Bush *shrugged*

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from the DNC blog

Posted by Tim Tagaris on January 27, 2006 at 10:33 AM


Facts, reality, public sentiment... *shrug*


Associated Press - 01/26/05- http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/13717649.htm

Bush shrugged off a recent Pentagon-contracted report which concluded the Army was overextended and the United States cannot sustain the pace of troop deployments to Iraq long enough to break the back of the insurgency there.


Associated Press - 01/07/06- http://www.cleveland.com/business/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/business/1136637054305130.xml&coll=2

Bush shrugged off a report showing weaker-than-expected job growth on Friday and declared that "the American economy heads into 2006 with a full head of steam."


Cox News - 10/05/05- http://www.coxwashington.com/reporters/content/reporters/stories/KATRINA_BUSH02_1STLD_COX.html

Amid the increasing criticism and desperation, Bush shrugged off questions about a National Guard depleted by active duty in Iraq. The guard, said Bush, can fight a war and react to hurricane devastation simultaneously.


Knight Ridder - 11/04/05- http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/columnists/william_douglas/13086089.htm

The Post/ABC survey indicated that 58 percent of Americans have doubts about Bush's honesty, marking the first time in his presidency that more than half the country questioned his integrity.

Bush shrugged off the numbers, saying that if he works hard enough things will take care of themselves.


Alternet - 04/01/03- http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/15534/

What he failed to address were the Academy's central conclusions: That global warming is a real threat, that it has intensified in the past 20 years and that greenhouse gases like CO2 are the most likely cause. When the administration's own EPA fortified these facts in 2002, placing even clearer blame on power plant emissions for causing climate change, President Bush shrugged off the findings as a "report put out by the bureaucracy."


Associated Press - 12/21/01- http://multimedia.belointeractive.com/attack/strike/1221bush.html

One of the couple's dogs, Spot, rolled across the carpet as Bush shrugged off suggestions that bin Laden slipped away from U.S. forces during cease fire talks in Afghanistan.

"I don't know where he is. I hadn't heard much from him recently, which means he could be in a cave that doesn't have an opening to it anymore; or could be in a cave where he can get out or may have tried to slither out into neighboring Pakistan. We don't know," the president said.

"But I will tell you this: We're going to find him."


link:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. If this doesn't show the contempt Bush has for the American people,

nothing does.

[Chiyo-chichi]

2. "I hadn't heard much from him recently"

Poor *. Osama never calls anymore.

You don't bring me flowers....

[obreaslan]

12. I thought that was a very telling statement....

It would seem that George has has contact with old Bin Laden in the past from that statement. "I hadn't heard much from him recently." As if you had heard from him in the past, but now, not so much. Hmmmmmm....

[MADem]

3. That's a telling compendium

Sums him up...he could give a shit (*shrug*).

[blm]

4. Excellent overview.

.

[liberal N proud]

5. I wish we could just shrug off this regime and get back to life in

America

[oldtime dfl_er]

6. excellent

I had noticed the recurring use of that word especially in yahoo stories. Now it seems it's pervasive. shrub shrugs. ugh.

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/1097640

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7. punk-ass pugs

ugh

[TahitiNut]

8. Another one ...

Bush: Abramoff photos irrelevant

G. Robert Hillman
Dallas Morning News
Jan. 27, 2006 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON - President Bush acknowledged Thursday that he has undoubtedly had his picture taken with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff but insisted, "I've never sat down with him and had a discussion with the guy."

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Press secretary Scott McClellan has said Abramoff, a formerly high-profile Republican lobbyist who has pleaded guilty in a sweeping Washington bribery and corruption scandal, attended two White House Hanukkah receptions early in Bush's first term and had met on several other occasions with presidential staff.

No other details have been provided, though, and Bush shrugged off a question on Thursday about whether he knew the number of photos.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0127bush-abramoff27.html

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9. more

Bush shrugged off a question about detainees being sent by the United States back to their home countries, where they could be tortured.


Bush shrugged off a report showing weaker-than-expected job growth

[Crankie Avalon]

10. Shrug and the world shrugs with you?

Or at least the nuttier half of America does.

[Contrary1]

11. Here's another one:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

President Bush Encourages Choking of Chickens to Fight Flu
January 25, 2006

"President Bush shocked the international community this week by encouraging world leaders to start “choking their chickens” to fight the deadly Avian Flu. The remarks were made at a Houston fundraiser benefiting the group Washington Aid for Systematic People, sponsored by some rich Texan with a lot of cattle.

“I really don’t see how I ---as leader of the greatest nation on earth, which does have the greatest chickens----even I cannot ignore the egg that has been laid. I will answer the clucks. They are due for slaughter anyway, but this time we won’t bar-b-que them. No. No matter how great our homegrown hens taste, they are sick and don’t feel too good. Not good enough to eat. So it’s undeniable. I have been telling Laura for weeks now that it is time to get those wrists warmed-up for the ‘ole grab and twist, but she doesn’t want to face up to reality. She likes to eat ‘em down to the bone.”

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When asked if he was scared of catching the Avian Flu, President Bush shrugged.:shrug: “I told you people that I would gladly answer any questions you had about that bird flu. But I don’t know shinola about this...this new flu caused by Evian. The twins drink a lot of that stuff. Me, I stick to good ‘ole tap water. Secretary of State Rice will have to fill me in on that. She’s my SOS on the streets, you know. But I can’t have her in the same room with me trying to learn me up on another flu when I am trying to prevent a hendemic---it is hard to choke a chicken when she is around...”

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_tara_par_060125_president_bush_encou.htm

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13. Bush shrugged off the need for engaging in the Middle East peace process

Bush described meeting then-Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon on a December 1998 visit to Israel, when Bush himself was governor of Texas.

"Bush described meeting (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon...'We flew over the Palestinian camps. Looked real bad down there. I don't see much we can do over there at this point. I think it's time to pull out of that situation'," he said, according to O'Neill.

Secretary of State Colin Powell warned the consequences of that could be more bloodshed. "Bush shrugged. 'Maybe that's the best way to get things back in balance'."

[chat_noir]

14. Austin Powers shags, Bush shrugs

The president is said to be more fatalistic about his own safety. Reminded recently that assassination is a constant threat, Bush shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's not my job to worry about it."

http://www.suntimes.com/special_sections/sept11/nation/bush.html


George W. Bush has offered varying accounts over the past decade of his dealings as a Harken director. Back when he was running for Texas governor in 1994, he blamed the Securities and Exchange Commission for misplacing the disclosure forms he was supposed to file about his insider sale of 212,000 shares of Harken stock. At another point, he blamed the Harken lawyers, even though the filing wasn't their responsibility at all. Lately, his spokesman has tried to blame his own attorney (who now serves as the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia). "I still haven't figured it out completely," Bush shrugged on Monday afternoon.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:azvOAwlvjJUJ:www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2002/07/09/bush/+Bush+shrugged&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=17

[Deja Q]

15. Bush is agreeing w/China re: the Iran nuke issue.

http://www.nysun.com/article/26606 - one link of many

So of course he'll shrug.

He knows America is finished, regardless.

[Chiyo-chichi]

16. Still More Shrub Shrugs...

I used Lexis Nexis, so I don't have direct links in most cases.

President George Bush shrugged off increasing public scepticism and redoubled his efforts yesterday to sell the idea of private investment accounts as a means of repairing the US federal pensions system. (The Guardian - Final Edition, March 5, 2005}

PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH shrugged off the massive global peace protests yesterday and vowed to continue pushing America's allies to accept that Iraq should be punished by war for failing to disarm. (19 February 2003, The Independent - London)

TWO senators opposed to the US-led war in Iraq heckled the American President when he spoke to Australia's Parliament yesterday, but George Bush shrugged it off, smiled broadly and won applause by saying: "I love free speech." (24 October 2003, Belfast News Letter)

The Bush campaign, for its part, has blocked out what both camps described as an enormous advertising buy for the final days of this campaign, underscoring the importance of a South Carolina contest where the Texas governor once hoped to all but wrap up his party's nomination. He shrugged off Mr. McCain's complaints of "savagery" and kept up his own attack spots against his upstart rival's campaign style and voting record. (Wall Street Journal. Eastern edition. New York, N.Y.: Feb 15, 2000)

The president and his team shrugged off December’s slowdown to highlight a longer trend toward the positive. (http://www.showmenews.com/2006/Jan/20060107News006.asp)


Clearly, he got it from his daddy:

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Former President George Bush shrugged off critics who say the current showdown with Iraq could have been avoided if America had finished the job it started during the Persian Gulf War. (27 February 2003, Associated Press Newswires)

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Vice President George Bush shrugged off suggestions today that he played "oneupmanship" at the superpower summit, but his Republican presidential rivals generally concede that Bush gained a political boost this week. (11 December 1987, The Associated Press Political Service)

U.S. Vice-President George Bush shrugged off possible campaign damage yesterday from a memo linking him to the Iran-arms affair, saying people ''don't want to be dwelling in the past.'' (19 December 1987, The Globe and Mail)

[MakeItSo]

17. But he's also "workin' hard"

For him, that means he's holding a regular 40 hour a week job, minus 2 hour lunches.

[Larissa238]

18. You mean when he's not on month long vacations?

[hootinholler]

19. Goooogle sez: Results 1 - 10 of about 2,170,000 for 'bush shrugged'.

Yep pretty commmon phrase. Bet his shoulders is gettin tired.

-Hoot

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20. Atlas Shrugged

;)