Borillar
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posted on August 20, 2001 11:26:49 PM new
Bush prods Congress on defense budget
"Amid the sharpening of the debate over the shrinking federal budget surplus, President Bush on Monday urged Congress to give priority to funding his military spending request when it reconvenes next month. "Let us keep our priorities straight and start with the things that matter most to our country's security and our country's future," Bush said, addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention here. "This year, let us have responsible spending from day one and put the national security and education of our children first in line when it comes to the appropriations process."
How is he planning on funding all this with the government now having to borrow money to stay afloat? What about our economy that he and his oil buddies have done a number on?
"The president's comments on the military were delivered in front of an assembly of veterans that was sure to receive them with cheers and applause."
Figures!
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spazmodeus
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posted on August 20, 2001 11:39:36 PM new
Sure, but where does he stand on make-up? What's in his sandwiches? Does he have recurring dreams?
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jt-2007
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posted on August 20, 2001 11:45:16 PM new
ROFL
T
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bunnicula
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posted on August 21, 2001 12:05:17 AM new
Spazmodeus: where does he stand on make-up?
He avoids make-up--thinks the tests are just as hard as the ones he avoided in the first place.
What's in his sandwiches?
Baloney. Pure Baloney.
Does he have recurring dreams?
Yes, in his dreams the American public doesn't notice the crap he's pulling.
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spazmodeus
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posted on August 21, 2001 12:15:08 AM new
I eat a baloney and cheese sandwich every day. It's downright American. Hail to the cheese!
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chococake
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posted on August 21, 2001 12:27:42 AM new
Oh yes, the military is on top of my list! Sure, especially, when I read in the paper today that Medicare is going to cut back payments on outpatient services.
Senior's don't need chemotherapy treatments for cancer and the implantaton of pacemakers. We can pay for a pacemaker for Cheney to keep his heart rhythm steady, but Medicare can't pay for an ordinary citizen to have one implanted.
This is really stupid because now more patients will be admitted to the hospitol instead of having procedures done on an out patient bases. That way it will be covered. Of course, it will cost more money in the long run.
Everytime I see him he appears uglier. His beady close set eyes. That little bird thing he does with his lips. He looks breathless. He seems so proud of himself, almost giddy, and has to contain himself from smiling.
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krs
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posted on August 21, 2001 12:40:48 AM new
Look. You've got to believe.
Take as your example, the president who said:
"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe--I believe what I believe is right," to the confusion of most of the listening journalists during an informal meeting near the steps of Rome in Italy where orators used to speak. --Reuters, 7/23/01
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spazmodeus
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posted on August 21, 2001 12:53:47 AM new
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sadie999
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posted on August 21, 2001 05:51:45 AM new
chococake, the same thing happened to me when his father was king. It got to the point that the sound of his voice made me nauseous. The guy with the floppy ears on the CBN gives me the willies also - I just know those suckers are horns!
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Borillar
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posted on August 21, 2001 07:15:23 AM new
>>OUCH!<<
You just made my eyes cross with that Bushism, KRS! And first thing in the morning too! Cruel and Unusual, I say!
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Femme
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posted on August 21, 2001 07:41:58 AM new
LOL Spaz is on a roll. 
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Hjw
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posted on August 21, 2001 07:49:37 AM new
While Bush reiterated a pledge to improve the delivery of health care to veterans there still remains a backlog of 600,000 unprocessed benefits claims.
His explanation..."When you need health care, forms get lost and answers come late." He admitted this to the 15,000 VFW convention delegates adding "That is no way to treat America's veterans, and that is going to change."
In the meantime,
his vacation continues...
and he quipped, "As great and influential as that city is, sometimes a president just has to get out of Crawford, Texas.
Wednesday, the White House will release new estimates of a shrinking federal budget surplus.
And his vacation continues....
Helen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37941-2001Aug20.html
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rancher24
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posted on August 21, 2001 07:52:14 AM new
With all due respect to the Bush supporters, the man's an idiot....Sitting watching world news yesterday, talking about the global economy, which is failing, poor Mr. Greenspan slashing rates like a discount car seller, and GW says "Lots of people talk to me about their concern for the economy" And then proceeds to talk about his tax relief plan...AGH!!...WAKE UP GW, did ya think that $600 refund was gonna straighten out my financial woes? (Hell, that ain't even gonna pay for my kids back to school supplies/clothes)...The stock markets are in the crapper, people's net worth has decreased by millions of dollars and his (pardon me, OUR) $600 is gonna make it all right. Simpleton
~ Rancher
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Borillar
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posted on August 21, 2001 08:11:39 AM new
It's worse than that, rancher24. It's not like Bush gave you $600 of his family's fortune. You paid $600 to yourself. And to top it off, you had to borrow the money to pay yourself. And that borrowed money that you gave yourself is an advance on next year's Income Tax Refund!
How'd you like them apples now?
Kinda makes you want to give that $600 check back to yourself before the whole economy is a complete disaster, don't it?
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Borillar
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posted on August 21, 2001 08:26:51 AM new
I know that some people still want to give Bush the benefit of the doubt: he's been in office less than a year, he did graduate from Harvard - he's a Texan. Nice. Wish Clinton had been given that chance by Republicans too! For my part, I won't give him any benefit -- even if he is from Texas!
This thread on how Bush is out of touch with the economy, America, and priorities illustrates just what is wrong with voting for a moron. By trying to elect someone with the mental capacity of a twelve year-old, you automatically make that person a puppet if that person ever obtains the office -- as Bush did.
Now one major problem with a puppet president is that a person or group of persons is actually running the presidency instead of the moron, who is just a public figurehead that the group hopes won't embarrass them too much. This person or group behind the scenes running things can not respond to issues and crises fast enough to be effective. It needs a person in that office who is in charge of things and can make the necessary spot decisions to be able to respond to things as they occur.
Bush never states that he thinks things up on his own -- that would be lying! While all leaders need advisors, there almost always comes a time of crisis in every presidency that calls for quick thinking and quick action. And you just can't do that with a damned committee!
Right now, the number 1 focus is on the economy running at breakneack speed into another recession. Instead of coming out with ideas and measures necessary to counter-act this emergency, he's still going on and on and on about giving EIGHTEEN BILLION DOLLARS OF TAX-PAYER [YOURS AND MINE] to his buddies in the defence industry for the Missle Defence Program whose recent results were RIGGED!
Oh! That's right! The American People! Yes, we'll give them something too! What's that they're going on and on about? Education? Right! Education it is -- I'll write that into his speech! <click>
Yah.
Out Of Touch.
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shoshanah
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posted on August 21, 2001 10:26:14 AM new
spaz...Sure, but where does he stand on make-up? What's in his sandwiches? Does he have recurring dreams?
This statement has no foundation...
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shoshanah
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posted on August 21, 2001 10:33:29 AM new
Borillar give Bush the benefit of the doubt: he's been in office less than a year, he did graduate from Harvard
Nope! He got one of them SPAM Emails, that offers to purchase a degree...ANY degree....and he took 'hem up on it...And he got him diploma.. Don't matter that he don't know no good English...he got the money...
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bunnicula
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posted on August 21, 2001 12:35:09 PM new
Borillar: You need to apologize! Now! Your post directly insulted 12 year-olds everywhere.
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Hjw
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posted on August 21, 2001 12:49:33 PM new
Right!
And please don't embarrass Harvard again. Bush is a graduate of Yale.
Twelve year old's we apologize...especially those who have been able to succeed in public schools and are now smarter than the President of the United States of America!!!
Helen
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bunnicula
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posted on August 21, 2001 01:03:11 PM new
And please don't embarrass Harvard again. Bush is a graduate of Yale
And one wonders just how he managed to do it...
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Hjw
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posted on August 21, 2001 01:10:51 PM new
He had a lot of help from his friends and his daddy's friends and the faculty at Yale who appreciated all that money that was rolling in.
Helen
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Hjw
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posted on August 21, 2001 01:16:53 PM new
http://www.wtsp.com/news/2001_05/21_bush_yale.htm
Helen
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krs
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posted on August 21, 2001 01:56:22 PM new
Out of touch? Republicans are admitting it;
http://www.detnews.com/2001/politics/0108/21/a04-274295.htm
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kraftdinner
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posted on August 21, 2001 02:29:47 PM new
You're too hard on the guy. Last Saturday on CNN, they showed live pictures of Bush on the outskirts of one of those forest fires, doing his part to save the forest. His business suit didn't fool me because he was also equipped with a hard hat and an axe....
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gravid
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posted on August 21, 2001 02:41:51 PM new
Line enough Texans up with a case of Dos xx behind each and we'll whip that fire in no time.
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shoshanah
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posted on August 21, 2001 04:53:31 PM new
KRAFTY...His business suit didn't fool me because he was also equipped with a hard hat and an axe....
 No! You got it all wrong...what'
de matter wit you! The AX for the TAX CUT, which BTW, is bringing our Surplus down to NOTHING! ZILCH!....and also to totally uproot the Stock Market...I figured out his strategy: he does not want the stock market as it is now, cuz that was BEFORE his time in office...so, with his ax, everyday he chops off another few HUNDREDS of points,(down another 150 something today), till the market HITS BOTTOM,(any moment now) THEN, bushytail will REBUILD IT from scratch... and take credit (?????) for it
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kraftdinner
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posted on August 21, 2001 05:40:38 PM new
He could have been killed in that forest fire Shosh....how callous!!
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krs
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posted on August 21, 2001 05:54:39 PM new
There was one picture of him with a Texas Chainsaw.
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Microbes
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posted on August 21, 2001 06:17:33 PM new
because he was also equipped with a hard hat and an axe....
The AX for the TAX CUT
Ok, what was the hard hat protecting?????
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shoshanah
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posted on August 21, 2001 06:40:28 PM new
Microbes....The hard hat is to protect him from the falling-out tidbits of of his fast=desintegrating "popularity" (if that's what intense dislike is called nowdays...)
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