The DECIDER Announces He STILL Can't Decide ---pix--->>>

[Stephanie]

Why are The Incompetents being relied upon to craft a plan? Who Cares What THEY Think?

Here, they march forth from the fake ranch to announce that They Have No Plan. WTF?

He worked "nearly three hours," without success. That
must have surely ruined his Vacation.



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Bush taking more time to craft Iraq plan

CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush worked nearly three hours at his Texas ranch on Thursday to design a new U.S. policy in Iraq, then emerged to say that he and his advisers need more time to craft the plan he'll announce in the new year.

Burdened by low approval ratings on his handling of the war, the president is under mounting pressure to come up with a new blueprint for U.S. involvement in Iraq where the execution of Saddam Hussein — perhaps as early as this weekend — could incite further violence.

"We've got more consultation to do until I talk to the country about the plan," Bush said, appearing outside an office building at his ranch.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061229/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

[Kerrytravelers]

1. So, are we suppose to believe that all these supposed "brilliant leaders" can't come up with

something after all the time we've been in Iraq?

Why hasn't God spoken to * and advised him yet?

[grasswire]

2. what the hell is Bush wearing??!!

I know that he wears mismatched suit jackets with suit pants at times, but where the hell did he get that jacket?????

[Fridays Child]

28. That group probably spent more time being dressed than they did on...

...policy discussions.

[Stephanie]

31. Absolutely correct.

Which begs the question, who allowed Condi to appear in a sweater set???

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

54. And has Pace retired or something?

Has he been appointed assistant SecDef secretly?

camp david, I understand has relaxed uniform standards, always has... but this is in Crawford, no?

[Supersedeas]

103. powdered faces and pigment are the order of the photo op day--beautiful day for a photo

op is it not?

[beam me up scottie]

32. Herb Tarlek's closet.

[Lasher]

74. Hahahahahaaaa, good one!

I remember Herb always wore a white belt and white shoes.

[beam me up scottie]

76. That was a great show.

Damn, they don't make tv like that anymore.

[Lasher]

78. Yep, one of my favorites of all time.

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!!" -- Arthur Carlson, WKRP in Cincinnati

http://radio.about.com/library/weekly/aa112002a.htm

You also killed me with the one in this thread about Lord Vader's lips moving:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2994927#2995073

[beam me up scottie]

79. Ah, Darth Cheney.

I swear he's being kept alive by sucking out people's brains.

That would also explain what happened to the retarded chimp.


And the really sad thing about old shows like WKRP, is now I realize that reality is so much more ludicrous.

[Lasher]

80. Know why Junior's having that summit at the pig farm?

It's mostly show, to let people know that The Decider will decide this, and won't just follow the recommendations of a panel. After all, people have to know that it is The Decider who decides. It is quite childish behavior, and something consistent I have noticed about Junior.

Another thing this is about is finding a way for this junta to keep doing exactly what they've been doing in Iraq but make it look like something else. Notice how the "stay the course" slogan is being replaced with "finish the job". See, that's why we're going to send more soldiers to Iraq. It's so we can get them out. It's the old lipstick on a pig ploy, in an attempt to hold those pesky voters and that uppity new Congress at bay while we "finish the job" in Iraq over the next several decades.

[beam me up scottie]

81. And the msm is playing along.

"President Bush worked nearly three hours "

Notice they never let him face the cameras alone?

Is it because he is so weak and damages his own credibility so often that he needs them as his "blankie"?

[Lasher]

86. Right, like when he had to sit on Uncle Dick's lap to testify to the 9/11 commission

And even at that he had to do it behind closed doors.

Just wait till next month when the corporate news media really gets cranked up. It's going to be all pro-Junior and anti-Democratic Congress all the time. For most of the last 6 years we have been sickened only by the media's enabling of Junior and his Bush-league lapdog Congress. But I predict they'll go (more) on the attack against Pelosi and company now that Democrats are in control.

Everything Democrats do will be wrong and will be a great big deal. Like a couple of years ago when somebody on Jay Rockefeller's staff wrote up a memo that said if Whitewash Roberts didn't stop stonewalling on the Senate Intelligence Committee's Phase II investigation, that Democrats should make a political issue of it. Why, the Publicans and their punduits were shocked, nay outraged, that Democrats might want to let voters know of the coverup - one that's still going on to this day, BTW. You didn't see anybody on the teevee wondering much how Roberts had come by the draft memo that was stolen from Jay's office.

[opihimoimoi]

91. The Bully is OBSTINATE, he will STAY THE COURSE and is trying to find

new ways to to say it.

His crew is a sorry looking bunch of losers if there ever was one. Just look at um...

[Lasher]

93. I don't think his shell game will work this time though

Even the casual observers are onto him by now.

[opihimoimoi]

108. Bush of the Empty Shells....I love it...LOL

[Stephanie]

34. What is Condi wearing? And why is she so self-conscious -

about hiding her boobs? She acts like a seventh-grader. Who ARE these people?

[Straight Shooter]

94. Condi isn't hiding her ...

... boobs. They're walking right in front of her.

[Lasher]

120. Stop, you're killin' me!!

Heeeeee, he he he heeeee!!!!! Can't catch my breath!!

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

You and beam me up scottie would be a lot of fun to drink beer with! :toast:

[POAS]

99. In none of these pics is she looking up

In fact most of them are keeping heads bowed. Shave or reverence? Perhaps praying the people will buy the latest lies.

[calimary]

40. If you'll notice the next time you see footage of bush coming out

of some interior, holding hands with former President Ford, with Mrs. Ford close behind, you'll see bush's blazer doesn't match his pants then, either. Some sort of fashion statement? The uniform of a wannabe divinely-ordained American dictator? Or just more of the emperor's bad clothes?

[WinkyDink]

89. More of an FU to normal dress codes.

[roguevalley]

62. did you ever see more hateful body language in the people arrayed

behind him? Rice looks like she has argued until blue faced and knows she lost. Cheney is trying to distance himself. Pace looks robotically dead and Gates just looks furious. Amazing. They all hate him too.

[calimary]

70. Yeah. Where's the swagger?

As for contradicta, she looks like she's trying to be invisible. Maybe if she keeps her head down, nobody'll notice her or call on her with one of those pesky, unwanted questions. And bush with those nice and by now ever-present furrows in his brow. I bet he never suspected this might REALLY be hard work. He's in WAY over his head, too. They ALL are. Pathetic. Disgraceful. Criminal. Perhaps they know that part of it is coming...

[europegirl4jfk]

95. Well, they weren't dressed better in 2005

but they looked much more confident. Remember, that was before Katrina hit.




Compare to now and you see the difference.




When I saw it on TV yesterday my first thought was that Condi looked like she had cried or tried hard not to cry in front of the cameras.

[grasswire]

97. this is the best leadership that America can produce?

How pathetic is that??

This is the best and the brightest team that the United States of America has?

Lord almighty. We must deserve to have the Chinese call our debt.

[Botany]

3. Oh for the love of God

"President Bush worked nearly three hours .... "

Well after putting in a day like that he needs a vacation.

[Catherine Vincent]

4. Caption....

"Watch your step, you don't want to step in any pig shit."

[rusty charly]

5. But Nancy Pelosi is supposed to have one.

[orleans]

58. (yes, pelosi *is* supposed to have a plan for two very simple reasons...

she is human and she has a brain. so we're counting on that. these freaks in the picture--they're not human.)

(but, i *did* get your meaning--i just drove down a slightly sarcastic path)

[rusty charly]

107. i'm with you all the way

[Erika]

6. Bush should be impeached immediately

He and his neo con cabinet declared war on Iraq and its innocents four years ago. Now they can't come up with a plan. Only the GOP could stomach this incompetence and exploitation of the U.S. troops.

But, hey, he and his corporate globalists buds have never been richer as they transfer America's working class wealth to the globalists.

And so much for www.icasualties.org

[Stardust]

77. Thank you for the link. I'm writing the names on my protest sign.

I'm hoping it will create a bond, make it more personal, hurt my hand. I don't think all the names are going to fit though. So sad...

[TomInTib]

7. Those first five pics look as if they suspect that maybe...

someone may have dropped the 'Plan' on the ground.

That is some pretty pathetic body language.
Like maybe they are headed to their own ass-whupping.

[Stephanie]

9. Condi can't seem to keep her bra straightened out

And Dick can barely focus on the present. He is in mourning for his past life as Ford's Chief of Staff. BEFORE he fucked up the entire Mideast.

[Webster Green]

8. What a bunch of losers...

How much longer can this hoax continue?

[beam me up scottie]

10. WTF???

What the hell is wrong with them?

Why are they all looking at the ground?

Are they all drunk?

[Erika]

13. They are trying to pretend seriousness

as they count the bucks they've made on the back of American troops.

You don't see any of their kids over there.

[beam me up scottie]

15. I'm trying to figure out if they feel as guilty as they look.

Surely somebody schooled them in body language?

[calimary]

43. No frickin' KIDDING.

They ALL have hangdog looks and body language. This is not a group that is behaving as though it feels it's on top of the world. Looks like a bunch of test-cheaters and note-passers on the way to the principal's office.

[beam me up scottie]

49. THAT'S IT EXACTLY!

"Looks like a bunch of test-cheaters and note-passers on the way to the principal's office."

[Stephanie]

19. no, Their kids are exempt

Why should Their kids fight pre-emptive wars? That's for suckers.

[krispos42]

63. Lookin' for more brush to clear

Failing that, and after a vigorous nap, it's time to try to come up with a plan

[beam me up scottie]

72. LOVE the faux rustic sidewalk.

It almost looks like they didn't just pour it six years ago.

[BlackVelvet04]

90. The ground is uneven and there are steps.....

I would think that's what they are looking at.

[Sugar Smack]

96. LOLOL! Poor Condi. She must be sooooo embarrassed;

her husb is a national disgrace. She'd rather be shoe shopping.

[havocmom]

11. DimSon can't play until his homework's done. He's so screwn!

:rofl:

[Generic Brad]

12. Maybe they were looking for brush to clear

Bush has spent so much time at the ranch the past six years that they must gave to really search the grounds to find a piece of brush just laying around waiting to be picked up.

[orleans]

59. bush looking behind a tree: "no brush back here." bush lifts up a rock:

"no brush under here"

republican audience claps politely, thinking: "baaa. you already did this routine with those wmds"

[Sydnie]

14. He needs to hear from more opinions

so damn it ... truck some more of them in and let him hear from them! :rofl: What a loser he is!

[riderinthestorm]

16. Meanwhile how many more die and are mutilated while Bu$hco dithers.... nt

[Erika]

21. Check at

www.icasualties.org W's true victims.

[riderinthestorm]

26. Oh no, please! Let's check out Condi's swag shoes!

Ferragamos doncha think?? :sarcasm:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

113. but, but, but.....

Ferragamos are the best fitting, softest, most flexible and comfy leather shoes in the whole WORLD.
They are very sturdy. Expensive, but you can take 'em to a shoe shop and get 'em redone and get more mileage out of them.

I have really narrow bony feet, and they say that all the narrow Ferragamos go to America. Why, I don't know.

No painful spike heels for me!!!!


Given that, Condi is still evil. EVIL. ALL THE WAY THROUGH.

[bobthedrummer]

17. I'm speechless when I look at this series, Stephanie

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[LynnTheDem]

18. sociopathic mass murderers.

The entire useless MFing lot.

[beam me up scottie]

20. If you look closely,

you can see Cheney's lips moving:

[peekaloo]

22. Brain dead walking.

Condi's gold plated flea collar doesn't seem to be working.

What a gloomy bunch, no wonder the men's neckties were confiscated.

Fuck them all.

[Erika]

24. and the voters who voted them in. n/t

[Amonester]

102. with a little help from their machines (and all their overpaid

shills in their corporate owned 'mainstream media')

watta bunch of hypocrits

[Nostradammit]

38. LMAO!!

"...no wonder the men's neckties were confiscated."

:rofl:

[calimary]

71. HAH! Same as Saddam. Wow. How fun. They have SO much in

common with the guy. That's some pretty funny irony, actually.

[Drum]

23. See them bow their shabby heads...

for shame!

x(

[Erika]

25. While they are checking their oil profits

They made out like bandits. W, Cheney, Rice all made out like bandits on this war. On to Iran, they say.

[greenbriar]

27. that first pict makes Condi look like she is doin the Michael Jackson ball grab

mebbe she has a pair

[madrchsod]

29. three mikes that are at least 4 to 6 ft away from bushie boy

i guess he does`t want to get to close to the great unwashed now does he...

[AussieDave]

30. Look - it's HARD WORK being The Decider

Having lots of decisions to make.

Do I put my underpants on first, THEN the trousers - or the other way around ??

Do I still say "stay the course", or did we change it again ??

And what the hell does "finish the job" mean ??


So many fucking decisions.....


I need a drink.

Oh wait - don't do that no more.

Dang.

[Erika]

33. Should I stop the war or add bucks to my bank account

decisions, decisions, decisions.

[AussieDave]

39. What - and take away the FUN of being a "war President" ??

It's one of the many reasons he invaded Iraq in the first place.

The War on Terror includes everyone - Iraq is his baby and his alone.

[Nostradammit]

35. We're screwn.

Take a look at the faces of our "leaders."

God help us.

I can't determine if they are frightened only for themselves because they are going to get arrested for their many crimes or if they are about to start something they're not certain they can finish.

God help us.

[Stephanie]

36. So true.

They've probably been in the "ranch house" disucssing the implications of bomblng Iran.

[Nostradammit]

41. Oh Stephanie, I hope not

It's been great knowing all of you all, if that's the case.

America was beautiful while it lasted.

[calimary]

37. My, my, my, contradicta, dear. Thou doth divert thine eyes.

Can't look people straight in the face anymore, dearie? Gee, I wonder why not, Miss "we've GOT to have a war". Miss "Mushroom Cloud" of 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. Perhaps she keeps her head down because she knows that mushroom cloud has blown up in her face.

[aaronbees]

42. What the hell is going on with his hair???

LOL, looks like dead straw. Sheesh, he looks more decrepit every day.

[ninkasi]

44. In the second photo

They look like puppets with their strings cut. Besides, hasn't Lord Pissypants been saying for several years that he had a "clear plan for victory" in Iraq? If it's so clear, why didn't he implement it?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

45. Poor Pace. I don't know how he keeps

his head up.

[spacelady]

46. They all look like they are stumbling off a bender into the frying pan. n/t

[stevedeshazer]

47. I'm for once speechless, but K & R, as these pics say more than anyone could.

:eyes:

[libnnc]

48. Why does the nutsack-in-chief always walk like....

he's got a bottle of Aqua-Net up his ass?

Why?

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

50. Usually, when * looks like shit, I feel great!~

~Today, I feel like shit too. God be w/ our Troops.

[Yukari Yakumo]

51. Meanwhile, we're 9 away from 3000 and 6 away from December being as bloody as October

And all he does is go on vacation at taxpayer expense.

My revulsion of him never ceases.

[nonconformist]

52. 3 WHOLE hours?! Aww, poor thing. And I swear, Bush is like a parody of himself.

Everything he says, every facial expression, every picture... it's like satire.

[jazzjunkysue]

116. If that's alot, then, what's the normal workload at the white house?

Why are they bragging that they spent 3 hours on something? Shouldn't it be hours every day, just because our kids are dying?

[Zenlitened]

53. Excellent -- if frightening -- photo essay. K & R.

The hapless, hang-dog expressions on their faces... the guilt-ridden slump to their shoulders... Yikes. :yoiks:

It all seems to send a pretty clear message to the troops in Iraq: Pack up your gear and bug out while you can. This ain't gettin' any prettier any time soon, and your "commander in chief" and his "strategists" know it.

:( :( :(

[me b zola]

55. You know, they don't give a damn about using our military as sitting ducks...

...they don't give a damn about how Iraq is being destroyed, along with the people who live (are trying to survive) there...

...they don't give a damn about public opinion of them...


So what's up with those long faces & body language? I wonder if boosh* et al just heard from their buddies from the house of Saud. That is about the only relationship or group of people that bush*inc has any concern about that could make them sweat--well, Fitzgerald had them sweating for a while... Anyway, last I heard the Saudis were making some big demands on bush*, which included a threat to assist in a(the?) Sunni insurgency. Could the Sauds be pissed @ the hanging of Saddam?

Whatever it is, it has the cabal sweating.

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

56. I've seen that body language before!

On Eli Manning after he's thrown another interception.

[calimary]

66. I have, too. On that group photo of everybody from the White House

on one of the mornings immediately after the November election rout. They all looked as glum and grim and hang-dog as these photos show. They were all standing in a group on the steps just outside somewhere or other. I forget the details, but what will NOT EVER leave my mind was that collection of grim, glum faces. They'd all been punched in the gut by the voters and they looked it. alberto "torture's okay" gonzales looked like he was about to face his own personal frog march. And contradicta looked as sour-pussed and downcast as in the photos here. Their facial expressions were enough. You didn't need a caption to tell you this was the look of the LOSING team, taking a break from an all-day wound-licking and cry-in-yer-beer marathon.

[LeahD]

57. I think they know the jig is up. They've had a very long time to

come up with a plan, and now the pressure's on.

[orleans]

60. they weren't in there concocting a plan for iraq, they were in there

trying to figure out what the hell they're gonna do when the subpoenas come flying at them. i'm sure they never got as far as iraq in their discussion

[calimary]

69. BINGO! I'll bet that's it. They do NOT look like they're strategizing

for ANY victory dance on some distant battlefield. They look like they all got a briefing on just what kind of legal nightmares they'll be facing (and just how much serious trouble they're already in) when the Democrats get cracking on their investigations.

Many sleepless nights ahead for them, I hope. They should know at least a tiny shard of the misery, fear, panic, heartache, and dread that EVERY family with a loved one in Iraq has to live with every minute of every day. I hope they greet every day in a cold sweat.

[bklyncowgirl]

112. Take a look at Gates. He's the only one who doesn't look like a whipped dog.

I wonder if he just delivered a little message from Poppy and the GOP powers that be. Pace and Condi look miserable--Cheney and Bush defiant.

[LeahD]

75. Yes, the jig is up in more ways than one.

[Stephanie]

84. they were on a conference call with their criminal defense lawyer

too bad Johnnie Cochran's not available.

[orleans]

61. who is the guy top picture on upper right? n/t

[calimary]

68. Peter Pace. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The poor schmuck who had to step in after that stupid dick-head fuck-up richard myers.

[Eurobabe]

64. He's a WINGER alright, dude - get a haircut!

[Clarkie1]

65. A couple observations...

1. Notice how they are almost always looking downward like beaten dogs?

2. Even when they are not facing the ground, they look unhappy

3. Is it just me, or is Cheney getting fatter?

[Vektor]

67. Bush has aged horribly. Like - a hundred years in the past six.

Being the president must be "hard work"... :eyes:

[beltanefauve]

73. Where's *'s

flag lapel pin? Surely he knew there would be photos taken. Or do they not even bother with that sort of thing anymore?

[FreeStateDemocrat]

82. Plan ahead? Looks like they have a tough time just putting one foot in foot of the other.

[annabanana]

83. "abject failure". . every picture screams this message.

Complete and utter defeat is the message of these pictures. The body language says "We have failed, utterly. Rescue us from this hopeless mess.".

[Zenlitened]

105. Agreed. I sure do hope the generals on the ground, the unit commanders, the troops themselves...

... I hope they all realize that there is NO civilian leadership, at the moment, not in the Executive Branch. And, more importantly, I hope they'll recognize that the new Congress about to be sworn in is on their side, searching for a way to end this thing.

It's never been more shockingly clear that Bush and his handlers have no game plan, let alone an end-game strategy.

Democrats taking the helm now have to realize that we the people are the true civilian leadership. and with our votes we have given them very clear orders to stand up and take charge, use every bit authority of the Constitution gives them to see that things get done.

The Faces of Failure we see in these photos sure can't do it. That's painfully obvious. To abandon the troops to these hapless idiots any longer would be nothing short of criminal. :grr:

[annabanana]

106. I am sending another reminder to my Senators. . .

that this is what they're there for!

[Catfight]

85. The Clan of Incompetence. nt

[WCGreen]

87. I'm decidin' we're gonna wear them muted tones....

Like them old time English fellers...

And then we're gonna walk down some stairs, with big old cracks in 'em just to show them Liebruls we can handle divsibity....

[WinkyDink]

88. What's with all the down-cast looks? Totally unnatural ways of walking.

Bush walks with his hands turned backs up, like he's doggy-paddling---or clawing his way---through space.

[Nickster]

92. Wow, three hours?! I spent more time on my term papers. Why doesn't he just say that

he is running out the clock, he has no clue what to do. He just wants to pass the buck to whomever resides in the WH come Jan. 2009.

[calimary]

98. Just remarked about that uniquely defensive posture in our new Defense

Secretary. He's walking along there looking like he doesn't really want to be seen with these bozos. You're known by the company you keep, Mr. Gates.

[New Earth]

100. they all look miserable

especially Condi. wtf? i guess they should be. but it's still kind of odd....look at them...

[Stevendsmith]

101. Jeezus. H. Christ. (n/t)

[raysr]

104. Jar-head needs to put

his monkey suit on. Looks like a dufuss in civies(white-sidewalls)

[nadinbrzezinski]

109. On a whole different matter

what is worng with these pictures?

Think GLOBAL WARMING ok

[caffeinefwee]

110. JACK CAFFERTY, "the decider has decided not to decide"

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0612/12/sitroom.01.html

JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Wolf, President Bush apparently in no hurry now to come up with a change of strategy in Iraq.

I mean, hey, what's the rush? Things are going to sell over there, right?

Last week he got the Iraq Study Group report amid expectations that he might announce a change in strategy sooner rather than later. Now it looks like it's going to be later.

Instead of a Christmas present to the nation and the people of Iraq in the form of a way to stop the insanity, the decider has decided not to decide until January.

In the meantime, American troops get butchered every day. The American death toll approaching 3,000 now, as December looks to be a very bloody month. Forty-seven soldiers and Marines have been killed in Iraq since December the 1st. And since the start of the war now, 2,937 U.S. troops have been killed.

And for innocent Iraqi civilians, it is much, much worse on a daily basis. Today, 71 Iraqis looking for a job, hoping to find a day's work so they could feed their families, were slaughtered by a suicide truck bomber in Baghdad and 220 additional Iraqi civilians were injured.

And yet President Bush told Brit Hume over at the "F" word network in an interview the other day that the load of the war in Iraq is "not heavy." He called it a joyful, not a painful, experience, because millions of Americans are praying for him.

So, as our soldiers get ready to spent their fourth Christmas in this hellhole, here's the question -- how long should it take President Bush to figure out what to do in Iraq?

[bklyncowgirl]

111. God what a bunch. Rice and Pace look like they'd rather be having root canal

Bush is wearing his now habitual expression of clueless arrogance. He's pissed about something--or someone.

Cheney seems to be whispering something to Bush--whatever it is it isn't nice. "Buck up you moron." sounds about right to me but I could be wrong.

Gates, Poppy's man, is staring straight ahead perhaps wondering how in hell he ever allowed himself to be talked into this. On the other hand, he seems the calmest and most determined of the bunch. Is it possible that he read them the Republican riot act?

It's Rice and Pace that are the most interesting. The general looks like he just got lambastated by one of his own drill sergeants while Rice looks furious. I get the impression that she just got shot down and stomped on by someone. It could be Cheney but I'd put my money on Bush himself.

[orleans]

114. and instead of working on this look what the jerk was up to today:

"The rush to the tornado shelter interrupted Bush's day at the ranch where he cleared some cedar and was kept abreast of plans to execute Saddam Hussein in Iraq. The windy day of rain and thunder began with morning calls to wish him a happy new year from outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. "

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/29/D8MATC700.html

(damn! they make me SICK!)

[jazzjunkysue]

115. How does a dead soldier's family deal with these pics? The sacrifice

leaves this reaction? "Our" son died so these people could argue for a whole 3 hours and get nowhere?

[jazzjunkysue]

117. "I'll hold my breath until I get my way." I think Gates told the chimp how

it's gonna go from here, decider decided to ignore him, and stall, until his daddy's pals go away.

He's playing his favorite game: I am willing to be more embarrassed than you are, just to get my way.

Basically, B* is incapable of admitting fault.

So, if he won't do the job, doesn't that mean he's quit?

What will the new congress do with this bit of "on-the-job-retirement?"

[grasswire]

118. one more kick...

....for Stef's very good post.

[Hekate]

119. My gods do they look like crap. Reality sinking in much?

Well a girl can hope.

Hekate