White House Claims Mandate for Bush Agenda

[wicket]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041104/ap_on_el_pr/bush_9


"The American people spoke clearly about the agenda they want for the next four years," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.

Bush reached out for the broad support of Americans on Wednesday, even those who voted against him.

"I might point out that his arms are only so long, it's important for others to reach back as well," McClellan said. "We expect there will be Democratic leaders that want to reach back as well."

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After months of minimizing his exposure to journalists, Bush planned a news conference to outline his second-term agenda. Top priorities include nudging Congress forward on producing a budget and on intelligence reform legislation. On his own domestic agenda, the list includes retooling Social Security, making health care more affordable, and streamlining the tax code, McClellan said.

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Here we go! :mad: :mad: :grr:

[Avalux]

1. FUCK Bush and his agenda

He can shove it up his ass. :mad:

[johnfunk]

37. FACT CHECK: Bush has NO mandate -- here are FOUR reasons...

... courtesy Chris Bowers and Dave Gonzo (back at American Politics Journal after a three-year absence):

Let me quote a few choice facts, courtesy of the very erudite Chris Bowers over at mydd.com:

ONE: As of 2:44 PM Vegas Standard Time, according to CNN.com, a total of 56,142,999 have voted AGAINST you. That is the largest number of people to have ever voted AGAINST a president in history.

TWO: You "won," if it is in fact to be believed that you won, with 51% of the popular vote. If that percentage were, say, 61%, even I could understand the claim that you have a mandate. Chris Bowers is right, you self-important chucklehead: "1% more than 50% is not a mandate but a bare, thin, majority."

And not much of one, at that.

THREE: Before September 11th, 2001, your F-score was in the mid-forty percent range. You were losing the support and trust of your own party. Then, after my home city was attacked by a gang of Saudi mass murderers, your F-score hovered around 80%. Bowers pointed out that two years ago the pundits practically guaranteed you'd win by a landslide. Now, only half of the people in this country who bother to get out and vote support you.

FOURTH: Again, I quote Bowers -- "A president who leads a divided country owes it to all Americans to lead fairly or have his party face the consequences beginning in 2006. No one else is here to blame."

Read the whole megillah here.

[cubsfan forever]

2. Code alert!

retooling = privatizing
streamlining = more tax cuts for rich folks
:puke: on Chicken George!

Professor 2

[Cha]

23. That's why I got into politics in

2000..so I could fight not to have my future Social Security "privatized"!

And I'm not the only one who doesn't want that!

Wouldn't it be AWFUL if Kerry actually won and bush stole votes from the computer machines..and is implimenting all these "mandates" on a population majority that DOES NOT WANT THEM?!

[The_Casual_Observer]

25. I hope that they push for the ugliest rw set of changes now

real shitty ones, the ones that fuck the middle class. That way they can be exposed for what they are. chimp was acting real smart and shitty today. I wish him everything he deserves.

[otohara]

3. They Claimed That 4 Years Ago...What's A Few Million

more votes to a dictatorship?

[wtmusic]

4. Fuck Bush

I don't support the man nor anything in which he believes.

[calimary]

5. We knew this was coming.

Of COURSE they're going to claim a mandate. And there isn't much about which to argue with them, in this case.

[young_at_heart]

6. Will our media continue to push his agenda?

Jon Stewart was the only one (that I know of) to criticize the media's role. Hopefully others will join in....if we have any hope of keeping the semblance of a democracy!

[klook]

7. Big surprise

They claimed a mandate in 2000! Why wouldn't they now? We have to constantly remind them in a million different ways that we don't go along with it.

[yellowcanine]

8. "I might point out that his arms are only so long" - Just had to get that

in there, didn't you, Scotty? Why don't you start telling Tom Delay and his ilk to do some "reaching out?"

[itzamirakul]

40. Please vote in aol "mandate" poll to show our disagreement.

aol's top story includes a poll on whether or not Bush has a mandate. I voted and the results show that 52% of the poll takers say YES and 48% say NO. If you are on aol please go and vote on this poll so that they can see how much we dispute his appropriating such a mandate.

After four years of ignoring Democrats, refusing to meet with Democratic groups, campaigning only for those who would sign Loyalty oaths, NOW he wants to open his arms? And we are supposed to all rally 'round him and say "Sure, George...you and your boyz fcuked us in the ass without grease, but just go right ahead and privatize SS and escalate all the wars you want, and give all the treasury to your friends. After all, George, WE'RE ALL AMERICANS IN THIS TOGETHER!"

BULL SH!T!

[Sub Atomic]

9. * has a mandate alright.

http://www.mandate.com



:evil:

[kysrsoze]

20. I have a mandate for them - they can all lick my nutsack

[BiggJawn]

35. Jeebus Crisco! Warn a guy, would you?

I'm at work! should've known....


By next year, "Mandates" like that will be agin' Federal law...

[shrike]

10. George Bush and the Republican party can kiss my ass

This is one American who is NEVER reaching out. EVER.

[reprobate]

11. Now all Dems in congress should abstain on every vote.

The bill will come due one day soon, and the dems will be able to say "It wasn't us, it was the dipshit."

[54anickel]

12. Whew, that message board is sort of nasty. My connection is a bit

slow today, then again so is my brain, so I didn't partake too much. Geez what a bunch of hate-filled arrogant repukes out there though.

[sldavis]

13. mandate, my ass

where the fuck do they find a mandate in those results? Half the country still hates them! We are so completely screwed.

[Birthmark]

14. If the Dems have any spine

...they'll filibuster *everything* that comes into the Senate until BBV is repealed. Otherwise, democracy is dead in America. Chances of this happening...zero.

[undergroundpanther]

17. Let him reach twords me

With his filthy blood covered hand..fukkin asshole..
Go ahead monkey..

This panther bites, because I have no tolerance for tyrants "masters" or kings..whether they reach twords me with outstretched hand ort with a fist.When I tyrant reaches out it's so they can slip a choke collar on you and tame you. I hate dominators and authoritarian bullies. Grrrr.*panther sharpens fangs with a file*

[KansDem]

15. Since when did having or not having a mandate...

matter to these vicious hordes of rabid neo-Con fascists?

[Sophree]

36. He really is Bushler.

His arms "are only so long." That's a threat.

And this is the Fourth Reich.

:grr: :mad: :scared:

And you're right, having a mandate NEVER mattered to these fascist, immoral criminals.

[itzamirakul]

41. Or "BITLER"

We have to flood the news outlets to let them know that he does NOT have a mandate.

[Marthe48]

16. NEVER

I will never grant a mandate to abridging human rights, invading sovereign nations, having our military people die for no reason except Bush probably has a bet with someone on the final body count, lawyers who shill for the enemy, liars who pervert the meaning of value, cowardly willfully negligent leaders, or anyone who made it into office by cooking the codes.

[kayell]

18. And look what they did last time when they said they didn't have

a mandate and so would work closely with dems in a non-partisan way.

We are in for literal, here on earth HELL.

[Gregorian]

19. Insensitive, disgusting, arrogant, and wrong.

But you already knew that.

Mandate : an authoritative command.

That is something they will only have by force. Or coersion. They are pathetic, and it's laughable. Hitler had a mandate the same way they do.

[Dr Fate]

21. I thought Bush was opposed to Man Dates???

The "Gods hates fags" crowd who voted him in aint gonna like this!!

[yellowcanine]

26. Good point - Bush is a hugger? Who knew?

[July]

29. Unless it's with Dick Cheney. nt

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

22. We and the Iraqis are now in the same boat

Face it: we're dealing with an authoritarian and an authoritarian culture that supports him. We thought it couldn't happen here. It slipped in the back door, through the religion and Anglo-Germanic ethnic plurality that we have grown used to in the US. There is nothing NORMAL about either the religion or the culture. They are an aberration of humanity, the only true race of AUTHORITARIANS ever to walk the earth.

They believe that by stepping on our neck and beating on us they can make us grow to respect and love them. They have no respect or love for us because we have not hurt them enough. Whatever peace the world can achieve, these people will insist on destroying it. Whatever wealth the world can create, these people will insist on usurping it then setting it ablaze. They are truly the goyim: "God"'s chosen people, if you believe in a god who is out to ruin his own creation.

[sweetheart]

24. Red state mandate

That filthy liar got no mandate from new england, the great lakes
or the west coast. Perhaps he should keep to his "mandate" ground
of welfare states who want military subsidies.

[berry]

27. I wrote down 2 sentences from the press conference:

"I'll reach out to everyone who shares our goals." (very bipartisan--NOT)

"I earned political capital in the campaign and now I intend to spend it." (no ambiguity there)

Not that this is surprising. The SOP is, as it has always been, to steamroll ahead.

[Inland]

31. Bush just doesn't understand the words he uses.

You don't reach out to people who share your goals. You don't have to. And you don't earn political capital in a campaign built on lies and negative smears. What Bush "earned" was the power of the office. He's nuts if he thinks he is going to be given things he hasn't earned, like -- trust, respect, the benefit of the doubt. Those things go to good, respectable, people. Not him.

[Sophree]

38. He understands perfectly well what he is saying.

Underestimating him is a huge mistake. He knew perfectly well what he was saying. He's an evil little bastard.

[suegeo]

28. That McClellan sure is a snot

No way I'm running toward George's stumpy little arms.

BTW Scott, the voting machines are rigged, just in case you haven't figured it out yet.

[wicket]

30. McClellan is supposed to be outed soon

this should get interesting

[pffarrell]

32. self-delete

[FeelinGarfunkelly]

33. W - "Mandate? Aren't we against those?"

n/t

[LiberalFighter]

34. A 3% win margin is NOT a mandate

This jackass and his buddies should all be castrated

[wicket]

39. kick

:kick:

[OnceAndFutureTruth]

42. Mandate, schmandate...2% doesn't make a mandate.

He also needs a lesson in what "political capital" is, and why in 2000, after failing to get even the popular vote, he did not have any to spend, contrary to what he said in his speech this morning. However, if he wants to consider it that way, even in his first term he began deficit spending of his "political capital", the balance sheet at this point is negative.

[Bonhomme Richard]

43. Clearly Delusional. He'll see what kind of mandate he has in..........

the next few weeks. Wait until the people shake off the shock.

[MassLiberal]

44. he's not MY president n/t

[brook]

45. Mine either.

Never was. Never will be. Scmuck has a terminal case of grandiosity.