Bush Backs Rumsfeld, DeLay in Interview ("heck of a good job")

[Eugene]

Associated Press
Bush Backs Rumsfeld, DeLay in Interview
12.14.2005, 06:22 PM

President Bush said Wednesday that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has done "a heck of
a good job" and there are no plans to replace him.

Bush also spoke up for former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, saying he believes DeLay is
innocent of money laundering charges and he hopes the Republican congressman will be able
to reclaim his leadership post.

Rumors have been swirling about the possibility of Rumsfeld's departure from Bush's Cabinet.
But the president said in an interview being aired Wednesday on Fox News Channel that
the Pentagon chief wasn't leaving anytime soon.

"End of my term is a long time, but I tell you, he's done a heck of a good job," Bush said,
"and I have no intention of changing him."

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Full article: http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2005/12/14/ap2392932.html

Bush also expresses confidence in Cheney and Rove.
Earth to Dubya: Your team screwed up massively. Time to make changes.

[KCDoug]

1. this is a good sign.......

I remember what happened to the last guy that was "doing a heck of a good job".....

[newscott]

2. Seems like his new calling card eh? Like the Mafioso Kiss of Death

[saigon68]

33. "HELL OF A JOB" Brownie

LOL

[marmar]

3. Exactly...

Translation: They're really fucking up bad!

[karynnj]

4. Same thought here - it's hilarious that Bush wouldn't see the irony

in those words.

[MaineDem]

6. It's sad really

Actually pathetic that he doesn't realize those words will haunt him.

[MichiganVote]

13. Yup. Rummy's toast.

[NanceGreggs]

5. Gotta give the guy right ...

.. when he's right.

Rummy is doing as 'heck of a good job' with Iraq as Brownie did with FEMA. When you compare rotten apples to rotten oranges, it all works out nicely.

[salin]

7. You would think he would expunge the words "heck of a job"

from his vocabulary - as they are used to mock him, so regularly, per his comments to "Brownie".

Oh, that's right - he doesn't read or watch the media - he depends on aids, who are hesitant to tell him bad news ... even when people are in great peril and dying in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast... he depends on those folks to "brief him".... so perhaps he doesn't even know he *should* expunge that term as it is a source of derision. Almost reads that he thinks that Rummy is doing a job like "Brownie"... idiot.

[salin]

8. You would think he would expunge the words "heck of a job"

from his vocabulary - as they are used to mock him, so regularly, per his comments to "Brownie".

Oh, that's right - he doesn't read or watch the media - he depends on aids, who are hesitant to tell him bad news ... even when people are in great peril and dying in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast... he depends on those folks to "brief him".... so perhaps he doesn't even know he *should* expunge that term as it is a source of derision. Almost reads that he thinks that Rummy is doing a job like "Brownie"... idiot.

[tularetom]

9. Right after Katrina

we all heard him tell Brownie "Yer doin' a heckuva job". A week later Brownie was gone. Well actually it took a couple of months, but you get the picture. When the guys in charge tell him Rummy has to go, he'll have to spend more time with his family, or somethin.

[Angry Girl]

10. Sounds like a twisted Chucky doll: Heck of a good job! Heck of a good job!

And he's a murdering bastard too!

[tom swift]

11. Rumsfeld

If you want to see the kind of job Mr. Rumsfeld has done go to
http://www.sigir.mil and read the quarterly reports that are
submitted to Congress. 
One of the on-going audits (strange how it has yet to be
completed 33 months after the start of the war)is how the
supply chain was unable to deliver critical supplies to the
warfighters(their term). This included the up-armored Humvees,
body armor and other items. 

The reports also lay out that there was no plan (as in none)
for the post invasion period which is how you get Bremer
disbanding the army and firing the government,resulting in 60%
unemployment among a well armed citizenry. 
Exxxxxxcelllllent!!!!

Other info: after 33 months,Baghdad averages 5 hours of
electricity/day. Oil production remains below pre-war levels
and the Oil Minister estimates that 2 million liters/day of
gasoline and fuel oil are smuggled out of the country.
Insurgent funding,perhaps?

Rumsfeld has literally cost the Army lives and hasn't been
fired, but the neocons claim that Democrats holding press
conferences is the real harm.

I suppose these reports must be in the same reading stack as
the pre-war intelligence. Isn't anybody in Washington besides
John Murtha paying attention?

[Amonester]

14. The reports are Wrong because there is a (not so secret) plan

for the post invasion period. Yep... It shows in details how a
few "Oiligarchs" and "Warmongers" Who
always Have More make plans to dominate the World at everybody
else's expense (blood & treasury).

And everybody in the entire World with only one Internet link
can read it!!

http://www.newamericancentury.org/

Simple. Criminally simple... :grr: 

[tabasco]

19. Welcome to DU !

Thanks for the info.  

Rumsfeld is on the record referring to troops as fungibles.  

[annabanana]

22. It's all there in black & white

and in their own words. I am continually astonished at how
blatant the lies are. That nothing they say is credible
doesn't seems to matter to them at all. Why should they worry
when the corporate media is compliant.

Oh, and welcome to DU 
:toast: 

[CatholicEdHead]

12. What? No Medal of Freedom for both of them?

[stop the bleeding]

15. You have to be KIDDING me - does dipshit have a clue?

Don't answer that

[savemefromdumbya]

16. what does heck of a job mean exactly?

remembering him praising Libby after he had been indicted?

[Maggie_May]

17. Heck of a job

Its the big joke at my work "He's doing a heck of a job."
Bush doesn't have a clue who is doing a good job or bad. This man is bankrupting this country!

[cliss]

18. Look at Bush's last statement...

"I have no intention of changing him". What a strange statement. Changing him? Like changing his diapers? Or replacing him?

NO wonder people become absolutely ballistic when they hear him. A clown that talks like this would make anybody homicidal.

I'm really worried because last weekend, I was at my parents' house. Bush came on the TV, and started blabbing as usual. My mom became so angry at the sight of Bush, I thought she was going to kick the TV in.

[Hekate]

20. Is your mom a Republican? Cause kicking in the tv screen is ...

... kind of a Dem reaction. (or wanting to kick it) :;-): Like all good DUers, I keep watch for Repubs waking up.

Hekate

[AnneD]

27. I hve had to make sure I have soft pillows on the couch...

just incase Bush comes on. And this polite, church going, southern DEM finds herself giving him and his cohorts the one finger Texas salute. I also have to be careful not to listen to him in the car because the road rage is instantaneous. Yep, thanks to Bush, I am on my knees in prayer more now than ever.

[Hekate]

28. Amen Sister -- Bush has driven me to prayer too (and I mean that)

As for road rage, I remember the very instant he reinstated the "global gag order" for family planning funding because I damn near drove off the road. His first day in office must have been really, really busy, because everyone has a different memory of the malicious agenda for that day.

Soft pillows -- must put that on my list.

Hekate

[madmark]

21. just like brownie

[yellowcanine]

23. For the first time I do believe Rummy might be on the way out. "Heck of a

job" might be the tipping point for Bush. I can see it now - Karl Rove glued to the TV watching to see whether Bush is going to say he is doing "a heck of a job".

[tanyev]

24. Unbelievably insipid quote supporting Delay:

Bush said, "Yes, I do" when asked if he believes DeLay is innocent. And he said he hopes that DeLay will return to his leadership post.

"I hope that he will, cause I like him, and plus, when he's over there, we get our votes through the House," the president said.

The president then asked the reporter if he would like to see his latest boo-boo.

Doesn't that quote sound like the kind of thoughtful analysis a 6 year old would make? The only word that has more than one syllable is "over". I guess that's why the simpletons like him so much. He must be the first president they've ever been able to understand.

[RobertSeattle]

25. So much for not commenting on an ONGOING INVESTIGATION

What a phony

[Marnieworld]

26. I think we are all assuming something here

We're assuming that * knows that the phrase "heck of a job" has such a particular meaning to so many. The man is completely sheltered from all media. He doesn't read. He doesn't watch TV. He only gets info from sycophants that quiver in fear at his unpredictable temper. Who is going to tell the boy king that he shouldn't use any phrase let alone one that is so closely synonymous with the Katrina disaster? The phrase is emblematic of the cronyism and the complete incompetence, homicidal indifference IMO, to the suffering of the Gulf Coast people, to so many of us here and elsewhere but he has no idea about that. It's not like he's watching the Daily Show. He's a narcissist who believes he's infallable and he still thinks everyone loves him like they did after 9/11. Competence? Irrelevant to him. Cronyism? That's how things should be in his world.

He's just a walking punchline now and what makes it funnier is he has no idea.

[truthisfreedom]

29. wow, he "browned" rummy! weird. you'd think rove would have explained

that branding anyone as doing "a heckofa good job" after brown is probably the kiss of death.

[BikeWriter]

30. Silly bastid only ruined the occupation of Iraq...

[Supersedeas]

31. boy in a bubble or a Presidential tick?

[noonwitch]

32. Rummy was on O'Really last night-it was surreal

Lots of "Oh, my goodness" and crazy gesticulating.