bu$hler's "news conference," 9;15 AM CST

[dbt]

Pregame: Social Security, Eye-Rack and Wolfowitz to the World Bank. Stay tooned...

[DS1]

1. Goddamn, he sounds like he just woke up from a bender

:wtf:

[pf99]

6. ok

"Goddamn, he sounds like he just woke up from a bender"

Sound normal to me

[DS1]

8. Well, yeah, that is normal for him

He's an idiot 24/7

[rodeodance]

68. I think you hit it right on--just off from a bender.

[DS1]

2. mega-pausing between words

stuttering, rambling, "making preparations to git outta town for Easter"

[dbt]

3. Invoking FDR: "did a good thing creating SS."

Expressing concern for "younger Americans" re: SS. Lost, stumbling, halting, um-ah delivery as usual. Delivery almost sounds like a WHINE.

[dbt]

4. "My job is to confront problems."

"I congratulate the Iraqis for thie assembly. Today is a step in that process, a hopeful moment."

Wishes press a happy Easter.

[diamond14]

21. yes, the Iraqi assembly was a BIG BLAST (photos)

huddled inside the 'heavily fortified green zone', the Iraqi assembly still got BLASTED by SIX explosions nearby and TWO that hit inside the green zone....in a panic, they dismissed the assembly quickly, with NO business conducted....

[kaitykaity]

5. He looks constipated.

Like he knows he's not supposed to smirk but
it's so hard he has to suck a lemon or something.

:puke:

[dbt]

7. Adressing question of Italian troop withdrawals from Iraq.

"Countries will be anxious to get out when Iraq ia capabale of defending itself. That's when our troops will come home."
"people want their troops home, but not if it affects the mission." "We're making progress."

[dbt]

9. "Iran has concealed a nucular program"

Suspicions about the intent of the program. Govt is not transparent, run by a handful of people. (NO sense of irony at all.)

Waiting for an Iranian response. "We go to the UN Security Council if they turn us down.

[librechik]

10. "a non-transparent regime, run by a few people.."

oh, he was talking about somebody else--jackass

[dbt]

11. On SS: "Personal accounts do not solve the issue."

Asked if the has a plan, spouts the usual non-answers. "Everything is open to discussion."

"Not interested in playing political games, I'm interested in coming up with a solution."

[Ripley]

13. The Final Solution.

Gads, how can you stand to actually watch and listen to the lying pustule?

[dbt]

16. It's ROUGH, Rip!

I already need a shower!

[0007]

43. I can't & I don't

On excerpts from news sources I mute as fast as possible.

[displacedtexan]

14. * has NO CLUE about his own energy plan.

What a sad joke of a little brained freak this man is.

[bettyellen]

12. ss private accounts unpopular in poll after poll.......

stepping away from admitting any plans he has.......explainng/pushing the privatization plan- how in the world is it different than IRA accounts again? mumbling like a fool.

[dbt]

15. Oil prices: "I'm concerned about what energy prices mean to families."

Concerned about demand from China. "Congress has yet to join me on my comprehensive energy plan." Wants a bill from Congress that encourages conservation, looking for modernization of Electricity grid.

"I hope Congress passes ANWR." "Demand is outracing supply, that's why supplies are getting tight."

Touting "emissions-free coal burning plants."

[displacedtexan]

17. I loved his use of the word 'evolve.'

He said, "We must evolve away from a dependence on oil" or some such nonsense statement about technology.

Fascist fundies are wincing.

[Canadiana]

18. bush is possibly

the least eloquent, worst public speaker I have ever witnessed in my life. He sounds like he's hammered.

[Ripley]

24. But he's a good Christian man.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who needs to talk good when we all know what he really meant? :argh:

Welcome to DU. :toast:

[SammyWinstonJack]

30. He's not even that.

"But he's a good Christian man. " 'Born Again' for political opportunities is more like it.

[Ripley]

33. Um, that was what is commonly known as...

SARCASM. :)

[SammyWinstonJack]

39. Oh I know, I got it.

I was just pointing out the fact that bush** is a fake for any lurking FReepers or others who haven't come to realize that yet. :-)

[dbt]

19. Wolfowitz question starts out:

"He was the architect of one of the most unpopular war plans ever."

bu$h: "Paul is committed to development, a compassionate, caring man." Touts Wolfie's successes in everyting he's undertaken. "People need to get to know Paul better."

I am noticing that the questions from the Lapdog Press seem a lot bolder these days.

[Canadiana]

20. bush is possibly

the least eloquent and worst public speaker I have ever witnessed. He sounds like he's hammered.

[dbt]

22. Welcome to DU, Candiana!

You're right.

[Canadiana]

27. Thanks dbt! I don't understand...

how it's possible that this man is your/my president (I am a Canadian and American citizen who lives in Canada). I can see that his good ol' country boy image is manufactured in many ways...but I don't think that his constant bumbling and complete destruction and misuse of the English language is intentional. He is just so, so stupid that it blows my fucking mind

[dbt]

31. Vote fraud.

He was not elected to either term.

[Catchawave]

42. I totally agree with you....

... and it's very painful listening to him.

Welcome Canadiana :hi:

[coffeenap]

23. I don't understand why he is taking what seem to be "real"

questions. Not that he is giving real answers. Oh--there's Dana Bash asking the all-important baseball question. Never mind.

[librechik]

25. oohh the press is hostile this morning

they ask about extraordinary rendition, why the architect of "the most unpopular war in history" will make a good World Bank president...

answers: brag and mumble, brag and mumble

Thank god! somebody asks about steroids n baseball! He can go on and on about that.

[dbt]

26. On judicial nominees:

"They ought to get voted up or down. It's not fair to the Administration." (Waaaaaaaaaaah.)

[librechik]

28. honesty: "What's more important, the judges or your agenda"

"BOTH"

[dbt]

29. Now on SS: "Personal accounts are very important to the individual."

Direct contradiction to earlier statement. "The longer we wait, the more difficult it is to solve the problem. Otherwise, it would have been solved a long time ago.

(Head rumbling. explosion imminent.)

[Ripley]

32. You better stop or you're going to have an aneurysm.

:hi:

[sabra]

34. "that's because, I talk about, what I talk about"

great answer!

[librechik]

35. somebody please ask him: Do you intend to default on Tbills

because you keep referring to them in your SS talks as useless IOUs.

Somebody!

[dbt]

36. It's OK. I used to be a journalist.

But this is getting to be as much fun as a seed-tick bath. (Intended as a reply to #32. Cranial pressure IS building.)

[kaitykaity]

37. Your labor is appreciated, dbt.

I watched for three seconds and turned it off.

Thank you.

:hi:

What's a seed-tick bath?

[dbt]

40. 1. Fill bathtub with seed ticks.

2. Climb in. Sit for 10 minutes.
3. Repeat as necessary.
4. (If unfamiliar, ask a Southerner about seed ticks.)

:hi:

[kaitykaity]

44. The little black ones, look like a dot with legs?

I love Oregon. No ticks, no chiggers, no
June bugs, only a few roaches, but most of
them don't fly.

Lovely image.

[sabra]

38. WTF was his answer in regards to Hezbollah?

I sure didn't get it?

[Ripley]

41. Probably something like...

"It's hard work. The War on Terror is hard work. And don't forget about Poland. It's hard work."

[librechik]

45. They must disarm, what else?

[SoCalDem]

46. Our beloved leader .....smart as a

[Ripley]

48. Is your bunny laying eggs?

You have the best little graphics! :)

[SoCalDem]

Didn't know that where easter egss come from, eh??

Don't eat the chocolate ones:P

[dbt]

47. "It's important for people in that region to see what's possible

in a free society."

On K Hughes appointment: "It's important for people to see why we do what we do." "We're a compassionate nation. We care deeply about people suffering, no matter where they live."

"Must have a message to counteract the message that's coming out of the Arab media, especially in light of our close relationship with Israel."

[MaineYooper]

67. we care deeply about people suffering, so we're doing our best to ...

make sure that there are a lot of people suffering.

[dbt]

49. On "fake news" videos:

"A long-standing policy of government." "Local stations oughta tell their viewers what they're watching."

[sabra]

50. He just got checked big time from the Cox reporter...

regarding to gov't prepackage propaganda! Yes!

[SoCalDem]

53. I wish the reporter would have HIT on ."paid by OUR tax dollars"

but I'm glad he made the little weasel squirm :)

[coffeenap]

51. I don't believe we will ever see another press conference--

he is accepting all kinds of questions. This either has to be the last one ever or they are going to use it to show how "open" he is--ONCE!
Not that he has anything to say...

[dbt]

56. Please, Goddess!

This is cruel and unusual!

[dbt]

52. On SS: claims to have "laid out a series of options."

I musta missed that...

[librechik]

54. WOW--Press members are feisty!

aren't you asking for Congress to do what you haven't? (laid out a plan on social security)

[Botany]

55. The man is a joke ....n/t

[SoCalDem]

58. truer words were never written...n/t

:(

[librechik]

57. press puppies about to drive the dauphin from the room

with their barking!

Will we go to war with IRAN

Bush stuttering, incoherent

[Canadiana]

59. er...uhh...uhh

Plutonium...err...uhh...Uranium....
Get your chemicals right, cock-nose.

[Ripley]

60. hehee! Cock-nose!

Is that a common Canadian swear word?

[dbt]

61. Never again!

I will do play-by-play from ringside at a Monster Truck show without earplugs before I will subject myself to shit like this again.

:freak:

[Ripley]

65. Thank you so much!

We appreciate your heroic effort this morning!! :party:

[sabra]

62. That was a joke!

As things started to heat up, he ended the conference. "for the health of the president... I will be ending this conference"

[kaitykaity]

63. Oh, man. I just remembered Malloy's a repeat tonight.

There will be no excrutiating deconstruction of this
nonsense.

DAMN.

[anarchy1999]

64. Just caught the end of it on C-Span.

"...for the sake of a healthy press corp and a healthy president, I'm going to end now, have a Happy Easter?"

For those of you interested in torture, they are replaying now on C-span.

[bpilgrim]

66. he sucked up all the oxygen in the room

what a dip...

whatta we know about stretch? he sure asked a gannon'esq softy.

do you feel VINDICATED with your ME freedom fire policy :puke:

peace