ps - Make yourself useful and get rid of that pack of racoons by the Oval Office dumpster.
It's good to see you back, Astral.
any bets that the MSM will call andy(BS)card on this obvious slam against Obama?
I hope Keith Olbermann carries these photos tonight.
Maybe someone will get Card to respond to a question such as, "Mr. Card, this photo shows George Bush and harriet Meyers on Bush's second day in office. At which point did Mr. Bush decide to stop disrespecting the office of the Presidency?"
I would love to see it, but we probably won't get the satisfaction.
Andy Card was a week COS anyway, but Bush only replaced him with Josh Bolton when the administration's back was to the wall on every failed policy. A COS needs to be an effective liaison between the WH and The Hill. Andy Card was a deer-in-the-headlights type whenever he had actual dealings with any of the Democrats.
So many of Bush's appointees were either lackluster or downright incompetent, and finally replaced by smarter people (not cronies) but it was way too late (Bernanke, Petraeus, and Card immediately come to mind, but there were others).
It just goes to show, all you need is a short haircut, and a jacket and tie. After that, all you have to do is wait for Jeebus to start telling you what to do.
Bernanke and Petraus are both respectable guys. Card's job was such that it's hard to tell, although being replaced by Bolton can't be a good sign.
Perfect title.
Obama always says it so much better than I ever could.
hahahahaahhhahhahahahahahahahahhahahaahhahahaha
Oh that Andy is such a card. Someone should stuff him a birthday present and throw the present in the middle of the Atlantic, in the winter.
THE END
Great job pulling those together ----- now if someone in the MSM would only pick them up!! (Or maybe R. Gibbs could keep a photo spread handy for when someone is silly enough to bring it up in a press conference. THAT would get coverage!)
Thanks, I found some of them at the swamppolitics.com link (above) and now Huff Post has added a few more.
Steve Benen at Washington Monthly has also been on it.
I still find it a little difficult to accept lectures from George W. Bush's staff about "respecting" the Constitution, the office of the presidency, and democracy itself.
Andy Card helped run a scandal-plagued White House that treated constitutional norms and the rule of law like a punch-line. Bush wore a suit jacket most of the time? How nice for him. While he was dressed appropriately, Bush also flouted the very laws he twice swore to faithfully execute.
Perhaps Card can spare us the moral righteousness that comes with his preoccupation with the president's fashion choices, and consider his own role in trashing "the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy."
One respects the office by honoring its place in a constitutional system, not by wearing a suit.
Well, the whole thing was supposed to be in blockquote. When will I ever learn this website's idiosyncrocies?
I laughed my ass off when I saw these. When I first heard Card on this, I just amazed at the sheer hypocrisy and blindness, for exactly the reasons you quote, but this just takes it to a level of comedy.
P.S. My favorite is Bill in the flannel. ;)
Don't you just love it when a few pictures do all the talking? What a dip-stick...
Thanks, Astral!
I don't know what to make of Card. It is clear that Bob Woodward Likes him.
But this is a fact: you remember there was this cabal of White House honchos who went down to GW Hospital to try to bully and confuse the ailing Attorney General (warped anti-porn campaigner, but it turns out he had a lot of integrity), in his medicated semi-stupor to try to buffalo him to semi-consciously sign some unconstitutional eavesdropping measure.
Card was one of the leaders who went down there, only to have the ailing man pull himself together long enough to read them the riot act.
That is a deeply shameful thing for any man to have done, and it is one of the key items on Card's record.
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Uh well . . .
This says a lot more about Bob Woodward than it does Card . . .
Bottom line: Book sales!
Hmmmmmm . . .
~OGD~
Well done!
Since when did "showing respect for the office" include shredding the very Constitution that created it?
Astral - great pictures, thank you. I can understand why you of all people would take special offence at the dress code talk! :)
(that avatar always cracks me up)
ps - Make yourself useful and get rid of that pack of racoons by the Oval Office dumpster.
February 6, 2009 11:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's good to see you back, Astral.
February 6, 2009 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
any bets that the MSM will call andy(BS)card on this obvious slam against Obama?
February 6, 2009 11:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
I hope Keith Olbermann carries these photos tonight.
Maybe someone will get Card to respond to a question such as, "Mr. Card, this photo shows George Bush and harriet Meyers on Bush's second day in office. At which point did Mr. Bush decide to stop disrespecting the office of the Presidency?"
I would love to see it, but we probably won't get the satisfaction.
February 6, 2009 11:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Andy Card was a week COS anyway, but Bush only replaced him with Josh Bolton when the administration's back was to the wall on every failed policy. A COS needs to be an effective liaison between the WH and The Hill. Andy Card was a deer-in-the-headlights type whenever he had actual dealings with any of the Democrats.
So many of Bush's appointees were either lackluster or downright incompetent, and finally replaced by smarter people (not cronies) but it was way too late (Bernanke, Petraeus, and Card immediately come to mind, but there were others).
February 6, 2009 11:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
It just goes to show, all you need is a short haircut, and a jacket and tie. After that, all you have to do is wait for Jeebus to start telling you what to do.
February 6, 2009 11:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bernanke and Petraus are both respectable guys. Card's job was such that it's hard to tell, although being replaced by Bolton can't be a good sign.
February 6, 2009 4:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Perfect title.
February 6, 2009 11:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama always says it so much better than I ever could.
February 6, 2009 12:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
hahahahaahhhahhahahahahahahahahhahahaahhahahaha
Oh that Andy is such a card. Someone should stuff him a birthday present and throw the present in the middle of the Atlantic, in the winter.
THE END
February 6, 2009 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great job pulling those together ----- now if someone in the MSM would only pick them up!! (Or maybe R. Gibbs could keep a photo spread handy for when someone is silly enough to bring it up in a press conference. THAT would get coverage!)
February 6, 2009 12:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, I found some of them at the swamppolitics.com link (above) and now Huff Post has added a few more.
February 6, 2009 12:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Steve Benen at Washington Monthly has also been on it.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_02/016777.php
February 6, 2009 12:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like his statement:
Andy Card helped run a scandal-plagued White House that treated constitutional norms and the rule of law like a punch-line. Bush wore a suit jacket most of the time? How nice for him. While he was dressed appropriately, Bush also flouted the very laws he twice swore to faithfully execute.
Perhaps Card can spare us the moral righteousness that comes with his preoccupation with the president's fashion choices, and consider his own role in trashing "the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy."
One respects the office by honoring its place in a constitutional system, not by wearing a suit.
February 6, 2009 1:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, the whole thing was supposed to be in blockquote. When will I ever learn this website's idiosyncrocies?
February 6, 2009 1:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
I laughed my ass off when I saw these. When I first heard Card on this, I just amazed at the sheer hypocrisy and blindness, for exactly the reasons you quote, but this just takes it to a level of comedy.
P.S. My favorite is Bill in the flannel. ;)
February 7, 2009 9:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Don't you just love it when a few pictures do all the talking? What a dip-stick...
Thanks, Astral!
February 6, 2009 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't know what to make of Card. It is clear that Bob Woodward Likes him.
But this is a fact: you remember there was this cabal of White House honchos who went down to GW Hospital to try to bully and confuse the ailing Attorney General (warped anti-porn campaigner, but it turns out he had a lot of integrity), in his medicated semi-stupor to try to buffalo him to semi-consciously sign some unconstitutional eavesdropping measure.
Card was one of the leaders who went down there, only to have the ailing man pull himself together long enough to read them the riot act.
That is a deeply shameful thing for any man to have done, and it is one of the key items on Card's record.
February 6, 2009 3:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
.
Uh well . . .
This says a lot more about Bob Woodward than it does Card . . .
Bottom line: Book sales!
Hmmmmmm . . .
~OGD~
February 6, 2009 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well done!
February 6, 2009 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Since when did "showing respect for the office" include shredding the very Constitution that created it?
February 6, 2009 4:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Astral - great pictures, thank you. I can understand why you of all people would take special offence at the dress code talk! :)
(that avatar always cracks me up)
February 7, 2009 3:12 AM | Reply | Permalink