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"If you want someone who believes we were better off eight years ago than we are now, and that we ought to go back to the kinds of policies we had back then, here is your man."

"Prosperity, itself, is on the ballot in November."
Vice President Al Gore , the REAL victor in the 2000 election
Gore warns Bush will wreck economy

"I bet butter won't melt in their mouths."

"The only way they could win the election was to stop the counting in Florida."
Last TRULY elected President Bill Clinton   Clinton Presidential Center

They are ugly people and they behave in ugly ways.
Mario Cuomo

"Bush is not only alarmingly underqualified for the office of the presidency, he also demonstrates little intellectual intrest in addressing that weakness."

"George W. Bush and the Republicans hijacked the 2000 election with the help of their discredited accomplices on the U.S. Supreme Court. They have no right to traditional forms of democratic deference, particularly when pursuing an unpopular extremist agenda. An honest media ought do everything possible to insure that no one loses sight of the astonishing circumstances through which Bush acceded to the presidency. Get over that."

"The first six months of the Bush presidency seemed almost calculated to poke its proverbial finger in Europe’s eye on issue after issue, from global warming to missile defense, to peace efforts in Iraq, the Balkans, the Middle East and the Koreas, to steel imports, to food additives, even to tax cheating."
Eric Alterman

"Doesn't a man who asks for public power and public trust have a moral obligation to be intelligent about public issues?
In Texas, after all, Bush's lack of understanding of, or engagement with, the substance of governance has had unmistakable moral effects."
Editorial,

"Bush is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things."
Christopher Hitchens

Eight Nobel laureates top economic experts in America have reviewed George W. Bush's plans. Bush promises the same $1 trillion of Social Security to younger workers and the elderly at the same time. He uses the surplus on a tax cut promise, half going to those making over $300,000. Eight Nobel laureates conclude :
"George W. Bush's promises more than exhaust the surplus, increasing interest rates and the deficit. The Bush plan does not add up."
Eight Nobel laureates

"Republicans are ... mounting a frontal assault that equates public service with corruption, diversity with lowered standards, public schools with race wars, private schools with free enterprise, free enterprise with civil liberty, choice with self-segregation and the segregation of whites from blacks with opportunity. In the end, Pat Buchanan represents very little threat to George Bush because the right is smart enough to know which side its bread is buttered on. This is one heck of a moment for what's left of the left to allow itself to be divided and conquered by wasting a vote."
Patricia Williams

"George W. Bush is emptiness personified, formed of vacuous phrases to hide his life. He is a picture which the news media, blindfolded and foolish, never broke open. He is being completely handled. He delegates everything, including the fight for his political life. His daddy's team is fending for him."
Jane Prettyman

"They're just ultra-conservatives soaked in big oil money."

"Everybody here is in massive denial that they have anything to do with politics. It's almost like to be here, to be a Republican, is to deny you are a Republican.
A good Republican is one who doesn't want anybody to know it.

"In the Clinton administration we worried the president would open his zipper.
In the Bush administration, they worry the president will open his mouth."
James Carville,   Carville Sites

"The Bush operation reminds me of North Korea. You have a group of insanely loyal, fiercely committed lunatics, devoting their lives to slavish devotion of a moron whose only claim to power is that his father used to run the country. George W. Bush is Kim Jong II with better hair.

Why is Junior so comfortable with being so ignorant?

We know W. was born on third base. The question now is, can he steal home?

You can just hear Jim Baker screaming at Austin :
Just lock that idiot kid up on the ranch somewhere, we'll tell him what to say and when to say it. Every time he speaks, it looks like a damn hostage video Ollie North smuggled out of Tehran and every time he's under stress, he breaks out in a boil. He lost the election. We'll deliver him the White House.

It's simply impossible to take junior seriously. Whether it's his hostage-tape performances on television, his spurious and hypocritical legal claims, or his thuggish political tactics, Bush has pursued power in such a way as to prove himself unworthy of it."

"Other than raising their own pay, the GOP can't pass anything --
they can't even pass the salt without the permission of the Salt Lobby."

"Bush IS just like McDonald's : pre-packaged, filled with empty calories and controlled by corporate interests."

"If you don't think it's a gamble to put a man in the White House who believes we should have guns in church, who thinks the Taliban is a rock band, who was such a failure as businessman that his company was nicknamed "El-Busto," who wants to turn our Social Security system into a Wall Street boiler room, who can't name a single thing he disagrees with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson on, who smeared a bona fide hero named John McCain, and whose principle policy proposal is to give America's surplus to the idle rich in the form of a $1.3 trillion tax cut, you're either nuts or a Republican."
Paul Begala, Begala Shoots The Bull
Is our children learning? - The case against George W. Bush

"I don't know how you vote against Head Start. I don't know how you vote not to free Nelson Mandela from prison. I don't know how you vote against the Superfund and the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act."
John Kerry

"This is a guy who could not find oil in Texas."
Al Franken, Salon Interview

"He's probably the least qualified person ever to be nominated by a major party. Yes, he was elected governor of Texas, and before that he ran a baseball team and lost a lot of other people's money in the oil business. But what has happened in the intervening five years to make people believe that George W. Bush would be a good president?
What is his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?"
Ron Reagan Jr.

"Here's a guy who never really did anything without the help of Daddy's contacts, the money from Daddy's friends, and now he's won, and he looks more than slightly bewildered.

Thanks Dad; whaddo I do now?"
David Nyhan

"We risk our lives to form this great nation and
you wanna let George W. Bush run it?!"
( What would the Founding Fathers say if they were alive today )

"Supreme Court Justices Given Bitchin' Ferraris By Anonymous Texas Governor"

"President Comes Away Empty-Handed From 'Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire'"
( Top Ten Headlines We're Likely To See In The Next Four Years )

According to plaque, "When Bush gives order, nod politely, wait to hear what Cheney says"
( Top Ten Things The Chinese Have Learned By Examining Our Spy Plane )

"Even if he has a hundred more scandals, George W. will still be the embarrassing one in the family."
( Top Ten Little-Known Facts About Jeb Bush )

Describes George W. Bush as the 'greatest president in the history of the United States of America'.
( Top Ten Signs Your Senator Has Lost it )

He lost to George W. Bush in Trivial Pursuit
( Top Ten Signs Your Neighbor Is The Monkey Man )

"Move to Mexico because I'm gonna run this country into the ground"
( Top Ten Pieces Of Advice George W. Bush Gave To Graduates )

Odds are you have a job in President Bush's cabinet"
( Top Ten Good Things About Being The Oldest Person In The World )

Become President -- ignore the problem completely
( Top Ten Dumb Guy Ways To Conserve Energy )

Quoted in interview as saying, "This George W. Bush has some good ideas"
( Top Ten Other Signs That Castro Is Not Well )

"George Bush is in Europe and the mission while he's there -- the objective -- is to assure Europeans that he is competent. And I'm thinking, 'Wait a minute. What about assuring us first?'"

"Have you have seen Lara Croft Tomb Raider with Angelina Jolie? It is very exciting. In the final scene she raids a tomb and finds another 5,000 ballots for Al Gore."

Today is 'take your daughter to work day'. President Bush took his daughters to work and let them dismantle 12 environmental regulations.

"President Bush's daughter was cited for underage drinking. That's too bad, when you see something like that happen. She was apparently slurring words, couldn't remember the alphabet. Oh, wait a minute. That's her father."

Today George W. Bush visited New York City. He said the first thing he wanted to do when he got here was to meet the guy who voted for him.

George W. Bush says that since becomming president, he prays every day. I'm thinking to myself, same goes for us. Then I thought, hell, this isn't the first time there has been kneeling in the Oval Office.

Now I don't get this : George W. Bush is in Europe again. Wasn't he just there? This is all part of his second 'I'm In Over My Head' tour. He's in Europe for the G8 Summit. When asked if George W. could name any of the members of the G 8, he said, "Why sure! Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman ..."

The big G-8 Summit is taking place in Italy this week. President Bush and the queen are going to have lunch together. They both have a lot in common. They both are conservative, they both are heads of state, and neither of them has won an election!

Everybody is saying Condit knows more than he is saying. That's the great thing about President Bush. With George W. Bush, you never have to worry about that.

President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?

President Bush is still on his working vacation.
I believe the vacation will end on January 20, 2005.

Today is August 24. We are now entering the autumn portion of the George W. Bush vacation
David Letterman   Dave's Dubya Lists

"It is 24 hours after the last polls closed and America is confused and unsure of what is happening.
The Bush era has begun."

"If George Bush was anymore retarded, he'd be on death row in Texas."

"If Martin Luther King, Jr. were to come back today, he wouldn't recognize the country it's changed so much ... unless he tried to vote in Florida."

"Did I mention that Bush is a lying bag of crap?"

"The SC has ruled out medical marijuana. First they installed Bush as President. Now they are refusing any help to reduce the pain and suffering of the public."

"Hey Bush, why don't you cut the middleman and write a check directly to Exxon?"
- on Bush's proposal to use the taxcuts to pay for the increase in oil prices.

"The USSC denied the right to smoke little dope for sick people. But they retained their right to put a big dope in the WH."

"In a press conference today, Florida Governor Jeb Bush denied rumors that he's had sex outside his marriage ... Unless you count that screwing he gave Al Gore."

"Have you heard this? The rumors are ripe that John McCain is poised to leave the GOP, and I think it says a lot when a guy can take being locked in a box and tortured by the North Vietnamese for 5 1/2 years but not one more minute of Trent Lott."

"Well, President Bush ordered the Navy, finally, to stop their bombing exercises of Vieques Island.
Bush said : "We've been bombing this place for 50 years. If they haven't surrendered by now ..."
Bill Maher   Politically Incorrect

"George W. Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd.
A moron - if you'll pardon the expression."

"He is a thug. He is dull and dangerous
Martin Sheen aka President Bartlet

"If George W. Bush is a reformer, I'm an astronaut!"
John McCain, March 1, 2000.

"The selection of attorney general of Ashcroft, whose politically expedient ambush of Judge Ronnie White on the senate floor is legendary in civil rights circles, suggests Bush welcomed a fight with those most aggrieved by the Florida vote count.
It was the equivalent of rubbing salt in their open wounds
Thomas Mann, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute

"You have to go back to Coolidge to find a president with a resumé so short, a presence so uninspiring, an intelligence so difficult to locate".

"Let me put it this way. I really, really liked Frank Sinatra,
but I wouldn't hire Frank Sinatra Jr. to sing at my party."
Judith Regan

"When it comes to the Bush tax plan, you can't just lead everyone to believe they have a benefit until they read the fine print. They may be trying to do to the country what they did to Florida."
Charlie Rangle ( D-ny )

"He is YOUR problem now."
( In his skit about slogans on the new quarters - this is on Texas quarter

Bush : "This is nothing. 300 professors signed a letter of protest when I graduated."
( regarding the letter of protest signed by 177 professors protesting the honorary degree given to Bush.

President Bush is in trouble. His approval rating has never been lower. Bush says that he hasn't seen numbers this low since he took his SATs.

Sad news here. The inventor of Cliff Notes died yesterday. He was 83. When President Bush heard about this he said, "That's too bad, he was my favorite author."

President George W. Bush says he'll do whatever it takes to defend Taiwan, but first he said he needs to find out just where the hell Taiwan is! It's where most of his toys come from.

Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris is considering running for Congress. She says that she knows she can win, "Especially if they let me count the votes!"

President Bush is in the news. He's on his working-vacation in Texas. He's spending his time jogging, golfing and fishing. He also says that when he gets back to Washington in September he's going to spend his time jogging, golfing and fishing.

President Bush, everyone's talking about his month-long vacation that he's taking right now. The President's taking a month-long vacation, and it's controversial. And yesterday, President Bush defended his month-long vacation by saying, 'Being outdoors keeps my mind sharp.' ... That's what he said. Yeah, and apparently this is the first time he's been outdoors in forty years
Conan O' Brien   Conan O' Brien

"Bush and company give the unfortunate impression of glee at the thought of an economic downturn, as if it were a lucky break.
It's like a child hoping to be sick so he can take that yummy medicine."
Mike Kinsley

"I voted for the Democrats because I didn't like the way the Republicans were running the country, which is turning out to be like shooting yourself in the head to stop your headache."
Jack Mayberry

"Turning back the clock is their specialty. Standing up and fighting for constitutional rights is ours."
Ralph G. Neas, PFAW

"George Bush says he's for election reform.
"Reform this! I say park the state police cars, take down the roadblocks, stop asking people of color for multiple forms of ID, print readable ballots, open the polling places, count all the votes
and start practicing democracy in America again!"

"Yesterday, Bush claimed that the economy is to blame for his broken promise on the environment. Now, Bush is vowing to protect Medicare from his tax-cutting zeal. But what happens when projected 10-year budget surpluses fail to materialize? Seniors in America may discover one day that the Medicare trust fund is as empty as a Bush promise."

"There is nothing we can do about the last election. We won that election, and they stole that election.
President Bush tells us to get over it. Well, we're not getting over it."

"It's very unfortunate, we now have an administration that is more concerned about big oil companies making record profits than worrying about average American working families and their bottom-line budget."

"If you were a voter hoping for a government that promised to fight for working families, health care and a stronger economy, would you trust the Bush Administration and Republicans in the Congress to keep that promise? If you were an ally, negotiating an agreement on trade or the environment or arms reduction - would you trust the Bush Administration and the Republicans in the Congress to honor America's commitment? If you were a parent, and your child asked for a glass of water in the middle of the night, would you trust the Bush Administration and the Republicans in the Congress to keep that water safe?"
Terry McAuliffe,   DNC

"Watching Republicans trying to spin the results in Florida is like watching 10 cats with one litter box.
So much shit, so little sand."
Grace Newton

"End social promotion. Defeat Bush."

"We have a saying that he's so lucky, if you tried to hang him, the rope would break.
Let me say to you, the rope broke in Florida."

"OK, here's what I think the problem is with George W. Bush and Karl Rove. After the 36-day post-election war, the R's kept saying to the D's, get over it. Although not kindly intended, this happened to be very good advice. The problem now is not that the D's can't get over it -- the problem is that the R's are in denial. They are in total denial of the fact that they not only lost the popular vote by fairly spectacular numbers, but they also lost Florida."

"You can't govern from the right of where you ran, if you didn't win in the first place. What is the point of behaving as though you have a mandate when you don't have a mandate?"

"Everyone knows the man has no clue, but no one there has the courage to say it. I mean, good gawd, the man is as he always has been : barely adequate."

Miss-proof missile defense! "What is so charmingly called the 'kill vehicle' managed to hit the target missile because the target had a radar beacon telling the other guy exactly where it was located. This is known as a 'cooperating target,' and even the Spice Girls could hit one."

"I know : 'Guns Don't Kill People.' But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, 'Bang, bang, you're dead,' not much actually happens."

"Bush has now blown the entire budget surplus on this huge tax cut for the rich. The silliest line of commentary is this phony wringing of hands and wailing, 'If only we had known three months ago what we know today!' Of course we knew three months ago there was going to be no surplus. We were quite regularly told so by an enormous array of experts. Bush went from saying we needed a tax cut because times were so good to saying we needed a tax cut because times were so bad."
Molly Ivins

"The Supreme Court held that there should be a recount, but there is not time enough to do it. That leaves Bush as president not so much by the will of the electorate, but by default."

"Bush : "I ask you to pray for this country."
Jon Stewart : "We are way ahead of you, Mr.President."

"The shift in power in the Senate means that Trent Lott will become the minority leader. Funny, you rarely hear a sentence with the words Trent Lott and minority that doesn't also include the words 'no appeal to' and 'hates'."
Jon Stewart

"A round of repugnance ... Attorney General John Ashcroft, having anointed his head with a squirt of Pam, now turning his attention to banning fetal tissue research, so that diabetics and Alzheimer's sufferers can die just as quickly and painfully as Jesus Our King intended them to ... The Bush brothers' transcendental arrogance on election night. To be that sure you did not lose Florida, you either had total confidence in the power of your message of inclusion or total confidence that every black in the state would have to endure construction detours and police-run-ID-checks before using a voting machine that last worked successfully when the Stutz Bearcat was a late model car or total confidence that you were going to steal the vote regardless. "
Jerry Long,

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans
-- unless they have too much education and vote Democratic,
which proves there can be too much of a good thing."
apparantly they are proud of less educated people voting for them!
Karl Rove, co-president

"And now a new administration takes office, with the narrowest political base in memory, consisting of no more than corporate power, the professional military, and the Christian Right."
James K. Galbraith

"With less than 30 days in 'office' he has had 27 workouts, 27 naps, numerous photo-ops,
but NO White House press conferences.
Could he be reinventing the game of Duck & Cover?"
Jenny Backus, Democratic Press Secretary

"The president apparently does not realize the damage he is doing to confidence by trash talking the economy. It is simply unheard-of for such a high elected official to accentuate the negative."
Irwin Kellner,   CBS market watch

"If we don't even have the brains to count votes in Florida correctly, why do they think they can build a system to intercept incoming nuclear missles?"
Jake Johannssen

"Bush is the kind of businessman that can create a multi-million dollar company - just so long as someone gives him a multi-billion dollar company."
Brian Sweat

"Isn't it a sad time we live in?
After Columbine, everyone was so shaken by that terrible tragedy.
People were so outraged, the Senate passed new gun laws.
But after the Santana School shooting, there are just hushed whispers in Washington.
Every one knows that gun violence is no longer an issue.
The gun lobby has won, and I think that's sad."
Bob Schieffer,  CBS news

Who's in charge?
"Among those attending [a White House lunch several hours before the president spoke to a joint session of Congress] was CNN's Bernard Shaw, who was seated beside Bush and across from Cheney.

As questions were put to the president, the veteran newsman observed that Cheney seemed to be providing cues to Bush.

"I noticed that the president kept looking at you," Shaw told Cheney in an on-air interview the next day. "And you were indicating your attitude, your feelings, about questions being asked," using body language, facial expressions and "your eyes."

Apparently caught off-guard, Cheney stammered that 'we're - we're both Westerners. I know he's from Texas. I'm from Wyoming. There can be some connection there.'"
Paul West

"Don't tell me you're a Christian. Let me figure it out."

Christian fundamentalists lend credence to the Buddhist belief that one is born again due to ignorance.
Dumbell B is a "born-again" christian

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I look forward to all sorts of amusement as snake-handling fundamentalists of West Virginia distribute free rattlers to drug addicts."
P.J. O'Rourke, ridiculing Smirk's faith-based thievery of tax funds.
He called this idea "Bush's mindless brainstorm."

"A promise made and a promise broken. After eight weeks in office, President Bush has gone from C02 to see you later."

We do not need to be deploying unproven technology. I don't think Saddam Hussein is going to say, 'Let's put a beacon in our missile.'
Hillary Clinton  Senator Clinton

"He's embarrassing. He's not my president. He will never be my president."

"We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too."
Julia Roberts

"Transparent" Presidency
"To the extent the Bush administration is transparent, it is mostly in the old sense of the word : It is transparently interested in reversing the Clinton-era policies that shifted the tax burden toward wealthier Americans; transparently eager to reward business donors who gave most generously; transparently more conservative than the presidency described by that pleasant, moderate-seeming fellow who ran last fall.

But in his talk of transparency, as in so much else, Bush shows his canny grasp of the way soothing language can conceal what is in plain sight."
Marjorie Williams

"President Bush's budget will propose deep cuts in a variety of health programs for people without health insurance."

"Mr. Bush arrived in the White House just as the nation was plunging into a stock market dive and the California utility crisis. Since he is a guy known for setting priorities, nobody was surprised when he immediately honed in on taxes and energy.
Then we began noticing that while the country needed to quickly stimulate consumer spending, Mr. Bush was fixated on eliminating taxes on the wealthy in 2011. The California crisis is mainly about natural gas, and Mr. Bush keeps talking about drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve.
The president seems to be governing some other country."
Gail Collins

"I'm not sure he really understands a lot of issues.
He seems to be given his lines by other people."
Sting

"If poor children wish to gain any help from the GOP, they had best crawl back into the womb."

"For eight years the only thing standing between us and the Right-wing trying to run this country into the ground was Bill Clinton. He did the job better than anyone else could have, he had the charisma, the brains and right ideas. I sure miss him."

The Supreme Court controlled by a little Italian fascist. The Senate run by a Neo-Confederate Right-wing Christian dickhead. The House run by two Neo-Confederate Right-wing Dickheads (Hassert is just their puppet). The White House with a Right-wing Christian dim bulb (Reagan without the charisma) doing whatever the conservative powers that be tell him to do. And the media, whom for some reason is giving this guy a free ride, even the advent of passing the 100 days generated nothing from them. Oops. Almost forgot. They also have God. It抯 really depressing."
Rack Jite,   Conservatively Incorrect

"Bush is the worst president for the environment since Ronald Reagan."
Denis Hayes, Earth Day Founder

"Since taking office, the President has treated the big polluters to an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord of environmental giveaways. When it comes to the public's health and the environment, President Bush and the Republicans are willing to let the big polluters have their way."

"When the matters the country is discussing are not subjects the president is willing to address, a vital element of democratic leadership is missing. One hopes he will enlarge his concept of his job and let his voice be heard."
David Bonior

President George dWi Bush's motto :
EARTH FIRST! We'll stripmine the other planets later.

"Stupid us. We just didn't realize that "leave no child behind" was merely a corollary to "take no prisoners"."
Winston Barclay

"I think that if you are the leader of planet Earth, you should be smarter than me. You just get the feeling, don't you, in the Oval Office that Dick Cheney is working behind the big desk. And then off to the right there is a little collapsible card table where George has like airplanes and stuff. Then every once in a while he looks up and says, 'I've discovered that if I shut my eyes, I can disappear.'"
SNL's Darrel Hammond

"President Bush is back from that big trade summit up in Canada, but he said the water tastes funny up there without the arsenic in it."

"This Monday President Bush will be celebrating his 100th day in office. When asked about it, Bush said, 'Gosh, 100 days? Has it been a year already?'"

How many power executives does it take to screw in a light bulb? None, they are too busy screwing consumers!

Governor Gray Davis testified about the power crisis in Washington, D.C. We know what D.C. stands for : "Don't Care"!

"President Bush is in Italy at the G-8 Summit. Today the seven smaller leaders told Bush he was the weakest link, goodbye!"

President Bush was in England this week. He and the queen hit it off pretty good. At one point the queen said to Bush, "How much do you know about the U.K.?" Bush replied, "Well, I know how to spell it."

Bush is now in Genoa, Italy. He arrived to protesters that threw bottles and cans. In fact, Bush was surrounded by so many empties he was homesick for the girls.

Next Monday Bush will meet with the pope. He's going to tell the pope that he believes in miracles. I think he does ... he graduated from Yale!

The United States has decided to ban the cloning of human beings. Apparently the great fear with cloning is if you clone a human being, the second generation will not have the same mental capacity as the first. You know, kind of like George Bush and his dad

President Bush is spending the whole month in Texas, then with all the time he has already spent in texas this year, and the time he has spent at his parents home in Maine, and the time it takes to fly back and forth to these places, someone has figured out he will have spent 42 percent of his presidency away from the office. See Bush will have to win another election in order to finish his first term!

Plans are being discussed as to who will replace Dick Cheney if he has to resign for health reasons. It's not easy for President Bush, he can't just name a replacement. He would first have to be confirmed by the oil, gas and power companies

All of Washington is shut down. Congress is in recess. Bush is gone. Cheney is gone. It is so lonely in DC the NRA and tobacco companies are just handing money to each other.

President Bush is continuing with the endless summer vacation he's on. We need a new holiday in the country, we need 'Take Your President to Work Day'

President Bush spent Labor Day giving a speech to the Teamsters in Detroit. He really is dyslexic. He is the only guy I know who takes a whole month off and works on Labor Day
Jay Leno

"The rest of America, however, might well prefer the new administration to abandon what can only be called raiding-party conservatism and to adopt the centrism and restraint shown by JFK."
Kevin Phillips

"By now, we should all know that being conservative means never having to say you're sorry."

In George W. Bush's parlance, Sound Science means anything that will please lobbyists and contributors.

Whatever [Rep. Dan Burton's] aims [in leaking Clinton-Barak conversations], however, the damage to diplomacy has been done. The truly guilty parties are those in the Bush White House who blithely handed such sensitive materials over to an irresponsible, grandstanding politician. So from now on, no foreign leader can depend upon the privacy of a conversation with the American President.
Joe Conason,    Salon Archive

"It's really hard to tell what he means and what his strategy really is,"
Sen. Joseph Biden, (D-de)

Embarrassing Moron
British teenage singer Charlotte Church told a London paper she found pResident Bush "kind of stupid" when she sang at his preinauguration celebration .
That's because when little Charlotte told Bush she was from Wales, she said he replied, "Uh, what state is that in"?
Is there any doubt that Bush Jr. is moron-in-chief ???

"He seems to be an idiot."
George Carlin   George Carlin Site

"Politically shrewd but ignorant, the president mistook a policy question [posed by CNN's John KIng] for a 'toughness' question. Good thing there's no real danger or the fool might suck us into World War III."

"A good way for the Bush twins to stay out of the tabloids would be to stay out of bars and quit getting busted. If Chelsea had ever gotten hauled downtown, they'd have had to take a fire hose to GOP moralist Bill Bennett to stop him ranting about the Clintons' permissive parenting."
Gene Lyons,   Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

"You get a pretty clear pattern from these ballots.
Most of these people went to the polls to vote for Gore."
Anthony Salvanto,   University of California-Irvine

"There's going to be but a pittance for children and education, a pittance for health care, not anywhere near enough for affordable prescription drug coverage for our seniors. What happened to that campaign promise? This budget does not reflect what we call Minnesota values. I resist this budget and I vote against it."
Senator Paul Wellstone, (D-mn)

"Compassionate conservatism. Sounds nice, doesn't it? Probably looks good on a campaign banner. Whaddya think? It's got great alliteration. It rolls off the tongue. It gives off the image of shaking hands with elderly men and women, and kissing babies.
In other words, it's false.
In other words, it's transparent.
In other words, no such animal exists."
Chris Grant,   Online Journal

"No energy crisis exists now that equates in any way with those we faced in 1973 and 1979. World supplies are adequate and reasonably stable, price fluctuations are cyclical, reserves are plentiful, and automobiles aren't waiting in line at service stations. Exaggerated claims seem designed to promote some long-frustrated ambitions of the oil industry at the expense of environmental quality."

"I have been disappointed in almost everything he has done. I hoped that coming out of an uncertain election, he would reach out to people of diverse views -- not just Democrats and Republicans, but others who had different points of view. I thought he would be a moderate leader, but he has been very strictly conforming to some of the more conservative members of his administration, his vice president and his secretary of defense in particular."
Former President Jimmy Carter, from an Op-Ed article in the Washington Post, May 17, 2001

'Bush Publicly "Concerned" About Rising Gas Prices'
Privately, however, he’s "positively giddy."

'American Productivity Fell For 1st Time in Six Years' -
"It’s as if a bright workaholic were suddenly replaced by a lazy C-student," says one puzzled economist.
Ironic Times

Compassionate Conservatism is a HOAX. - P.A.
Ignorance breeds Conservatism. - P.A.

"A new direction without funding is no direction at all."
James Jeffords (I-vt),   Senator Jeffords

"The inability of the White House and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott to keep Jeffords from going independent and switching his support to the Democratic leadership -- giving the Democrats an effective 51-49 edge -- is only the latest evidence that zealotry rather than pragmatism is guiding Bush's Republican team."
Bruce Shapiro,   Salon

"It is well past time for the republican party to grow up."
Sen.John McCain (R-az)

"Jim Jeffords represents a state that has a population of 600,000.
Al Gore won the election by 600,000 votes.
It is a small bit of poetic irony and it provides some consolation.
The best thing for America is for Bush to be banished. He should resign - or be impeached.
The illegal and corrupt circumstances surounding his installation should be exposed which would not only restore faith in our country but in our journalisitic standards as well. In his campaign and during the administration's early days, was that Bush was a moderate whose shifts to the right were meant to shore up his base. Now -- after his tax cut plan, his Cabinet appointments, and his environmental policy -- he is widely seen as a true conservative who moderates his message only when politically forced. That's a more damaging story line -- which is why the Bushies have worked so hard for more than a year to make sure the mainstream media doesn't adopt it. But now that it's becoming conventional wisdom, it's likely to stick. For one thing, it has the advantage of being true."
Lynne Rizza, The New Republic

George W. - you've just activated us all over again!"
Rep. Maxine Waters

"I think it's time that President Bush realize that he doesn't have a mandate."
Sen. Harry Reid, (D-nv),   Senator Harry Reid

"He's gonna do a lot of damage ... he's sort of like this great symbol of inversion to me -- the inverse of the truth. It's like the ethics of the new millBush means Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, and all these [expletive deleted] crypto-fascists are gonna get in and start carving up the pie and handing in all their markers to the Republican Party that's been itching to get back into power."
John Cusack

"Jenna Bush was caught trying to buy a drink in Austin with a fake ID. It's her second alcohol incident in a month. She must be extra careful from now on, because under federal law, it's Three Strikes and You're President."
Comedian Argus Hamilton

"Let me get this straight. Jenna Bush, the 19-year-old daughter of President George W. Bush, a woman who has been all over TV, all over the newspapers, who appeared on the campaign trail, who danced with her father before a million flashbulbs, and who, outside the Dallas Cowboys, might be one of the most recognizable faces in Texas, tries to buy booze in Austin using a fake ID? It isn’t her liver we should be worrying about. It’s her brain."
Mitch Albom

“We see no alternatives to the Kyoto protocol. It took us 10 years to conclude this agreement. We can’t just start from scratch. We can negotiate on the climate, but we can’t negotiate with the climate.?
Sweden’s ambassador to the United States Jan Eliasson

“This was beyond hair-trigger. This is somebody who has such a visceral reaction to anybody questioning him that he just flattens you."
Rep.Ellen Tauscher(D) about Dick Cheney

"I didn't vote for Bush, I don't trust him, but even I think he's underachieving as president. The man's enemies almost always grant him one thing : He's a political master. So why is he stumbling around in these early months like a pledge at a DKE party?"
Joan Walsh,

"America can be saved -- one heart, one soul, one conscience at a time." - george dWi bush
Hey Dubya, how about starting with you and Dick Cheney??? or will the lack thereof (heart,soul,conscience) make it harder for you both???

"Dorothy was an ardent believer in social justice, the rights of workers and care of the disenfranchised. Her life's work was dedicated to picking up the pieces of human wreckage, the result of policies that continue to be perpetuated by the Bush administration. It is shameful to have her efforts associated with an administration that gives priority to corporate profiteering over human needs. Dorothy understood that a just system was as equally important as her ideal of personalism, where each takes individual responsibility for the well-being of all. The speechwriters for George Bush have distorted her message regarding the works of mercy by using her words in their arsenal of deceit."
Tamar and Martha Henness

"Consider the searing intellectual depth of the advice Bush says he offered Russian President Vladimir Putin during their recent summit : 'It's negative to think about blowing each other up. That's not a positive thought ... That's a thought when people were enemies with each other.' - Are these the pronouncements of a man maturing into the leader of the free world or a guy who's been watching way too much Barney?"
Arianna Huffington   Arianna Online

"President Bush threw out the first pitch last night at the World Series. He was wearing a firefighters jacket. Now think about this, he's throwing out the first pitch, wearing a firefighters jacket, and he's the president of the United States. He is living every 8-year-old's dream!
Jay Leno

Bush is doing the same thing to the nation he did to Texas, and in even less time. The same thing is, obviously, the endless Bush Jr. mantra : Tax cuts good, regulation bad; tax cuts good, regulation bad.
Texas Politician

"Having Justice Antonin Scalia speak on ethics is like having a prostitute speak on sexual abstinence."
Vincent Bugliosi

"Under intense pressure from the Republicans, Florida officials accepted hundreds of overseas absentee ballots that failed to comply with state election laws."
The New York Times

"The administration is clueless about the sufferings of people."
Rep.Bob Filner,D-ca

"In terms of reaching out, I'm not a confidant. When I'm on the Sunday programs his press people call up and make sure I know what they're saying to the public, make sure I understand their talking points. So we have that kind of relationship."
Rep. Christopher Shays (R-ct)

"The last President we've had who was elected. And if we had our way, he'd be re-elected."
Rep.Charles Rangel (D-ny)

"Because of the flashy tax cut and a sluggish economy, we are poised to spend the Medicare surpluses, disrupt our debt-retirement efforts and dive right back into the deficit doldrums."
Senator Robert Byrd (D-wv)

"This body has morphed from a place where legislation is deliberated upon to the White House ATM Machine."
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-ca)

"Of course, Al is in the ring. The way he sees it, he isn't starting all over. He is running for re-election — against a man he has already defeated. He just needs to evict the Occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania, the Scalia squatter. After all, W. is never there anyway. And even when he's there, he's not there."
Maureen Dowd

"The stakes are too high to base our strategic relationship on one man's assessment of another man's soul. It is not enough, as President Bush has suggested, simply to send U.S. officials to international meetings. ... Woody Allen wasn't talking about foreign policy when he said that '85 percent of life is just showing up. The chief threats today come from biological and chemical weapons and bombs that could be smuggled in a cargo container, bus or backpack."
Sen.Tom Daschle (D-sd)   Daschle site

"Due to consistently one-sided deviation from all other publicly released non-partisan polls, we have dropped all 2001 FOX News polls from our trend analysis."
Democracy Corps

"The sharp limitation of federal support may well close the door on some of the life-saving promise of embryonic stem cell research, which can be conducted consistent with basic ethical and legal principles that respect the value of human life."
Sen. Paul Wellstone, (D-mn)

"What's going on here? Why the reluctance on the part of the government to at least explain itself? Targeting journalists for simply doing there jobs. These secret police tactics are more appropriate for some Third World, fascist regime."
Houston Chronicle

"We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved ... Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost and the same thing can happen to him."
Rep. Dan Burton (R)

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Bush to Support All Election Reform Recommendations Except One -
- Will not admit he lost and resign.

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