Bush lied about keeping Rumfeld

[yogib37 3]

Memo to Democrats: Don't buy into Bush's act

November 9, 2006 8:35 AM | Rant | 30 Comments .

By DOUG THOMPSON

President George W. Bush decided before Tuesday's mid-term elections to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld but lied, once again, to the press and the American people about his intentions.

Bush admitted Wednesday that he interviewed former CIA director Robert M. Gates over the weekend for Rumsfeld's job and said he intentionally misled reporters last week about the defense secretary's future to avoid making the Iraq war more of an issue in the election.

More of an issue? The Iraq war, and Bush's mishandling of it, was the issue in Tuesday's rout that swept Democrats back into power in both the House and Senate.

110906bush.jpgOnce again, Bush proved himself unaware of the obvious and oblivious to the voter anger that sent Republicans packing. He blamed GOP losses on voter ignorance, saying Americans didn't understand the war in Iraq. He chastised political guru Karl Rove, saying "I obviously was working harder in the campaign than he was." He later would claim the line was a joke but it wasn't. Bush was clearly pissed at everyone involved in Tuesday's election debacle.

Everyone but himself.

Wednesday's press conference was classic Bush. Offer up Rumsfeld as the first of what some expect will be a number of scapegoats for the Tuesday massacre, avoid accepting responsibility for his own culpability and talk about how he hopes to work with Democrats after six years of riding roughshod over them.

When asked about the outrageous claims he made about incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats during the election, saying they favored victory by terrorists, Bush dismissed his inflammatory rhetoric as "just politics."

"The election is over," Bush said. "It's time to move on."

Yet it's hard to move on with a President who openly admits lying and then rationalizes that lying as "just politics."

Bush's disregard for the truth is just one of his many ethical problems and moral lapses. He lives in a delusional world of his own making, a political allegory that mocks morality, ethics and the law. In his warped mind, all is fair in politics. He and his party proved that over and over in this past election season, using fear, racism, bigotry, homophobia and outright lies to try and hold on to power.

Now that he's lost, he wants to make nice and demands that the opposition forgive and forget.

A recommendation for incoming Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid: Don't fall for Dubya's act. He's a venomous political snake who will turn and bite at the first opportunity because that's what snakes do.

Don't turn your backs on him, don't trust him for a nanosecond and don't believe for an instant that he serves any interest but his own.

George W. Bush proved this past week that he will sell out anyone - including his own administration and his party's leaders in Congress. If, last week, he had announced his decision to replace Donald Rumsfeld, it might have swayed enough voters to keep at least the Senate in GOP hands.

But Bush, for reasons lost somewhere in his deranged mind, decided to lie again to the American people. It was, in the end, another desperate, unexplainable, act by a madman.

source:

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/news2/2006/...ng_to_dems.html

[Sinergy 3]

This doesnt surprise me, i havent believed anything hes said since he was in office, its not like im shocked to here AGAIN lies fly from his mouth like flies circle a horses a$$.

[almaty 19]

bush= liar.....just another in a long line of bullshit ...

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I watched the news conference video and it was interesting to see the change of expressions and his voice inflections as he first justified why he lied about his intentions with Rumsfeld and then it was like it suddenly dawned on him that he just said he can excuse some lies. Interesting how the Clinton lynch mob (he lied, he lied) will make of this...because...afterall... a lie is a lie.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I guess Bush wears flip-flops too

[Sinergy 3]

Hes better off just sitting in his corner reading "my pet goat" and not talking or trying to think at all

Edited November 9, 2006 by Ionescu

[rebeccajo 14]

I watched the news conference video and it was interesting to see the change of expressions and his voice inflections as he first justified why he lied about his intentions with Rumsfeld and then it was like it suddenly dawned on him that he just said he can excuse some lies......

Yes. Unless you saw the news conference you sort of miss the whole concept. I actually kind of 'got' his explanation that it might not have been the type of thing to disclose right before an election, until he started trying to re-explain what he had just explained. It reminded me of a line from an old Bill Cosby routine 'No mom I wasn't running through the house.....it was just my legs moving really fast'.........

He really wouldn't make a very good poker player.

[mawilson 2,133]

because...afterall... a lie is a lie.

Well....no, unless it's under oath.

[Cristy 4]

Bush lied? WHATTTTTT?? Say it ain't so.

[Heracles 417]

Boy did I see this coming.

The whole democrat campaign was about staying the course and now apparently his in the wrong by changing course.

What I will be waiting to see is if the Democrats can walk the talk.. I guess the difference between myself and 95% of the US Democrats is that even though I disagree with their approach and ideology, I want democrats to succeed and better the nation.

[almaty 19]

how honorable

[Sinergy 3]

how honorable

[Heracles 417]

how honorable

Much like the babies who support democrats. You have your toy now so you can stop whining..

The old saying goes , the squeakiest wheel gets the most attention...

Edited November 9, 2006 by Infidel

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I watched the news conference video and it was interesting to see the change of expressions and his voice inflections as he first justified why he lied about his intentions with Rumsfeld and then it was like it suddenly dawned on him that he just said he can excuse some lies......

Yes. Unless you saw the news conference you sort of miss the whole concept. I actually kind of 'got' his explanation that it might not have been the type of thing to disclose right before an election, until he started trying to re-explain what he had just explained. It reminded me of a line from an old Bill Cosby routine 'No mom I wasn't running through the house.....it was just my legs moving really fast'.........

He really wouldn't make a very good poker player.

Yep.

because...afterall... a lie is a lie.

Well....no, unless it's under oath.

If that were the only criteria, have I got a few things I'd like to lie to you about.

Here's something worth reading regarding perjury... (agree with it or not...it's a solid argument)

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-clintonperjury.html

[Sinergy 3]

how honorable

Much like the babies who support democrats. You have your toy now so you can stop whining..

The old saying goes , the squeakiest wheel gets the most attention...

babies? the only babies are the ones who act like it by subjecting themselves to namecalling.

and dems only whined bc there was a huge reason to do so, the bush admin is incompitent and well the leader of them all a horrific lier.