Bush Faces Tricky Political Situation in Florida (stuck with KH)

[brooklynite]

SUN CITY CENTER, Fla., May 9 — President Bush and his brother continued their awkward dance today with Representative Katherine Harris of Florida, whose run for the Republican Senate nomination this year they have met with chilliness.

Ms. Harris was on hand this morning to meet President Bush as he stopped in Tampa en route to a Medicare event in this nearby, senior-rich town — just one day after Governor Jeb Bush said publicly that he did not believe Ms. Harris could win against the Democratic incumbent Senator here, Bill Nelson.

Jeb Bush was there, too, as Ms. Harris waited for the president to walk off Air Force One in Tampa, and the two seemed friendly as they chatted in the receiving line on the tarmac, according to a pool report.

After saying hello to his brother and straightening his tie, the president shook hands with Ms. Harris and spoke with her for roughly 30 seconds, with Ms. Harris talking far more than the president, who did not kiss her or put his arm around her — or do anything more than pat her on the back.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/us/09cnd-bush.html

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. Hey Babe...Thanks For 2000.

Now go suck an egg.

[CottonBear]

2. Has Jeb's head grown even larger?

It's freakishly large. I wonder what hat size he wears? :(

[reichstag911]

5. 13 and a half. n/t

[Atman]

8. Jeb's isn't larger...Bush is just a pinhead.

I wonder if Katherine is dropping the big one on them..."Look you guys, I gave you hummers and I supplied you with you precious win...it's be a shame if I started talking, now wouldn't it?"

Yeah...I can dream can't I?

[grytpype]

3. That's Bushist gratitude for you!

She helped him steal the 2000 election and now he's leaving her in the cold.

The lesson here is never help a Bush, they will leave you hanging.

[Dr.Phool]

4. Mr 31% meets Ms 33%

Now if she'll just start writing that book. Both brothers will be tossin' salads with the Duke-stir.

[Sequoia]

6. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Kathy just might want to write a book about it.

[xxqqqzme]

7. she was promised a congressional seat in

exchange for rigging the election. She is getting uppity by going after the senate seat. Don't know why that is viewed w/ derision by the rethugs - they ALL do greed so well!

[Atman]

10. But she's "just a woman."

She's not stayin' in her place...on her back with her legs in the air, and/or makin' dinner!

[brooklynite]

9. C'mon now, let's be fair...

Any politician with half a braif would have taken their reward (a safe congressional seat), gone to Washington and never been heard from again. KH decided not only that she was Senate material, but that she was ready after less than two years in the House.

[saigon68]

12. Like NIXON " Twisting in the Wind"

LOL

[0007]

13. 'Ya have to admit Katherine does have a nice breezer

[yellowcanine]

15. Yep - it is a tight little ass. Got to admit I would probably let her

play footsie with me. I am such a whore.

[Blackthorn]

22. Hehe yeah, I'd spank it.

[tabasco]

24. You're making me sick to my stomach.

:puke:

[Blackthorn]

27. I never said she was pretty, just agreeing she has a nice toosh

I mean, I've seen uglier 75 year olds and she probably looks better without the 4 kilos of makeup. Slag her for being a corrupt witch, not for her looks.

[tabasco]

28. I know what yer sayin.'

But she could have JL Hewitt's body and I couldn't get past that face. :scared:

[Blackthorn]

29. That's why men invented "doggy style"

No offence intended to female DU'ers. Just a joke, you know jokes, its jokes.

[MaineDem]

34. A joke perhaps but offensive just the same.

As is most of this discussion.

I can't stand the woman but this is pretty low.

[Blackthorn]

35. Funny trumps offensive imo.

Its not lower than slagging her for her appearance.

[Tight_rope]

18. Always...Just look was happened to Saddam!

[Missy M]

11. Is a Bush pat on the back the same as the Mafia kiss on both....

cheeks before they do you in?

[regnaD kciN]

14. Memo to George: You dance with the one what brung you...

If it hadn't been for Cruella, you'd be forever known as "former Texas governor George W. Bush, the Republican presidential nominee in 2000," while people would be busy right now speculating on who would succeed President Gore in 2008.

She stuck with you in defiance of everything, including the law and common sense. Now it's your job to suck it up and stand by her.

But, of course, that won't happen. With the Bush family (as opposed to other famous families in history, like the Corrleones ;-) ), loyalty is a one-way street: they demand unquestioning fealty from their underlings, then feel free to kick them off a cliff at a moment's notice. :grr:

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. "Thanks for the '00 election - now go clean the bathrooms"

Dang uppity wimmin.................

[emulatorloo]

17. Katherine Harris, when you are defeated PLEASE TELL ALL ABOUT 2000

These boys used you. . .now expose them for what they are.

[Tight_rope]

19. Everyone knows that the whore would be slaughtered by Bushco

if she talked. So all you need to stop having those wet dreams.

[brentspeak]

25. She's too much of a stooge to spill the beans about the 2000 election

No matter how badly the GOP establishment will now treat her, she'll always be their willing patsy.

[Maddy McCall]

32. Not necessarily so.

When she falls, she'll fall hard.

It's going to be fun to watch.

[Orangepeel]

26. I don't think she knows anything

She hired the firm that purged the voter rolls and can probably say that jeb told her to do so. She certified the vote totals before all the counties finished, but she did that on live television so everyone knows it. That won't make much of a book.

Katherine took a lot of the public heat for stealing the election so Jeb wouldn't have to. For that, the legislature drew her a congressional seat. But I really don't believe they trusted her with any actual insider info. That's why they are willing to throw her under the bus now.

[Miss Chybil]

20. Wham, bam, thank you Ma'am!

Katherine, you're useless now. Election's over - his and yours.

[ixion]

21. oh, look... a picture of a bunch of thugs and losers

they're made for each other, IMO.

[Vogon_Glory]

23. They Richly Deserve Each Other n/t

[cliss]

30. Well, what can they do?

I think Nelson is the Dark Horse candidate that Jeb Bush will be endorsing. Either way, they have to beat the Dem.

So seriously, what do they have against her? If they endorsed her, and made damn sure the Diebold machines were working, she'd win the nomination.

At this late stage, they're married. For Better or Worse. She's yours, guys.

[Maddy McCall]

31. They can't completely snub her, because she'll talk. In fact...

after she loses and officially becomes a political has-been, at which point they have zero more use for her, I bet she'll sing like a canary.

I can't wait for that to happen. The Florida 2000 story isn't complete until Kat writes the last chapter.

[Divernan]

33. She's hanging on to his hand with both of hers!

Prolonging the contact for the reporters. Bet if she hadn't done that she wouldn't even have gotten 30 seconds of his time.

[Bruden]

36. Couldn't happen to a nicer evil bitch