Bush Stomps His Feet

[rodeodance]

Source: washingtonpost.com




Bush Stomps His Feet

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, October 31, 2007; 12:52 PM

President Bush went before the television cameras yesterday to rail at Congressional Democrats, who he said are "going alone and going nowhere."
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Just a lot of political posturing, right?

Well, maybe not. It's increasingly looking like Bush's petulance is not just for show.

Apparently, a year of dealing with a Democratic Congress -- even one as supine as this one -- has profoundly upset him. And he may have given up on reaching any accommodation with them at all.

Michael Abramowitz and Jonathan Weisman write in The Washington Post: "The White House plans to try implementing as much new policy as it can by administrative order while stepping up its confrontational rhetoric with Congress after concluding that President Bush cannot do much business with the Democratic leadership, administration officials said. . . .

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"Bush himself has been complaining more and more bitterly about congressional Democrats in recent weeks."



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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/10/31/BL2007103101623_pf.html

[Drum]

1. ...

[pinto]

11. LOL.

[neuvocat]

2. This is news?

[rodeodance]

6. the news is that he gave ANOTHER speech today about this.

[pinto]

3. That headline is priceless, and right to the point.

aka, Petulant President Throws Temper Tantrum.

[LynnTheDem]

4. So how does that NOT make bush a dictator?

The Decider.

The Dictator.

No diff.

[bluestateguy]

5. When you have a president who was born w/ a silver spoon in his mouth

This is what you will get. They have an entitlement mentality because they became successful, not through their own talent and hard work, but rather, due to family last name and connections.

[aquart]

7. So was FDR.

[pinto]

9. Good point.

[Greeby]

8. Err..

"because they became successful, not through their own talent and hard work, but rather, due to family last name and connections."

Except he failed at that every time. :eyes:

[Tyler Durden]

18. And Al Gore.

[ixion]

19. siler spoon, yes. sucessful? not in the least

everything he's ever touched has turned to sh*t, including our once proud republic.

[yardwork]

26. Most U.S. presidents have come from wealth and privilege. Chimpy is unique.

Chimpy is a more extreme example of narcissistic personality disorder or whatever is the matter with him than anyone else who has held the presidency.

I think that the fact that he was appointed president - twice - is a symptom of how deeply unwell this nation is. He is a symptom of our malaise, not the root cause.

[CrispyQ]

10. We have a petulant 3-year old brat running our country.

Well, along with a creature of no heart.

[AndyTiedye]

14. A Petulant 3-Year-Old With Nukes

:nuke::nuke::scared:

[alllyingwhores]

12. Are you f__king kidding me?

What would he do if the spineless assholes actually refused to fund the illegal war, hold him accountable for anything...or god forbid, impeach his stupid ass?

[AndyTiedye]

15. Then He Would Make Up Some Pretext to Declare Martial Law

[calimary]

27. We already see what he thinks of losing his precious rubber stamp.

God only knows. But IMPEACHMENT is looking more and more like a necessity rather than simply another option.

[CreekDog]

13. he wants to call 911 for the wahhhhbulance nt

[Solly Mack]

16. Such is part of the 'do-nothing', 'obstructionists' excuse to further expand executive power

Bush has also gone back to spewing how he just worked so well with Democrats in Texas...and how he thought he could do the same in DC

It's the - I'm the bi-partisan,working across the aisle' guy - bullshit he used during the 2000 election cycle and the 2004 election cycle...now it's more about his legacy and using the talking point to expand executive power

[DeSwiss]

17. Not to go all Freudian and everything, but....

....often how we characterize others is really an accurate reflection of our own views -- about ourselves. Bush said that Congress was: "going alone and going nowhere."

- I think that decribes his circumstances quite well. The little twit....

[ixion]

20. Yep, it's called "projection" and it's what BushCo does best

and consistently.

[City Lights]

21. "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier,

just so long as I'm the dictator." ~ The petulant one, December 18, 2000.

Are we there yet? :scared:

[Orsino]

22. "President Bush cannot do much business with the Democratic leadership..."

That's surprising. They seem quite willing to do his bidding lately, at least as concerns the fait accompli of the Iraq occupation. His tax cuts don't seem to be endangered, either.

[Le Taz Hot]

23. I can't even imagine what he'd do

with a REAL Democratic Congress. Lyndon Johnson would have buried him. He's damned lucky he got this batch of spineless, quivering jelly fish.

[saigon68]

24. Yes the Democratic congress

When the going got tough

They got up and went

Into hiding

[Gen. Jack D. Ripper]

25. So, being spineless and subserviently accommodating isn't enough for this guy?

He's a joke...one that stopped being funny a looooooong time ago.

[Lisa]

28. evidently not -- look at how he felt about Canadian leaders

He didn't like Jean Chretien, for being too assertive (Chretien refused to join his Iraq invasion). Then when pro-business Paul Martin took over, Bush soured on him pretty quickly. Then the Conservative Stephen Harper got in, and what did Bush do but start picking fights with him over Arctic sovereignty. (And Harper is as pro-Bush as they get up here -- Alberta oil booster, etc.)

No matter how spineless and grovelling one is, it will NEVER be enough for Bush. He will always find something to whine about. Might as well stand up to him, because he's going to take it out on you eventually -- so you may as well keep your dignity intact and say no!

[lame54]

29. Impeach his ass watch his meltdown,,,

...oh, to dream

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fCutvXccFlA

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tMACzBomDK4