I watch the thing, then I watched the analysis and read the coverage.
The MSM is either not seeing what I'm seeing, or they are a bunch of P.R. PROPAGANDISTS for Bush!
The guy was an arrogant asshole yesterday, and the MSM just BENT OVER AGAIN!
"Bush threatens lawmakers' pet projects; Says Democrats failing on vow to cut earmarks" by Peter Baker, Washington Post | December 21, 2007
WASHINGTON - President Bush threatened yesterday to cancel thousands of pet projects that Congress inserted into a massive spending bill before leaving town this week.
Bush, at an end-of-the-year news conference, said he has ordered his budget director "to review options for dealing with the wasteful spending in the omnibus bill."
Aides later said those options would include simply disregarding earmarks not included in binding legislative language.
Yup, like he's DISREGARDING EVERYTHING these last seven years!
Sig Heil!
Bush said he asked Jim Nussle, director of the Office of Management and Budget, to present him with possible actions to take, although he would not elaborate. One option, aides said, would be to ignore the vast majority of earmarks that are included only in conference reports rather than in the appropriations bill itself. Although traditionally honored, language in such reports is not legally binding.
Can you say DICTATORSHIP, ladies and gentlemen?
Because America is IN ONE NOW!
Brian Riedl, a Heritage Foundation scholar who issued a memo outlining ways to do so:
"There's always been an opportunity for the president to issue an executive order essentially canceling most of the earmarks. Generally, it's been perceived as a declaration of nuclear war for the president not to spend congressional earmarks. But with more than 11,000 of them, it seems like the president might consider it time."
Yeah, I wouldn't worry about this impotent Congress and their reaction too much.
"Republican Unity Trumps Democratic Momentum"
That's just a link. Back to Baker:
Under such a plan, the appropriated money would still be spent on the purpose in the bill, but not necessarily on the intended recipient.
Oh, so BUSH could GIVE IT OUT to HIS FRIENDS!
Critics say earmarks are a way to funnel money to projects or organizations without a review of the merits. Another option Bush aides said they are reviewing is interpreting vaguely worded earmarks in a different way from what their sponsors intended.
Sean Kevelighan, an OMB spokesman, cautioned that Bush will not necessarily follow through on them:
"Certainly those are all options and there are probably some more options. [Nussle will] make some recommendations and those recommendations may or may not entail taking some action."
According to a preliminary count by Taxpayers for Common Sense, a group that fights earmarks, the giant spending bill sent to Bush included 8,983 projects worth $7.4 billion. A separate Defense Department spending bill signed by Bush included another 2,162 earmarks worth $7.9 billion. That brings the total to 11,145 worth $15.3 billion, although the group is still counting and the number will probably rise.
Yup, he didn't mind the MILITARY EARMARKS worth a WHOLE LOT MORE $$$$$$$!!!!
Yup, ALL THIS MONEY for pet projects while the American people suffer under this mad dictator!
When the counting is done, this year's earmarks will probably be about 25 percent less costly than the all-time high in 2005.
And yet asshole was out there ripping the DemocraPs!!
When he had NO PROBLEM WITH THE WASTE when it was REPUBLICAN CRONIES getting the $$$$.
Bush also said Congress had not renewed a government eavesdropping bill to combat terrorism and said that should be a first priority when lawmakers return in January."
Well, FUCK HIM and his fucking spying shit!
That FUCKING LIAR!
And yet the NYT does the Louisiana Lip-Lock on Bushie:
"Despite ‘High Note,’ Bush Scolds Congress as Wasteful" by STEVEN LEE MYERS
Yup, but not as wasteful as your asshole Repuglican friends, you fucking shitbag president!
WASHINGTON — Having beaten back most of the Democrats’ legislative initiatives, President Bush chided Congress on Thursday for wasteful spending and announced that his budget director would seek ways to reverse some of the thousands of spending projects attached to a huge spending bill.
Mr. Bush said he and the Congress had ended the year “on a high note,” welcoming a new energy bill, provisions to help people struggling to refinance mortgages, a deferral of the alternative minimum tax that could have affected millions of middle-class taxpayers and an agreement on a $555 billion spending plan that avoided new taxes.
But reflecting the partisan divides that overshadowed those accomplishments, he promptly criticized Congress, citing a sluggish pace of work, refusal to adopt other pieces of legislation important to the White House and its affection for pet spending projects known as earmarks.
Mr. Bush said, returning to a near-constant theme of accusing the Democrats who control Congress of fiscal irresponsibility:
“The omnibus bill was approved at the last minute, nearly three months after the end of the fiscal year. When Congress wastes so much time and leaves its work to the final days before Christmas, it is not a responsible way to run this government.”
Yeah, and NEITHER is CARRYING OUT FALSE-FLAG BLACK-OPERATIONS against your OWN COUNTRY so you can GO to WAR based upon LIES, ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The flurry of activity virtually ending the first session of the 110th Congress left many issues unresolved, setting the stage for new confrontations when Congress returns after the holidays. They include expanding a federal health care program for children, extending legislation allowing intelligence agencies to monitor communications and approving more spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Congress has so far agreed to $70 billion of the $196 billion the White House has requested in emergency spending for the wars.
Mr. Bush offered no indication that he would be any more compromising with the Democrats:
“Next year is an election year, but that does not relieve us of our responsibility to carry out the people’s business. The American people did not elect us to govern in odd years and campaign in even years.”
Don't speak for me, asshole, lest I get some of your shitslime on me, fuckpoke!!!!!!!!!!!
And that is spooky. You NOT LEAVING, are you, George?
For Mr. Bush and the White House, who began the year facing Democratic majorities in Congress, the mood near the end of the session was almost ebullient.
Why wouldn't it be?
He got to ram the big, fat dildo up the Congress' ass -- AGAIN!!!!
After shoring up wavering support for Iraq from Republicans in the summer, the White House managed to keep the party united, defeating Democratic initiatives, even if failing to win Mr. Bush’s own proposals, most prominently changes in immigration laws.
Candi Wolff, White House director of legislative affairs, in an interview, describing the president’s ability to hold his party:
“On taxes, and national security issues generally, Republicans are in lockstep. We could hold the House on most votes at 146, and therefore had the veto-sustaining strength to say that bad legislation can’t get through.”
With a DICTATOR!
At his news conference, Mr. Bush said that the budget director, James A. Nussle, would review 9,800 earmarks in the last spending bill, along with 2,100 more attached to a military spending bill passed earlier.
Mr. Nussle’s spokesman, Sean M. Kevelighan, said the administration could seek to cut or redirect some spending projects approved by Congress.
Mr. Kevelighan, adding that it was too soon to say what, if any, spending projects could be eliminated or changed:
“There are potential options available.”
Like spending that money on IRAQ?
Sig Heil!
Frustrated Democrats accused the president of hypocrisy for attacking them after years of increasing spending under a Republican-controlled Congress. They responded by saying the earmarks in current spending bill were far more transparent — and so less wasteful — than those passed by Republican majorities during Mr. Bush’s presidency.
Did you hear something, readers?
Sounded like a small insignificant whine, but it's gone now!
And how about this little trick before the Congress skedaddled?
"Gone for the Holidays, but Leaving a Light on (Got It, Mr. President?)" by DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
WASHINGTON — Ultimately, sullen Senate Democrats agreed before heading home to provide $70 billion of the additional $196 billion President Bush had demanded for war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So imagine the surprise when staff members in the House looked at the bill on Wednesday and realized that it mistakenly included more than $100 billion for the war. The Senate quickly got the bill back from the House Rules Committee, repaired the mistake and sent it to be approved."
What, were they hoping the House wouldn't notice?
As for the IMPEACHABLE ISSUES, the Times bent over:
"House Panel Subpoenas C.I.A. Official Over Destroyed Tapes" by MARK MAZZETTI and STEVEN LEE MYERS
WASHINGTON — President Bush said Thursday that he was confident that a preliminary inquiry by the Justice Department and the C.I.A., along with Congressional investigations, would “end up enabling us to find out what exactly happened.”
Like he doesn't already know what has happened.
IMPEACH!
In a news conference, Mr. Bush disputed a suggestion that White House officials had been ambiguous about when he learned about the destruction of the tapes. Echoing earlier comments, Mr. Bush said he learned about the tapes only on Dec. 6, when Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the C.I.A. director, briefed him about them. That was the day after The New York Times notified the C.I.A. that it was planning to publish an article about the tapes.
He's such a damn liar!
And the MSM press let's him get away with it!
They LAUGH when he SHITS IN THEIR FACE!!!!!!!!
Mr. Bush declined to comment about whether he agreed with the decision to destroy the tapes:
“Let’s wait and see what the facts are.”
I'm sick of this lying megalomaniac!
Mr. Bush, when asked whether he was concerned that his administration once again faced criticism about its handling of terror suspects, broadly defended the aggressive interrogation methods.
Bush appeared to acknowledge the damage these disclosures could do to America’s reputation abroad:
“We’re asking people to do hard things, for starters, which is intercept and find terrorists, and to spread freedom. I don’t want people to get the wrong impression of our country, but I’m not surprised we get criticized on a variety of fronts.”
What a SHITBAG!!!
Yup, SPREADING "DEMOCRACY" through MASS-MURDER and TORTURE!!
FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like he even gives a shit about what others think.
Bush has made it clear, HE DOESN'T CARE WHAT ANYONE THINKS, nor WHAT the FACTS ARE!!!!
So, FUCK HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!
