll bet he's dyyyyyyinnnng for a drink 'n a pretzel!

[fishnfla]

48. Record profits for exxon/mobil in 2003

His job is now complete.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

49. Bush: "I'm upbeat and I've got reason to be"

More on today's field trip to New Hampshire on CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/elec04.prez.bush.dems/index.html

A couple of quick quotes:

"Economic numbers on housing and business investment were encouraging, he said. "The American people tell me they're feeling pretty good."

and some news that we've all been looking forward to on Iraq:

"I'm absolutely convinced it was the right thing to do, and I look forward to explaining it clearly to the American people," Bush said.

CNN did not mention if the clear explanation would involve mimes, sock puppets, or semaphore signals.

There is also no truth to the rumor that Bush will dance on the roof of an SUV parked outside of the White House prior to his clear explanation.

[rocktivity]

50. Originally posted by Bush_Eats_Beef

"I'm absolutely convinced (the Iraq invasion) was the right thing to do, and I look forward to explaining it clearly to the American people," Bush said.

CNN did not mention if the clear explanation would involve mimes, sock puppets, or semaphore signals.

Mimes? Sock puppets? I didn't know Marcel Marceau and Sifl and Olly and were Bush supporters!




rocknation

[spanone]

51. Bush reminds me how CHEAP words can be.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

52. And there are bats in Junior's attic dancing with flying pigs.

[Laughing Mirror]

53. It's Grapes of Wrath revisited for a large swath of people

Clearly an excitement for the cheerleader from Andover and HIS team's economy. He's just cheerleading the truth.

[Andy_Stephenson]

54. Why do I picture an economist with an

erection when he says that?