The honeymoon's over: Bush snaps at a reporter during today's press conf.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Sound bite played just now on Air America, Bush responding to a reporter during this morning's press conference

"You violated the one question rule right off the bat. Obviously you didn't listen to the will of the people."

[info being]

1. Who cares? Not our problem anymore.

[xultar]

3. Cafepress - Not My President ----Not My Problem!

[PotatoBoy]

41. Are you referring to this bumper sticker?

http://www.cafepress.com/selfx.14409783

[BayStateBoy]

15. The Election isn't Even Over yet...

The history of democratic voting is a history of ballot recounts and the ability to conduct same.

The legitimacy of democratic elections is inexorably predicated upon the electorate's ability to verify the results which is only possible with a tangible ballot giving a permenent record.

A ballot that cannot be physically verified or interrogated is no different than a vote by someone with no verifiable name or residence. It is like making a bank deposit with no receipt and the institution retains no hard copy of the transaction. If it's not good enough for our financial transactions, it's certainly not good enough for our elections.

Any voting method without permanent record that can be verified by recount is UnAmerican and an open invitation to fraud by those of either party who control the state's electoral machinery.

Although George W. Bush rode the moral value issue into the ground and it surely benefited him, he was propelled him to "victory" by the "black box" votes that cannot be verified.

[erehwon2]

36. Agree entirely

I've protested, canvassed, done all I could. Until the current shitstorm is over, none of this is my fault and I don't intend to play maid for the RW ever again. They won, it's the will of the people, let them clean up their own fucking mess.

[xultar]

2. OK so those 59 million idiots voted to restrict the media to 1 question

buhwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

[zbdent]

19. the other 55or so million were lucky to get that one!

It was almost no questions, period!

[gardenista]

4. Good, he's going to choke himself on that rope "the people" gave him nt

[Claire Beth]

11. amen! n/t

[liberal N proud]

5. Welcome the the new amerika

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

6. Jesus Christ. n/t

[Cassandra]

7. So much for humble...

that lasted for what, 30 seconds?

[TrustingDog]

8. talk about violating rules, you stinkin' pustuling bastard fucker.

whew.
that felt good!

like lancing a boil.
try it!

[kittenpants]

9. he told one reporter that he could see distrust in his "beedy eyes"

[Ripley]

16. Did you just make that up?

I think it's beady anyway.

But to the original "will of the people" thing....we will be hearing that as a justification for every damned destructive thing he does for the next four years.

And it makes my blood boil, cause it ain't even the will of 1/3 of the American electorate!

[kittenpants]

18. I didn't make it up--why do you ask? sorry about spelling mistake though

[Ripley]

26. I can't believe he said that.

But then again, one day after the election LBN is full of news of them out of the blocks like they're at the Armageddon Olympics.

Just curious if you were exaggerating or if he really said that...was he laughing, did the reporter laugh?

[kittenpants]

30. everyone laughed nervously and some oven made low booing noises

as it were the Jerry Springer show and bush had just dissed his mama

[Ripley]

35. Bizzarro.

The oven made low booing noises?

(Just kidding about your spelling or typing.)

I pretty much refuse to watch TV anymore. I cancelled my local paper today, so I'm going to have to rely on DU for news.

Thanks!

[dweller]

22. he cited 'willothepeeble' several times

at least twice, maybe 3 times.

it was sickening to watch.

dp

[sniffa]

10. what question?

what ruLe? i missed it.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

14. Air America just played that sound bite, not the question that preceded it

The "one question rule" is that you get to ask Bush one question. If he doesn't answer it and the reporter goes in for clarification, it becomes "2 questions" and they are in "violation" of the "rule."

[Nikepallas]

42. I couldn't believe that the Media allowed themselves to be dictated by

that rule and it is ashame it is still allowed.

Why do I see Bush getting to wear a crown soon?

[Inland]

12. The will of the people is, Do What I Tell You. Bush is such a run of

the mill dictator, can't he be less obvious or more inventive?

[0007]

13. I wish reporters could get it right just once? The 'Will of the

People' sez just one question, no more. That reporter should be shipped to Cuba immediately.

[Quill Pen]

17. Obviously a proud graduate of the Dick Cheney Institute of Charm

I noticed that right away, watching this morning's press conference. He's showered off the paternalistic sheen of the last ten months of campaigning, and back to being 100% snide, self-satisfied frat boy, accountable to no one.

He was hostile to another reporter who asked about judicial appointments. "There's no opening on the bench," he snapped. Then he snotted that if the reporters had been listening to him speak on the campaign trail, they'd already know that his plans for judicial appointments included judges who "know the strict interpretation of the law" and don't try any "activism."

I keep praying that the press will savage him for his treatment of them, but the talking heads this morning were pretty much all fawning.

[erehwon2]

20. Welcome to single-party rule

We tried to warn them, alas.

[Cat Atomic]

21. Did you hear him suggesting that the Press Corps is rough on him?

I've never seen a more compliant, lapdog White House Press Corp, and Bush thinks they're too rough.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

23. If Bush perceives battle lines, "uncooperative" press will be excluded

I think we're kidding ourselves if we think the media is going to "get tough" on Bush.

It will be just like the first term, only worse: A "loyalty oath," just like the campaign rallies. Tightly regulated questions, just like the campaign rallies.

:-(

[Az_lefty]

24. The media helped elect that little prick, they can live with him!

[Cha]

33. Exactly! And he never was my president..

only more so now! And I've got 55 Million People to back me up!

[stellanoir]

25. the will of the people

matters not to one who would suppress and misrepresent the votes in Hispanic and Black areas of New Mexico and Ohio.

Furthermore, the will of the people matters not to one who feels he has to answer to no one and who believes his god instructs him to bomb the crap out of two countries.

Lord help us.

[LisaM]

27. Is that a joke? Did he really say that?

Please tell me no.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

32. This was a sound bite...I'd question it if it were in print, but...

Air America played the sound clip. He sounded pretty surly, too. Very sarcastic and confrontational.

Nothing new here, folks!

:toast:

[Cha]

28. OMFG! No shit?

Does the term .."STORM THE BASTILLE" mean anything to anybody?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

29. Ahhh yes, the "will of the people"

That includes no Factual reporting. No tough questions allowed. The new catch phrase for this term, "The Will of the People".

[MallRat]

31. Funny. I don't remember a referendum about a "one question rule."

Anyone else have that on the ballot?

:shrug:

[johnfunk]

34. Mister Bush, you violated the rigth of the press to ask questions!

Obviously You, Mister Bush, don't give a Cheney's ass about the will of the people.

[kittenpants]

37. did anyone hear him talk about the "capital" he had earned

by being re-elected? He kept saying he'd earned political "capital" and itended to spend it. god knows what he meant by that. seriously, god knows, because god will probably instruct him on what to do

also, leading up to the press conference on CNN, their white house correspondent said that rove was as "proud as a peacock." It turned out that Rove was sitting right behind him and they zoomed in on him scribbling down notes furiously after that comment. that CNN correspondent will probably end up discredited or in Gitmo soon!

[SkipNewarkDE]

38. Lame attempt at a joke

Check the transcript on Whitehouse.gov.

Still not funny.

[AngryOldDem]

39. So much for reaching out and building bridges,

Christ...I thought the pretense and illusion would last for a full 24 hours, at least.

[Mike Daniels]

40. Considering that rarely does any voter agree with 100% of a platform

I'd be interested in seeing percentagewise what exactly motivated people to vote for the clown (war, economy, morals, etc.)

If this idiot thinks that everyone who voted for him is 100% behind his complete agenda he's in for rude awakening.

I have a feeling that there is going to be a major case of buyer's remorse in about a year and the primary recipients are going to be those who voted for him almost exclusively because of 9/11 and WOT and ignored the social issues of his platform.