#5237 Tom criticizes MI, alleging that she doesn’t like it that Bush has ideas and implements them

Really?  This President ridiculed his opponent in the last election about flip-flopping. Yet this President spoke against nation building as a candidate, but decided to do it once in office.  This President flipped more than 30 years of nuclear containment policy by giving away the store to India.  This President talked as a fiscal conservative, but has overspent like a teen with a credit card and no fiscal sense.  This President promoted himself as a compassionate conservative, but promotes tax cuts for the wealthy, and program cuts for the poor.  This President constantly speaks in front of American military personnel - but sends them to war without enough troops or equipment to succeed, extending service to 3 tours in combat for some personnel, including reserves and guard units.  This President has ideas, but they’re not grounded in reality, and he refuses to become informed enough to get it right. 

Most Americans have lost ground on income during his presidency, fewer Americans have health insurance, our borders are not secure, and most of the world that sympathised with the US due to the 9/11 attack has lost their sympathy and respect for US - due to his blunt-force, my-way-or-the-highway foreign policy.

You’re pleased with the results?  You must not be paying attention either.  You and Mr. Bush should get out more, read more news sources.
If Bush has more ideas to implement, I’d rather he vacation in Crawford for the balance of his term.

“Outsource” the entire government to Taiwan!That will fix everything ,(including a good part of the national dept).The military can be “outsourced “to the Swiss.But of course the port security must be handled by an “American” firm so… a Haliburten Bechtell Carlaile(sp?) group joint venture.Free trade Free trade Free trade.......

Re: #5213 - What is really scary is the thought of Bush hating fanatics taking thier ideas / talking points from a D.C. psychiatrist who analyzes people ( presidents no less! ) in absentia. The horror !!!!

# 5176 ....  You should really try and get your talking points / ideas from someone a little more objective and credible than Molly I.( isn’t she a plagiarist?). Anyhoo ....
You say it’s more difficult for the non-rich to go to college? why?… let me guess, less government handouts. Oh well. just work harder and be more responsible for yourself.( If the liberal nuts can accept the ex spokesman for the Taliban into Yale, there’s hope for anyone!)
Green lighted corporate greed at the expense of working people? ...no way! that’s Capitalism! If some CEO’s abuse the system, go after them NOT the entire system…
Increased our dependency on oil and the military? well sure!  there are lots more people with lots more cars and private jets etc. ( like all the loudmouth actors/musicians ).By the way, do you drive? If so, shame on you ! We need more military presence because there are lots of crazed savages trying to kill and destroy us. Duh.
Lying a national personality trait? ... Well, I guess they learned from the best! (Clinton et al )
What code of ethics are you referring to? Any lack of ethics will certainly include all parties of govt. right? All men ARE created equal and do have certain rights - but- the government solving all of your problems IS NOT one of them.
Spend more time working on yourself and not whining about the government and you will be college bound, possibly rich, have a nice car, remain free because the military protects you from killers, honest and ethical ! God I love this country !!

As usual, Molly just can’t stand that President Bush has ideas and implements them.  Molly can only complain.

I think the war in Iraq is wrong.  Afgahnistan is not.  But screw the UN.  The faster we get of that foul institution, and kick it the h$ll out of the US the better.

regarding G. Anderson’s comment (#5135) and Bush #43’s background, for a very interesting (and scary)read, get the book “Bush on the Couch”. It’s written by a DC psychiatrist who, though he never actually had Bush on the couch, was able to analyze him based on what is known about him, his history and about his actions. His bottom line-Bush is unfit to be President.

“Bush in cinéma vérité does not resemble Bush in tableau vivant.” --Sidney Blumenthal, in Salon, on GWB’s video performance while being briefed before Katrina landfall.

Interestingly, the “same” column in The Guardian did not include this particular sentence, which I think pretty much sums up everything that’s wrong with the W administration’s preoccupation with his image.

I think it should be memed.

That’s right Molly, thank you, and let’s not forget as the wars on terror and in Iraq occupy center stage;

how the boy king and his advisors have made it more difficult for children of the non-rich to go to college

how they are systematically smothering the true spirit of education (curiosity, spontaneity and fun) out of our schools

how they have green-lighted corporate greed at the expense of the working people and the environment the world over

how they have increased our dependence on oil and/or military might

how they have made terrorism worldwide stronger not weaker

how they have made lying a national personality trait

how they have made thee code of ethics into a mere shuttlecock

and so much more…

as they crawl hand over hand back along the line of history, systematically trying to white-out the effects of those ever troubling concepts:  that all humans are created equal, that there are self-evident truths, and inalienable rights.

Perhaps no one will believe me but I warned friends and family last year that Bush would get us unto war with Iran.  Why not?  He’d already had black-ops/spies running covert missions for months in early 2005.  His own spokespeople have said it would be relatively easy to shut down their oil production, just hit a few strategic spots.  There is nothing this man and his toadies have done that has not hurt this country to the core.  Time to stand up for your rights, before they’re completely gone.

In reference to Bush appointing Bolton ambassador to the UN, it has been suggested that as Bush feels more and more powerless, he must show himself that he is powerful by executing his power.  In appointing Bolton he is appointing someone who most others don’t approve: He is saying, “See how powerful I am.” It seems to me that so many of his recent, and not so recent, actions confirm the suggestion.  (Remember the Harriet Miers nomination?)

I just read your article and saw that there were just 3 comments.  That I am afraid is because you have said it all.  Over and Over again you have said it All. 

The point is that, a large portion of the citizens of this country doesn’t see it.  Just going back over the highpoints of Bush as President, from Paul O’Neill’s departure and the 7 minutes of Bush in a classroom while we are being attacked and every debacle after and Zero accomplishments makes you wonder.  What else will it take to wake America up from their denial?  Or, is it true that in 2001 when I first felt that I had fallen down a rabbit hole and that George Bush in my view had no clothes, that in truth I just went insane?  It must be because anywhere I look, I cannot find statesmen, spokesmen or a grownup with any backbone.  Call me and I’ll come arun’n when someone has a plan.

I love Molly Ivins!  Such a sense of humor.  Sue

I too, was stunned at the deal Bush made with India.  Has anyone thought about what China will react with?  China is another nuclear state.  Maybe Bush plans to get China and Pakistan to ally against India and the US.  That would make our national debt to China even more interesting.

Of course if you have God telling you what to do you don’t need to worry about ‘reality based information’.

I know that it seems like everything that has happened is about the Bush’s poor judgement, poor leadership skills, and using Christianity and Patriotism for his and the far rights political gain.

But if one takes an evolutinary perspective then it’s easier to trace it all back one step further, to Bush’s developmental delays,his fragmented personality, lack of education, and that he grew up as a prince - without any serious responsibilitys except spending daddy’s money, and not getting caught.

These same personal qualities have been the salient features of Bush’s presidency, his poor people skills, and malaproprisms are reflective of what goes on in his mind, or lack thereof..

What were seeing is the result of a faith based foreign policy, not based on hard facts and experience, but on wishful thinking and delusion.

Thank you Molly, once again for saying the things that the gutless wonders won’t even touch.

please access; army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r210_35.pdf

We are in deep, deep do-do, folks. I mean this breach in the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty is pretty bad ... beats the screwup over ports management by a mile ... it’s just that the effect is down the road apiece.

And you know, in the coming “world economic adjustment” ... people here are going to get a wee bit upset when they realize these highly touted policies of globalization and “free” trade (even Milton Friedman now admits there is no such thing as free trade—see below) have made us a banana republic ... with the customary planation structure between the owners and the workers.

The way I look at it is that Bush(#43) is simply the typical cutely smart, but dumb, rich kid we all have come across at some time or another ... usually the last time they get elected to anything is in junior high.

I mean, Bush displays no conscious awareness that he contradicts himself. Now, either he is a fool, or he is treating us as fools. (Maybe Rove is just letting us know who was the REAL brain in this setup by letting Bush be Bush—now THAT’s scarey!—and Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice duke it out over policy.)

But both major political parties--helped by the MainStream Media--have created an environment in which few--if any--intelligent people governed by principle will even run for office, let alone have a chance of getting elected.

Anyway, my comments I referenced above on Friedman and free trade:

Milton Friedman, the guru of profoundly influential monetarist and laissez-faire ideas of the past few decades has pulled the plug on free markets ... maybe without realizing it.

From NPQ, the New Perspectives Quarterly:

Free Markets and the End of History

Friedman | ... “‘Free markets’ is a very general term. There are all sorts of problems that will emerge. Free markets work best when the transaction between two individuals affects only those individuals. But that isn’t the fact. The fact is that, most often, a transaction between you and me affects a third party. That is the source of all problems for government. That is the source of all pollution problems, of the inequality problem. There are some good economists like Gary Becker and Bob Lucas who are working on these issues. This reality ensures that the end of history will never come.”

My intrepretation: Because transactions using the medium of money ALWAYS affect a third party, there is no such thing as a “free” or “unfettered” market in terms of the customary definition of the economic term. The reason for this is the clear fact that all costs incurred in the production and distribution of goods and services are not paid for out of the monetary selling price of the goods and services ... only the reimbursement of “ownership” costs ... so what is “free” about free markets is their being free of the costs they incur to others than the legally defined owners of the goods and services for sale—sellers and buyers.