I say Americans should boycott Bush's Economic Presser tonight
By John Amato Tuesday Sep 23, 2008 4:05pmWhy should anybody listen to what Mr. 30 %er has to say given that it's because of his administration we have FISA, torture, endless signing statements, Iraq and now a complete meltdown in the financial markets. Did you notice that North Korea is laughing at him too? Why should anybody care what he has to say except goodbye from office. If anything, he'll only weaken the confidence of the American people in the coming days.
I'll probabaly force myself to watch because I have to cover this, but Americans shouldn't. So please join me in C&L's boycott of President Bush's 6/9 PM presser. And I say tune out the networks that cover him also. Go check out TNT's Law and Order or something else and then try the Son's of Anarchy on FX instead. It's the Sopranos on bikes.
He'll probably try to blame the Democratic Congress anyway...
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You know what he's gonna say:
Financial Crisis BOO! Congressional Democrats are threatening to ruin us all BOO! Give me what I want or else Financial Crisis BOO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYxTzDFofZQ
curiouser and curiouser.... down the rabbit hole we go
military on US soil being used for police work, 'crowd control'?
say it ain't so...
Pres Chimpy has nothing to say
My fellow Americans since I wasn't impeached before fucking up everything and there's nothing left to fuck up I resign. Wild cheers arise
The only reason to listen to Bush the Lesser this evening is to pick up on obscure clues to what his "October Surprise" will be.
I don't imagine that the Wall Street Bailout is the only thing he planned to spring on us to keep his administration out of jail.
The President has no clothes. The Republicans and Paulson have no clothes. Republicans are taking off their Republican uniforms (as Chris Matthews has pointed out) and running as fast as they can from the Bush administration and all of their complicit rubber stamping the last eight years.
Many Republicans are ripping off their uniforms but they have Abu Gharib, Guantanamo ,Iraq and deregulation branded on their naked asses.
I have watched a couple of Sons of Anarchy episodes. Katey Sagal has got a very good Lady MacBeth thing going but I have never been much a fan of "Sociopaths R Us" t.v. programs. I am on the fence for the time being.
Why just tonight...I never watch stumble boy.
But think about the Social Security scheme. The more Bush spoke, the more people hated it.
I like the idea but sorry, it's like driving past a horrible traffic accident and not looking.
Just too hard to not look.
Maybe i can find a repeat of "House" on.
I can never watch the smirking moron, I can't afford to keep replacing televisions he makes me smash.
He's going to say "the economy is great" the surge worked and hey, Katrina was a mass hallucination.
Does anyone think that 73 of McCain's campaign lobbyists didn't know what other lobbyists knew while he was suspending his campaign? (you know DeLay and Santorum creamed their jeans...months of their ghoulish drooling to bring back Romney from HIS suspension)
From the K-street comes this "....The deal on the "bail out" is 98% done. Treasury has capitulated on almost every point. A draft is circulating on the Hill now. No one needs McCain to help do the remaining 2%....except the White House who has no standing on this matter on the Hill with either Democrats or Republicans.
FYI . .yesterday an outsourced car parts factory's employees in India KILLED the CEO who did a mass layoff of employees . . to protect his gonzo bonus.
We don't got no teevee at our house, but I might go to my Comrade's house next door to watch his teevee.
What's the matter, John? You don't want to watch the Yankees tonight?
I see....only watch them them they are playoff-bound.
Whenever this administration would "bring on da fear", I would recall the old Star Trek Episode "The Corbomite Maneuver". I would envision Rove as Ron Howard's brother Clint with Bush playing the part of the big-eyed green skinned monster Balok used to scare the crew of the Enterprise. Of course it was bluster but the only thing different tonight is Balok will be speaking alone.
(off topic) I keep getting 'We are experiencing technical difficulties. Please check back in a few minutes.' messages all day.
Is the site under attack? Or just getting too popular?
I just gotta' point out, Israel must be imploding their sphincters that the very nation they pimp for billions is busted broke and now they have to find another punter . . N Korea is laughing their butts off, Merkel in Germany is saying 'neener, neener' and well, we know that choreographed and Republican funded Taliban is going off the orthodox wagon and popping champagne corks in caves around Tora Bora.
The Bush Economy
I was walking
down the isle
of the grocery store
and I heard
a little boy
ask his mother,
"Mommy,
can we buy
dog food
with
food stamps?"
poem by John Hulse from the book The Best and Worst Job I Ever Had
I already know he can read. Why watch?
I will be asleep when he says whatever he's going to say. I am curious if he will call McCain and Obama back to Washington as McCain suggested he should.
Man, I am having all kinds of trouble here at this site this afternoon. Any time I click on something I get the message saying there are problems and I should try later. Let's get a vet in here to check out the health of the hamsters running on the wheels. I think one of them may be feeling bad or something. Maybe one of the hamsters has something stuck in one of his tubes ;)
amilius @ 4:
I usually boycott anything Bush does on TV - I can't bear to hear the man's voice. Tonight I've decided I need to watch precisely because of that "surprise" many of us expect. I just have to make sure I've taken a xanax or had enough to drink first and all loose objects are well away from the TV. Mr. G tends to get a bit emotional (read- madder than hell) when the chimp is on.
The financial crisis is blown up.
I've already got the popcorn! Watching the Moron-in-Chief crapping his pants on national teevee is just too good to pass up. It will be a treat to see the upcoming spectacle tonight...kinda like watching a slow motion train wreck. After his usual senseless blather, he should be promptly arrested, if for nothing else, a lifetime of wholesale and wanton butchering of the Queen's english.
I wasn't going to watch it anyway. Bush is so out of it. His credibility left the building a long time ago. He is cheerleading for a team that has 1 second left to play and his team is losing 99 to zip.
I have never been able to listen to Bush speak for more than a couple of minutes, it makes my brain hurt. Besides he will just bad-mouth dems and say they need to pass the bill quickly or they will be responsible for the mess. This Ass bag got us into this mess with all of his and the GOP's Deregulation.
Obama/Biden 08
The channels should rotate the following pieces over and over. The contrast from then to today is so huge you would have to be unconscious not to see it.
The President on Deck (It's so peppy! Ha Ha...):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-GJUGUYsm68
Mission Accomplished (Yeah. USA, USA!):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CFijzDyJnVE
Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt U.S. (2004):
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/01/binladen.tape/
WTF could he possibly say that we would need to hear other than "I am arresting my cabinet, then resigning!"
"Please prosecute us to the fullest extent of the law, here is my signed confession!"
That is easy for me, i turn anything off with his bumbling voice on it.
Who cares what he has to say? The comment thread will be the entertaining part.
baby jesus will suspend all images of mom on shower curtains and tree stumps until the financial crisis is over
Didn't intend to watch anything, anyone still boycotting ABC with me for Path to 9/11?
I agree John, we should not watch it. but I have to see it, we can always catch the clip on C&L once it's posted.
I approach Bushco and the Republicans in general with a Keep My Enemies Closer mentality. So I try to pay attention to everything they say, that helps me to know how they contradict themselves from their words to their actions.
And as long as Bushco and the Repugs are going to hate me for my freedoms, I will always keep an eye on them.
The next and only time I want to lay eyes on the "man" is looking at his back as he makes his Nixonian shameful departure from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a helicopter.
Good riddance and may his God have mercy on his soul for what he's done.
baby jesus @ 27:
Biggest sacrifice since the Crucifixion.
We've got last night's Stewart & Colbert to watch...........plus the RAYS(I think there's a game)......We need more COWBELL!!!
~Power to the Peaceful
Obama~Biden
Black_Knight @ 28:
I have been a hater of ABC since long before they put up the
LiesPath to 9/11My only trouble is I'm a Lost fan so I have to look for the episodes online after they air, just to avoid tuning into the Mouse!
isn't it a bitch that the worst news outlets in American are the Fox and the Mouse?
No problem boycotting. I can not stomach listening to, or looking at, that incredible a-hole
I'm watching the Food Channel tonight.
Hey George. Don't let the door bump you in the ass when you FINALLY leave the White House.
I watch the Daily Show, Colbert, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and occasionally some football.
I've been boycotting Bush's speeches, photo ops, smirks, confused looks... in fact every time he comes on the tube since 2000. Why would tonight be any different?
Leadership @ 24:
Have you been eavesdropping on my fantasies?
I say George W. Bush's execution should be put on Pay Per View.
baby jesus @ 28:
Damn, that is so decent of you. I'm thinking you're going to grow up to be legendary.
Hey all you stupid voters who want health care give my rich friends some money. If you don't, I'll let the next intelligence report go unheeded.
no pressure!
I'll tap dance if ya want.
To borrow a phrase from Frazier Craine, "I'd rather a tarantula lay eggs in my ear" than to watch that idiot for a single second.
The GOP are Satans Angels @ 44:
seriously, the little peekaboo action he did last week was enough.
Who is going to believe anything Bush says? only 23% or so of Americans who believe anything he says.
President wants to BS us tonight? Time to turn on my PlayStation 3!
Congress can learn a lot from video games. When a madman appears and threatens to destroy us, you're supposed to stand up and STOP HIM. Not give him more ammo.
Game Over.
Dumbya is going to cry, beg, pray and wet his panties, so Congress will please bail him out of the terrible mess the bastard put all Americans in by raising all our taxes.
Maybe we'll have a Palin sighting?
Don't watch Georgie on T.V. talkin bullshit tonight?? Yea, I can do that..BTW Chimpy, your legacy called, wanted me to let you know that you too are fucked numbnuts.... IF Bozo the Chimp thinks history will regard him with anything other than total contempt after the smoke of his trainwreck presidency clears out..?? well, maybe he ain't as dry a drunk as some would like to think..... Shorter story...
Bush Jr. the president is pathetic..... JD
I have been boycotting network and most cable TV for 8 years!
Bush the Chimp is such a clueless, inept, jerkoff of the highest magnitude. I do not plan to watch him. Maybe I'll go to my favorite bar down the street, one which I haven't been to in a long while. They're sure to have a sporting event on TV, not this Bush crap.
I do have a feeling, however, that he might pull some fast one like claim we are in a crisis, entirely take over the government himself with Cheney, and declare martial law. Aren't there some conspiracies out there about the so-called Presidential Directive "51"?
SurveyUSA snap polls McCain's political stunt
The first debate between John McCain and Barack Obama is scheduled to take place in two days. Should the debate be held as scheduled? Should the debate be held, but the format changed to focus on the economy? Or, should the debate be postponed?
Hold as scheduled 50
Hold with focus on economy 36
Postpone 10
Is the right response to the turmoil on Wall Street to suspend the campaigns for president? To continue the campaigns as though there is no crisis? Or, to re-focus the campaigns with a unique emphasis on the turmoil on Wall Street?
Suspend 14
Continue 31
Refocus the campaign 48
If Friday's presidential debate does not take place, would that be good for America? Bad for America? Or would it make no difference?
Good for America 14
Bad for America 46
No difference 35
Black_Knight @ 29:
HELL YES......right along with the other ones. TEEVEE is TOXIC WASTE, with a few exceptions.
Black_Knight @ 29:
I boycotted the whole thing.
**** the ****** teevee, it's a tool of the corporate government.
General Jack D. Ripper @ 52:
For the 6,893,617th time, Bush and Cheney are not idiots! He has perpetrated the biggest swindle in world history and will get
away with it. Their precious work will continue to cripple working people and enrich the plutocrats for decades. Not the work of
idiots.
I have no intention of watching that goofball continue to tread water. Besides, it's clear this speech is just a sales job.
As long as Rachel Maddow is still on instead, I'll be paying attention to her.
I PROMISE, ON THE GRAVES OF MY PARENTS AND ALL MY DEPARTED CANINE COMPANIONS, AND ON THE MEMORY OF MY LOST LOVES, THAT I SHALL NOT WATCH OR LISTEN TO, OR ATTEND EVEN A SINGLE MINUTE OF TONITE'S PRESIDENTIAL PRESSER.
signed, Woody...
The Mets are playing the Cubs tonight on ESPN!
Far more at stake in Shea Stadium than what Curious George has to say, unless he says it was all his fault.
You don't fix bad debt with more bad debt, hello!?
I say boycott the speech and play Green Day's American Idiot in its wake.
Ruthless People @ 31:
I dunno, if they were transporting his corpse in an open casket, I'd probably look, just to be sure it was him and he was dead...
John--
Thanks for taking one for the team and watching the irrelevant Chimperor spout inanities so the rest of us don't have to.
Gollum
azmtdog @ 61:
Geaux animaux d'ours
Thankfully blogs like C&L watch and digest the crap GWB and his minions spew. I prefer leaving my bullshit detector in the off position and just assume all Gopers are lying so why waste time listening to them. I do enjoy viewing the shiny nuggets bloggers find and hold up for public ridicule though.
Mr. 30%, please you are giving him too much credit. The most recent poll found that his approval rating was at 19%, an all time low for any president!
Tune in for another episode of Bush's browbeating?
No thank you.
We put our television out of its misery a long time ago.
I can't watch that twat anyway. He always speaks like his audience is a child
that just doesn't understand what he's saying - like we're the ones that are stupid.
He's just a colossal waste of stem cells and a pretty poor advertisement for a Harvard MBA.
Sorry I'll just have to miss it. I have some paint to watch dry while listening to the song: "Lier Lier".
please resign tonight... please... PLEASE... pleaaase resign
just think F*ck up in Chief, you're approval rating will skyrocket and we'll be able to say you did at least one thing right during your sorry excuse of a presidency
PLEASE.... RESIGN ... you don't have to admit shame or guilt
just go the f*ck away ... go hunting with Cheney
Maybe Governor Bush will be shitfaced drunk (or whatever) again like he was at the U.N. the other day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW16F-vi86o
It's too bad he doesn't have to drive any more, it deprives us of potentially hilarious dash cam footage.
"your" hehe... anger got the best of me
dilly @ 17:
Says who ?
I think people have been boycotting Bush speeches for quite some time now. It is not like any rational person expects any solution or reasonable ideas to come from Bush. Bush will accuse the Democrats of playing "political theatre." It has become his catch-phrase whenever he doesn't get his way.
I'm watching the Cubs game but holding my nose for them to win only for the Brewers wildcard chances.
Not watch? count me in!
As Moe said to Curly in one of the old Three Stooges' one-reeler films, "Every time you open your mouth you weaken the nation." Same thing could be said about Boosh.
Yup - love my "Law and Order" - will spew my dinner if I watch the Prez who isn't one more time.....
This may be just too hard to turn away from tonight. It's like passing a traffic accident on the highway; one just has to slow down and gawk. The President most likely will make a bad situation worse even though the rest of the grown-ups in Washington are close to a deal. If he places the blame for the mess on the Democrats, then he will have deliberately sunk his own plan. Now, why would he want to do that?
woody, tokin librul @ 64:
That you could probably see. The over 4,000 American soldiers he's killed you can't.
Why would I waste any moment of my life listening to that freakin loser? Here's all we need to know about the current crisis:
Some in Congress and in Wall St. positions have suggested that if we don't at least ATTEMPT to use this $700 billion dollar bailout right now, things could possibly get worse later down the road. Well, perhaps....kinda like if we don't invade Iraq then we'll all perish in an onslaught of al Qaeda on the shores of America.
But what would happen if we don't give up $700 billion right now? You know, do what the conservatives preach all the time - allow the market to correct itself. And oh by the way, use this time to install the necessary regulation over Wall St. that should never have been allowed to be removed by Phil Gramm and company.
I'd rather take a chance on the market correcting itself and be wrong, and not toss good money after bad and "hope" the same people who screwed us before will play really nice - without any regulation - and not do anything but good with a blank check of almost a trillion dollars.
Oh yeah, and no chance at recourse or legal action if they blow the $700 billion according to that idiot Paulson.
€Punk @ 15:
I'll second that.
30%'er, huh? I think Ameripoll had him at 19%.
Bush's relevance is at an end. I think I can guess what he's going to say at this point:
* It's not my fault,
* Now is not the time to cast blame or give credit where credit is due,
* Mean old congress is putting the nation at risk unless I get oversight Carte Blanche and a blank check to the US treasury,
* It's not my fault, really. The economy is fundamentally strong. It's those nasty dems are trying to fuck up my shining legacy.
* Terrorist, Terrorist, Terrorist. 9/11, 9/11. God bless America.
So McCain wants to suspend his campaing and save us all. What a load of crap. The Rep's know their toast because the economy is issue one. When the president comes on this evening he will try his best to place fear into the hearts of us all and one must ask why? The answer is simple. If Paulson and Bernanke don't get their 700 Billion, the Federal Reserve will go bankrupt and heaven forbid we return to a US Treasury because that's what the Constitution calls for.
The fiscal year for the Fed ends on the 30th of this month and if the money isn't in place they go by by and that's the way it should be. Understand the truth. Guess where the Federal Reserve is incorporated? Puerto Rico. did you know that every senator and congressman and every agency of the US government are individual corporate entities? They fear bankruptcy and this is something that should have happened decades ago.
I don't think I could stand looking at the ignorant chimp let alone listen to him try and blame everyone else, including the tax payers for all the damage he and his administration of mass destruction have done.
I'd rather watch the season premiere of "Criminal Minds" than hear anymore of the rantings of a criminal mind. Besides which, speaking as a political junkie, I have to wonder why in the hell Darth Cheney is letting Spokesperson Dubya speak tonight. After all, every time the Idiot-in-Chief does a presser, public reaction grows *against* whatever he's trying to push.
-- Rob
Ryoko @ 86:
There. Now I don't have to watch.
From the Orifice of the Preznit:
My fellow 'mercush, I wuz hopin' this disaster would happen after the electionsh so that I wouldn't get blamed fer this too.
Bush: " Give us the money, and nobody get's hurt."
I've boycotted His Chimperial Highness's pressers since day 1.
With all due respect, I disagree with you, John.
Bush has been hiding behind Paulson on this for too long. His cowardly inaction is not acceptable. He needs to stand up and articulate the Administration position. He has not shown any leadership in this crisis, and it's time for him to go on record with what he thinks should be done. I hope this is the one situation where even the Bush Administration tries to govern in a non-campaign mode.
The credit markets are locked up, and banks aren't lending to each other, to companies or to individuals. Money is to the economy as blood is to one's body. Lack of circulation results in immediate disaster. This is no time for politics, folks. If banks don't lend, people can't buy cars, businesses can't grow, and the economy does a hyper-sonic nose dive.
Bush's approval rating was at 19% this morning. He has even lost 8 % of his lunatic following. Even worsre 13 percent approve his
economy
He will never resign has to many neocons in jail that he has to pardon
The only thing that the buffoon could have to say that I'd want to hear is "Vice President Cheney has submitted his resignation, and I intend to do the same thing by the end of the day." Maybe there's a George Romero movie on pay-per-view somewhere.
I think I'll watch a movie, something with Ronald Reagan and a monkey.
Last Thursday we teetered on the edge of an economic disaster that with harm potential much greater than even 9/11. What the Soviet Union failed to do, we almost did to ourselves. The capitalist system sucks in many ways, but unless you can replace it with something better right now, this is not the time to let it all fall to chaos. Save the patient first, get him weaned from his crack addiction later.
If Bush politicizes this disaster, that will be the final nail in his legacy's coffin.
I plan on watching, equipped with a frosty flagon of soda and white rum so that I can live-blog in peace. Then after blogging I shall watch Animal Crackers, starring the Marx Brothers (on DVD).
Despite the fact that I consider him less intelligent than a strategically shaved orangutan (along with the hate mail I get from the League of Orangutans), Bush is still President until January 2009. Like Saruman, he and Cheney are still capable of causing mischief in some mean, small way.
You can't fool all of the people all of the time.
You can fool me once, and shame on you -uh, fool me, uh... you don't get fooled again.
I smell a foolin' comin' on.
A fool and his money are soon parted/some party.
A fool is the tool of a mule.
We will set a bad example if we don't hold this fool accountable for the consequences of his poor decisions.
I pity the fool.
Oh, I'll think I'll listen. I just got back from work, but as of this morning, I've haven't heard a distinction between bailing out securities that have collateral (mortgages secured by a lien in real estate) and these derivatives created by speculators which have no underlying assets and are probably worthless.
I want to hear from someone why this bailout shouldn't be confined to the mortgages, especially in light that the government was initially trying to push through a non-reviewable bailout. Of course, I'll listen to a Democrat explain it, but I haven't seen one step up to the plate to handle that issue.