TOON: Bush Is A Blame Duck --->>>

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[madokie]

1. I like it

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2. Elections May Leave Bush An Early Lame Duck

By Peter Baker and Michael A. Fletcher
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, October 18, 2006; Page A01

On desks around the West Wing sit digital clocks counting down the days and hours left in the Bush presidency, reminders to the White House staff to use the time left as effectively as possible. As of 8 a.m. today, those clocks will read 825 days, four hours. But if the elections go the way pollsters and pundits predict, they might as well read 20 days.

At least that would be the end of George W. Bush's presidency as he has known it. If Democrats win one or both houses of Congress on Nov. 7, the result will transform the remainder of Bush's time in office and dramatically shift the balance of power in Washington.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/17/AR2006101701586.html?nav=rss_politics

tick tock, tick tock

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3. Bush Blames Clinton Again

George W. Bush, retreating to familiar ground, has blamed the Clinton administration for North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. But the official who brokered the Clinton-era deal with North Korea called the idea “ludicrous,” and defended his efforts.

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/200601012_bush_blames_clinton_again/

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4. poop head

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5. K,R&S

Kicked, rec'd, and stolen.

Er, borrowed.

I like it.

[Cha]

6. AirFarce One!

Indeed! Do you do these? They're so descriptive of the bushits in mickey mouse language.

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7. SPREAD THE LAME DUCK MEME!

While the push for the impeachment of George W. Bush seems unlikely as long as Capitol Hill is in Republican hands, the idea is to undermine his leadership. The priority of the Democrats right now should be to undercut Bush’s ability to lead effectively and, therefore, to prevent him from doing more harm to the nation and the world. Continuing the meme that Bush’s poll numbers have made him ineffective adds to the perception that Bush.

http://www.finktank3000.com/wordpress/?p=159

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8. Fiddling while Iraq burns

The president has suggested that resolving the situation in Iraq will be the responsibility of his successor, which is an inexcusable shirking of his responsibility as the nation's chief executive. American soldiers and Iraqi civilians cannot keep dying, America's tax dollars and even more-treasured moral standing cannot continue to be squandered while Mr. Bush dawdles through two years as a lame duck. President Bush, with the complicity of a negligent Congress, created this situation, and it is up to him to address it, even if there are no easy fixes to be found and the situation has grown worse in three wasted years.

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/editorials/ci_4546061

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9. A Lame Dork

:P

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10. More on (moron?) Mehlman

MSNBC's Battleground America let conservative misinformation fly

Tim Russert

In the hour hosted by NBC News Washington bureau chief and Meet the Press host Tim Russert, Russert failed to challenge a host of false and baseless claims by Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman.

In his first question, Russert cited an article by Nicole Duran in the October 24 edition of Roll Call, headlined "Love Chafee, Hate Bush," asking Mehlman whether he agreed with a pollster's depiction in the article that "(i)f Lincoln Chafee loses his race , it's because of President George W. Bush." But Russert left unchallenged Mehlman's response that, in 1998, Republicans "tried to make the election a referendum on President Clinton, while he was being impeached, we ended up losing six seats," a claim Mehlman made as purported evidence that "what's going to matter is who's on the ballot and the individual choices between the candidates running on the ballot." But, as Media Matters for America has previously noted, Mehlman's comparison to the situation now and then is baseless. While President Bush's job approval rating is currently in the 30s, Clinton's approval rating was never lower than 58 percent in 1998, according to the Gallup poll.

Mehlman then suggested that a Democratic Congress would come at the expense of "surrender the tools we've had after 9-11," a claim similar to one he made on the October 20 edition of NBC's Today, when he told co-host Meredith Vieira that a Democratic Congress would come at the expense of "all the post-9-11 tools we've had," as Media Matters documented. In fact, Democrats have repeatedly said that they support the employment of all effective tools in combating terrorism, in compliance with the law.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200610250015

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11. t-h-u--ki-ck

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