Snow: resolutions passed by Congress will not affect Bush's decision-making

[sabra]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11457525/

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Presidential spokesman Tony Snow said resolutions passed by Congress will not affect Bush's decision-making.

"The president has obligations as a commander in chief," he said. "And he will go ahead and execute them."

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., a chief author of the Senate resolution, said it says "we do not support increased troops, deeper military involvement" and calls for shifting the mission of U.S. troops from combat to training, counterterrorism and protecting Iraq's territorial integrity.

He said it also calls for "the greater engagement of other countries in the region in the stabilization and reconstruction of Iraq."

[niyad]

1. "this is a dictatorship, and don't ANY of you forget it!!"

[Horse with no Name]

2. They really have to go.

Sooner rather than later.

[Rosemary2205]

3. Shock city

[truebrit71]

4. No problem Snow-Boy...congress should then cut off the money...

...we'll see how well he "executes his plan" (which means in plain English 'ignore the will of the people' btw) then, won't we you Benzedrine Puff-Adder....

[Rosemary2205]

8. Bush already said F U to congress on the money issue.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3138192

[CrazyOrangeCat]

5. Mr. Mouthpiece's job . . .

. . . is about to get a bit more stressful.

Really feel for ya, Sno-Cone.

Not.

[SpiralHawk]

6. Hell, Bush had 'obligations' when he was in the National Guard

But that didn't stop him from deserting to go sniff cocaine.

And he had obligations on 9/11. But that didn't stop him from sitting on his ass for an hour reading "My Pet Goat" after he had been pointedtly told for the SECOND time that America was under attack.

And he had obligations when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, but that didn't stop him from playing golf and hanging out listlessly at his taxpayer-financed hideaway in Crawford.

So don't give me no steenkin Snow jobs about his obligations. He has a track record of ignoring them.

[Solly Mack]

7. That AWOL addle-brained popinjay sure does wear the CinC

label like armor doesn't he?

[walldude]

9. Uh.. the Presidents "obligations" are to the

FUCKING AMERICAN PEOPLE YOU JACKASS. Goddamnit I swear if one of these fucking neo-cons ever treats me like I am a simpering jackass to my face I will knock him flat. I don't understand how the WH press coprs can be so nice to these people. When someone tells me to fuck off to my face I have a tendancy to get pissed and speak my mind.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

12. I know . . .

. . . how can they get so conditioned to that bullshit?

They aren't journalists at all! They are, with the exception of Helen, just a bunch of sycophants. No spine whatsoever.

(And, speaking of her, how can they get up in the morning and know, somewhere way down deep, that they don't hold a candle to an eighty-something year-old woman?)

unbelivable.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. The signing statements are already thwarting the will of the people

through their elected representatives. And Bush's Attorney General thinks that even the decisions of the Supreme Court on so-called "national security issues" (which could encompass virtually anything in Bushworld) should be ignored or reinterpreted as he claims the judiciary is an "inferior" branch of government.

This is a slow-moving coup d'etat, with Bush transforming the Presidency into the seat of supreme power over all, including the Constitution.

[Bitwit1234]

11. How ignorant of people in this country.

BUSH is only commander in chief of the armed forces. HE WILL NEVER BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE CIVILIANS in this country. Why is it that someone who spouts off to the public like snow, does not have any inkling of the constitution of this country. Why in the devil don't they read it and then they would know what they are talking about.

[SeattleGirl]

13. I don't think it's the people who are ignorant.

And I think that this crap about Bush being CinC of everyone is just another Rovian tactic. Unfortunately, there ARE some people who are buying into it, but not everyone is.

As for Tony Snow, I was listening to Al Franken's show this morning. Lawrence O'Donnell was guest hosting, and he was talking about how Tony is completely unprepared for the pressers; he is used to the Faux News way of doing things -- you know, pulling stuff out of his ass, with no facts or information to back what he says. O'Donnell said that even Scott McClellan did SOME prep beforehand, but Tony doesn't do any. That's why he's so often caught flat-footed, and lives in the same bubble of detatched "reality" that Bush does.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. Someone on DU said that Tweety called Snow the best press secretary

of all time. What a laughable statement if true, in light of what Lawrence O'Donnell says.