I can’t beleive that anyone still thinks this idiot is a great president!  People listen up! Open your eyes!

The man is bankrupting the USA just like he has bankrupted every single business he has ever had!

He’s killing our children as well as the Afghanistan’s, and the Iraqi children.

The national debt is so high and growing no one will be able to afford to eat or live in decent housing.  The storms will be so bad because he has reversed every single environmental ruling that would have helped our world be a cleaner healthier world.  There won’t be enough water, there are terrrible storms already, what kind of life will our children have?

We condemn sports figures and actors for being poor role models.  What kind of role model is this administration to our children. 

Yet he calls everyone else evil.  The real EVIL is right here in this administration.  God help us and our children. 

We have discovered so many lies and so much corruption lately.  What have we missed. You know we haven’t heard everything!

God help us! God help the world!

It is a sad development that the primary architects of the debacle in Iraq will be dead before enough time has passed that they can make some $ on a McNamaraesque literary apology.

I think i missed something….did Saddam, as leader of a sovereign nation, invite Bush in?

After the mid term elections, Bush will have absolutely no reason (regardless of outcome) to make feeble attempts to act civil to the press or anyone else. No longer threatend with the loss of congress, he will act like the tinhorn despot he believes he is entitled to be. Think he’s been a jerk so far? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

As usual, a great column, Molly (and, off topic but on my mind - my deepest sympathy to you in the loss of your great friend and fellow traveler, Ann Richards.) 
  And, here’s another angle on Bush’s petulance (I say this after having many years of working professionally with these types):  he is not actually demonstrating fear over being undone, he is simply revealing his true nature because he, in fact, feels infallible (sp) and completely confident.  In his mind, he knows without doubt that he is a total winner - so much so, that he can now behave as he really is because no one can defeat him. 
  What has he actually lost?  He isn’t losing the wars because it was never his intention to actually “win” them.  Consider the idea that his intention in both countries was to secure the oil resources….well, that’s going pretty well actually.  Next:  Iran.  He feels irritated that anyone questions him in any way whatsoever but the more he feels confident, the more contempt he piles on everyone. 
  Just a thought.

What’s wrong with our system of government to have people this bad leading our country?

From the office of president to secretary of state, defense secretary, vice president, ambassador to UN, homeland security, FEMA, you name it. Where could you find a worse bunch. May the Good Lord have mercy on us!

Thank you MCHammered for posting the article by Paul Levy!!
This article describes the mental illness that has manifested in this administration, and most dramatically in GWB. Like any mental illness, it can effect and infect others that do not see it for what it is. Mental illness increases as long as we deny it.
We need to snap out of our denial and out of our part in this macabre play, in other words, we are just as mentally ill when we waste precious time arguing the nuances of a speech by a crazy person! To do so is to be trapped by the disease itself instead of constructing a way out.
Mr Bush is the smokescreen, the puppet show, the 3 ring circus, to keep us distracted from the real issues:
Will the next election be stolen too???
Is this administration cooking up another war???
Do We the People have any power at all left???
We need to keep our eye on the ball!
I am thankful for Molly Ivans for continually pointing to the naked emporer, laughter keeps us all well!
Respect everyone, DrB

Molly, I forced myself to watch the spectacle of an American president revealing himself for what he is: a raving lunatic!

Then I pick up the local paper today and there is a column written by a neo-con chicken-hawk praising Bush and blasting dirty lying liberals.  BTW, the columnist states that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; that Valerie Plame was just a clerk and she was the one who sent Wilson to Niger; and that Karl Rove is owed an apology because he had nothing to do with outing Valerie.  There was also a letter to the editor by a woman praising Bush for our wonderful economy and for protecting us from terrorists!

I believe it is the Rove strategy to have control of local radio stations and small newspapers to spread misinformation among those who look no further for truth.

As we entered the 21st century, I had high hopes for the world in which my children and grandchildren would be living.  Instead, I see practically all the accomplishments of the 20th century laying like rubble at our feet, destroyed by a group of madmen.

I hope it is not to late to salvage our future!

I was hoping a reporter would call that moron on his remark about being a west Texas boy. Boy might be right but he’s a Connecticut Yankee who’s afraid of horses and likes to pretend to be a Texas ‘All hat no cattle’ cowboy on his ranchette.

This is what happens when elections are stolen - we get a government that does NOT represent the majority of Americans. The Bush Administration would stoop to anything to gain power, and of course, Lord God King Bush is a prime example. He has the charm of a porcupine, and if you “cross” him, he’ll throw all his quills at you in a big hurry.

When Bush was running against Gore in 2000, I said to my husband, “He’s got the eyes of a lunatic.” You could see that there was great anger and hostility there, but not much else. My husband said, “He’s like a used car salesman.” I think we were both right. I still don’t get how anyone could have believed anything that man said from Day One.

Keep going, Molly, you’re the best!

He talks down to everyone. He talks to us like we are 5 yearold children. He not only lives in another reality, he has his finger on the button. Do you know what the football is?
This super A-number one asshole is a spoiled rich kid, blow monkey, school yard bully.
If by some miracle the Dems get control in Nov.
don’t be surprised if he sets off a nuke. Otherwise the Bush crime family will go to prison.
Bush 41 (his father) should come out and tell the world what a stupid kid he raised.

I would be careful before heaping too much praise upon Castro’s friend, Chavez. I recall watching Castro’s firing squads on TV. Those killed fell into ditches. Not a pretty picture!

Good column, Molly.  To clear up any confusion that I and many Americans have, could you please do a column on the following:

If Syria is not an ally, if Syria gets blasted in Bush’s speech at the U.N. for aiding Hezbolla and Hamas, why on earth would we even have one of the secret prisons in Syria where we send detainees (like the recently disclosed, innocent Canadian) to be tortured. Beside the obvious point that Bush said “We don’t torture” and the fact that it is unconstitutional, shouldn’t we be worried about any information obtained from the detainee being in the hands of the Syrians first?  This makes no sense to me.  What kind of complicated relationship do we have with Syria anyway?

If you could clear this up, I would appreciate it.

MOLLY FOR PRESIDENT 2008

The “War on Terror” should really be called “a horrendous political miscalculation that will hound us for generations”

“Tell us the Truth, Tell us the Truth, Tell us the Truth”!

Dubya should be the poster child for retroactive abortion.

Using a tactic from the GOP game book, repeating something enough till the public believe it is the truth….

Bush is an idiot

Bush is an idiot

Bush is an idiot

Therefore, it must be true.

I have decided that the most singularly striking thing about this president (I can’t even stand to mention his name); is his total lack of grace. He is without a doubt the most boorish and graceless president to ever hold office. Whether he is pontificating to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with his mouth stuffed full of dinner rolls or giving inappropriate spontaneous back rubs to the woman Chancellor of Germany, he is unfailingly graceless and boorish. President Johnson was boorish but not totally lacking in compassion and grace. This president is.

I think our national hubris his caught up with us and our disputed election of this “compassionate conservative” may be part of our payback. The rest of the civilized world looks upon the American people with disbelief as we have let this national travesty of a presidency continue for six years.

Of course he has not patience and can’t stand criticism. He reverts to petulism and empty threats. As a teenager he wrecked two of his parents expensive automibiles. His punishment, he was chauffered after that. What do you expect. He was raised that way.

Many American people would ask Adnan, if all were true, and the people were listening, then he and his would wait for the response on October 5th.

Next Attack Imminent:
Muslims ordered to leave the United States
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/paul-williams091606.htm

Maybe not? Maybe?

I wish people would stop calling the “war on terrorism” ; “war on terror”..Would you send the National Guard out to battle nightmares and a bad nights sleep?

The disturbing issue with the gulag tribunals being allowed under the law is that someday you may find the government knocking on your door and disappearing you because they heard one of your phone coversations and didn’t like it. And it will be perfectly legal.

Yes, invited by a sovereign government.  Unless that government started two wars that killed over a million people (Iran-Iraq…Kuwait).  Then did nothing for it’s own people when sanctions were imposed to get them lifted.  Then shot at jets patrolling a justified no-fly zone (justifies because he started another war). See, only in the U.S. could world leaders come and trash America (yesterday at the United Nations) and be allowed to do so and even honored.  Imagine the prez doing that in Iran.

If Bush is so worried about the intelligence guys being protected why doesn’t Bush be a man for once in his life and assume full resposibility? Just say I authorized, I told them to do it, I’m King George and its all on me?

I have been told that your maturity is arrested at the age you begin using drugs.

WORST.PRESIDENT.EVER.

WORST.PRESSER.EVER.

WORST.ADMINISTRATION.EVER.

I cannot understand how thirty-nine people can still believe in this person much less that the number is 39%.  Simply unbievable.

Old Lady who lives in the shadow of Focus on the Family.

Sovereign sanctity must be dependent upon nuclear weaponry to a hypocritical, duplicitous, sadistic bully in his pulpit.

The routine is always the same.  I scream.  My neighbors turn to each and say, “Felicity’s screaming.  Bush must be on the tube.”  (I, in the meantime have gone ballistic because I can’t find the remote.) 

The Rose Garden debacle the other day was different - except for the scream.  I became mesmorized, fascinated, convinced that some reporter was eventually going to stand up and say - after being called on - “Mr. President, you are full of shit.” I would have.

Off point, but the Bush administration has created unsolvable problems - need I list them - and now blame the Democrats for not being able to solve them. And the American people are falling for it - he’s at 44% approval rating!  We’re in trouble.

I think the absolute most ARROGANT thing is them (Bush/Cheney/Rove/Rumsfield) comparing other people to Hitler and Nazis and all the while they are following Hitler’s moves like a script.  The Reichstag(sp)Fire / 9-11.  Excuse to invade Poland/excuse to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.  The Enabling Act/The Patriot Act. The Fatherland/Homeland Security.  Hasn’t anyone else noticed this?

By the way, didn’t Bush slip a little and almost call it “Fatherland” Security?

In order for us to send thousands of troops into a sovereign nation, we’ve got to be invited by the government.

Huh?!?!

Molly, please keep saying it like it really is. This president is an idiot!!!!

This analysis has been around awhile but with every “presidential lecture,” it seems more timely…

THE MADNESS OF GEORGE W. BUSH:
A REFLECTION OF OUR COLLECTIVE PSYCHOSIS
by Paul Levy

http://www.awakeninthedream.com/georgew.html

I would love to be able to comment more about this subject, but after about 3 minutes of bush’s bullshit, I threw my converse tennie shoe at the tv and scream F*** you you lying sonsabitch and turned the tv off..

I’m surprised that no commenter has picked up on the statement about we can’t just send troops into a sovereign nation without being invited.  Didn’t we just do that in Afghanistan and Iraq?

It makes me realize that the GOP was so interested in winning that it left the nation behind. We are now being governed by a group that does not believe in government. The Mad Hatter rules!

Was Bush’s physician watching that televised tantrum?  Bush seemed to be in urgent need of therapy.

I’d like to hear press conference reporters FOLLOW UP up on colleagues’ questions rather than simply trying to get THEIR question “answered” by Bush. Quick & brave reporters willing to stand up and pick apart these lame-brain non-answers thus starkly exposing Bush “thinking” for what it is: utter idiocy!

Mr.Bush is in a frenzy,not because he is concerned for the CIA.He is scared to death that he himself and his entire cabal will be tried and convicted for war crimes.But if Congress will just relent and change the law making torture,murder and anything else Bush wants to do okay,everything will be just fine with the idiot in Cheif.Now we wait to see just how concerned Warner,McCain,Graham and the Republicans in Congress are about the honor and creditability of our country.My guess is that they will cave and it will be business as usual.

I watched the (sic)“Press Conference.”

It is true, W was quite aggitated, to the point that if he could have hit someone, he probably would have.

Dubya was very rude and disrespectful to the entire press corps, and ultimately the American public.

It is true, the Emperor has no clothes.

I am hoping that the more duhbya is exposed on the television that the final 37% becomes as afraid of this monster as I am, but I am certain Rove will curtail his appearances after reviewing the Rose Garden episode.  He is unable to understand that he is not the center of our universe and his mother did us all a huge disservice.  Too bad she did not consider her freedom of choice.

No doubt, Bush is the most immature president we have ever had. Being 60 doesn’t mean you act like your 60 (try 13). He would be a perfect case study for arrested development that is for sure. We can only hope that the country and the Constitution will still be in tact when he leaves office.

Mad King George reminds me of Nixon in “The Final Days”.  But that’s really too harsh—Nixon was NEVER this crazy!

Spoiled Rich Kid Ne’er-do-well Bully with a history of substance abuse problems and a clear set of rather dangerous psychoses is forced to confront unpleasant truths.

When he can, he them “unpleasant” ones locked up, or killed.  When he can’t, he calls them every filthy name he can think of. I’d LOVE to hear what he called Colin Powell after he sent that letter to Warner, McCain and Graham!

As Bush seeks to accrue more and more power to himself, and remove himself further and further from ANY oversight on ANY action, always in the name of “Protectin’ the ‘merican people” he is moving closer and closer to what he wants: dictatorship.  He’s following the SAME path every dictator has followed to undermine Democracy—use our liberties against us. Use the tools in the Constitution to undermine it.

The sooner he’s gone, the sooner this country can heal and repair both internal and external relations.

As always, you’re right on target—Shrub keeps repeating this terrifying nonsense as if it’s perfectly sane, and the questioners insane. It’s amazing how well it’s worked for him so far. I know the man doesn’t read much, but I’m beginning to think he’s got Orwell’s 1984 memorized as a manual, not a warning.  I wrote the following poem when the Abu Grahib scandal was news, but sadly, it seems that it’s still relevant…

The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions

We come not to conquer, and only humiliate you
To show you the joys of democracy, so hard to see
When on your knees before us, so hard to see
From inside the burlap- bag we have placed upon your head.
Can’t you see—our corporate sponsors’ needs must be fed.
We must protect their investment, sanctioned by our government.
We must justify the money we’ve already spent
And cloak the cost in ambiguity.

So hard to see the benefits you’ll reap,
The promises we say we’ll keep—they could be true
If only you bow your head to what we say, not what we do.
Give your allegiance to the leaders we have carefully selected
From those you had exiled, now protected
So they can come when we call, as they are able
To beg prettily for the scraps we throw from our table,
And politely thank us, as is our due.

Naked and shivering, the stink of the soldiers’ urine
Drying on your skin, the laughter of ignorant infidels
Echoes off the prison walls, you call to Allah
To protect you, but a rifle butt stops your pleas,
You wonder how to please your god and accept these
Soldiers’ reality, pay their impossible toll
And still keep your sanity, your Arab soul.
You can hear your brothers call to you from their cells.

We will show you how it’s done, how to emulate
Our ability to act without reflecting on what we do,
How to serve a purpose you only darkly see, to
Separate your piety from your compromises
To reap the rewards of democracy in all its guises.
With your country under siege, your children murdered in the streets
What price freedom?  What price democracy?
We only bomb to build anew.

Trust us; we come not to conquer, but to make you see
Beyond the rough bag that’s on your head,
We’ll take it off when your spirit’s safely dead.
And though we say that peace is pending,
For now, we’ll take snapshots of you bending
Naked to the cold prison wall, to show your shame
To make you long for all that’s lost in freedom’s name.
And school you to keep the dreams that we have fled.

Why is this angry, infantile man still the leader of our country?

Dear Molly:  I sent this to Helen Thomas.  You may want to pursue it yourself as part of this effort. 

It occurred to me that you might want to ask Mr. Bush (1) why he called Al Qaeda “insignificant”, I believe that was the quote, and (2) exactly how
many active Al Qaeda members he knows there actually are. 

It seems to me there is much disinformation being distributed about, for example, Al Qaeda.  No one seems to have assessed what they are doing, how
many people there are, where they are located. This is simple stuff, raw intelligence stuff. Hm, I wonder why.  You may want to look into this.  Almost everything I have read is muddled, unclear, inconclusive.  Is t possible they are so small, comparatively so weak, that they couldn’t attack us if they really wanted to?

I ask this because it is good politics to make them so mysterious that we can’t assess them, so that people can be AFRAID, really AFRAID of them all the time? After all, they’re connected to ... um, Saddam and Iraq ... Iran ... maybe Pakistan ... the Taliban in Afghanistan ... and under your bed. Perhaps Mr. Bush has de-emphasized the threat from Al Qaeda because he knows there aren’t that many of them?  Just what does he and the Vice
President know about them - a definitive answer with facts and figures might be in order.

One assessment apparently shows them as a very small fragmented minority, which got lucky, remember, only because the cabin doors of the airliners weren’t secured and pilots couldn’t carry guns. I repeat this, One assessment shows them as a very small fragmented minority, which got lucky, remember, only because the cabin doors of the airliners weren’t secured and pilots couldn’t carry guns. Had the doors been secured 9/11 probably couldn’t have happened.

Now, whether or not that’s true, it might be nice to have some facts. Otherwise, as I’m fond of saying, there is no such thing as a “global war
on terrorism”; it’s like a “war on laziness”, or a “war onsuicide bombers”, so vague it distorts the picture and is designed only to make you afraid.
 
Being afraid is not what intelligence gathering is about; precisely the reverse, so you can take the proper action.  And Bush may not want to take
that action.  After all, Pakistan has already shown us that’s a real possibility, isn’t it?  Bush also seems to be afraid that, if we find out the real facts, he will be weakened and lose all of his strength.

I just watched the new conference and while reaction to Bush is always contingent on the view of the beholder, he didn’t seem greatly different. He is a bit more choleric - perhaps years of failure has that tendency even in the less gifted - but I’m afraid it’s wishful thinking to see him falling to pieces. If anyone hopes to get him out of office before his term ends, it will almost certainly take impeachment or an act of “Zeus”.

Lwayno’s Quotes: “Molly Ivins is EVIL! She makes fun of our beloved presinator, Baby Bush, and all the really swell guys in this really wonderful administration and she says bad and nasty things about my beloved Pimp-Madan, Karly “The Turd—Master” Rove! It’s so unfair!I am gonna tell our really “vice” war president, F-You Cheney, on her!

very truly yours(for a price)Jeffy “Scoop” Gannon, Ace White House Press reporter & Official Stud-Whore
p.s. I approve this FAUX News Alert:Sun Fat Moon, Supreme Editor, Washington Times

This dimwitted frontman for the Republican party is going to get a lesson in Democracy and Freedom when he is brought before the World Court to face charges as a war criminal. The majority of Americans will support his appearance and demand that he be handed over to that body to face justice for his arrogant and criminal actions that have resulted in enough deaths for Dub to be considered a mass murderer. This will be the only option for those of us who want to reclaim some respect from the rest of the world that we are a fair and just people. Who else would be responsible but the Commander and Chief? The sooner the better.

—-Thanks so very much for the column, Molly. I witnessed the telecast and was appalled at Bush’s various reactions to the (obviously suffering)reporters. A retired journalist, I can empathize—but I have never experienced or even heard of such a pathetic “news conference” prior to this incident.—Again, thanks for the commentary.

I’m longing for the day that “Hutch” or some other reporter actually uses the teen-term “whatever…” right back at the president.

I like the part about being a spoiled man and acting like a three year old.  So true.  Did you catch the part where he said “the American people must understand…”  Must understand or what?  We are not entitled to disagree?  Fascist.

To add, I thought he was particurlarly boorish with David Gregory. Thanks for the piece.

Ms. Ivins, you are so correct !
Wow, but I do believe that the President of the U.S. is scary.  I did see the filmed edition of the press conference.  He is not on issue, seems hostile and just about as opposite any president I can ever recall - republican or democrat. In fact, I don’t believe that I have ever witnessed any politician so volatile.  And that man works for us, the constituents?  You’d never know it.
I just do not understand why the general populace is not up in arms and yelling to impeach him.  I cannot believe the general populace is not shouting about the thousands and thousands of young men and women maimed for life because this president wanted to wreak a little havoc in a third world, independent nation.  I think everyone should look at the web site: The Memory Hole and get a glimpse of the injuries our nation endures because this president thought and continues to aggressively force our young men and women to expose themselves to ieds in Iraq.  Even our military are wondering about the “deciders” of this nation.