Posted on 01/31/2007 3:22:15 PM PST by IntelliQuark
I agree. W. got off the phone and had a good laugh.
when you get liberal lite with the gop, it isn't worth fighting for the difference
bad public relations move
par for the course since day one
Thanks.
On what grounds did they reject it, do you know what Bush's terms were, that they were so adverse too?
Maybe what he's thinking, but these things always have propaganda value ... something Bush seems not to understand. It's a big mistake. It will elevate the sorts of tame (meaning, inarticulate and nonpartisan) "Republicans" as spokespeople for the party, thereby allowing the Rats to claim that both parties now oppose the Iraq war.
This "silly show" has been going on for almost four years now, in terms of opposition to the Iraq war. It damned near got Bush defeated. It has convinced most of the public the war was a mistake, and much of the public that we should just give up.
But since this has the president's permission, its inevitable troublemaking will be used against him.
Bush's political IQ is in the toilet.
Another "bipartisan" group made up entirely of leftists. No shock there.
For all the support the President is getting from his Republican allies in Congress he may as well work with Pelosi. What was it Michael said to Frankie Fiveangels? "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
Bush really never had terms because he really has nothing to do with congress and what the congressional rats do. I think they were using President Bush's name because they needed to justify with their fringe base why they originally rejected the idea of an Iraqi committee.
I don't think it's a permission but more of a whatever because if congress wants to set up a committee they don't need permission to do so. Congress is all posture and no action and President Bush knows it.
There is no "working with" involved here. The Rats saw a chance to use this stupid idea of the president's as a platform for furthering their cut-and-run views. Then they raised him, and, incredibly, Bush let them control it completely. This committee will simply bash our policy and the president. He asked for it.
This 1 party system stinks already.
He handed them propaganda value then. Big mistake.
sounds to me like he gets to pick his own firing squad....
It was Bush's idea. For this reason, and because there will be "Republicans" as well as Rats, it will have the status of a Washington "Wise Man" commission in the eyes of the media and the public. Very dumb move -- the president has dropped a significant propaganda tool in the laps of the Democrats. Now all their borderline-treasonous ranting will have the respectability of a presidential commission.
Like all revolutionaries, the Democrats' great strength is that they have the will to act and get their socialist programs across. What is needed is an opposition party in Washington.
Bush has proved to be a wimp leading a gaggle of wimps who live in fear of the day they will have to confront anything. Poor America!
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