Whoopie!! Novakula's report will make you LOLOL! LOLOL!

[grasswire]

Egad. Novak's column is FULL of DOOM and GLOOM for the GOP and Bush!

Please note his reporting of predictions that Rummy will be leaving the government in early 2004.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20030911.shtml

September 11

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky, the only senator in the Baseball Hall of Fame, is as tough and aggressive a politician as he was a pitcher. He showed it last week during a closed-door session of Republican senators with Pentagon officials. "What the hell is going on with this supplemental (appropriations bill)?" Bunning demanded. The normally articulate Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz had no reply.

Bunning was joined by Sens. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, James Inhofe of Oklahoma and Jon Kyl of Arizona in complaining about lack of information on how much Iraq is going to cost. The senatorial attitude was not improved Sunday night when President Bush requested an additional $87 billion, well above what had been hinted. What's politically significant is that these four Republicans are hard-core conservatives and Bush loyalists who believe they have been misled by the Pentagon.

Amid such complaints, Republicans on Capitol Hill were stunned last Saturday when the Zogby Poll reported that Bush's national approve-disapprove ratio has slipped into negative territory for the first time (with only 45 percent saying he is doing a good job). That couples with continued job losses across the country and the rising cost of Iraq, in blood and treasure. On top of that, GOP senators are depressed that Democrats are winning the judicial confirmation war. A worried freshman Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina puts all this together and calls it "the perfect storm" (adding that Republicans should handle each issue "quickly and decisively, and hope that Democrats overplay their hand").

In nearly half a century of Congress-watching, I frequently have observed senators of a president's own party head for the lifeboats when any storm -- perfect or not -- approaches. Today's Senate Republicans have not reached that point, but fear and anxiety among them is palpable.

[grasswire]

1. this is VERY significant

It probably indicates a warning from GOP to the WH, channeled through Novak.

[unfrigginreal]

2. His party politicians can support him till the end...

but it won't make any difference. His electorate will be demoralized and ours will be on fire!

[w4rma]

3. Good. I don't want them to run for the lifeboats yet. I want an ambush.

:hi:

[Unknown Known]

4. They're starting to eat themselves!

This is good!!

And if Novakula is reporting on it - you know the reality must be a lot worse!

[NJCher]

5. sweet moment

This is such a sweet moment. Remember all the times in the past years when we've had to listen to these phony balonies, these arrogant a$$holes and their lies, lauding our Fearless and Great Leader, George W. Bush? And how we all knew he was a nothing of a person, not worthy for any office on the municipal level, let alone the presidency of the United States. All that "bold and determined" leadership, which turned out to be "all hat and no cattle."

And did you catch the remark about Democrats "overplaying their hand?" That's projection, if I ever saw it. That is exactly what bush has done: overplayed his hand. They're so greedy they never know when to stop (stealing).

Thank you grasswire. I'm only a few hours into the new day and this article made my day.


Cher

[Isome]

6. He would quote Lindsey Graham...

That's one of the assholes that tried to browbeat Sydney Blumenthal during the Clinton Inquisition!

Anyhoo... it's good to know they that THEY know the people are waking up, slowly but surely.

[grasswire]

7. kick kick kick...

...and please keep this kicked for the morning crowd. (I'm going to bed happy with this news.)

[PurityOfEssence]

8. Jobless Recovery: January 2004 when Junior checks into Betty Ford

Round the clock attendants feed him chewing gum and supply him with pins to stick into the eyes of his little John Edwards doll. Cell phones are banned for a two-mile radius after someone is shot to death when one rings, but that didn't happen.

[Judi Lynn]

9. The unconfirmed rumor Novakula mentioned

could get a national holiday named in its honor, if it turns out to be true! Gone Don Day!

Woooo Hooooooo! :bounce: :dem: :kick:

[grasswire]

10. kick for the day crowd

eom

[alfredo]

11. Excellent

kick

[JohnyCanuck]

12. WTF?

these four Republicans are hard-core conservatives and Bush loyalists who believe they have been misled by the Pentagon.

MISLED BY THE PENTAGON? Hardly surprising since anyone of rank that opposed Herr Rumsfeld's plans for world conquest were derided as washed up anachronisms and booted out the door with Rummy's shoe print tattooed on their behinds. Now I wonder when they'll start worrying about being misled by Der Shrubenfhurer. What a bunch of farking idiots.

Schadenfreude, I like it.