Bush stumps in Kentucky for Social Security plan

[brooklynite]

President Bush is stumping for his Social Security plan in Kentucky today, as the clock ticks on efforts in Congress to get it passed.

The president plans an invitation-only roundtable in Hopkinsville in western Kentucky as he tries to light a fire under lawmakers who've so far been lukewarm about his proposal for private accounts.

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Bush's schedule today also includes a G-O-P fund-raiser in St. Louis before he heads to his Texas ranch for an extended weekend.

http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=3420869
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Boy how does the President handle his grueling schedule???

[jayfish]

1. Wow,...

I'm sure that's a tough sell. :eyes:

Jay

[Roland99]

14. Yeah...those *invitation only* events are a real killer!

[Imagevision]

31. Bush gets back on SS, issue to avoid heat from Downing Memo

Bush even using Rove can't answer to questions out forth about the decision to go to war 6-7 months before UN inspections weren't even taking place. You're supposed to have a valid reason to go to war or in Roves/Cheney's case --create a damn good one, if it fails, think up some shit...that is about the mentality of this administration.

[Norwood]

2. Well...

Being president, its..its.. its hard work.

[Shrubhater]

4. I've seen someone play * on SNL several times. And

when the guy is playing *, he often says, "I-It's hard!", like it's his catch phrase or something.

[sarcasmo]

3. Another extended weekend for Cuckoo-Bananas, how many does this make?

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Can you imagine how many people/ whole towns in Kentucky

rely on social security as the only source of income? Anyhow, why is the bastard permitted to continue this way?

[Roland99]

15. My grandmother and my aunt who's taking care of her.

[Supersedeas]

6. invitation only cronyism - fundraiser cronyism - extended weekends

All on the taxpayer dime.

[yellowcanine]

7. As long as Bush keeps doing "potempkin village" events his ss plan will

continue to lose support. Of course if he does "real people" events his
ss plan will continue to lose support as well. And if he does nothing at all his ss plan will continue to lose support. Heh.

[Doctor_J]

8. Every time this asshole stumps for SS or goes on vacation,

video should be played of him dancing on soldiers' graves.

He is the very worst humanity has to offer.

[Lexingtonian]

9. this is already Plan B or Plan C

Notice how he's no longer trying to drum up actual voter support. This trip and the one just before it (this weekend, to upstate NY) are all about getting wavering House Reps on board for something that I would guess to be a face-saver effort/plan on SS. Or at least something in Congress that can be portrayed as an effort to "save" SS to their voters and effort to ruin SS to their donor base and proof of Democratic "obstruction".

The politics of stuff that polls at 30% is a little wierd and negative and defensive.

[Demit]

10. Extended weekend. Why, the man must be exhausted, after...after...after...

what, exactly?

[KoKo]

11. He's definitely "stumping." He's got one leg shot off in the polls....

so let him keep stumping. The more he keeps up this dillusion the better for us. He's starting to look like someone who just doesn't understand that folks don't like him as much as when he grabbed that bull horn and yelled "I hear Ya'" coached by the voice on the wire in his ear. :eyes:

[cliss]

18. LOL KoKo, that's so funny.

Yes, let him keep "stumping". Old Peg Leg.

I think it's hilarious because someone noted on the DU, that the more he went out and campaigned for this project, the more support went down! So they meant, he should drag his sorry ass out there, as much as possible.

Bush boasted he would hit "60 cities in 60 days", kinda like "Around the world in 90 Days". I say he should try for 600 cities in 60 days. That'll keep the fool occupied.

[KoKo]

19. OMG..."Old Peg Leg!" Ain't that the truth?

:D For all their "Fluff and Bravado" he's still hobbled but they don't want it to catch on!

:hug:

[VegasWolf]

12. Watching bush fail endlessly is hilarious. He should get his own comedy

show.

[The_Casual_Observer]

16. I don't know, the daily failure of his Iraq policy is nothing to laugh

at, and this SS stuff is like trying to keep the devil away from the door.

[VegasWolf]

17. I know, it's pathetic, sad, vile, fucked up, etc. n/t

[KoKo]

20. I know, it's hard to laugh about him given the Destruction he's caused BUT

he IS FINALLY HOBBLED. That those of us who can...take joy in this is because the END of BUSH is a JOY TO THE WORLD!

"Joy to the World...Joy to the World....all the fishes in the Deep Blue Sea sing Joy to the World..."

a songwriter.......

[radar]

13. Still spending other people's (taxpayer) money on that thing?

Not very "conservative" of him.

[DavidDvorkin]

21. What is Rove up to?

Since this stumping is failing miserably, is Rove in fact a fool and not a genius, or is there some method to this apparent madness?

[Massachusetts]

22. See Uncle Jed.

It says right thar that Bush fellar knows what he's doin.

[mtnester]

23. Isn't that horse dead yet George? Fer crissake.

Duh, I forgot, he lives by the "if you say it enough, it must be true" platform.

[Thor_MN]

24. If this dumbass would put the money he is wasting on these "invite-only"

events into the SS trust fund, there would be less of a problem. His privitization plan won't solve anything other than paying off his well heeled patrons, but he could be doinf something constructive in stopping the waste of trying to convince 'his base' that his plan is a good one.

[adigal]

25. I heard him say he is going to keep travelling

and pushing this until Congress does something about it.

OK, Congress, get rid of the tax cuts back to the level of Clinton (where we had a terrible economy, remember?? No!) so we can pay for Soc Sec and get our deficit down. Then Bush can stay in Crawford full time, and let Dickey and Rummy play war some more.

[Roland99]

26. "Boy, he's ruining old people, trying to at least"

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KY_BUSH_KYOL-?SITE=KYLOU&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Earlier in the day, protesters outside the Social Security Administration building in Hopkinsville voiced such concerns.

"Boy, he's ruining old people, trying to at least, and not helping the younger generation," said Roy Robertson, 86, of Hopkinsville.

[TommyO]

27. What better place to beat a dead horse?

[RobbinsdaleDem]

28. Talk about stubborn!

Is he never going to realize we just don't want him messing with Social Security?

[justgamma]

29. I want to know just how much

money has he spent on these obvious campaign stops. It just burns me up that WE are paying for this crap. If I wanted to pay for this, I'd buy him a oneway ticket back to his pig farm.

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[Skypilot 18]

30. an extended weekend

Yeah, an extended weekend of jacking off horses. (don't get mad at me for saying that. Pickles says it's true) tasteless bitch