Bush giving hearburn to republican lawmakers~

[greenbriar]

Alan Simpson, a Wyoming Republican who served in the Senate leadership and is a friend of the Bush family, says the president's "uncharacteristic rigidity" on some issues is causing heartburn for Republicans. "They're thinking re-election and the president is asking them to go over a cliff," he says.

Bush's job-approval rating, 47% in a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll last week, doesn't help, says Charlie Cook, publisher of the non-partisan Cook Report. "When a president's job approval numbers stay consistently below 50%, he starts losing support on Capitol Hill," he says. "Members of his own party feel free to distance themselves and members of the opposition party are emboldened to attack."

http://yahoo.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-22-bush-news-analysis_x.htm?csp=1

[Skidmore]

1. "Uncharacteristic rigidity"--now that's rich.

They just noticed?

[unblock]

11. this is a REPUBLICAN speaking

i'm sure shrub has been very cooperative behind closed doors, when it comes to internal, republican concerns. it's only the public image and when facing democrats in particular, that he's inflexible.

[cornermouse]

2. So they're getting heartburn from Bush?

Good. They've earned it by supporting, even now, everything he's done.

[Nay]

4. Yeah, where the hell were they the last 5 years? As long as his

numbers were up, they thought his "rigidity" was just fine.

[greenbriar]

5. see this 59,000,000 failed to do their job

So, here I am. I'm left with pride in my own service and the men I served with, but the sickening feeling that it was avoidable. I would gladly lay down my life for our country. Like every other man who wears this uniform, our commitment is not at issue. Call it naivety, but it never occurred to me that my country was less committed to us than we are to it. Sending us in harm's way for a lie amounts to a betrayal that may prove to be criminal. It's unfortunate that on November 2nd 59,000,000 Americans failed to do their duty and hold the administration accountable for this betrayal of the troops. A dishonorable discharge was never more warranted.

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[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. Alan Simpson's a decent Republican.

Pro-choice, anti-FMA and a hilariously blunt speaker.

[radfringe]

6. worrying that lawmakers could be burned at the polls

GOP's Social Security offer
Senior Republicans in the House, fearing a voter backlash, write a measure that softens the president's version
The Associated Press
June 23, 2005

WASHINGTON - Key House Republicans delivered Social Security legislation yesterday that would shun measures needed to assure long-term solvency and would omit President George W. Bush's call for personal accounts financed with payroll taxes.

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Senior GOP leaders have been wary of Bush's proposals, worrying that lawmakers could be burned at the polls in 2006 if compelled to vote on them.

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[greenbriar]

7. love that cartoon

It should be front page

[Oversea Visitor]

8. Yeah track record

Show Chimp a walking disaster, born loser
Look at poor US, major trainwreck x(
Republican party not yet wake up to warning ahead
Chimp messing them up BIG BIG
Think they all in deep deep chimpshit
No choice they all will get an idea for
chIMPEACH soon
Maybe only way to save republican party
Already say "DISCONNETED FROM REALITY"
But chimp keep driving laughing and shouting
LOOK NO HANDS
Passenger panicking gee smart one all
leaving sinking ship
Moron still in car with chimp as driver

Poppy crying looking at bushes
My precious my precious
Poppy cry
But Jeb say all alrigth
Me show you l am fighter
See me go backward 15 years now to win
Me good at time travel

Poppy cry more
ask himself where he went wrong
Poor Poppy Bush Chimp make history with bush name

[julianer]

9. Brilliant

LOL lots

[Oversea Visitor]

10. Take a big bow

Thank you Thank you

Its hardwork I tell you its hardwork.

[renate]

13. classic!

But chimp keep driving laughing and shouting
LOOK NO HANDS


I just can't stop giggling at that. It's so perfect! :spray:

:yourock:

[Senior citizen]

12. Heartburn? Haven't they heard of Nexium? n/t

:kick:

[EVDebs]

14. Republicans are waking up...they can see losing '06 and then '08

because of the quagmire R's are leaving the military in.

Also, the religious basis of Bush's base is beginning to 'see the light'. The end times eschatology that is the basis for the union of Bush's evangelical 'base' and Israelis. See Chris Hedges' article on Dominionists at
http://harpers.org/FeelingTheHate.html

"...On the platform is a huge picture of the Dome of the Rock, the spot in Jerusalem where the third Temple will be rebuilt to herald, at least according to the Christians in the room, the second coming of Christ. Some 400,000 Christian tourists visit Israel each year, and, what with the precipitous decline in Israel’s tourism industry in recent years, these people have become a valued source of revenue.

The strange alliance in this case is premised upon the Dominionist belief that Israel must rule the biblical land in order for Christ to return, though when he does, all Jews who do not convert to Christianity supposedly will be incinerated as the believers are lifted into heaven; all this is courteously left unmentioned at the breakfast. The featured speakers include Avraham Hirschsohn, who is the new Israeli minister of tourism, and Michael Medved, a cultural conservative and a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. Medved is also one of the most prominent Jewish defenders of Mel Gibson’s biopic The Passion of the Christ."

Also see PBS's article on them at
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week319/cover.html

The Third Temple and destruction of the Dome of The Rock are constant themes, albeit erroneous themes if you look at scriptural views of 'futurism' and 'historicism' since the Reformation
www.aloha.net/~mikesch/antichrist.htm

Most people would call this 'dangerous' at the very least, and George Monbiot in the Guardian has called them 'bonkers':
"Their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the heart of power
-US Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush's Middle East policy"
www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1195568,00.html

But slowly, ever so slowly, the world is waking up to what is behind the Bush evangelicals and it is slowly, ever so slowly dawning upon them that incorrect interpretations of scripture --coupled with an Islamist "enemy" that stupidly uses guerrilla warfare and terror tactics that feed right into the Dominionist's world view-- are leading the United States into a quagmire in Iraq and away from sane policy positions internally and internationally.

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
-- Sinclair Lewis