Bush Calls Mid-Morning News Conference

[deminks]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060126/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush;_ylt=AqHZm2T3LLo9DkMHLJM2o4ms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-

WASHINGTON - President Bush, in the midst of a campaign to defend a secret surveillance program in the United States, called a news conference on Thursday.

Bush also was expected to be asked about the impact of the election victory by the Islamic militant group Hamas in Palestinian elections.

The president was to make an opening statement that previewed the themes of his State of the Union address next Tuesday. He also was to talk about the economy, the Senate's imminent vote on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito and the war on terrorism.

Bush and other administration officials have been vigorously defending the domestic spying program of the National Security Agency, which the administration says is intended to listen in on conversations involving terrorist suspects. Experts and lawmakers from both parties have questioned whether it's legal for the government to listen to conversations in the United States without a warrant, which the administration would have to seek through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

[ixion]

1. hmmm... let's see: '911 changed everything'::'war on terror is winnable'::

"We're spreading democracy in Iraq"::"The Economy has 'turned the corner'"::"I do what I want, when I want, and if you don't like it, you're a terrorist"

I think that should pretty much cover it. :puke:

[RobertSeattle]

2. It's hard work

[madame defarge]

4. My personal favorite...

"Freedom isn't free..."

[Gato Moteado]

20. freedom costs a buck-oh-five

nt

[hatrack]

22. Freedom costs about $2.35/gallon, slightly more in California

Those special Freedom Emissions Standards, you know . . .

[SpiralHawk]

3. "We are spying on your for your own good." - Kommander AWOL

So shut up and sit down.

[Bob3]

5. Will he said Democracy is good except when it doesn't go right?

Refereeing of course to the surprise win of Hammas in the Palestinian elections.

and of course we are spying on you for your own good so just shut up.

[wordpix]

6. 911, war on terra, freedom, democracy, 911, war on terra, freedom...

[Marnieworld]

7. He's afraid.

Why else would they make him do this? He hates press conferences.

My silly little optimistic silver-lining looking self thinks they have word that a filibuster is imminent and they want to pre-emptively defeat it or at least spin against it before it happens.

When chimpy calls a conference it's always to deal with something that threatens them.

Between this and the NYT piece I am feeling a bit more hopeful today.

[elehhhhna]

8. Listen to Osama! Y'all aren't ascaird enough of Osama yet?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. You might be sellin', but I'm not buyin'.....eom

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. More LIES?

Doesn't this POS ever tire of telling nothing but LIES all the time? And why does he always feel the need to defend his policies? Perhaps because he knows what he does is illegal and immoral? Nah, that would require a conscious, which is something this air thief doesn't possess.

[Flying Dream Blues]

11. We're spying over here so we don't have to spy over there..."

No, wait...ah mean, terra terra terra. Ahr enemies don't ever stop thankin of ways to hurt the Murkan people, and neither do we."

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. !

:spray:

[hang a left]

16. lol

Ain't it the truth.

[asjr]

12. A "press conference?" He must really be desperate!

[CBHagman]

13. I hate the way he does this.

There's always very little notice. What a manipulative, spineless, insulated little weasel he is.

No offense is intended to weasels who may be reading this thread. :evilgrin:

[MADem]

18. Probably David Gregory is being held at the gate

...and Helen Thomas locked in the ladies' room.....

Whaddaya wanna bet he comes up with his alternative phrase for domestic spying? Count on 'terrist surveillance' making another appearance, if the dumbfuck can manage to pronounce it.

Gee, I can't wait for his little lectures in response to questions--he always comes across like a pompous dullard trying to explain something to a first grader (a sharp first grader, who isn't buying his bullshit).

[CBHagman]

28. Pompous dullard -- a perfect description.

He manages to come off as inarticulate AND sanctimonious AND ignorant AND bullying. Most humor is in the service of put-downs and controls.

[hang a left]

14. That ought to shave off a couple extra points off his

approval poll numbers.

[Surya Gayatri]

21. LOL! Yes, let the clown

loose to speak 'extemporaneously' or field a real question or two, and he's sure to lop off another point from his poll figures! SG

edit: typo

[Surya Gayatri]

17. Wait for it...9/11, terra, 9/11, terra...

Look over here, not over there--see, we're protectin' ya'. The Middle East may be about to go up in smoke, but at least "maiy SC nomineeeee will save ya' from them queers 'n 'll breeng back the coat-hanger kulture. Aiym jes spendin' maiy political kaptitol--heh, heh, heh."

SG :eyes:

[catmandu57]

19. Yet another daytime press conference

That hardly anyone will see or pay attention to, like they do anyway.
The same old same old same old, nothing to see or hear here.
This fucker is in a big ass sociopathic bubble.

[ColonelTom]

23. W: Bush-Abramoff photos "not relevant to the investigation"

Dubya on why the White House won't release the Abramoff photos -

"I had my picture taken with him, evidently ... doesn't mean I'm a friend with him or know him well."

"They're not relevant to the investigation."

Let's remember that last quote, for when Scotty starts hiding behind the "ongoing investigation" excuse for not releasing the photos.

[ColonelTom]

24. Didn't take long - "there's a serious investigation"

Q: Why not just open the books on Abramoff meetings?

W: "Because there's a serious investigation that's going on... are welcome to look."

So we can't release the photos because they're not relevant to the investigation, and we can't open the books on White House meetings because they are relevant to the investigation. Hmmmm.

[FightingIrish]

25. That idiot just said he doesn't obey the FISA law because

it was written in 1978. I guess that's the same logic he uses to trash the constitution.

[Greyskye]

26. So is he drunk today, or simply going more visibly insane?

I only heard the first 15 minutes or so of this before I had to leave my car; but :WTF: I swear, every-time I hear him his speach patterns become more incoherent!

[TheCowsCameHome]

27. Has he heard that Ford is closing plants and cutting jobs?

It was in the news recently.

[MissMillie]

29. Unbelieveable

"If they believe something was done inappropriately in the White House, they'll come and look and they're welcome to do so."

Of course, this was his response to the Abramoff investigation, but look at what happens when someone tries to investigate Katrina... they clam up claiming "confidentiality".

You gotta know that there is so much crooked stuff going on in the White House. Otherwise, they'd have no problems opening up the blinds and shedding a little light.

[KansDem]

30. Maybe he's going to tell us about how to get an abortion w/Alito on SC?

Maybe he'll tell us how he and his girlfriend got one in '71 when it was illegal?

George's Abortion Tips for the Rich and Infamous

[urlborg]

31. Little prince Georgie caught in a telling catch 22

When asked about the Palestinian elections, our Christian fascist Fuhrer was seemingly caught like a deer in the headlights. Funny it was quite reminiscent of his fathers look when peace broke out unexpectedly on the road to Basra after the mercantile, imperial religious fascist reconquest of Kuwait!

He was speaking glowingly of the 'undeniable' results of the 'will of the people' of Palestine in their supposedly 'democratic' election of the Muslim Fascist Hamas regime they overwhelmingly chose as their new government. Amazingly he glowingly spoke of the Palestinians right to free themselves from corruption, returning as he almost said to the honest brokerage of a new corruption free regime.

What young prince Bush could not say however was far more chilling and telling of his own so-called 'republican' parties very consistence and unblinking support for conservative religious fascism above Liberty!

Essential to Liberty (aka freedom) is the absolute separation of dogmatic fascism (be it religious, Marxist or mafia-Monarchist dogma) from politics. This is the whole purpose and ideal of a Constitutional Democracy, the universal, intractable core of Republican Liberty itself!

What young prince Bush could not say is that those elections where a complete and illegitimate farce, that the lack of a Constitution of Republican Liberty in Palestine (and Iraq and Afghanistan) allowed Muslim tyranny to triumph over Liberty, and has thus eliminated any notion of freedom in Palestine just as it has in Israel with the rise of Zionist Fascism and America with Christian Fascism.

While it is true that George Washington, Ben Franklin, and indeed all of America's founding fathers were indeed and definitely 'terrorists' to the Imperial Anglican (Episcopal) Fascists of the British warlord-tyrant George and his Whig Caballists, the essential difference was that our 'terrorist' founding fathers were rebelling to anoint Liberty, not any sort of a competitive imperial fascist dogmatism!

Anything that is not Liberty is Fascism! Democracy cannot function and does not truly exist in the absence of the well enforced principle of Liberty. Constitutional Democracy is not the tyranny of a majority!