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themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 2821
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 10:52 pm: | 
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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/25/snow-on-bush/
– Bush has “lost control of the federal budget and cannot resist the temptation to stop raiding the public fisc.” [3/17/06]
– “George W. Bush and his colleagues have become not merely the custodians of the largest government in the history of humankind, but also exponents of its vigorous expansion.” [3/17/06]
– “President Bush distilled the essence of his presidency in this year’s State of the Union Address: brilliant foreign policy and listless domestic policy.” [2/3/06]
– “George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.” [11/11/05]
– Bush “has a habit of singing from the Political Correctness hymnal.” [10/7/05]
– “No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.” [9/30/05]
– Bush “has given the impression that [he] is more eager to please than lead, and that political opponents can get their way if they simply dig in their heels and behave like petulant trust-fund brats, demanding money and favor — now!” [9/30/05]
– “When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who can’t say no. In each of his three years at the helm, the president has warned Congress to restrain its spending appetites, but so far nobody has pushed away from the table mainly because the president doesn’t seem to mean what he says.” [The Detroit News, 12/28/03]
– “The president doesn’t seem to give a rip about spending restraint.” [The Detroit News, 12/28/03]
– “Bush, for all his personal appeal, ultimately bolstered his detractors’ claims that he didn’t have the drive and work ethic to succeed.” [11/16/00]
– “Little in the character of demeanor of Al Gore or George Bush makes us say to ourselves: Now, this man is truly special! Little in our present peace and prosperity impels us to say: Give us a great man!” [8/25/00]
– “George W. Bush, meanwhile, talks of a pillowy America, full of niceness and goodwill. Bush has inherited his mother’s attractive feistiness, but he also got his father’s syntax. At one point last week, he stunned a friendly audience by barking out absurd and inappropriate words, like a soul tortured with Tourette’s.” [8/25/00]
– “He recently tried to dazzle reporters by discussing the vagaries of Congressional Budget Office economic forecasts, but his recitation of numbers proved so bewildering that not even his aides could produce a comprehensible translation. The English Language has become a minefield for the man, whose malaprops make him the political heir not of Ronald Reagan, but Norm Crosby.” [8/25/00]
– “On the policy side, he has become a classical dime-store Democrat. He gladly will shovel money into programs that enjoy undeserved prestige, such as Head Start. He seems to consider it mean-spirited to shut down programs that rip-off taxpayers and mislead supposed beneficiaries.” [8/25/00] |
Rastro
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Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2941
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 12:47 am: |
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Don't forget "Yes Mr. President, I'd be happy to be your new Press Secretary, as long as I have a say in policy decisions." |
Bob K
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 11319
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 8:35 am: |
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Today's NY Times says he is going to take the job. He thinks he has an agreement that will give him access to the President and that he will be in the inner circle. LOL
Tony probably isn't a bad choice. He knows the news biz, both print and TV/radio and comes across as a stand up guy. I don't, however, see him taking being lied to and sent out to the wolves as was the case with Scotty. This should be interesting. |
Darryl Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 7092
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 8:46 am: |
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Tony is a friend of mine..Fantastic choice. |
us2inFL
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Username: Us2innj
Post Number: 1423
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 8:54 am: |
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Tony is a friend of mine too. Oh no, wait, that's from "The Shining."
Let's all start talking to our index finger. |
Nohero
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Username: Nohero
Post Number: 5336
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 9:30 am: |
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On the plus side -
He's moving from a Fox News anchor job to being the official mouthpiece of the Administration.
So, not much of a "learning curve" for him there.  |
Darryl Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 7093
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 10:05 am: |
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True, both jobs require that you be honest. Now if he were coming from CBS.. |
notehead
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Username: Notehead
Post Number: 3208
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 10:07 am: |
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us2, that's FUNNY!!  |
themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 2822
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 10:17 am: |
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From those quotes, you get the sense that TS is REALLY conservative, and filled with a kind of rage. |
Nohero
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Username: Nohero
Post Number: 5337
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 10:42 am: |
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If the Tony Snow move works well, future job placements will include Michelle Malkin for the Immigration Service, Sean Hannity for Secretary of Education, Nancy Grace as Attorney General, and Ann Coulter as Secretary of State. |
themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 2825
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 10:43 am: |
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Bush pronounced "Gannett" as "G'nay" in the press conference introducing Snow?
What is he, an idiot?
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tom
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Username: Tom
Post Number: 4818
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 1:59 pm: |
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Quote:True, both jobs require that you be honest.
Thanks, I needed a good chuckle to start the day. Let me tell you something, even when a Dem is president I don't expect honesty (as commonly understood) from the press secretary. I expect spin, artful dodging, rephrasing of the question, and a whole host of other tactics to avoid unpleasant truths.
On the other hand, I don't expect lying. I can't say that the Bush press office has lived up to that standard. And the first time Snow says something that contradicts one of the above quotes, either he's not being honest now, or he wasn't honest then. Pick 'em. |
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