Did you HEAR the Rose Garden threat??

[annabanana]

The sheer UNMITIGATED GALL of this man astounds me!! He is now officially holding the servicemen and women hostage to his mad plans to continue this obscene occupation.

Listen to him say that if he doesn't get the blank check to continue that they "will stay longer" and will "have to go back more often".

I have been mad at him for years, but I have never, never felt this kind of fury. HOW DARE HE HOLD THEM HOSTAGE TO HIS INSANITY?!?!

Watch the video "Challenging Congress":

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

[cassiepriam]

1. Wonder if that is how he got what he wanted from Mommy and Daddy?

Threatening them all the time?

[ourbluenation]

2. that's exactly what he's doing, he's holding them hostage in a frightening

politically-based nightmare.

[Kikosexy2]

5. With that kind of threat...

all military families should be up in arms!! and the military should mutiny on this asshole...but Congress should counter back with threats of impeachment

[annabanana]

10. My thoughts exactly. I can't imagine what it must feel like

to have a loved one in harm's way and to have to listen to this...

[MLFerrell]

13. I'll tell you this: It's no a good feeling.

But somehow, I think you knew that.

[AndyA]

3. Yes, I heard how concerned he was about the troops who might have

to stay longer, or go to Iraq back sooner.

Of course, what I didn't hear was the fact that he didn't say ANYTHING about the ones who have been killed, and WON'T BE COMING BACK HOME, EVER.

Unless you include arriving in a flag-draped casket as "coming home."

The man needs to be removed from office IMMEDIATELY. He has lost his mind.

[bdamomma]

16. how can we start the ball rolling with a catch phrase of

how delusional * is, hire the blimp to say we have a president out of control?

[AndyA]

23. I don't know what it's going to take, but I have to believe that with each

hypocrisy, with each new revelation of wrongdoing, with each new idiotic speech, Bush is one step closer to being removed from his office.

As Americans, we cannot afford to simply stand by and let a delusional President, who has lied to us, outed a COVERT CIA AGENT during a time of war, appointed cronies who were not qualified for their positions, wasted billions of tax dollars, and spied on us illegally to remain in office.

And Congress is going to have to live up to their responsibility to deal with it, like it or not.

The Constitution does not advise to do what is politically expedient, it demands that the various branches protect the Constitution. We need some of that protecting RIGHT NOW!!

[Richard Steele]

31. "Do what B*sh says, or the troops will get it."

That's just a quick one to get the slogan-ball rolling.

[Cabcere]

65. True, succinct...

and f***ing scary. :scared: That's got my vote - maybe it'll be effective?

[Richard Steele]

73. Nah. I really meant it when I said it was just to get the ball rolling.

My ideas of great "slogans" just really aren't all that great,
most of the time. The last really good one was "Got Cake?", and
that's been awhile.

Not being "down" on myself, just honest. By this time tomorrow,
some DUer will have found a way to say it better. They always do!

[State the Obvious]

43. Catch Phrase: Bush is holding troops hostage.

Is that catchy enough?

BUSH IS HOLDING TROOPS HOSTAGE (repeat)...

BUSH IS HOLDING TROOPS HOSTAGE (repeat)...

BUSH IS HOLDING TROOPS HOSTAGE (repeat)...

[Rosemary2205]

4. All I get on the video is a colortest pattern and a squeal.

If anyone knows about a video of the Rose Garden today that is NOT in Real Player please post for me? Thanks.

[Ilsa]

61. Go to The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. On the Bush article

and next to REAL Audio, click on Download, instead. Or right click and select open with Windows Media Player. It should download quickly so you can listen to the program. I know I heard those threats on the show tonight.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/

[Joe Bacon]

6. Is Bush a grown up version of Anthony from the Twilight Zone??????????

Bush acted just like a spoiled brat who will get his way or else, his performance was exactly like Billy Mumy's Little Anthony putting people he didn't like in the cornfield...

[Marnieworld]

15. You are not the first person to make this comparison

I say this not to insult but to let you know I read an entire article exploring this. I'll try and find it for you. :hi:


on edit:

Here it is!

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-chait10dec10,0,3560770.column?coll=la-opinion-center

[Frank Cannon]

52. Bush only wishes he were Anthony

Remember, Anthony had unlimited, god-like power. Bush is a small, frightened, petulant moron who gets whatever power he has solely from all the suck-ups that surround him and that cover for his continual, daily screw-ups.

I'm sure Bush watched that episode and LUSTED for the power that Anthony had. It's probably his favorite Twilight Zone episode. But the only attribute of Anthony's that Bush emulates is his brattiness. In everything else, he is a miserable failure.

[CoffeeCat]

67. OHmygosh!!

That is brilliant! The comparison of Junior to Anthony is spot on.

Wow. I'm stunned, because that is so accurate and it is so FRIGHTENING--because it is so accurate!!!

Just like Anthony--Bush wants everyone else to fall in line and do it HIS WAY---even if his way
is completely insane and a page out of bizarro-land. Anthony wanted everyone to watch cartoons
all day and eat cereal for dinner--and Junior wanted to start a war based on lies, torture people and illegally
wiretap Americans. Ack!

...and can you imagine the White House staff...running around, trying to please George-Anthony with manic
smiles and endless words of praise for the most ludicrous of ideas?

"Why YES, George-Anthony! Your failed war cost Republicans the 06 elections, but we think it's SUPER FANTASTIC
that you want to expand this GLORIOUS, BRILLIANT, fun-in-the-sun Iraq war. Applause! Applause! You brilliant
buffet of creativitiy and intelligence!"

OH my stars. Disturbingly accurate.

Me want my blankey.

:scared:

[PurpleChez]

78. Damn. That's so true.

[la la]

7. I have this to say about that----

blah, blah, fuckin' blah.

Didja see how he 'corrected' Democrat to Democratic? heh heh

[aquart]

8. How does he figure he'll have the cash to do that?

I mean, why is no one commenting on the blazing, idiotic illogic of the comment?

They ARE staying longer. They ARE going back more often. That's the STATUS QUO. If we cut off his money, he CAN'T send them back. He can't keep them there. He'll have no way to do it.

It's the dumbest, emptiest threat I've ever heard. If we GIVE him the money, he'll send them back more often and for longer periods because no amount of money will create a soldier who doesn't exist and we do not have a functioning military anymore.

[Canuckistanian]

81. You're right, the statement makes no sense

The meatgrinder goes on until someone STOPS it. And cutting off the money WILL NOT LET HIM play Generalissimo any more.

[TahitiNut]

9. Chaos in Iraq is unavoidable. It was absolutely guaranteed in March 2003.

The continued military occupation of Iraq does NOT avoid chaos, death, and destruction - it merely prolongs it and postpones a steadily increasing payment to the piper. How much money are we willing to pay the people holding the tiger by the tail? How long can that tiger be held? How many more people will we need holding that tail as the tiger gets angrier and angrier?

The criminal invasion of Iraq in March 2003 absolutely guaranteed the conditions we're seeing - conditions foreseen by those who PROFIT from this chaos. Far from being something "nobody could have foreseen" it's something foreseen by two groups: (1) those who argued against and protested the illegal invasion and occupation and (2) those who knew that they would profit from the illegal invasion and occupation and propelled this administration's predations.

The only reason Smirk, Sneer, and their 'base' are re-marketing the same old lies they've been peddling for four years is because they're profiting ... and the people of Iraq and the people of the US are paying and dying. It's an enterprise - one with externalized costs. It's the wet dream of those for whom profit and wealth are the only measure of 'right'.

[loudsue]

11. And they need to be called on it. The man is a sociopath, a narcissist, and a

megalomaniac.

He needs to be impeached NOW. The republicans in congress need to be TARGETED with this sound bite, and should be made to eat the sins of this administration that they have enabled from the beginning. It is imperative that Dems saddle the REPUBLICANS with this kind of economic blackmail, of using our exhausted troops' rotating deployments as negotiating fodder.

Bush just made a sound-bite that will be heard all across America and the world. There is no adult in this whole world that won't see that threat for the pissy, cruel, damning immaturity that it is.

:kick::kick::kick:

[Danascot]

55. Repug congresspersons should be required to take a poll

on *'s provocative performance today.

"What is your opinion of today's speech?"

A. Support
B. Absolutely support
C. Jawohl, Mein Fuhrer!
D. No, I'm still an American
E. Bush who?

[SpiralHawk]

12. "republicons, however, will get a special Chickenhawk exemption." - Commander AWOL

"As always, republicon chickenhawks get a Deferment from my threat.
We need our republicon cronies at home to maximize war profits.
The rest of you dogfaces can just shut up,
put on your crappy republicon-produced protective gear,
and get your proletarian ass out there
to Save the Oil Fields for the republicon crony party."

- Commander AWOL

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. And that would be different from what is already happening to the Troops, how?

will stay longer and have to go back more often How would that be any different? They are staying longer and some are on their third and fourth deployment to Iraq. And he's been given a blank check up to this point. Is he stupid or something? :silly:

[partylessinOhio]

17. What is Congress going to do about this?

Nothing as usual?

Congress has a job to do here not in the Middle East, Iraq, or Israel. All of these junkets should be halted and all members of Congress should be called home to take care of America.

Impeachment must begin immediately. The troops must be brought home now - alive. All airlines should be called upon to fly them home. At the same time we should beg all nations to take on a limited peace mission to stabilize the mess * created by his insane and terroristic invasion of Iraq.

If we hope to save America we cannot risk a greater war with Iran provoked by this sinister impostor who is insane.

[TahitiNut]

20. Smirk is even more of a loud-mouthed bully when Congress is out of town.

He is a coward and a bully. When was the last time anyone saw him actually confront opposition? His bravado is about OTHER people in harm's way ... never himself.

His very existence as an occupant of the Offal Orifice is a despicable commentary on the idiocy and corruption in this country. Every breath he takes dishonors us. Wvewry word he speaks shames us.

[TechBear_Seattle]

37. Right in one

Nothing as usual.

[bdamomma]

18. I wonder if Nancy will say again

STOP WITH THE THREATS, Mr. President there is a new Congress in town?

[mentalsolstice]

19. On MSNBC they're calling it the "War with Congress"

I wonder if bushco is planning to invade?

[ClintonTyree]

38. Evade is more likely....

just like shirking his Texas Air National Guard duties. Without all of his toadies and handlers behind him he's a coward. In a one on one fight the man would run like cheap ketchup.

[Cha]

21. And why isn't our coporatewhoremediapress

calling him on it?!!

[Time for change]

22. The man is simply EVIL

Once we recognize that, then nothing he does will seem surprising, because everything he has done since he was selected for his current job is consistent with that one basic fact.

There is only one solution for a nation that has such a man in a position of as much power as he has. Fortunately, our Founding Fathers provided us with an excellent solution to that problem, and it's written right into our Constitution.

Unfortunately, it appears (to me) that our Congress is not eager to utilize that solution. If they could share our outrage over his numerous evil actions, maybe they would be more eager to do so. But it is considered politically incorrect in this country to say that our leaders have bad intentions. We can say that they're wrong, we can say that they're stubborn, etc. etc. But we can't even imply that they're ill intentioned. And heaven forbid that we call them evil!!!

[Marie26]

24. That doesn't even make sense.

Am I missing something? How is going to keep them in Iraq longer w/o additional funding?

[spinbaby]

25. I can see the Fox Noise headline now...

"Democrats want to keep troops in Iraq longer!"

[Hubert Flottz]

26. Extortion

noun
1. an act or instance of extorting.
2. Law. the crime of obtaining money or some other thing of value by the abuse of one's office or authority.
3. oppressive or illegal exaction, as of excessive price or interest: the extortions of usurers.
4. anything extorted.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Extortion

[annabanana]

33. Exactly!. . . n/t

[Kokonoe]

27. He knows if he vetoes more people will die?!!

But I will do it anyway to show I'm right.// Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein// Sunk Cost:Think about the time you have spent in line for a long time,a line that is not moving,and you have other things to do with your day. If you were to walk up to the line right then and you saw that it was going nowhere, you would decide to come back later when the wait was not so long. However,because you've already been waiting for so long, you persist.Notice the problem here. If you were to make the decision in absence of the time already spent, you would walk away.//Annie Duke

[in_cog_ni_to]

28. We need a MUTINY. The soldiers should, en masse, REFUSE to fight HIS war for OIL.

A MUTINY SUPPORTED BY THE MILLIONS OF U.S. CITIZENS who that FUCKER is IGNORING.

I'm dead serious. What would happen if EVERY soldier refused to fight? What? They're going to throw them ALL in jail? I don't think so. That SOB needs to remember who the hell he works for...US. We pay his fucking pay check.

[bdamomma]

29. this man clearly does not care about us nobody's and our troops

he is toast!!

[in_cog_ni_to]

30. No he doesn't and his veto is going to backfire on his ass.

People aren't stupid. THE PEOPLE voted for Dems in November because they want an end to this occupation. The Dems are doing EXACTLY what they were voted in to do. He's defying THEM and US and letting more soldiers died in the meantime.....while he plays politics. He'll regret his arrogance some day.

I hate that psychotic, warmongering bastard with every fiber of my being. 11-04-08 can't come soon enough for me! IMPEACH HIM!!!! Please!!!

[RestoreGore]

41. You know, I agree with you

They should all just get up and LEAVE.

[dipsydoodle]

32. Was the whining noise

a police siren or the reporters present ? :rofl:

[fooj]

34. "have to go back more often"

That's f*cking RICH, isn't it? How many of our soldiers are on their 3rd and 4th deployment?

He's certifiable.

[rosesaylavee]

35. IMPEACH. NOW.

He f***ing works for us. He is NOT the dictator. Time he learns that.

[MasonJar]

36. Do y'all think that anyone ever told that "moran" with the sign how dumb

we all now know he is? I surely hope so! The irony abounds!

[FatDave]

39. Not only did he threaten to keep them there longer...

He also said they wouldn't be getting the proper equipment. What a putrid little fuck.

[RestoreGore]

40. IMPEACH THIS MAD MAN NOW n/t

[lonestarnot]

45. Absolutely! Just can not and will not understand why this objective

has been tossed aside like so many dead fish. It is the only answer with this fuckwad. The only answer.

[RestoreGore]

47. AMEN. DO IT BEFORE HE KILLS US ALL.

And that is no exaggeration and I typed it in capitals not to yell at the poster, but for emphasis because I am SO tired of all of this! WHAT DOES IT TAKE?

[lonestarnot]

49. Totally beyond me for an answer there. He's a freaking criminal.

There is not one thing that he has not done to either steal, lie, murder that he has done that belongs in our White House.

[caligirl]

42. guess Laura will never run from him, unstable man he is.

[Divine Discontent]

44. as a military family member, I am OUTRAGED!

they're playing (as they have been for years) with people's lives for monetary gain and political influence with voters that they're pro-USA, when their actions show anything but pro-"Christian peace" and military member family support.

www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable

[SoCalDem]

46. what I heard

[spanone]

48. I watched it live. He should be physically carried out of our White House.

[lonestarnot]

50. And tossed on the lawn like squirrel food.

[Cabcere]

53. And then eaten by rabid squirrels. (No, not really.)

Might poison the squirrels.

[lonestarnot]

62. heh heh heh

[crikkett]

51. Come on, he needs more money so he can invade Iran.

and if he does it before he gets the money, he KNOWS that Congress isn't going to give him a cent.

It hit me when I was watching this morning's tantrum:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=565984&mesg_id=565984

[Maestro]

54. Gee I wonder if he is even planning to exit

ever or is this just some permanent occupation? I so hope we can put someone in office that will get the troops home now!

[WI_DEM]

56. Why don't the twins and George P (who will be "stationed close to home") volunteer to go to Iraq?

[Solly Mack]

57. I took it as a threat for that is exactly what it was

[Kablooie]

58. The problem is that he would keep them there if they were starving

He will be sure to keep the troops there and also insure that they don't have enough supplies
just so he can get is way.

His precious pride is more important than any military man's life.

[Moochy]

59. Exactly how I interpreted his statements

My generals will be forced by the democrats to take away the "quality of life" measures etc.

I had to stop watching this morning to avoid damaging my screen.

[Liberal In Texas]

60. This is a test of wills. With the military being used as pawns.

*ites are thinking that the Congress will blink first and cave in.

They need to stand up to him and his thug cronies. It's the ONLY way to deal with bullies.

[Timbuk3]

63. Vacation

Crawford-Bound Bush Slams Congressional Vacation

-snip-

President Bush plans to spend Thursday through Sunday at his ranch for an extended Easter weekend.

This will be Bush's 63rd trip to his ranch since taking office. He has spent 405 days, either entirely or partially, at his ranch in Crawford, according to Mark Knoller, a CBS Radio White House correspondent known for keeping meticulous records of the president's vacation days.

In 2005, Bush was roundly criticized for taking a lengthy vacation of nearly five weeks away from the White House -- one of the longest presidential retreats in at least 36 years -- when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and left New Orleans engulfed in floodwater.

-snip-

President Bush has also been criticized for not being attentive when he was on vacation at his ranch shortly before the 9/11 attacks.

On August 6, 2001, Bush was vacationing at his ranch when he was given the "president's daily brief" containing a two-page section entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US."

ABC: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/04/crawfordbound_b.html

To be fair, Bush flew home to sign the bill that the pandering GOP congress flew back from vacation to pass, a bill that affected a single family.

All to please the fundies.

[Rex]

64. George Walker Bush is a piece of shit. Despite all the money and power

and connections and family name and the whole dynasty - everyone now thinks, at least about Dubya, that he is a no good piece of shit. His legacy. :eyes:

[grannylib]

68. And where would he be without the family name and money and influence

and connections?
Exactly what he really is...a complete, utter, moronic, total, gutless, heartless, dickless, brainless, soulless, clueless, nobody. He'd be NOBODY without the family ties.
His legacy will be solid shit. He's never accomplished anything positive in his life. Everything he's ever gotten he's either stolen or had handed to him.

Time to hand him his ass, his head, his job, and his legacy on a nice silver platter.

[republicansarewhores]

75. He'd probably be dead

Because without his family and connections he would have gone to Vietnam and been either killed in combat or fragged.

RAW

[grannylib]

84. Good point, hadn't thought of that.

[Bluebear]

66. Exact quote from the SOB here:

In a time of war, it's irresponsible for the Democrat leadership -- Democratic leadership in Congress to delay for months on end while our troops in combat are waiting for the funds. The bottom line is this: Congress's failure to fund our troops on the front lines will mean that some of our military families could wait longer for their loved ones to return from the front lines. And others could see their loved ones headed back to the war sooner than they need to. That is unacceptable to me, and I believe it is unacceptable to the American people.

[TwilightGardener]

70. I heard that today. How dare that asswipe blame any soldiers' hardships

on Democrats? It's HIS WAR!! HE'S THE REASON they're there!! It defies logic that he can even say this.

[HuffleClaw]

69. i read that, it sounded like bush alright.

and the media gave it a pass

[epppie]

71. Furious?

Sometimes, it's just hard to know what to get furious about anymore.

I watched the newscasters broadcasting those lines from Bush and I wondered, is anybody going to even bring up the question of whether there is anything remotely like logic to that?

Nope. I guess no one expects logic from the US Prex and that's the new normal, has been for years.

[Nothing Without Hope]

72. He's not worried about destroying our military. He'll just use Blackwater

and other hired mercs that much more - they'll do anything they're told, without even a token glance at the laws or a thought of reporting or oversight. There are tens of thousands of them already, hired thugs who recognize no law. And they're active in this country too - remember them swaggering around with their guns in the Katrina aftermath?

No, I'm not kidding. Read about it - here's a review of a new book on what Blackwater is all about:
http://www.yuricareport.com/Corporations/BlackwaterWorldsMostPowerfulArmy.html

The Bushies need the Air Force for bombing, but they already rely very heavily on hired mercenaries on the ground.

[republicansarewhores]

74. Where is a V

When we need him?



Or for that matter, Johnny Smith?

If only life were like the movies...

RAW

[NovaNardis]

76. WOW

But I do have to say. Just when I thought NBC was doing the right thing,

They pointed out that Republicans visited Syria as well as Pelosi. Actually something substantive. But then they just jumped back on horse-race reporting. Congress versus the President jockeying for position.

[oldgrowth]

77. This video is on the same msnbc page Soldiers look at fifth tour of duty

Soldiers look at fifth tour of duty
April 3: NBC's Don Teague talks to soldiers at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, who are looking at a possible return to Iraq. For some, it marks a fifth tour of duty.
(Talk PTSD,TBI big time)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8004316/

[tibbiit]

79. so he is saying if he gets his way

they wont be there so long or often???
what a dork
tib

[NastyDiaper]

80. Mum's to blame.

He confuses strength with stubbornness.

He confuses knowledge with faith.

He confuses success with entitlement.

And he argues like an un-recovered alcoholic.

[dogday]

82. Make the deal ---- Funding of troops for Bush's twins

He wants the money, he said he knows how we feel. Let him really experience the pain and suffering one feels when your loved one is at war.... I am sick of him saying he knows how we feel...

[IWantAChange]

83. this is why there should be psych screening for Presidential candidates..

to eliminate the psychopaths from ever assuming power