Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal (2004)

"I felt like that -- one of my concerns was that it would usurp the Congress' need to fully investigate." "

What??? Speak English!

In the same interview with Larry King, Bush also denied what he said on the aircraft carrier on May 1. Click my name to read the transcripts of the relevant portions of the interview and the "Mission Accomplished" speech.

Dubya and grandiloquent language don't mix. No surprise here though...call JFK a flip flipper but do as much flip flopping as you can yourself while you're at it.

"Does [Bush] think that our press corps is so lousy that he can say whatever comes into his head and nobody will call him on it?"

The answer is self-evident. The REAL question is: What evidence is there that Bush is wrong?

Billmon beats me to the punch: of course he believes he can say anything to the press and get away with it. Why shouldn't he believe such a thing?

As we also have a good sense by now, he believes he can say whatever he wants to his cabinet, and they'll let him get away with it too.

In fact, the neat thing about being president, according to bush, is that you don't have to explain yourself.

Our national joke about his mangling of the English language seems to give Bush cover to twist and wiggle out of situations in which he's obviously flip-flopped.

Yeah, Billmon nails ... well, everything wrong in this country.

Shape of Earth, views differ.

George W. Bush probably rewrites history because he knows he can, and he knows he's not alone.

When Jim Rassmann published a piece titled "Shame on Swift Boat Veterans for Bush" on WSJ.com, Alysa Schermerhorn of Atlanta angily responded that “True heroes don't go around with a bullhorn announcing, ‘I'm a hero!’ Did you hear such talk from George H.W. Bush (the youngest and most decorated pilot in World War II)?". (See http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/responses.html?article_id=110005460.)

It's very, very demoralising.

Has anyone figured out what Bush's 'tell' is? I threw my TV out years ago so I only get the pleasure of hearing his voice.

Speaking of re-writing history, I can hardly wait for Doug Brinkley's transformation of Christmas in Cambodia was really Valentine's Day.

Anyone here remember Tom Eagleton?

Mr. Sullivan would like us to forget all the other blatant a and now debunked falsehoods told by the SwiftLiars.

Not to mention George W. Bush's flagrant up-is-downisms as exemplified by the Mission Accomplished lie linked by Sid above.

Speaking of Bush lies, don't miss the MoveOn ad by USMC veteran Lee Buttrill, who says, "We were given these ideas that there were weapons of mass destruction...It was just a lie. That wasn't a proper use of American troops. It wasn't a proper use of my life, or my friends' lives, or the marines who I've seen die around me."

Lies That Matter

Bush's first term was a failure. BC04 nows this, so their only viable strategy now is to convince us that it actaully wasn't bad. That means rewriting history, splitting hairs on definitions, etc.
and of course scaring us into believing that for as bad his first term was a Kerry presidency would be worst.
Look for more lies and more slander on KE04. all this from the Gov who said he would change the tone in washington.
BARF

It not just Bush's aides. Bush and Cheney personally leaned on Daschle not to look into it

President Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle Tuesday to limit the congressional investigation into the events of September 11, congressional and White House sources told CNN. ...

...Tuesday's discussion followed a rare call to Daschle from Vice President Dick Cheney last Friday to make the same request.

A few months later Cheney claimed that investigated 9/11 would be harmful against The War on Terror.

Part of their long pattern of lying about their action in 9/11 and the War on Terror.

I think the Bush administration, by suborning the press on a truly grand scale, has generated a high level of tension in some rather unlikely places, among them the Republican Party (much of which will not vote in November), the military (which has its own ways of dealing with the lying civilians in the Pentagon), and of course the press itself.

In particular, the Plame affair strikes me as a powerful focus for these tensions. By issuing that subpoena to Judith Miller, Peter Fitzgerald tells us that he's on to something rather unflattering to the press, and if so, then the press can be counted on to respond in all manner of awkward ways (and the First Admendment is irrelevant in this context--Fitzgerald has a clear grasp of his constitutional responsibilities).

Question posed: Does GWB think that our press corps is so lousy that he can say whatever comes into his head and nobody will call him on it?
WaPo former Assistant Managing Editor Karen DeYoung answers:"We are inevitably the mouthpiece for whatever administration is in power.... If the president stands up and says something, we report what the president said."

The web has picked up many "whoppers" by W and Laura during the King interview. Maybe it will make its way into the mainstream.

http://www.first-draft.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=257

Well, here we are, updating our comments of 5:02 PM. No the Washington Post will never come clean about Iraq (AIPAC would never stand for this), but they do seem ready to shape up on the domestic front. Starting tomorrow, therefore, a three-part series about Bushco's trashing of the regulatory system. Good work, it's true, but not the right good work. And given what we've let Bush do to Iraq, why he shouldn't he feel free to do the same to the folks at home?

"Does [Bush] think that our press corps is so lousy that he can say whatever comes into his head and nobody will call him on it?"

Why would he NOT think precisely that? Look at the last four years: a lying President and a lying-on-its-back-pissing-and-wriggling puppydog press are logical conclusions.

I poop too much and it makes me tired.

| Does he really think now that he didn't oppose the 9/11 Commission? Does he think that our press corps is so lousy that he can say whatever comes into his head and nobody will call him on it?

Maybe. And oh yes.