Time was I couldn't stand to watch Bush on TV but I, too, have come to get a perverse kick out of what comes out of the man's mouth.  As others have said, it's like "The Emperor Has No Clothes."  Still, the masses are caught in the game of not noticing Bush's bare ass hanging out.  Since his 2004 "mandate," his swagger and absurdity have reached gargantuan proportions.  His lies and attempts at evasion and mispronuntiations elicit only a snigger from me, especially when he goes on to "educate" us about what his misnomers really mean.  Surely we will need a New American Dictionary for the New American Century to decipher his "disassembling" of not only his party but our whole nation.  What fun, indeed!

i agree that his comedy act can at times be heartening.... if you truly believe he can be that completely stupid... yes he is the chucklehead from the proverb finding himself on third thinking he hit a triple, yes i do feel that in modern times he is clearly the least intellectually gifted (not to mention least capapble, least interested, least responsible, least believable most irritating) but still, I cannot even in my wildest dreams believe he can be that stupid. Its like his nominating the turd Bolton, he throws this ignorant little things out there just daring anyone to say ... "uh the king has no clothes/brains"
maybe i am wrong... it wouldnt surprise me one bit what lots of manipulation of media, lots of money, and loads of frat boy bravada can get for someone who is mindless enough NOT to care...

ok i take back everything i just said he IS that clueless must now go re-disassemble myself

Not Possible.

Just the fact that I know I am going to be lied to prevents me from watching this horrible person. That his lies have cost so many American lives and have deprived so many others of all manner of things, is unbearable.

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Partsian games are what the right played.  We need to deeply hope that Bush is right, that Iraq will lead to liberation in the ME, that tax cuts will bring a really successful economy.

It would be so nice if it were so simple, we'd have answers.

Realism suggests that it isn't going to be this way.  The situation in Iraq is tough.  We need to support our troops at:

http://www.optruth.org/main.cfm

Stocks are overpriced by historical standards, 1929 valuations, real estate in many regions has achieved pricing records.  Busts are likely near the tail end of a lukewarm "recovery."

Quite simply this could wind up being a period that makes the seventies seem pretty good, we may have to go back to the thirties and forties for similar crisis.

And to rejoice because it makes Bush and company look bad is to be the moral equivalent of Rush Limpbowel.  

Forget the spite, it's almost sure he'll reap it.  Some polls are saying the majority want a Dem congress next time around and what's needed with that are good ideas.  The Republicans are right, the status quo system has deep problems and when Democrats are reduced to "I hate Bush" then the country is adrift.  He is increasingly irrelevant.  

I'm sorry you guys are looking a lot like the National Review.   In one of today's articles on deepthroat, they spent half of it explaining why Clinton should be removed from office!?!??

We don't need this on the other side as well.

Has anyone thought to ask Bush about the fact that many of those detainees have been released because they weren't al qaeda (i.e - they didn't receive any 'disassembling' training)?

Actually, it was former Texas Governor Ann Richards who described George H.W. Bush as "being born on third base and thinking he hit a triple," not Jim Hightower.

I actually have found a useful purpose for the words of George W.

I have been in recovery for a number of years, and part of my recovery is to give back the program to others. Part of my requirements to those I help is have them listen to Bush's impromtu speeches and press conferences. I have them listen (and then discuss) not so much the content, as the style and message of ego, dishonesty, self centeredness, "self-will run riot", and esteem issues that make up his character and true essence of being. These characteristics are the classics of an addict (either using or not) who does not have the proper treatment over time. As the saying goes in recovery: without a program of rigorous honesty, a horse thief can sober up, but all you have is a sober horse thief.

I can not call Bush an addict, but the reports of drinking over time certainly point that way. What I do know is that addiction is a disease of the physical, mental, and spiritual. I have been disturbed that the MSM has not taken a serious look at the possiblity of addiction, and the ramifications. Though it is a personal matter, it is no longer personal if it can affect the good of all.

In the meantime, my "kids" and myself will continue to listen and discuss Bush, making ourselves better and fuller individuals.

Yesterday's performance was not a good one. He's generally horrible at "unscripted" appearances, but yesterday's what at the lower end of horrible.

I think he doesn't get that the reason his approvals are now in the low to mid 40s is the agenda itself, not that people don't understand it. He thinks the more he goes out there and "carefully explains" his plans, people will finally "see the light." That is part of what makes watching hime give press conferences and make ridiculous comments like the dissasembling one so enjoyable. As well as the endlessly metastisizing focus group tags for Social Security phase out they trot out. And all the while, his approvals sink lower on the topic

Really, despite his everyman schtick, he holds people in much greater contempt than most politicians - because of his assumptions about the populace's stupidity.

Bush and Rove are alike. Bush is not stupid *politically*: in fact, he is very smart in this regard. But outside of winning elections, he's out of his depth. As frankly, is Rove. In some senses, its postmodern the degree of cynicism Rove has about policy making's function: only about winning the next election. Unfortunately, people are smarter than they believe, and see through it.

All right, point taken on Our Dear Leader's performance at the press conference.  But, it doesn't make my heart lighter.  Bush is just articulate enough to get by.  And that is just dandy with the people that voted for him.  John Kerry is as articulate as one can be.  But he lost the election. 

I think that in order to understand Bush's political success you have to view (and listen) to him from the viewpoint of those prone to vote for such a person.  Believe it or not, Bush is viewed as plenty smart by those folks.  He uses the "right" code words and phrases to appeal to "middle america."  In order to win against Rove and his ilk the Democrats need to figure this out, just as Bill Clinton did.  It's fun to mock Bush, but that won't beat him.

What evidence do we have that people are not as gullible as the Bush team makes them out to be?  Think of what they have overcome - not catching Bin Laden, attacking Iraq and not finding WDM, Abu Ghraib, tax cut after tax cut, industry-driven energy plans, I could go on.  Yet we glory in the 'stupidity' of the president as shown in his press conferences and are horrified by what they are doing in congress to change precedent and put down the minority party. 

Yes, the president's poll numbers are as bad as ever, but they won somehow in 2000 and convinced enough people they deserved it, they won in 2002, and they won in 2004, and I have seen no evidence that they won't win in 2006 and that they can't keep the presidency in 2008.  So let's not fool ourselves that anything has changed - many of us bought into that before the 2004 election and look what happened.  The bottom line is that it does not seem to matter what the Republicans are doing - it has not been and will not be enough to put the Democrats back in the White House or in the majority anywhere else - the Democrats will have to make the difference.

I have seen a number of articles recently claiming that the Republican house of cards is about to fall.

I do not believe it.

My skepticism has been growing. It has reached the point where I realize that every optimistic appraisal of the American and international politics is doomed to suffocate with nary a whimper under the heel of reality.

In Iraq, if the invasion had immediately met with failure, headlines would read "Despite Losses, Bush Vows That the United States Will Not Back Down From Terror". The invasion itself was a (military) success, resulting in headlines "Bush Administration Silences Critics with Second Victory".

Had stockpiles of biological materials been found, the papers would herald that "Bush Vindicated - Saddam in Possession of Enough Materials to Kill Millions". No illegal weapons were found, so the papers declared "Bush Admits He Was Fooled By Saddam's Misinformation".

In that case, intelligence professionals refused to validate the claims made by the administration's Office of Special Plans. If WMDs had been found, "Bush Intelligence Team Circumvents CIA and NSA Bureaucracy, Gets Results". Instead, we got "Commission Finds Intelligence Agencies at Fault".

If the economy had remained steady, "Bush Economic Growth Continues". Instead, we see "Bush Administration Efforts Unable to Slow Clinton Recession".

If we manage to get out of Iraq without it turning into Saigon of 1975, "American Troops Bid Farewell to the Middle East's Fledgeling Democracy". Otherwise, "American Soldiers Defeated by Treasonous Media". (The irony there will be lost on the corporate press).

If Tom Delay gets indicted, "Delay: 'I am honored to be martyred for the Cause'". Since that's not going to happen, "Delay Exonerated by House Ethics Committee, Sues for Libel".

If a politician supports the separation of church and state, he is counted among the "Anti-Christian forces". If a Democrat is religious, he is "a pretend Christian" or "a cheap imitation".

I feel like an onlooker to a slow-motion trainwreck. I am filled with horror, but I can't tear my eyes away.

In my opinion George Bush is a guy doing a bad impression of a human being.  The more I see the more disturbing it gets.  His behavior is not right.  The inappropriate laughter, the talking to himself in a room full of people at a press conference, the garbled language and the redefined words.  I don't know anyone that behaves that way.  Not on purpose anyway.  The fact that so many people find him charming and endearing disturbs me even more.  Some one needs to let me in on the big joke because I don't get it.  He talks in cliches and lines from movies because I don't think there is anything going on in that man.  And I don't mean brains I mean something more.  Do you all remember "that's some bad flying" .  I'm not a psychiatrist, a doctor or any authority on anything but he is seriously creepy.