Bush's "Heads Up" to Fred Barnes...Repugs Win/ Gas will be LOW in Nov.!

[KoKo]

(What's amazing is that he's laid it all out. Repugs he thinks will win on Torture and Gas Prices (that Bush comes right out and says he will lower. Getting bolder aren't they...Then there's that matter of the DRE Machines and Voter disenfranchisement in case it looks like their Plan A doesn't work. Or, maybe they will just go for it with both Plans A and B.)


Inside the Oval Office
President Bush gives journalists a "heads up" about the mid-term elections, among other things.
by Fred Barnes
09/13/2006 1:54:00 PM

-SNIP-
In the midterm election on November 7, Bush predicted Democrats won't win either the House or the Senate. "I believe these elections will come down to two things: one, firm belief that in order to win the war on terror there must be a comprehensive strategy that recognizes this war is being fought on more than one front, and, two, the economy." Bush said the price of gasoline, which has been falling rapidly, is one of the "interesting indicators" that the press should watch carefully. "Just giving you a heads up," he added.

Worth the rest of this read of Barnes interview with an "Out of Touch" Bush.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/696wnfcp

[bdamomma]

1. so you have to tell me people will excuse bush

because the gas prices will be down, this is all that matters to people that gas prices will be down, that is really unfortunate if people give this maniac a pass.

[woodsprite]

9. Hey, my babysitter thinks we should thank GeorgieBoy for that. n/t

[radfringe]

12. was working on one guy

here at work... he was jawing about falling gas prices, saying he's glad bush has finally done something about it

my eyes about fell out of my head, my jaw hit the floor

"WHAAAAAAT!!!!???? You think the prices are falling because bush did something???? They are falling because the repubs are in deep doo-doo and are on the verge of losing control of the Congress. and as an aside - how long do you expect the prices to continue to fall? Well, I'll tell ya for how long - providing smirk-boy doesn't rile up Iran anymore in the mean time or decides we need a terror attack - the prices will drop until November 7 - Election Day - within a week after the prices will go up again."

[VolcanoJen]

15. If Bush really was responsible for the falling gas prices...

... he'd be jawbonin' all over TV about it.

Thing is... he doesn't want anyone to know that he's responsible. Because, that would make people ask if he was responsible six weeks ago when prices were $3.15 and above.

81% of oil exec money goes to the Republican Party. This easing of prices is more than a f'n coincidence.

Why are people so damned gullible??

[notadmblnd]

24. I think we're past that..... it's too little too late

and I get that impression from people that I speak to who once supported the regime

[DemonFighterLives]

2. Bastard- that is all

:dem:

[BOSSHOG]

3. "A comprehensive strategy?"

That's a chuckle. Greeted as liberators. Iraq oil to pay for everything. No more than 6 months. WMD's. Ties to Al-Quaeda. Awesome fucking strategy - lie to the lemmings.

Its a good thing for bush their are millions of ignorant, proud, falsely patriotic Americans who are willing to slowly destroy our country to keep this failure of a human being in power.

[acmejack]

7. I'm done. They are fucking going to keep everything.

Proving how stupid our Countrymen really are. Interesting indicators, I prefer the term COLLUSION. It is really getting to the point where I don't care to live here anymore.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

4. "Win" on Torture - so sad that Merkins "condone" that.

They would only care if they start carting off "white" people I guess. It's ok to do anything to Arabs - innocent or guilty. And I suspect many people would also look the other way if it was a brown or black-skinned person also.

[Sapere aude]

5. You think that people win learn from this that gas prices are rigged

and that they can be made to rise or go lower on cue

I listened to NPR this weekend and they had a report on the lowering gas prices. Unlike when prices rise, they did not give any reason for the prices dropping. The only said that the same factors that make prices rise are making them fall now. They gave no supply and demand reasons, no investor reasons, nothing just that prices are falling.

[Ganja Ninja]

11. One would hope that people would figure out this is a ploy.

Just like the $300 tax break they promised in 2000. One would hope they would be pissed for having to pay high prices over the last few years. One would hope.
:eyes:

[gulliver]

6. We should argue that the prices will go back up if the GOP wins.

Put the Dems in office and the price will stay down. We won't let the energy companies gouge Americans the way the Republicans do.

[w4rma]

21. Prices are going down because oil executives are expecting Dems to win

the elections. They want there to be less of a public outcry for investigations into price gouging on oil and they want to try to keep Republicans in power, who won't investigate.

A vote for any Republican is a vote for higher gasoline prices.

[mnhtnbb]

27. Yeah, it's called price fixing and it's supposed to be illegal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing

[sabra]

8. wow

[Rosemary2205]

10. God help America if they are stupid enough to fall for this

[VolcanoJen]

13. Barnes drops a bomb, and nobody cares

That last sentence is a DOOZY.

Send that out to everyone you know, folks. And thanks for catching that, KoKo, because the media sure didn't.

[KoKo]

16. That sentence plus the rest of the article is so bizarre I wondered

why it wasn't all over the place. I got it from Digby's Blog where he does a great job tearing this and the article by William Kristol I posted over in GD Politics apart. They are going for Broke to keep us from taking back House and Senate.

We need a Dem Echo Chamber to get this stuff out! Digby's the only one I've seen talk about this. When I find the link I'll post it on this thread.

[KoKo]

18. Digby has a great dissection of the Barnes article here:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/

Nutty Buddy

by digby


I had read excerpts of Fred Barnes' column describing his meeting with the president and fellow conservative sycpophants, but I didn't get a chance to read the whole thing until today. The codpiece is full to bursting even as the mind is shrinking. :rofl:

Inside the Oval Office President Bush gives journalists a "heads up" about the mid-term elections, among other things.


FRED BARNES:

WE NOW KNOW WHY the Bush administration hasn't made the capture of Osama bin Laden a paramount goal of the war on terror. Emphasis on bin Laden doesn't fit with the administration's strategy for combating terrorism. Here's how President Bush explained this Tuesday: "This thing about . . . let's put 100,000 of our special forces stomping through Pakistan in order to find bin Laden is just simply not the strategy that will work."

Rather, Bush says there's a better way to stay on offense against terrorists. "The way you win the war on terror," Bush said, "is to find people and get them to give you information about what their buddies are fixing to do." In a speech last week, the president explained how this had worked--starting with the arrest and interrogation of 9/11 planner Khalid Sheik Muhammad--to break up a terrorist operation that was planning post-9/11 attacks on America.

More...scroll down to "Nutty Buddy"...at

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/

[KoKo]

29. kick.........

[AndyTiedye]

14. They're Gonna Steal It, They're Floating Lo Gas Prices as a Cover Story

[mmonk]

17. Anyone have a working link?

[KoKo]

20. WORKING LINK, HERE! (sorry...don't know why OP one went dead)

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/696wnfcp.asp?pg=1

[Skidmore]

19. We should play "how low will they go" with the Rs and the oil companies

by continually harping on the fact that during the Clinton years, gas prices were less than a dollar a gallon. Push that hard an if the "free market" suddenly goes there, hit it hard.

[bridgit]

22. yes, proof the bush admin/bfee manipulates gas prices...

why not

[Supersedeas]

31. and when gas prices climb after the election--filthy Pubby voters will be

kicking themselves

[elehhhhna]

23. I find this quote quite insulting:

"It's impossible for someone to have grown up in the 50s and 60s to envision a conflict with people that just kill mercilessly, using techniques that are kind of foreign to modern warfare. But it's real. I'm telling you, it's real."

[RobertSeattle]

25. Hmmm. Maybe we should all invest in Gas Futures...

:-)

[Ino]

26. He is bizarre.

"this Oval Office can be slightly intimidating, but I've got people here who can fight through the aura"

The office is intimidating? The office has an aura? Good grief, he's projecting onto inanimate objects now! Talk about detached...

[Jcrowley]

28. Rumsfeld Unveils New Justification For Iraq War: High Gas Prices

Rumsfeld Unveils New Justification For Iraq War: High Gas Prices

Prior to the war, the administration stressed that the United States needed to invade Iraq because Saddam Hussein possessed WMDs and had connections to al-Qaeda. None of that turned out to be true.

Now, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has introduced a new rationale for the invasion of Iraq, high gas prices. From a radio interview last week:

SECRETARY RUMSFELD: The fact of the matter is - if Saddam Hussein were still in power in Iraq, he would be rolling in petrol dollars. Think of the price of oil today. He would have so much money. And he would be seeing the Iranians interested in a nuclear program, he would be seeing the North Koreans developing a nuclear program, and he’d say well why shouldn’t he - and he would. So we’re fortunate that he’s gone.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/17/rumsfeld-gas-prices/

[KoKo]

30. kick.......for Bush's Gas Manipulation...