Understandably anxious??  Yes, I would say I am “understandably anxious” about the economy.  I was and continue to be a little “understandably anxious” considering that I got laid off from a good job with benefits, three years ago, ended up losing everything and am having a hard time trying to get a decent job with benefits: instead of working for 10 dollars an hour with no benefits.  And knowing that everyone I work with is in more or less the same situation as me.  Is it time for another American Revolution??

Why should this be a surprise?!?  Anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock or on a deserted island for the past seven years knows that this is par for the course with Bush.  On those occasions when it’s not possible to lay the blame at someone else’s door, Bush invariably seeks refuge in the lame excuse that “nobody could have possibly predicted ___”. If there’s any justice left in this world, that phrase will follow Bush long after he leaves office and hang like an albatross around his neck in much the same way that “read my lips—NO NEW TAXES!” has followed his father and that “Heck of a job, Brownie” has followed ex-FEMA chief Mike Brown.

I challenge someone to cite one occasion—just ONE—within the last seven years when Bush has taken full responsibility for something which has gone wrong.  No…Bush has shown time and time again that he has little or no tolerance for anyone *else* who’s dared to suggest that he might be wrong, so why would he ever admit it himself?  As far as Bush is concerned, he never makes mistakes and he’s never wrong…but smart people know that this is a defense mechanism of a profoundly insecure person with more issues than Reader’s Digest.

Would those be the astoundingly-effective-at-getting-us-out-of-Iraq-because-they-are-so-powerfulDemocrats, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid?  Yes, that formidable pair certainly must be the cause of this!

Why the news media continues to show up at yet another of our “What Me Worry” President’s press conferences is beyond me.

Listening to Bu$h struggle to find new words to make our recession and our soon to be depression sound benign and shift the blame to everyone else is past the point of being pathetic.

Politicians depend on the electorate to remain numb and dumb to divide and conquer - so far most of the public hasn’t disappointed them. I can only hope we wake up before it’s too late.

Baby George sitting amongst the broken pieces of the cookie jar, with large jagged pieces in his hands and cookie crumbs around his mouth.

“I didn’t break it, Mickey did!”

and is allowed to do anything in governmental matters whatsoever astounds me.

America is better than this.

Dear President Bush - Let me see if I got this right: We have had more than 12 years of a Republican led House of Representatives, starting in 1995 and early in the tenure of the most conservative Democratic President since Woodrow Wilson. Then we had, starting in 2001, a Republican President who along with his party’s control of the House had 4 years control of the U.S.Senate starting in 2002. We’ve only had a Democratic majority in the House for the past 1 1/4 years and a U.S. Senate that is evenly matched (if we exclude the one independent who is aligned with the Democrats) and you’re saying that the current high price of gas is the Democrats fault? That is rich.

What you don’t mention is that the oil in the Arctic wilderness and the coastal off shore reserves would scarcely make a dent in reducing the need for U.S. exports. That’s based on U.S. oil industry statistics.

You had plenty of opportunity to use your office to push measures that would have made significant reductions in usage, such as raising the CAFE standard for cars. After 9/11 you could have also used the “bully pulpit” to ask Americans to reduce energy usuage and our dependence on the oil exports of a “friendly ally” who provided 16 of the 19 9/11 terrorists. Instead you urged everyone to head for the mall.

Could we possibly have a more inept administration? Warren Harding and Herbert Hoover’s look positively brilliant in comparison.

Bush & Co.: without doubt, the most corrupt, dishonest, history-changing group ever in charge of the U.S. How any of them can sleep at night is beyond about 70% of us.  They totally lack taking any responsibility for their own actions & lack of actions.  Finger of blame = this back-stabbing bunch. Never before have there been such pathetic role models for young people.  Hopefully young voters are more informed & smarter than to listen to the absolute crap dished out by Bush & his cronies.

Talk about pure Bush, run something into the ground, in this case our goverment, and then blame everyone else as you exit before it all tumbles down. Its hard to imagine how even this idiot could think that this will hold any water with even most ardent republicans. The fact that the white house would come out with this statement shows how removed from reality this carnival called a white house has become. Thinking that we all don’t see the billions wasted on a daily basis in Iraq as being a drain on our economy ? We don’t see the bush’s playing kissy-face holding hands with the Saudi’s while they crank up the price of oil ? Admittedly, the democrats have certainly been hardly impressing anyone with their milk-toast response to the republicans. But for this president to have the gall to blame the democratics in congress, when the republicans have been running rough-shod from 1994 until last Nov. points out the degree of hubris he operates in. Are we trully as dumb as it appears this administration thinks we are ? I for one think theres a pretty good possibility that we are. As Hunter Thompson once pointed out, the big dark is coming, and the bush family dynasty has had a big hand in bringing it on.

GW cannot be more correct in his assessment of who is most responsible for the economic downturn and the prolonged conflict in Iraq. If it wasn’t for the democrats the economy would be booming and the Iraqi conflict would be tilting to a victorious end. Always blame the other kid, a good elementary schoolboy ploy to get rid of the heat. Ever wonder how GW would do in the Hell’s Kitchen TV episode?