Chimp's speech: he wanted to crow about Iraqi elections tomorrow BUT

[npincus]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/politics/18bush.html


Spy-gate has cast a big shadow over his scheduled self-congratulatory happy talk... ha ha ha.



His statement came just a day before he was scheduled to make a rare Oval Office address to the nation, at 9 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday, celebrating the Iraqi elections and describing what his press secretary on Saturday called the "path forward."

<snip>

But the revelation of the domestic spying program, which the administration temporarily suspended last year because of concerns about
its legality, came in a leak. Mr. Bush said the information had been "improperly provided to news organizations."

<snip>

But as the clamor over the revelation rose and Vice President Dick Cheney and Andrew H. Card Jr., the White House chief of staff, went to Capitol Hill on Friday to answer charges that the program was an illegal assumption of presidential powers, even in a time of war, Mr. Bush and his senior aides decided to abandon that approach.

<snip>

Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has said he would conduct hearings on why Mr. Bush took the action.

[ngGale]

1. Wasn't it Arlen Specter who came up with the....

"single bullet theory?" Could be another whitewash in the making.:scared:

[TomInTib]

5. I believe they have truly pissed off the Senate this time.

The Old Guard is outraged that they were bypassed.

Pay no attention to the drool dribbling out of the mouths of clowns like Cornyn and the rest.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

6. the very same.

very scary guy. just doesn't look it, sorta like Bush Sr.

Makes them all the more dangerous.

[pretzel4gore]

8. how can that vile old monkey still be fukking around?

mygod, poor jfk has been gone 40 plus years, and this demonic elf is still raping and murdering :(

[CrazyOrangeCat]

10. Beats the hell out of me.

Anybody can go down to the library and check out various books on how Specter stood in the window of the Book Depository and "directed" the investigation of the supposed fatal shot. He and Gerald Ford "adjusted" the facts so blatantly . . .

Yet they still walk among us. An' ole Arlen's still calling the shots (pun intended)

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. Bank on it! nt

[liberal N proud]

2. Isn't 9PM after bu$h's bed time?

Maybe they will have him in his pajamas

[npincus]

3. that Fucker had better not pre-empt "Desperate Housewives"

[StClone]

4. Leads to an interesting question

May the President give consent to Unconstitutional acts without consultation and control of Congress?

[stevedeshazer]

7. You make a great point here

He was planning a big "Mission Accomplished" speech. Instead, he has to defend himself.

That's surely not what he had in his tiny mind.

[BuyingThyme]

9. Or is it?

Could it be that he cut a deal with NYT to release the information at a time when the scandal could be absorbed by something else?

In his PBS interview yesterday, he literally said that the spying scandal is not the top story -- it's the Iraqi election. How did he learn to say that so fast?

[stevedeshazer]

12. I'm sure he knew it was coming by then

You may be right, but he gets a lot of coaching.

No question, either way he's on the defensive big time.