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  1. 1.

    Dreggas

    It often pisses me off how the White House treats the press corps like a bunch of complete chumps. But days like this make me wonder.

    Uh they’re treated the way they should be given the fact that they act like a bunch of chumps.

    C’mon Tim, these asshats are so addicted to being in the “Press Corps” that they wouldn’t risk their phoney-baloney jobs by asking REAL questions.

  2. 2.

    jenniebee

    /shrug. The WaPo wants us All To Be Wrong Together, at which point it can wash its hands of the culpability for this fiasco it shares with Judy Miller, Tim Russert, Tweety, et al, and they’re pissed that the Dems won’t play along. You say partisan, I say Insufferably Right, to-may-to to-mah-to.

  3. 3.

    The Other Steve

    Fuck this bipartisan nonsense. George Bush has used this war at every opportunity in the most divisive, cowardly manner. He entered into the war divisively, he’s defended it divisively.

    He fucking owns it.

    It’d be really pathetic of that loser if he handed this mess off to the next President.

  4. 4.

    Dungheap

    Looks like an effort to give “bipartisan” street cred to Cheney’s “80% Solution” and, of course, the WaPo op-ed page is where that water is carried best.

  5. 5.

    Bombadil

    It often pisses me off how the White House treats the press corps like a the bunch of complete chumps that they are.

    Fixed

  8. 8.

    ThymeZone

    It’d be really pathetic of that loser if he handed this mess off to the next President.

    Uh, he said he was going to do exactly that a long time ago.

    Later in the news conference, Bush was asked whether there would come a day when no U.S. forces are in Iraq.

    “That, of course, is an objective. And that will be decided by future presidents and future governments of Iraq,” he said.

    March 21, 2006

    Why the delayed outrage now? He’s doing what he said he would do.

  9. 9.

    Punchy

    Sorry to go OT, but without a open thread….

    I learned something today that I had COMPLETELY backwards…about immigration:

    Many Democrats don’t like the program because they think it drives down wages for American workers and creates a permanent underclass of immigrant workers. (Watch how the bill is already being blasted from all sides )

    Republicans generally favor a strong guest worker program because businesses say they need the labor.

    Am I the only person who incorrectly thought national Dems supported guest workers and R’s opposed them (b/c they oppose ALL brown-skinned peeps)? I’ll be dammed. I’m an idiot, apparently.

    As for Tim’s post…no, I’m not surprised. At all. Tim, we have FIFTH GRADERS running our gov’t. Remember that.

  10. 10.

    Tsulagi

    Great, another proposal for yet another act in the kabuki theater. Another corner waiting to be turned.

    So now we’re recycling old bullshit? Back to “They stand up, we stand down”? If the WH wanted to be useful idiots, how about they work on that political stuff getting the Iraqi government to stand up. Every military commander we’ve had in Iraq since 04 including now Petraeus has said our military alone will not solve/win this thing.

    Maybe Commander Guy could tell them it would be a good thing to step up and provide logistical support for their own army. Real governments/armies do that. As it stands now, if IAs want to wipe their ass, we provide the toilet paper.

    In late January after many months of warning, we cut off fuel deliveries to the IA. The goal being to have the Iraqi Ministry of Defense start providing some of their needs. They responded by stopping IA patrols. Which didn’t look good with The Surge starting so we’ve reopened the spigots.

    Like Cheney, Maliki and the Ministry of Defense has had other priorities. Implementing Republican brand government: corruption, cronyism, and productive no-bid contracts. Necessary lube for democracy Bush Republican style.

  11. 11.

    Punchy

    Holy crap:

    Al Hurra television, the U.S. government’s $63 million-a-year effort at public diplomacy broadcasting in the Middle East, is run by executives and officials who cannot speak Arabic, according to a senior official who oversees the program.

    That might explain why critics say the service has recently been caught broadcasting terrorist messages, including an hour-long tirade on the importance of anti-Jewish violence, among other questionable pieces.

    Facing tough questions before a congressional panel last week, Broadcasting Board of Governors member Joaquin Blaya admitted none of the senior news managers at the network spoke Arabic when the terrorist messages made it onto the air courtesy of U.S. taxpayer funds. Nor did Blaya himself or any of the other officials at the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees the network

    .

    An HOUR went by before anyone in the station knew they were broadcasting a terrorist’s message? And with $63 MILL they can’t find a SINGLE Iraqi to help them translate? Wow. Just….wow.

  12. 12.

    Bombadil

    And with $63 MILL they can’t find a SINGLE Iraqi to help them translate? Wow. Just….wow.

    They had one, but he was gay.

  13. 13.

    Bubblegum Tate

    And with $63 MILL they can’t find a SINGLE Iraqi to help them translate?

    Well, there aren’t really any Iraqis who were Republican staffers and/or worked on the Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign. So you can see the bind the administration is in.

  14. 14.

    jg

    It often pisses me off how the White House treats the press corps like a bunch of complete chumps.

    It pisses me off when the wingnuts cheer this. They don’t realize that shitting on the press, just like shitting on congress, is shitting on the american people. The White House is saying they don’t have to speak to us. We can’t question them. They dress it up as protecting the country but its simply contempt.

  15. 15.

    Tsulagi

    And with $63 MILL they can’t find a SINGLE Iraqi to help them translate? Wow. Just….wow.

    They had one, but he was gay.

    Or suspected of being pro-choice. Or both. You can’t be too vigilant during the GSAVE.

  16. 16.

    The Other Steve

    Am I the only person who incorrectly thought national Dems supported guest workers and R’s opposed them (b/c they oppose ALL brown-skinned peeps)? I’ll be dammed. I’m an idiot, apparently.

    “North Dakota Democrat Sen. Byron Dorgan’s amendment would eliminate the guest worker program entirely.”

    Well God Bless Byron Dorgan.

    I hope that fucking bill dies.

  17. 17.

    Rome Again

    Am I the only person who incorrectly thought national Dems supported guest workers and R’s opposed them (b/c they oppose ALL brown-skinned peeps)? I’ll be dammed. I’m an idiot, apparently.

    Shhh! This is just a way for the GOP to try to win some of the hispanic vote they know they’d lose otherwise.

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