Bush Calls for 'Big Things' From Congress

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) welcomed newly elected members of Congress to town Monday with a call "to achieve big things," beginning with help for foreigners devastated by the tsunami.
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But he said he also wants to make his mark in his second term by reforming Social Security (news - web sites) and the legal system; improving the tax code, school standards and the budget process; and making health care accessible to more Americans.

"I want to confront problems, and I will," Bush said, looking out at dozens of new lawmakers and their spouses gathered in the East Room. "I'll call upon Congress to take on big issues, and I look forward to working with members of both parties to do just that."

Bush campaigned in both of his presidential elections on reaching out across party lines. Yet he often leaves behind any lawmakers who don't get on board his agenda.

"This town is sometimes too partisan and too political," Bush said. "And my hope is, is that we can show the nation that we can come together to achieve big things for the good of the country."

Bush thanked the newly elected members and their spouses for their public service. He said politics is "the ultimate sacrifice."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20050103/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

[Solly Mack]

1. politics is the ultimate sacrifice? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

please note he didn't say "public service"

[Rose Siding]

6. Pretty stupid thing for him to say

as the US death toll in Iraq for Dec is rivised up today.

He's a pol through and through; He says whatever his audience wants to hear most.

[YDogg]

19. The only solace I take ...

... is that years from now people will universally recognize how evil he is/was. I hope. Bastard.

[newscott]

17. Yes

We're going to sacrifice Social Security.
We're going to sacrifice your health care.
We're going to sacrifice your children in hairbrained wars.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. POLITICS is "the ultimate sacrifice"??

WTF is wrong with that guy? Maybe the parents of the soldiers killed in Iraq could argue with that statement.

[wolfgirl]

4. Hey...our soldiers dying in Iraq/Afghanistan are

making the ultimate sacrifice due to politics..so Bush didn't misspeak after all.

[rwenos]

3. Overstatement and Bushwa

The statements you quoted are why Bush makes educated people crazy. No sane person would contend that giving up a career in the private sector for government is "the ultimate sacrifice." Dying on the battlefield (Gettysburg, Flanders, Normandy, Iwo, Inchon, the Iron Triangle, Falluja) is the "ultiimate sacrifice."

This systematic overstatement really bothers me. It devalues true "ultimate sacrifice." It's illiterate.

This man is the Leader of the Free World. Thanks a bunch, Ohio.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. What "Free World"?

Whatever world that fuckwit is the leader of, it sure isn't free any more.

[Dudley_DUright]

7. Bush said that politics is "the ultimate sacrifice"???

That is just about the most obscene thing I have yet heard from this idiot considering how eager he was to send our troops to Iraq where so many have made the true "ultimate sacrifice". Sickening. :puke:

[lovuian]

8. Just do what I say and it will be Great

Bow to King Bush!!!

[rwenos]

9. Not What I Do

Notice he took care of his own ass during 'Nam, eh?

What a chickenshit.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Ah, but by calling politics "the ultimate sacrifice"

he tells us he's really a great hero instead of a limp-dick, candy-ass chickenshit AWOL douchebag who did everything in his and Poppy's power to avoid even having to get close to a situation where the real ultimate sacrifice could occur.

[rwenos]

13. You Left Out "Scumsucker"

In its strictest definition, a synonym for fellatio.

But a noble effort nonetheless, Ocelot!

[Pithy Cherub]

11. Eloquence thy name is not *!

Jeez, the 2005 bushisms are more horrid than the 2004 versions!

[jmowreader]

12. I agree with him for once. Here's the "big things" I want to see

1. Impeachment of George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and anyone else associated with Gulf 'W'ar II.

2. Extradition of all named in paragraph 1 to The Hague to stand trial for war crimes, with understanding that they get to come to an American prison to serve their sentences. (What's the shittiest prison in America?) And I want them to serve in solitary; Bush would probably make an excellent prison bitch but no one should be so unfortunate as to have the task of deflowering Georgie.

3. Revocation of tax-free status for any and all religious organizations that distributed the Christian Coalition's voter guides at any time in their history.

4. Deportation of the Reverend Moon.

5. Revocation of naturalization and deportation for Rupert Murdoch.

6. Calling Fatwa against Osama bin Laden.

7. Cancellation of all Halliburton government contracts.

8. Seizure of the Bush family fortune and properties with proceeds going to relief for soldiers wounded, and families of soldiers killed, in wars George W. Bush launched.

9. Normalization of relations with Cuba.

10. Banning of abstinence-only sex education programs.

11. Immediate conscription for enlisted infantry service of all military-age family members of every Republican politician at all levels.

12. A formal apology to France for shitting on them for the last few years.

13. Beating Rimjob Robinson's ass on national television.

14. Doing the same thing to John McNeill and the rest of the Swift Boat liars.

15. Closure of Guantanamo and immediate repatriation of everyone in there. At this point I don't care whether they were terrorists or not when we threw them in there; if they weren't terrorists then, they are now.

Yup, I want some big things, all right...starting with sending his sorry ass to prison.

[rwenos]

14. You Forgot Putting Ann Coulter in Stocks

Think of the fluids one could pour over her head.

[jmowreader]

15. That's a little thing

And you shouldn't fantasize about putting Ann Coulter in stocks then pissing on her head. She'd like it too much.

[rwenos]

16. I Stand Corrected

In a manner of speaking. :-)

[truthisfreedom]

18. more like "politics allows me to make the ultimate sacrifice of your child

for my oil war."