Poor Bush had a week that reeked
US SUNDAY MORNING: INSTEAD OF 'BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S' THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:
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POOR BUSH HAD A WEEK THAT REEKED
AND ONLY 27% OF AMERICANS BACK HIS IRAQ POLICY: A NEW LOW
by Thomas M. Defrank - Daily News Washington bureau chief.
WASHINGTON - Sunday, December 10th, 2006 - For a wounded President* locked in a lethal downward spiral ever since his reelection, it was the cruelest week of all.
Not since Bill Clinton forlornly insisted that "the President is still relevant" after being trounced in the 1994 mid-term elections (no elections - vote fraud) has a President* struggled so hard to salvage his political traction.
In 72 hours last week, a bipartisan commission ('Bipartisan'? Pepsi or Coca Cola?) harshly repudiated Bush's Iraq policy. Incoming Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told senators the U.S. isn't winning the war. Then a British journalist snarkily asked at a White House press conference if Bush weren't "in denial" about Iraq.*
For good measure, a new poll found only 27% of Americans back his Iraq policy, a new low. And a moderate GOP senator termed the policy "absurd" and possibly criminal.
"He'll be fine but he can't be doing very good," said a well-placed Bush source who talks with the President often.
"IT'S BEEN A TERRIBLE YEAR, AND IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE."
Yet Bush is described by another recent visitor as still resolutely defiant, convinced history will ultimately vindicate him.
"I'll be dead when they get it right," he said during an Oval Office meeting last week.
Another Bush confidant, however, says the President reluctantly understands an Iraq course correction is mandatory:
"He is determined not to let Iraq go up in smoke and start a slaughter. But he knows something's got to give here. It just has to. We're going to start a pullout. The only question is when."
Despite the Democratic takeover of Capitol Hill and the steady cavalcade of grim news from Iraq, White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and political guru Karl Rove - (Bush's 'Turdblossom' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ygj8pj) - are busily overseeing Bush's State of the Union address, scheduled for Jan. 23.
Outside Republican sources report that except for isolated pockets of realism, the West Wing bunker hasn't yet absorbed Bush's diminished power. - [http://tinyurl.com/w97ua]
"The White House is totally constipated," a former aide complained. "There's not enough adult leadership, and the 30-year-olds still think it's 2000 and they're riding high."
One White House assistant insisted to a friend last week that the election was merely a repudiation of Bush's execution, not his policies.
"They don't get it," a GOP mandarin snapped. "The Iraq report was their brass ring to pivot and salvage the last two years, and they didn't grab it."
EVEN IF THE CHAOS IN IRAQ SUBSIDES, PROSPECTS FOR OTHER BUSH ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN THE TWILIGHT OF HIS TERM ARE DIFFICULT AT BEST.
"Short of doing something on Iraq, there's not much good he can do anymore," a key Bush adviser conceded.
A senior Republican official who enjoys excellent relations with the White House was even more downbeat.
"We will get an immigration bill, and the President will make a valiant but doomed attempt at entitlement reform," he said. "But we are looking at two frustrating years of gridlock and several foreign policy failures."
With Kenneth R. Bazinet
Story at New York Daily News - Url.: http://www.nydailynews.com
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* BUSH & DENIAL: ‘IT’S BAD IN IRAQ. THAT HELP?’ - At a press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a reporter asked President Bush whether his use of the word “unsettling” to describe the violence in Iraq would “convince many people that you’re still in denial about how bad things are in Iraq.” Bush responded curtly, “It’s bad in Iraq. That help?” and then chuckled.' - Watch and read it at Url.: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/07/bush-denial/
* RELATED INFORMATION at one of the best info web sites "Information Clearing House" - Url.: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/index.html
* CRIMINAL YOU SAID? - US ''PATRIOT DAILY'' list of Bush’s violations of the law for March 2006: Violations of US laws in general, civil rights, and international laws. - Url.: http://www.patriotdaily.com/bm/blog/bushs-impeachment-as-seri.shtml
* GEORGIA CONGRESSWOMAN MCKINNEY HAS LONG INSISTED THAT BUSH WAS NEVER ELECTED LEGITIMATELY ANDINTRODUCED A BILL TO IMPEACH BUSH - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yyyqgb
* BUSH'S BANANA REPUBLIC - BY FRANCIS BOYLE - GEORGE W. BUSH WAS NEVER ELECTED PRESIDENT by the People of the United States of America. Instead, he was anointed for that Office by five Justices of the United States Supreme Court who themselves had been appointed by Republican Presidents. Bush Jr.'s installation was an act of judicial usurpation of the American Constitution that was unprecedented in the history of the American Republic. - More at Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yk39xn
* KNOW THE WELL FROM WHICH PEOPLE GLOBALLY ARE DRINKING: 'AP' (ASSOCIATED PRESS) NOW STANDS FOR 'AMERICAN PROPAGANDA' - Just one example: ''AP Propaganda About Iraq'' - by Dahr Jamail - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y6l59e
* HOW THE US JUNTA'S POWER VIA PROPAGANDA IS SPREAD - ASSOCIATED PRESS DECIDES? - From AxisofLogic.com - News Article - Oct. 28, 2004 - Vote fraud? - As Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin said: ''It's not important who votes. The people who count the votes decide." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5zosu
* THE NATION - ''IS AL QAEDA JUST A BUSH BOOGEYMAN?'' - BBC: 'The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/acnjy
* "WAR CRIMINALS, BEWARE!" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y7wr67
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[The 'omissions' in the (mainstream) text are commented in short in ( ) or get a *]
POOR BUSH HAD A WEEK THAT REEKED
AND ONLY 27% OF AMERICANS BACK HIS IRAQ POLICY: A NEW LOW
by Thomas M. Defrank - Daily News Washington bureau chief.
WASHINGTON - Sunday, December 10th, 2006 - For a wounded President* locked in a lethal downward spiral ever since his reelection, it was the cruelest week of all.
Not since Bill Clinton forlornly insisted that "the President is still relevant" after being trounced in the 1994 mid-term elections (no elections - vote fraud) has a President* struggled so hard to salvage his political traction.
In 72 hours last week, a bipartisan commission ('Bipartisan'? Pepsi or Coca Cola?) harshly repudiated Bush's Iraq policy. Incoming Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told senators the U.S. isn't winning the war. Then a British journalist snarkily asked at a White House press conference if Bush weren't "in denial" about Iraq.*
For good measure, a new poll found only 27% of Americans back his Iraq policy, a new low. And a moderate GOP senator termed the policy "absurd" and possibly criminal.
"He'll be fine but he can't be doing very good," said a well-placed Bush source who talks with the President often.
"IT'S BEEN A TERRIBLE YEAR, AND IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE."
Yet Bush is described by another recent visitor as still resolutely defiant, convinced history will ultimately vindicate him.
"I'll be dead when they get it right," he said during an Oval Office meeting last week.
Another Bush confidant, however, says the President reluctantly understands an Iraq course correction is mandatory:
"He is determined not to let Iraq go up in smoke and start a slaughter. But he knows something's got to give here. It just has to. We're going to start a pullout. The only question is when."
Despite the Democratic takeover of Capitol Hill and the steady cavalcade of grim news from Iraq, White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and political guru Karl Rove - (Bush's 'Turdblossom' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ygj8pj) - are busily overseeing Bush's State of the Union address, scheduled for Jan. 23.
Outside Republican sources report that except for isolated pockets of realism, the West Wing bunker hasn't yet absorbed Bush's diminished power. - [http://tinyurl.com/w97ua]
"The White House is totally constipated," a former aide complained. "There's not enough adult leadership, and the 30-year-olds still think it's 2000 and they're riding high."
One White House assistant insisted to a friend last week that the election was merely a repudiation of Bush's execution, not his policies.
"They don't get it," a GOP mandarin snapped. "The Iraq report was their brass ring to pivot and salvage the last two years, and they didn't grab it."
EVEN IF THE CHAOS IN IRAQ SUBSIDES, PROSPECTS FOR OTHER BUSH ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN THE TWILIGHT OF HIS TERM ARE DIFFICULT AT BEST.
"Short of doing something on Iraq, there's not much good he can do anymore," a key Bush adviser conceded.
A senior Republican official who enjoys excellent relations with the White House was even more downbeat.
"We will get an immigration bill, and the President will make a valiant but doomed attempt at entitlement reform," he said. "But we are looking at two frustrating years of gridlock and several foreign policy failures."
With Kenneth R. Bazinet
Story at New York Daily News - Url.: http://www.nydailynews.com
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* BUSH & DENIAL: ‘IT’S BAD IN IRAQ. THAT HELP?’ - At a press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a reporter asked President Bush whether his use of the word “unsettling” to describe the violence in Iraq would “convince many people that you’re still in denial about how bad things are in Iraq.” Bush responded curtly, “It’s bad in Iraq. That help?” and then chuckled.' - Watch and read it at Url.: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/07/bush-denial/
* RELATED INFORMATION at one of the best info web sites "Information Clearing House" - Url.: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/index.html
* CRIMINAL YOU SAID? - US ''PATRIOT DAILY'' list of Bush’s violations of the law for March 2006: Violations of US laws in general, civil rights, and international laws. - Url.: http://www.patriotdaily.com/bm/blog/bushs-impeachment-as-seri.shtml
* GEORGIA CONGRESSWOMAN MCKINNEY HAS LONG INSISTED THAT BUSH WAS NEVER ELECTED LEGITIMATELY ANDINTRODUCED A BILL TO IMPEACH BUSH - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yyyqgb
* BUSH'S BANANA REPUBLIC - BY FRANCIS BOYLE - GEORGE W. BUSH WAS NEVER ELECTED PRESIDENT by the People of the United States of America. Instead, he was anointed for that Office by five Justices of the United States Supreme Court who themselves had been appointed by Republican Presidents. Bush Jr.'s installation was an act of judicial usurpation of the American Constitution that was unprecedented in the history of the American Republic. - More at Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yk39xn
* KNOW THE WELL FROM WHICH PEOPLE GLOBALLY ARE DRINKING: 'AP' (ASSOCIATED PRESS) NOW STANDS FOR 'AMERICAN PROPAGANDA' - Just one example: ''AP Propaganda About Iraq'' - by Dahr Jamail - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y6l59e
* HOW THE US JUNTA'S POWER VIA PROPAGANDA IS SPREAD - ASSOCIATED PRESS DECIDES? - From AxisofLogic.com - News Article - Oct. 28, 2004 - Vote fraud? - As Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin said: ''It's not important who votes. The people who count the votes decide." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5zosu
* THE NATION - ''IS AL QAEDA JUST A BUSH BOOGEYMAN?'' - BBC: 'The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/acnjy
* "WAR CRIMINALS, BEWARE!" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y7wr67
* FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information.
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Editor: Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/gpr4j
The Netherlands
fpf@chello.nl
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