Scarborough on BUSH: Determined or Delusional?

[jgraz]

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Last night's show, with everyone ripping the shit out of Bush. Poor recording (video of somebody's TV), but still great fun (and damn scary).

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Whoa

I don't watch TV, but I'm under the impression that these weren't liberals talking amongst themselves-and they are scared about what Bush is doing. Does this mean they will back whatever the Dems decide to do to stop Bush in Iraq?

[Sperk]

2. i think this is *'s last year as POTUS.

Why couldn't these idiots see this coming in 2004? God, what morans.

[MasonJar]

3. When Joe starts chiming in so emphatically against Bush, the

end should be near. However, the last statement about Bush no longer having to answer to anybody is chilling in its truth. He has of course always functioned that way, but seems now to be almost maniacal in his determination to set the course no matter what advice he receives. I am upset also by the DU story above that the troops are asking for more bodies. Gates must have pre-interviewed to get the response he wanted. He is definitely living on the edge and taking our troops and the Iraqi citizens with him.

[mdelaguna2000]

4. Saw it last night - couldn't believe it (Tweety too)

Hardball also was good - Tweety and guests had much to say along the same lines last night.

[jazzjunkysue]

23. By tomorrow, Tweety will be kissing the * ass again. Set your watch.

Don't ever trust Tweety. Ever.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Thank you for posting

I was waiting for this.

This is really scary. Bush has been abandoned by his supporters and still does what he wants.

[lisby]

6. Let him keep it up...

The faster everyone will agree on impeaching him and Cheney.

Lisby

[doublethink]

7. Yea saw it last night too ... looked up from my computer in ......

disbelief and said ... "Cool" :) K&R. Peace. :kick:

[babylonsister]

8. This was GREAT! K&R! nt

[babylonsister]

9. Also up on crooksandliars:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/12/21/12969/

[jgraz]

12. Thanks -- much better vid quality there

[central scrutinizer]

10. neocon strategy

Now that Bushco can't run for anything, it is time to dump on him, blame him for all of the failings and throw him under the bus. That way they can say: it isn't our agenda that is bad, we just had the wrong guy in charge to carry it out. The Democrats need to make sure that Bush and the neocons are joined at the hip in the public mind. It is not just that Bushco fucked it up, it was that their agenda is completely fucked up and needs to be discredited.

[carolinayellowdog]

11. The Faux News question turned against its usual beneficiary

Joe's framing of this reminds me of the Fox technique of introducing damning assertions in the form of rhetorical questions. Jon Stewart skewered this recently as "Is your mother a whore? Just asking." On one hand I hate to see other news channels descending to such a level of discourse. On the other, it's good to see it used against * for a change, rather than to prop him up.

[Strawman]

13. McCain is also out on that branch that they're sawing off

This is interesting. No wonder Poppy is crying and Jeb says he's finished. The family seems to be on the outs with the other power brokers in the Republican party. Now they're turning the dogs on the Bushes. They gave him an out with this Baker report and he's not taking it.

If he puts in more troops with only 12% of the public supporting that move at the outset, he's in trouble. It's a bad idea, and it will quickly make a bad situation even worse for our troops. There's already more than enough justification for impeachment and if he doesn't turn around soon, there may be unstoppable, and increasingly bipartisan, political will to remove him, and possibly Cheney from office. McCain's future will also be history if he doesn't wise up.

[Jack Rabbit]

14. As is Lieberman

:popcorn:

[Strawman]

15. Yep

Ol' Joementum really thought he had the world by the balls with the Senate split 51-49. I think once again, he's about to be proven wrong.

I just wonder who is going to be the first Republican in Congress to call for Bush to resign? It's either going to be a person of some conscience or someone purely ambitious. Either way, it might well happen. We're still more than 2 years away from his term ending, and how much longer can this really go on?

[babylonsister]

16. Coleman (purely ambitious) got his big toe wet yesterday.

Not a call for impeachment, but not a glowing recommendation either.

(Senator) Coleman opposes surge in U.S. troops in Iraq

http://www.startribune.com/587/story/888209.html

Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., said today after a two-day trip to Iraq that he would not support an increase in the number of soldiers in Baghdad.

He said he would "stand against" any effort to send a surge of more troops to Baghdad unless there's a clear vision that it will help end sectarian violence in the city.

"I think it would create more targets. I think we would put more life at risk," he said in a phone call with reporters from Bahrain. Coleman visited Baghdad, Fallujah, Taqaddum and Talil.

Coleman did support expanding the military, saying troops are currently stretched too thin and that a larger force is needed to fight the war on terrorism.

The senator repeated earlier statements about the need for sectarian violence to end in Iraq. Iraqis have to move quickly to solve the sectarian "slaughter" that's going on, he said. "They have to move forward with reconciliation." For the United States to have any success in Iraq, the bloodletting has to stop, Coleman said.

[Strawman]

17. Guys like him, Gordon Smith, and Arlen Specter

Are all prime candidates. Whichever backstabber does it first will be lionized by history, deserving or not, as a profile in courage. And accurate or not, I won't begrudge them anything if they do.

[babylonsister]

18. I'm with you, Strawman. I'd welcome a profile in courage right

about now.

[jgraz]

19. Sadly, I think the resistance is more likely to come from the Rethugs

Is there a single Dem in the 110th who will call for impeachment? Even my congressperson, Barbara Lee, is silent on this.

[babylonsister]

21. I don't care who sparks the fire, but you're of course right.

I do have faith that 2007 is going to be a very interesting year, and don't believe we can continue with this madman at the helm without confronting him.

[lyonn]

20. Delusional bush has finally topped himself in the mine set

of the delusioned when he announces that the Joint Chiefs of Staff are wrong; the Baker's Iraqi Group are wrong; the polls are wrong.

Each time bush makes his mind boggling announcements to the world about "anything", but in particular Iraq, you realize the retard has driven Our Country further into a hole! We keep hoping that Someone will stop him from this phycho path he is on. At this point, all the talking heads are meaningless. What is happening? Who will stop him?

Ah hell, lets just take his advice and go shopping???? More insane bush speak.

Has bush made this country a joke or what?

[unc70]

22. I agree. Last night they seemed genuinely afraid of W.

I saw that discussion as one of them being truly afraid of what W might do. The described him as most isolated president ever, more so that Nixon or LBJ, that he isn't listening to anyone, now not even to the JCS, not to the generals in the field, not to the overwhelming majoring of the public, even the marjority of Repubs. They were urging someone to have the courage of Clark Clifford and speak truth to power in a way he can't ignore.

Would he listen to his mother?

Or will it take him being declared unfit to serve? Impeachment would take too long and give him more time to do something even more stupid than he already has. There aren't any attractive options/solutions available to anyone now. You have to assume that _all_ options are on a table somewhere.

[lyonn]

25. That's my question, what would it take to have him declared

unfit? It seems the only way that would happen is if a repub started the ball rolling. The Dems need to demand answers but it will no doubt take his party to truly get something to happen soon enough to save us from what he is capable of in even six months to say nothing of 2 more years!

He is probably listening to his mother! Ha

Welcome to DU!

[David Zephyr]

24. Boy, has the worm turned! Thanks, jgraz for posting this for us.

I'm sending it on to all I know.

[Pachamama]

26. What frightened me most about this discussion was the point about how not only out of touch and

delusional Bush is and how he is not listening to people advising him (or if he is listening, to the wrong people) but what should really frighten us all is if someone or something pisses * off bad enough that we have to remember this man controls and has the ability to push a nuclear button and destroy the world.

:nuke: Be afraid. I shuddered at this thought after listening to them and although the thought has occurred to me before, I have to say after watching Bush's delustional rant in his morning press conference, I agree with Mike Barnicle about the state of mind of *.

:scared: