Bush accuses Democrats of wasting taxpayers' time

[maddezmom]

Source: Associated Press

By DEB RIECHMANN
Associated Press


WASHINGTON — President Bush accused the Democratic-led Congress of wasting taxpayers' time picking fights with the White House instead of resolving disputes over money for U.S. troops and the firings of the U.S. attorneys.

In his weekly radio address today, Bush called on Democratic leaders in Congress to move beyond political discord and take bipartisan action on both issues that have driven a wedge between the Bush administration and Capitol Hill.

He urged them to accept his offer to allow lawmakers to interview his advisers about the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors — but not under oath — and provide documents detailing communications they had about the firings with outside parties.

Democrats, armed with subpoenas for Bush's top political adviser Karl Rove and other top aides, are pressing the White House to allow the advisers to answer questions under oath about the firing of eight federal prosecutors. Bush says the Democrats are simply playing politics, trying to create a media spectacle.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/4658397.html

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What about all the wasted blood and treasure you've wasted!! :puke:

[Ilsa]

1. Ilsa accuses Bush* of wasting taxpayers and their kids. nt

[babylonsister]

2. Waste? Waste?? He speaks of waste? Aaarrrggg! nt

[Monkeyman]

7. Waste of human life I thinks he forgets that point NA he just don't care

[rodeodance]

16. Pea brain, little brains are a waste of Nature.

[C_U_L8R]

3. they're running out of excuses

sooner or later current events are gonna overtake these fuckers

[Cirque du So-What]

4. What does WhistleAss consider a proper response from Congressional Democrats?

Roll over and let the decider do whatever the hell he pleases? Silly question. OF COURSE that's what he expects!

Better get used to it, Chimp. May frustration over not getting your way dog the rest of your days as Pretzeldent. Oh, yeah...make sure the WH pantry is well-stocked with Maalox!

[Cha]

72. bsuh wants the Dems to bow

down and kiss his caligulas.

[TankLV]

5. WHAT ABOUT THE MILLIONS THE REPUKES SPENT ON CHASING CLINTON'S COCK?!?!!

all the whitewater bullshit did was PROVE CLINTON WAS INNOCENT OF THE REPUKE WITCH HUNTS!

Don't hear you repukes whining about THAT expenditure...

would have purchased alot of body armore for our soldiers, or heath care for OUR people...

[liberal N proud]

6. bu$h has wasted America

I am sure a little time investigating the truth and making a few points along the way will only prevent the little bastard and his band of thieves from wasting any more of America or other parts of the world.

[aquart]

8. Irony challenged. He can't help it.

God, I hope he's frightened.

[dkofos]

9. And I am accusing *ush of wasting the taxpayers money.

So fuck you mr pResident!!

[Xipe Totec]

10. Is this the same guy that asked Americans to be patient?

After a four year cluster fuck in Iraq?

Get your story straight, George.

[UpInArms]

11. to borrow the idiotson's words:

Who cares what you think?

[Rowdy Church]

12. He Looked Nervous and Frightened

The swagger is gone.

During Dumbya's presser on Friday he looked desperate.

How long before he begins having conversations with the presidential portraits in the White House?

The miscreant-in-chief is going to have to face facts - he's no longer got a pliant congress willing to look the other way.



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[gratuitous]

13. But the Terri Schiavo matter was of great national importance?

Feed it to Sweeney, Mr. President. With all due respect.

[rodeodance]

14. Jr. does not know how to govern expect by Lectures to the people, Congress,

other leaders, nations, ect ect.

[rodeodance]

15. ...."By choosing to make a political statement and passing a bill they know will never become law,

te he. He is ticked off at Pelosi/Dems!

.........Bush said the emergency spending bill the House narrowly passed, 218-212, would cut the number of troops below a level that U.S. military commanders say they need and set an artificial timetable for withdrawal.

"By choosing to make a political statement and passing a bill they know will never become law, the Democrats in Congress have only delayed the delivery of the vital funds and resources our troops need," Bush said. "The clock is running. The Secretary of Defense has warned that if Congress does not approve the emergency funding for our troops by April 15, our men and women in uniform will face significant disruptions — and so will their families."

The $124 billion House legislation would pay for war operations this year but would require that combat troops come home before September 2008 — or earlier if the Iraqi government did not meet certain requirements.

Bush said that to get the votes needed to pass the bill, House Democrats included billions of dollars in domestic and pork barrel spending for local congressional districts, including $74 million for peanut storage and $25 million for spinach growers, that has nothing to do with the war.

[rodeodance]

17. I can see his smirk as he read this comment:

......"Even with all this extra spending tacked on, the vote in the House was very close," Bush said. "This means that the Democrats do not have enough votes to override my veto."

[rocktivity]

24. Bush went INTO Iraq with troops and "vital funds and resources...below a level

that U.S. military commanders say they need(ed)." Why is he complaining about this NOW?

:eyes:
rocknation

[Rose Siding]

18. The oath isn't what concerns him. He's concerned about recorded transcripts-

snip>
If there’s any doubt about the importance of getting a record of Senate investigative interviews, consider the case of J. Steven Griles.

Griles, the former deputy Interior secretary, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Washington today to lying to Senate investigators....

A transcript of the Senate interview is what helped get Griles in trouble. (See the plea agreement.) Former White House aide David Safavian found himself in similar hot water, and was convicted earlier this year on charges that included lying to Senate investigators.

The importance isn’t lost on lawmakers who are pushing the White House to reconsider its insistence that President Bush’s political adviser, Karl Rove, former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and other aides can be interviewed only in private, not under oath and with no transcript.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/03/23/senate-records-prove-important-in-lobby-case/

[rodeodance]

68. yes, I think you are spot on about that!

[onehandle]

19. Crook. nt

[Straight Shooter]

20. How are they wasting our time? That makes absolutely no sense.

bush is the one who is stonewalling. Come on, you twit, fish or cut bait.

[rocktivity]

21. Rocknation accuses Bush of wasting taxypayers' souls!

:mad:
rocknation

[Orsino]

22. It's his beast. Let it eat him.

I hope to derive a certain satisfaction from watching his expression as his empire crumbles. That image will be cold comfort, indeed, in the coming decades of Reconstruction.

[sakabatou]

23. Bush wastes taxpayers money and lives

YOU FAIL, Bush.

[newspeak]

25. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING?

Right? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!!!!! This is got to be the most delusional thing I've heard!!! I guess Democrats caring about people, elderly, soldiers, poor, is bad; but Repukes giving money to their corporate greedy friends is A-okay!!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. You got it

[drm604]

27. Excuse me?

It's Bush and the Republican Party who're wasting taxpayer's time (and money) by constantly bucking the majority.

It's completely ludicrous for the minority party to act as if representing the will of the majority is some kind of obstructionism.

They are the obstructionists. They are the ones wasting time and money, AND LIVES.

[UrbScotty]

28. Look who's talking (nt)

[chang0]

29. WHAT A DICK !! But its OK for him to waste our $$$$

[ends_dont_justify]

30. halliburton wastes the taxpayers' time. Time is money

And halliburton is taking a lot of our's

[Zorra]

31. The criminal accuses the detectives of wasting taxpayer's time

investigating him and his accomplices.

That's what it is.

"Move along, nothing to see here."

[NastyRiffraff]

32. Irony is officially dead

I've said that before, but this closes the case.

[damntexdem]

33. Sure, but it's the only thing the Dems can do:

Dubya has already wasted all of the taxpayers' money. ;-)

[ProudDad]

34. bush, like ray-gun

is a fucking waste of skin!!!

[DemGa]

35. Shrub's message framers staying busy as usual. n/t

[liberal renegade]

36. he gets dumber by the minute...

[LiberalFighter]

70. Dumber by the minute... how long before brain completely useless?

[nolabels]

37. So what was * doing, saving taxpayers time?

:rofl:

[Heidi]

38. Kick.

:kick:

[Omaha Steve]

39. Bush: Dems Should Drop Partisan Politics

Source: AP

Bush: Dems Should Drop Partisan Politics
Email this Story

Mar 24, 11:14 AM (ET)

By DEB RIECHMANN

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush accused the Democratic-led Congress of wasting taxpayers' time picking fights with the White House instead of resolving disputes over money for U.S. troops and the firings of the U.S. attorneys.

In his weekly radio address Saturday, Bush called on Democratic leaders in Congress to move beyond political discord and take bipartisan action on both issues that have driven a wedge between the Bush administration and Capitol Hill.

He urged them to accept his offer to allow lawmakers to interview his advisers about the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors - but not under oath - and provide documents detailing communications they had about the firings with outside parties.


President Bush waves as he departs the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 23, 2007, for Camp David, Md.. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Democrats, armed with subpoenas for Bush's top political adviser Karl Rove and other top aides, are pressing the White House to allow the advisers to answer questions under oath about the firing of eight federal prosecutors. Bush says the Democrats are simply playing politics, trying to create a media spectacle.

Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070324/D8O2K14O0.html

[rodeodance]

40. He would not know a bi-partison gesture if it hit him in the face.

[Lithos]

41. Cry baby hypocrite

Given the issue at hand where Judges were fired for pure partisan reasons plus his administration's 6 year contempt for anything but partisan politics, this is laughable in the extreme.

[The Magistrate]

43. The People Love A Partisan Brawl, Sir

No matter what they may say of asked....

We should through as many of them as we can find the time for.

[ninkasi]

62. I agree, Sir

Americans have an aversion to boredom. A good partisan brawl is entertaining, even if some citizens have only a vague understanding of the issues being debated. My own theory is that many marriages end in divorce not due to cheating spouses, or issues such as that, but by the feeling that one day will be much like the day before, and the day before that, and then the next day.

[The Count]

44. But, but...Iraq was MY issue! I knew this would come in handy:

[hobbit709]

42. Projecting again

Everything he accuses someone else of doing is EXACTLY what he is doing.

[jimshoes]

45. He misses his Rubber Stamp

Congress. It's called politics chimpy. Sometimes you have to lump it. In other words... you don't always git yer way. He he he.

[bdamomma]

77. exactly, he really misses the rubber stamp.

and he really does not like being questioned by anyone else, sorry george, your party is over, you dimwit!!

[Cha]

46. "And Bow Down and KISS MY

FOOKIN' caligulas." "Bow Now, lowly Dems".

[bdamomma]

80. gee, he is really transparent and plastic isn't he?

again, he is bullying.

[EFerrari]

47. F#ck off, Lame-O

:rofl:

[ClintonTyree]

48. I think Babs dropped him on his head.....

too many times when he was a kid. Maybe shaken baby syndrome? :shrug: Because that brain of his certainly isn't working as it should. Partisan politics is what we've seen for the past 6 years of total Republican control. What we're seeing now is called "checks and balances", something that's completely foreign to Bush. Get used to it numb-nuts, this is only the start of checking your balances. :grr:

[Straight Shooter]

53. Nope. He's just a dry drunk ex-cokehead with a new addiction, lust for power.

Battle-Ax pampered him and spoiled him rotten and made him a substitute for his missing father. Not in the carnal sense, but in some weird psychological status.

The bushes are flat-out pathologically demented, each and every one of them. They believe they're royalty.

[demigoddess]

55. more like inbred genes. you just can't marry and intermarry

and get geniuses.

[Triana]

49. SURE. As soon as bu$hit does it - FIRST...

...then the Dems can consider it.

[regnaD kciN]

50. The only possible response to Bush's charge of Democratic partisanship...

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[tridim]

51. This is what the end of a 100% corrupt regime looks like..

The peaceful and legal end that is.

Sorry Humpty Bushy, but this is really better than you deserve.

[msongs]

52. dems can do ALL those things at the same time, can we not? :-) nt

[hyphenate]

54. Dear Mr. Fucking Asshole

You've been the master of partisan politics now for 6+ years. You are the one who needs to stop practicing being such a fuckup and start doing what's right for a change.

What's that? You ARE doing what's right? Yeah, and I've got a bridge in Brooklyn that needs a new owner. Wanna buy it?

[Pastiche423]

56. His projection is beyond stale

[kurth]

57. Stupid evil lying sack of shit

cries foul.

[sakabatou]

58. Mirror, mirror

[Miss Chybil]

59. BWAHAHAHAHA HA HA HA ha ha HAAAAW! ROFLMAO!!!!! OMG!

My stomach hurts! I couldn't even read the article from the tears in my eyes from laughing over the headline! LOL! I can't take it. I'm dying!!!! ROFL!!!

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That's funny...

[rucky]

63. If there were a chorus of laughter every time the Chimp...

makes a ridiculous statement like this, that would bring him down faster than all the pissed-off activists and legislators combined.

[FVZA_Colonel]

60. I was going to ask why it seems that he has never seriously considered the possibility

that he and his fellow Republicans might be engaging in exactly the kind of "partisan politics" he so often accuses the Democrats of utilizing, but then I realized that this is George W. Bush. Such self-examination on his part seems unlikely.

[Seldona]

61. I can't believe he kept a straight face through that.

The irony is so dense here I don't think you could drill through it with a diamond bit.

[spiderpig]

64. Taxpayers to Bush: Shut Up!

and just go away.

[pokercat999]

65. Waste? Mr Bush you are wasting oxygen. Would you please

stop breathing....please, like right now.

[Amonester]

66. bu$che's entire existence has been a waste of oxygen

and the taxpayers' time, blood, and money.

[Lil Missy]

67. No, a waste of taxpayer time is years investigating Clinton's underwear.

[Arugula Latte]

69. There are no words left to respond to these people.

They are the enemy of this nation and its Constitution, pure and simple.

[Cha]

71. I'd like to use my tax money to

Impeach the sonavabiatch so we wouldn't have to waste anymore taxpayers' money flyin' that firstasshole around waggin' his fingers at the Dems who are finally holding his fucked up priorites ACCOUNTABLE.

[Lisa]

73. good thing I wasn't eating pretzels when I was reading this headline

I would have choked on them, for sure. The sheer chutzpah of the man -- he has wasted so much of everyone else's time and resources (and for an increasing number of people, their ENTIRE LIVES, since they have died because of the mess he has created). And he dares to complain that those who question him are making a "media spectacle"? This from Mr. "Mission Accomplished", who fritters away hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in doing exactly that, with his staged photo-ops -- like that one on the aircraft carrier.

[lpbk2713]

74. He has taken more vacation time than any other President.

(That may not be a bad thing when you think about it.)


If he is so concerned about giving the taxpayer more bang for their buck he ought to spend more time on the job.

[Lilith Velkor]

75. He's right, Dems should quit wasting time and impeach the motherfuckers already

[bdamomma]

george you are wasting our time, you idiot!!!!

this man is not well, he needs to step down.

[bdamomma]

76. george you are wasting our time, you idiot!!!!

this man is not well, he needs to step down.

[SammyWinstonJack]

78. How's that "dictator" thing working out for ya, george?

:evilgrin: :rofl:

[Jack Rabbit]

79. Rabbit: Bush wasting taxpayers' money

Take your offer and executive privilege and stuff it where the moon doesn't shine, Frat Boy.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

81. Now we have heard it all - HOW LAME CAN YOU GET!

[ryanmuegge]

82. He's right.

They're wasting the time of the taxpayers that matter by setting a date for withdrawl.

Writing up that part of the bill wasted time that could have been used for Congress' usual job: giving tax breaks to Exxon, passing tax breaks for the wealthy, approving trade agreements that take away our jobs, giving unecessary pork projects to friends of friends, and giving more money to the Pentagon and law enforcement while cutting funding for everything else.

[antonialee839]

83. Please, waste my time.

Bush has wasted lives, limbs, the goodwill of entire countries, and our hard earned tax dollars, the last thing I'm
worried about is a bit of my time. What an ass-hat.