Bush? He started his final descent today. Gallup is bogus.

[TruthIsAll]

Today BushCo showed just how scared they are. It was a move of sheer desperation, to all of a sudden call 10 million illegals, legal. Rove really needs that Hispanic vote, yes? Well, they ain't getting it with this transparent political pandering. It backfired with the base. Bigtime.
Call it IllegalAlienGate.

Today 60 Minutes did a program on the so-called Bush "Texas Miracle". As we all knew at DU, this was another lie; the testing numbers and Houston HS graduates was bogus. Now America knows it. No miracles. Only disaster. Thanks, Dan Rather. Don't you feel cleansed, now that you're telling the truth about Bush? Now you know how Palast feels. It's liberating, to be a real journalist. It's about time. What took you so long? It's old news. Better late than never.
Call it TexasMiracleGate.

And Ellen Mariani, well she didn't get any publicity when she served BushCo papers. But she will, within 60 days.
Call it VictimGate.

As for the Plame/Wilson case, it's moving right along. We have a new prosecutor who looks like he just might do his job. At least Ashcroft thinks so.
Call it TreasonGate.

Kirsten Breiteiser won't just give up until those sticky 911 questions are addressed. The Commission coverup is already legion. It's Warren Commission deja vu. What can BushCo be hiding?
Call it 911Gate.

And finally, Colin Powell appearing on Nightline tonight lying about his UN lies. Sorry, Colin. Harry Belafonte was right.
Call it IraqGate.

No, we don't believe the CNN/Gallup polls. The numbers make no sense. Gore won last time, and your support is crumbling. Those polling numbers will not fool us into accepting a Diebold-cyberspace Bush landslide in Nov.
Call it PollGate.

Oh, finally, the Carnegie Group made it official today. The report concludes that "administration officials systematically misrepresented the threat from Iraq's WMD and ballistic missile programmes".
Call it WMDGate.

Had enough? No? Try this one.

Kevin Phillip's book is out. Number 10 on Amazon! Kicking Bush ass, from Poppy to Puppy. He must have read DU. He was on CSPAN and that Repuke's show. What's his name? His assistant was found dead in his office. Oh, yea, the Scarborough man.
Call it BFEEGate.

We have only just begun. I love the smell of scandal in the morning.


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1. He is toast

His KKK base will not show up to vote and with a divided nation that will cost him the election.

[RandomKoolzip]

2. The republicans where I work were dismayed, to say the least.

Normally conservative Posse Comitatus types were shaking their heads in disbelief...surely this was their white-robed shite in nining armor, correc'? And now he's pro-immigration? Mommy, mommy! Oh, the rash a nasty betrayal leaves upon the voter!

[lpbk2713]

3. I saw the 60 Minutes II piece.

Chimpy's useless brother pulled the same shell game in Florida and now the truth is coming to the surface. The wheels are now falling off of Jeb's wagon.

This is getting to be a humorous predicament for the RNC. The way Chimpy keeps screwing up they can't make him their candidate for prez. And if they don't nominate him that will be an admission of what a miserable failure he was for four years.

I love it.

[rumguy]

18. god I wish I'd seen that 60 mins. II piece...

it sounds awesome!

[lcordero]

4. Uh

Dude, * staged his fuck up. It's all part of his golden parachute.

He's already fucked everything up so bad that we are going to have repercussions for the next several generations. His fuck ups are so bad that it's doomed social security, medicare, medicaid, and our whole education system.

All he has to do now is replace his Supreme Court justices.

His replacement is going to be a freetrading, occupationist, military-industrialist. Just another * clone but with a (D) next to their name. So he ain't going to care.

BTW...we are never going to get out of a recession until we get out of Iraq. Every country on this planet is going to punish the US in the pocketbook.

[LunaC]

33. Ain't THAT the truth!

n/t

[Cat Atomic]

5. I agree with you.

I think he stepped in it today. His supporters can ignore trumped-up reasons for killing brown people, but they will not abide amnesty for brown people.

[FreakinDJ]

7. I think your right

They know it too. They need a Dem to step in and straighten out the coutry.

Why because there will be nothing left to plunder if they don't. Start looking for traitors jumping off the Bushit Band Wagon now. Some of them don't have golden parachutes and they are going to be looking to hedge their bets pretty soon.

You can't tell me Poppy Bushit looked at his watch 3 times by accident during the debate. Once yes, but 3 times. Give me a break. It was "hey look America I don't give a shit about what you think". Diffenit sphyc-ops to turn the american voter CLEAN OFF

Well thats my opinion at least

[opihimoimoi]

8. Could it possibly be he wants OUT and this is the way to do it??

Like, fuck it up on purpose? Tired, bruised, hurt, dismayed, frustrated, exasperated even, and just plain ole flummoxed; he wants to go back to those days with the pretzels and beer.

Like, they cannot hide protestors forever?? He gatta know they are there and he gets pissed off when he knows we know that he don't!! Man, that gatta be gold, I wish I was a fly on a wall.

[FreakinDJ]

11. I think its more like

911 / Enron rip off / Halburton Rip off are breathing down his neck. When America wakes up and sees the true cost of his allowing 911 to happen and these companies to run rampant across Iraq and Afghanistan with a blank pay check there is going to be hell to pay.

Further more Greenspan wants out. He is talking retirement. The books are cooked and dollar is tipping down. Ya gotta love it - the Bushit economy

[pretzel4gore]

14. hmmm.

i often wondered if racism isn't the main reason for bush's success....i mean the guy has damaged the country like no one in history.... so bush can't suddenly act like a christian (lol)
the amazing thing about all this is how absolutely boring it all is...since reagan came along, the fix has been in and it's all lies, which are so utterly dreary.

[aquart]

24. Duh.

[proud patriot]

6. Bawahahahahahahahahaha ...Read my sig line

visualize it ....

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[Gman]

9. I would normally agree with you but

I'm not sure we've escaped Bizarro World yet.

[POed_Ex_Repub]

10. Time for that 3rd Party candidate to step in...

And split shrub's vote on this issue. :evilgrin:

[FreakinDJ]

12. Ya Right

The only one rummored about stepping up to the plate is Nader and we all know what he did for Bushit. It was a dream come true for them. The freepers have been having a field day freeping Ralphs site begging him to run

[fearnobush]

15. Not Exactly Third Party But This Guy If Publicized Will Harm W.

<http://johnbuchanan.org/news/news_categories.php?categoryid=5§ion=EDO>

[newyawker99]

38. Hi fearnobush!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[TheMiddleRoad]

13. Triangularization

Bush is trying to pull a Clinton. He is trying to hedge into the other parties issue.

One point of the triangle was "prescription drugs". This is the other point of the triangle. Like Clinton's triangle (welfare reform), it is predicated on the notion that:

1) He no longer has to get a nomination from the base of his party.
2) There is no viable alternative in the "other" party.

So lets say your a Klansman and you hate non-whites and despise immigration. Does that mean your going to vote democratic???? I don't think so.

I too don't like this announcement. Labor in this country is being massacred by Free Trade, H1-B and outsourcing. It's government by corporations for corporations.

But you see, the Democrats have no viable alternative to EITHER policy. The Democrats are caught in their own net of relying on recent immigrants for votes. Bush is cutting them off at the knees by courting the "other whites" of the hemisphere and actively encouraging even more migration of low-paid Republican voters.

Of course, this doesn't sit well with the low to medium paid Republican voters. Who are they going to vote for???? Well, Bush is really ticking off the old guard Republicans. Dare I say the Reagan Republicans. They like their conservatism just fine without the "compassion", thank you. Their champion is good old Pat Buchanan.

Remember, Pat Buchanan? He's as traditional right as they come. Democrats LOVE to hate old Pat. But guess what? Pat was and still is honest about who he is and what he believes in. In that respect he's far better than "compassionate" George.

Pat Buchanan may be the Democrats best ally in 2004. Pat doesn't like the way his party is heading. I'm sure that old Bubba hates it. He hates domestic minorities that speak the language. He doesn't need foreign minorities to change his beloved culture.

If not, I'm sure someone will rise out of the woodwork to oppose this. I'm sorry my Democratic friends, but promoting illegal immigration is NOT a racist policy. There are no "new frontiers". We cannot subsidize the poor of foreign nations by accepting them and driving down domestic wages (thereby making rich people richer).

Perhaps the next few years will see another historic flip in policy. If the democrats are smart they'll give the immigrant vote to the Republicans. They'll give up California and take the south. They'll take a kindler gentler Bubba in return.

Labor is now the #1 simmering issue in this country. If the democrats are smart, they can turn this to their advantage. They will give the party back to labor. They can embrace Bubba (pickups and confederate flags). They can abandon fringe homosexual issues. this may be the only way to beat the unholy money alliance of the Theocratic Corpratists (The Cult of Supply Side Jesus).

[annagull]

19. The real cure will be fair wages + eviron laws in NAFTA

If we can get that passed, and undo the damnage that Shrub has done with overtime pay and assorted other abominations, then we can stem the tide of immigration. Until NAFTA is saddled with the laws of every industialized nation this cycle will continue.

Also, I agree with you that real conservatives are disgusted..my Dad is having a convulsions from this. However, we don't need my Dad to vote for a Democrat, all he needs to do is be disgusted enough to just stay home on election day.

[Elwood P Dowd]

16. Maybe they don't care about public opinion.

Do they know the election is already fixed? Or,will they pull out a dramatic capture of Usama Ben Laden in late October just after a
major terrorist attack on Washington? I can see it now. Our fearless leader flys to Pakastan to personally lead the Special Forces team to capture Public Enemy Number One (who, by the way, has been kept in a special cave just for the right moment). Our fearless freeper, I mean leader, emerges from the cave with his M16 firmly stuck in the back of a handcuffed, dirty, and drugged Usama. It all unfolds with live television during the Fox halftime show of the Redskins-Cowboys Sunday afternoon NFL broadcast. The American public buys it hook, line, and sinker. Bush wins in a landslide. Like taking candy from a baby.

Did anyone read the S Factor by Neal Starkman? He basically said that a majority of the American people are so stupid, they will fall for anything.

[aquart]

26. You can fool some of the people all of the time.

And all of the people some of the time.

But you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Lincoln

[Emboldened Chimp]

42. If they knew the election was fixed, why try to win votes?

I think Chimpy's trying to pull himself back toward the center in order to appeal to mainstream America. He ran center, but governed far, far to the right.

[rumguy]

17. Love it! Great run-down of the scandals just waiting to burst open

and send the repuke party down in flames! I can't wait. I will enjoy it immensly, and I will keep kicking them when their down too...I will never let them live down the last six years of shameful lies and corruption. What has happened the last several years will stay with me for the rest of my days. I will be telling my grandkids about the evil of GW Bush, and about the pill-popping Limbaugh, and the lying Nazi Hannity...and most of all, about the lies of 9/11 of what happened that day...my soul has been permanently changed by this attempt at American fascism...

[0rganism]

20. I agree w/ Malloy on the immigration thing: W will let it die on the vine

Such a measure will NOT pass in congress. W probably knows it, Rove certainly knows it. The GOAL, of course, is to peel some Hispanic votes away from the Democratic nominee, even before the primaries. After the lip service it gets this week, it will disappear into the bowels of the next congress, never to see the light of day again. Then, in October, bush* will run ads IN SPANISH which talk about his amnesty initiatives. His ads in English will not mention it at all.

And W's base is stupid enough to go for it.

[radfringe]

21. regarding undocumented workers

did anyone pick up on the "timing" of this?

the "permits" are good for three years (with POSSIBLE renewal)

the gesture/offer announced recently coincides with the NOV-04 sElection, the three-year period will cover repugs through the 2006 mid-term sElections

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22. He should be impeached for his treatment of our military alone

Current LBN stories show:

-The wmds lies being exposed in article after article.

-Troops balking at bribes to extend enlistments.

-35 hit at a US base in Iraq.

-MORE reservists being called up.

For lies.

It does look like all hell's about to break loose for the bush gang on several fronts, and I agree he'll be pulled down by many of these things. But what he's done and is doing to our guys should have his own party in Congress calling for impeachment.

How anyone who supports the troops can support this regime is beyond me.

[leftchick]

23. all they really have are the voting machines...

which won't do them any good once Bev's message becomes mainstream. Excellent post yet again TIA! :)

[aquart]

25. George should have let those Hispanic kids take algebra.

I mean, it looks like racial profiling, doesn't it?

Voters love it when you do that to their kids.

[cthrumatrix]

27. It takes media to deliver this messgae...we know this here on DU

the rest of america is in "bush-terra-fear-coma"...and can't think

[dusty64]

28. I never thought

I would witness a government so out of control, so unaccountable for their crimes, and a press that has become a propaganda arm for corporations/extreme rightwingers/American Taliban. They have committed so many outrageous lies and scandals that it truly is hard to believe, yet the skate away untouched from all of them. I'd like to think that someday (hopefully real soon) the house of cards will come crashing down on them.

[nostamj]

29. how about FEARGate?

I saw the gallup guy on CNN this morning.

only 28% are afraid of a new terrorist attack.

FEAR FEAR FEAR is FAILING FAILING FAILING

[Killarney]

30. Many conservatives are disappointed with him

They feel "betrayed" (heard that on talk radio). Probably not enough to vote Dem, but enough to stay home in November and that's fine with me. :)

[Q]

31. Good thread...but does America really 'know it'?

- America also had a good idea about Bush* before the 2000 selection...but that didn't stop him from becoming 'leader' of the world's only remaining superpower.

- The Left is making a mistake if they think Bush's* 'popularity' will have anything to do with his staying in office.

[NicRic]

32. The problem is ....

it appears that so many voters still believe bush is a God fearing ,honest man of honnor :eyes: Who's favorite book is the bible ! I just heard some idiot on C-Span say bush grew up a poor Texan, and worked his way up from nothing .Wasnt his father a CIA director , and he comes from old $. Where do these people get there info ,and what world are they from ? If Iam wrong ,set me straight. Now if you want an example of a self made man, look into President Clintons, working his up from a modest lower middle class background and having more then twice the I.Q of bush !

[Imajika]

34. I see we have another fantasyland thread..

"BUSH IS TOAST"

What nonsense. Why do people keep repeating this manure over and over again.

"Well, they ain't getting it with this transparent political pandering. It backfired with the base. Bigtime. Call it IllegalAlienGate."

How do you know it has backfired? The base has forgiven him for everything else it opposed to include CFR and Prescription Drug Benefits. The conservative base will not turn on Bush - he has given them far too much that they do want such as judicial nominees, tax cuts, massive defense spending increases, etc, etc. The rightwing base will scream and fret for a few days, then go back to supporting him.

"Today 60 Minutes did a program on the so-called Bush 'Texas Miracle'. As we all knew at DU, this was another lie; the testing numbers and Houston HS graduates was bogus. Now America knows it."

Oh please. America doesn't know it. A few people that were interested enough to watch 60 minutes on this given evening may know it, but that would be about it.

"And Ellen Mariani, well she didn't get any publicity when she served BushCo papers. But she will, within 60 days. Call it VictimGate."

She will never get any publicity at anytime. Your fooling yourself if you think the mainstream press are going to take her seriously ever.

"As for the Plame/Wilson case, it's moving right along. We have a new prosecutor who looks like he just might do his job. At least Ashcroft thinks so. Call it TreasonGate."

This may or may not amount to anything. I suspect nothing will come of it. You can call it treasongate, but the mainstream media never will and so long as Bush is not directly implicated, the entire thing won't hurt him at all. Infact, if the investigation turns up someone who can be prosecuted, and Bush fires them immediately he may even get a bit of a bounce in the polls for reinforcing the idea that he takes US national security so seriously.

"Kirsten Breiteiser won't just give up until those sticky 911 questions are addressed. The Commission coverup is already legion. It's Warren Commission deja vu. What can BushCo be hiding?
Call it 911Gate."

Nothing will come of this. Kean couldn't even stand for one day on a few tough statements he made about 9-11 being prevented and administration people that shouldn't stay in their positions. The commission will turn up nothing that hurts Bush.

"And finally, Colin Powell appearing on Nightline tonight lying about his UN lies. Sorry, Colin. Harry Belafonte was right.
Call it IraqGate."

Colin Powell is extremely popular. I've seen no evidence that the America public has lost even the slightest bit of faith in him.

"No, we don't believe the CNN/Gallup polls. The numbers make no sense. Gore won last time, and your support is crumbling."

You can believe whatever you want, but to "not believe" Gallup polls because you don't think the "numbers make sense" is to bury your head in the sand and not face reality.

"Those polling numbers will not fool us into accepting a Diebold-cyberspace Bush landslide in Nov. Call it PollGate."

Oh please. Back to the silly voting machine conspiracies again. There is no evidence at all that Diebold fixed the voting machines to benefit Republicans anywhere.

The public accepted Bush's victory before, and they will do it again should he win (even if it were under the same dubious circumstances).

"We have only just begun. I love the smell of scandal in the morning."

Your deluded. Flaps, scandals, firestorms, etc, etc happen to all administrations all of the time. The vast majority of this stuff just blows over. To get all wound up and repeatedly declare "Bush is Toast" everytime Bush has a few days of bad press shows remarkable naivete and a complete lack of understanding of how modern American politics actually works.

Bush is not toast. Infact, I suspect he has strengthened his odds of winning in 04' over the last 2 months. He is going to be very, very, very hard to beat. The "Bush is done", "Bush is toast", "Bush is finished" crowd are just not living in the real world.

Imajika

[loudsue]

39. And Imajika will rest easily.... n/t

[knight_of_the_star]

41. Ummm, you should see how they talk about his immigration thing

My dad likes Bush and he is pissed off that he did something like this. The rightwing base is gnashing their teeth over this.

[TruthIsAll]

43. Same old same old, huh?

You say:
Your deluded. Flaps, scandals, firestorms, etc, etc happen to all administrations all of the time. The vast majority of this stuff just blows over.

I say:
You are saying BushCo's scandals are no different from past administrations? So they are all guilty of similar crimes?

They are way different. But you are right about one thing, Imajika. The people are so dumbed-down and Bush controls the media, that he just might get away with it.

That is why 2004 is shaping up as Good vs. Evil.

[LunaC]

35. BRAVO!

Beautifully done. But as the righteous indignation crescendoed from start to finish of Bush-Baby's list of dastardly evil deeds, I wondered - like so many times before - if we'll only end up scratching our heads in amazement and wanting to throw things as the Junta deflects it all with lies, lies, and moreso and the media looks away..

Then again, there HAS to be a critical mass when the weight of so much deception and dishonesty implodes in on them....and I think there just might be enough time between now and November for that to occur. Drip, drip, drip...

[Gin]

36. I love this....

Kicking Bush ass, from Poppy to Puppy.......:)

[Kazak]

37. Only thing left is GateGate...

Your post gives me hope. :)

[ElementaryPenguin]

40. Great post, Truth!

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