Read and weep * explanation of breaking....

[Hutzpa]

the law, this chimp is something else.
This is George Bush answering question about breaking the Law, struggling with explanation, my goodness!! This guy is a living legend!!



May I -- if I might, you said that I have to circumvent it. There -- wait a minute. That's a -- there's something -- it's like saying, you know, you're breaking the law. I'm not. See, that's what you've got to understand. I am upholding my duty, and at the same time, doing so under the law and with the Constitution behind me. That's just very important for you to understand. Secondly, the FISA law was written in 1978. We're having this discussion in 2006. It's a different world. And FISA is still an important tool. It's an important tool. And we still use that tool. But also -- and we -- look -- I said, look, is it possible to conduct this program under the old law? And people said, it doesn't work in order to be able to do the job we expect us to do. And so that's why I made the decision I made.

:bounce:

[BattyDem]

1. Exactly what part of the FISA law was preventing him from doing his job ..

and why didn't he simply ask his rubber-stamp Congress to change it?

[Canuckistanian]

7. Congress never complained.

Like a quiet, obedient housewife.

Maybe that's what this is all about. Dominance and control.

Sounds like South Dakota.

[arcane1]

2. it reads like the "Kid's Guide to Doublespeak"

or "Doublespeak For Dummies", whichever you think sounds funnier :)

[Sydnie]

5. I got the same message as you did from that gobbeltygook!

[rexcat]

3. A link please!

[Dem2theMax]

18. A link? Hell, I want a translation! ;-)

Can't someone lock him in a closet until 2009? Please?
Or at the very least, use some duct tape where it will do the most good.

[rexcat]

33. He should have been locked away prior to 2000!

But that goes for his entire mal-administration.

[Sydnie]

4. He sounds like the kid that broke the neighbors window with a ball

and everyone told the neighbor who did it, doesn't he?

[Jack Rabbit]

6. If he knew how to do his job, he wouldn't have to make these excuses

What double talk.

[timtom]

21. I think doublespeak is all he understands

the sum of which amounts to NOTHING!!!

He is a creature that operates solely from the reptilian brain stem.

[treestar]

30. This is his job

The oath to be taken by the president on first entering office is specified in Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution:


I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.


Dubya apparently thinks it is something else.

[Jack Rabbit]

32. Bush is the only person ever to violate that oath by simply taking it

He lost in 2000 and had no business taking that oath or even running for "re-election".

As far as I am concerned, he is not and never can be the President of the United States. No American owes him any allegiance.

Impeachment? That should be done just to humor the unfortunate innocents who still trust him. It would be more appropriate to throw his personal belongings out on the White House lawn, toss him down face first with them and tell him to find his own way back to Crawford.

[unblock]

8. when you whine about how old a law is (especially when it's not very old)

you know you're in trouble.


i wonder how old laws are on such things as murder and rape, and would he think the age of the law matters?

[chaz4jazz]

10. Yeah, like those Ten Commandments

They're pretty old. I mean, come on, what? Thirty-five hundred years? Old! Old laws. That was 1500 BC. It's 2006 AD. I mean, he's doing what he has to do. Forget the old tablets. They were for another age. Put them in a museum, or a court house.

[Hutzpa]

17. ROTFLMFHO!!!!! N/T

[Libby2]

28. LMAO !! Excellent !! eom

[SeattleVet]

9. Nixon, May, 1977...

"...When the President does it, that means that it it is not illegal"

Transcript: http://www.landmarkcases.org/nixon/nixonview.html

* is becoming more and more like Nixon every day - and his approval ratings are fast approaching that level, too.

[Swamp Rat]

11. That is a good example of the human brain affected by Chrystal Meth

[WinkyDink]

12. So any laws not passed post-9/11 are "old", and not just "old",

but "old" "tools", like a wrench that's out-moded. And Lord knows, you don't want to do a job with old, rusty, out-moded tools!

[shanti]

13. he didn't say

a goddam thing. :eyes: all bushit, smokes and mirrors.

[Old and In the Way]

14. Only a weak, selected pResident needs to spy on the People.

He's scared shitless of us. He's going to lose his power....and when he does, he will see the vengence of those whose liberties he's trashed. I really don't think he knows the level of our collective disgust with him and the criminals he rode into town with. He's going down.

[dweller]

16. i think he does know

and when he looks up and around him realizes he's completely surrounded.

agree he's scared shitless. And somehow it doesn't bode well with me that he is.

dp

[xxqqqzme]

15. '...in order to be able to do the job WE expect US to do...'

there is always a tiny, cramped, stunted grain of truth hidden in his blatherings.

[DLnyc]

19. And that job is . . . gathering data on anyone who might oppose absolute

dictatorship. Sorry, but there is no way an illegal spying program by the bush criminal empire doesn't get used to exert leverage (i.e. blackmail) on opposition (and hesitant repub) politicians and citizens.

Nixon was impeached largely for his use of the FBI to spy on and discredit his opposition. If we're lucky, the American people will finally turn on shrubco for the same reason. Before it's too late. I hope.

[neweurope]

20. "The constitution was written in 1787. We're having this discussion

in 2006. It's a different world."

--------------------

Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Disturbed]

22. The Sociopath's brain is deteriorating into mush.

I think the Rethugs will Impeach him before he starts muttering pure giberish and drools. Cheney will be indicted and forced to resign.

[LaurenG]

23. "and with the Constitution behind me".

Yes, that brings up images of exactly what he's been doing to the constitution. The man reminds me of some of the old French and English Kings before there was a cure for venereal disease.

[Hubert Flottz]

26. "and with the Constitution behind me".

So he can shit all over it!

[salin]

24. in other words: "Did not... but if I did... so what, I can! post 911

world terra, terra!"

[Minnesota Libra]

25. Am I the only one who has noticed that........

.....the boy king can't even speak in full sentences?:grr: He'd be just as wrong speaking full sentences as he is speaking these short phrases but at least he might sound like he has a f...... brain.:puke:

[nolabels]

29. Actually, I believe it is an actual disorder with the brain he has there

I don't sympathize with him for it but can tell you he uses it as a crutch. I have a similar problem but I deal with it as best I can even as to an advantage sometimes. I makes communications with others sometimes difficult and I often find my self rewriting sentences two three times when trying to explain something complex. Spell check and grammar check for computers are an enormous gift from this modern era for some of us


The glaring example from what I can understand or see from just the words above from the *, is that everybody and even dynamic or complex relationships are just things to be manipulated. In his own words they are 'tools'

[MiniMe]

27. * fails to mention that they amended FISA 5 times since 9/11 nt

[rodeodance]

31. No one has stood up in Congress and said STOP!!