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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 04:16 PM
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Fun new game: find something for which chimp will take responsibility.
Today, he called the 2.6 million job creation estimate the product of numbers crunchers, after recently backing off the quote from his CEA brujo Mankiw, involving the benefits of outsourcing.

there are myriad others out there, but listing them would take all the fun out of it.

I can think of ten things right off the top of my head.

how about a centralized list of all the times this disgrace has allowed the buck to come floating into the offal office, and allowed it to flutter right out the window?

does he EVER take responsibility for anything?

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sangh0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 04:18 PM
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1. No, he doesn't
He won't even say "Mistakes were made"
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 04:19 PM
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2. "The buck never stops" G. W. Bush
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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 04:19 PM
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3. "the president is not a statistician"
Edited on Wed Feb-18-04 04:25 PM by buycitgo
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040218/ap_on_go_pr ...


there's a LOT of things the president is not....including a leader

an honest man

a brave man

a compassionate man

a wise man (wise ASS, certainly)

a learned man

an engaged executive

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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 04:20 PM
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4. the party of "personnel" responibility?
reminds me of my Dennis Kucinich non-drinking game: just watch/listen to/read any news report about the Dem primaries, and take a drink whenever they mention Kucinich

it's the perfect drinking game for recovering alcoholics
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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 04:22 PM
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6. that's pretty funny!
could also be applied here, very appropriately, in honor of the white knuckle-dragging drunk squatting in our living room:

take a slug every time he takes responsibility for anything
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kayell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 04:20 PM
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5. I believe he took responsibility for some
fictitious educational improvements in TX. Other than that....nothing comes to mind.
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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 04:24 PM
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7. good point
he actually takes loads of responsibility for things that either aren't true, or have turned out to be a bunch of crap


the Texas CHIPS program is an example.

he vetoed it the first time (twice, maybe?), then allowed it to pass without his signature, then TOOK CREDIT for it.

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BillZBubb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 04:24 PM
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8. * took responsibility for patients bill of rights in Texas
That he vetoed as governor. Then the legistlature over-rode the veto and Shrub bragged about the Texas PBR in the 2000 campaign.
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BillZBubb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 04:25 PM
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9. * takes responsibility for the tax cuts that are "creatin' jobs"
NOT!
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GainesT1958 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 04:27 PM
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10. Didn't he try and take responsibility for...
Edited on Wed Feb-18-04 04:28 PM by GainesT1958
Getting rid of all those Iraqi WMDs? :eyes:

B-)
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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 04:33 PM
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11. Sure.....and he takes credit for making Iraq a better place, too
ask those Iraqis how swell things are now
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mike1963 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 04:45 PM
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12. Maybe the Dept of Homeland Security, which he actively opposed until
he could make it look like his idea...?

:eyes:
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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 07:12 PM
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13. CNN seems to be riding the economic predictions particularly hard
they keep running the same John King story, in which Dan Evans is shown, while the talk about cabinet members distancing themselves from the report

also showing the letter by Daschle, etal, which talks about predictions upon which, perhaps, dumbo's own cabinet can agree

Lou Dobbs also ran a segment on this.....he's getting very ABB, it looks to me
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