"You know, I could run for governor but I'm basically a media creation. I've never done anything.
I've worked for my dad. I worked in the oil business.
But that's not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office."
george dWi bush in 1989

Which would you rather have, a president who lies about sex or a president who lies about the budget?

"Time and time again, when Enron came calling, Bush delivered. On economic policy, Enron wanted complete deregulation with no government interference. They got it. On energy policy, Enron wanted no caps on electricity prices in California. They got it. On tax policy, Enron wanted elimination of the corporate alternative minimum tax. They got it. Enron was Bush's best friend. Bush was Enron's best friend -- and look what happened. That's why the White House can't escape part of the blame for Enron. Enron is the poster child for the Bush economy.
Bill Press,  A-OK to IOU

"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)

"The Bush budget, with all the lies in it and wrapped in a flag, that is flag desecration."

You know what Bush needs? A calculator!"

"I'm kind of unimpressed with the argument that an unelected president has the right to have people in the Cabinet who always agree with his philosophy. People rejected that philosophy at the polls."
James Carville,  Carville Sites

"Since it has lately become respectable to discuss his elevation to the nation's highest office as a matter of divine will, Mr. Bush’s deep determination to empty the Treasury into the pockets of friends and supporters may likewise signify the unknowable agenda of the Almighty ... The implications of all this are obviously profound. If the President is indeed guided by Providence in lavishing additional billions upon those who already enjoy so much material abundance -- even while the numbers of unemployed, uninsured and homeless soar -- then his ascension may represent a millennial reversal of heavenly policy."

"Two days before Christmas, Rudolph Giuliani, a devout but not excessively rigorous Catholic, announced his own opinion that "there was some divine guidance in the President being elected." (Again, a skeptic might impiously wonder why the Lord didn’t simply bless Mr. Bush with the actual majority of votes. But faith is nothing without mystery.)"

"Despite Republican complaints about defense policy during the Clinton administration, the military that has prevailed so easily in Afghanistan was bequeathed to Mr. Bush by his predecessor in excellent condition."
Joe Conason

"The Bush administration is so busy turning back the clock on the environment, social programs and other government services, it can be hard to keep up."
Eye on Bush

"It's funny to watch this clueless man go through the motions. It would be even funnier, of course, if he turned out to be better than advertised, but this is a long shot."
Garrison Keillor

"Drill in the Uninterrupted Wilderness of Bush's Mind"
a sign carried by a demonstrator in Rocky Mountain National Park protesting Bush's environmental policies

"We're all entitled to grow up. George W. Bush had his problems with alcohol. I was a Republican. We both got over it."
North Carolina Superior Court Judge Ray Warren, conservative Republican turned Democrat

"The worst setup we could have is all these elderly oil men -- Cheney and so forth, the people who run the country -- in a way they are the last people we should have as our leadership right now. They are like the Bourbons -- they remember nothing and forget nothing. I don't know what we can do; truly, there are ways in which this government, or the country, has become so utterly devoid of community."
Robert Stone

"These guys -- Joe McCarthy, Bill O'Reilly -- die like everyone else. And when they do, their legacy is one of damaging the spirit of good things, and they become rather broken, pathetic figures. And that is going to happen to him."
Sean Penn

"Have you heard the news from Argentina? They have had five presidents in two weeks. Why don't they do it how we have elections here – count the votes and the guy that loses wins.
Craig Kilborn

*** "A promoter had O.J. Simpson make an appearance at a rap concert in Connecticut. But due to lack of interest, the event was canceled. The promoter doesn't know which was the worse mistake, hiring O.J. or thinking that there would be rap fans in Connecticut."

"More happening with this Enron scandal. Congress is going to subpoena Kenneth Lay and he’ll have to testify in front of Congress. This morning when he received the subpoena, out of habit he shredded it."

"Next week on 'Sesame Street,' they are going to air a series of shows to explain the war on terrorism to kids. That's a good idea. This also explains why Oscar the Grouch is being held in a trash can on Guantanamo Bay."
Conan O' Brien

"Under AOL Time Warner, GE, Viacom et al., the news is, with a few exceptions, yet another version of the entertainment that the cartel also vends nonstop."

"Resistance to the Bush/Cheney regime is a patriotic act."
Mark Crispin Miller

"Certainty is the enemy of decency and humanity in people who are sure they are right, like Osama Bin Laden, and John Ashcroft."
Anthony Lewis

"They were so good knocking out black voters they should hire this firm to knock out bin Laden. They were so good at ferreting out democratic voters and purging them from the voter rolls, we should have turned them on Al Qaeda and maybe that would have made a difference."
Greg Palast, Interview

"Certainty is the enemy of decency and humanity in people who are sure they are right, like Osama Bin Laden, and John Ashcroft."
Anthony Lewis

"One would like to hear from President Bush, regarding Enron's executives, the sort of anger he expressed over the possibility that the crybaby Secret Service agent whose behavior caused an American Airlines pilot to bar him from a flight might have been a victim of illegitimate profiling. Instead, we have heard Bush's slippery -- Clintonian, actually -- assertion that Enron's CEO, Ken Lay, 'was a supporter of Ann Richards in my run in 1994' for governor. Well, yes, but no. Lay contributed to Richards. And he contributed much more to Bush."
George Will

"George Bush attempted to taste the biscuit with his attention focused on a football game -- a combination of actions that, it appears, proved difficult."
Greek daily To Vima

"Though not to everyone's taste, they are not considered a health hazard."
London's Independent

"The incident proved Bush is "a man of the people". This is exactly the sort of accident that befalls Homer Simpson, night after night."
London's Daily Telegraph

"We've spent like $30 million on this war and dropped these thousand-pound bombs – and we've caught an American."

"Earlier today, Bush's cabinet told him that they had nothing to do with helping Enron ... and Bush had trouble swallowing that as well."

Two years ago today I underwent quintuple bypass heart surgery. Today I am running as smooth as an Enron document shredder."

"In defense of President Bush, that pretzel – it was one of the really twisty kind."

"President Bush plans to spend this weekend on the couch watching TV. He's hooked. Instead of pretzels, this time he's going to be eating soup. So we're all safe this time."

"His [GWB] dad, the former president, George Bush, to start with did the coin flip – much the same way his son's election was decided."

"The president’s niece, his brother’s daughter, was arrested on prescription fraud in Florida. So you can be arrested in Florida for prescription drug fraud, but not for election fraud."

"The government ran several anti-drug commercials. They ran right between the seventh and eighth Budweiser commericals."

"Many strategists think that Al Gore would be the best Democratic candidate for President in 2004. He is experienced, he knows Washington, has foreign policy understanding and he already beat Bush once!"
David Letterman,  Dave's Dubya Lists

"What I thought -- This sort of -- I think the reason they're so worried about it, whether or not they did anything illegal in the Bush administration, which I kind of doubt, is that it just sort of resonates with the whole -- They're for the fat cats. Cheney, when he was putting his energy policy together, met I guess six times with Enron, 'cause their advice, you know, was so good.
Al Franken

"I know it would be devastating to all of us but I wish we would get caught. We're such a crooked company."
Sherron Watkins in a memo to Enron boss Kenneth Lay, August 2001

"A Lay in the Oval Office is a hell of a lot worse than a blow job."
Barry Crimmins

"I'm tired of seeing the Republicans use the most sophisticated space-age technologies to peddle their Stone Age ideas. Now we will have the 21st century tools to match our 21st century ideas.
Terry McAuliffe, DNC

"If drilling in the refuge is the crown jewel of your energy plan, you actually have no energy plan at all."
Senator John Kerry, (D-MA)

"What's especially odd is that these attacks are coming even though I've been careful not to make any accusations about the president, the vice president or any of their staff. Having seen the mistakes of Republican investigations into the Clinton administration at close range, I have no interest in repeating the pattern of accuse first and investigate later. A better way is to ask for relevant information before reaching conclusions."
Henry Waxman, (D-CA)

"President Bush is slowly Enronizing the economy. Enronizing the budget. We are taking the same approach Enron used in sapping retirement funds and providing them to those at the very top. That's exactly what Enron did. And I'd sure hate to see the U.S. do that."
Senator Tom Daschle, (D-SD), Senate Majority Leader

"Bush asks us to swaller the idea that NOT giving another $300 million tax cut to the richest one percent of Americans 'would be a disaster for the American economy.' Someone tell him that the disaster has already happened, partly due to tax cuts. Enron, Bush's favorite tax cut beneficiary, had not paid any income tax in four of the past five years, and the IRS, under Bush's watch, is offering amnesty to 95 companies that illegally avoided paying taxes that could have potentially meant $16 billion in revenue. "Let's call this Republican 'pretzel logic.'"
Alan Bisbort, Hartford Advocate

"When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke. This present government in America I just find disgusting, the idea that George Bush could run a baseball team successfully -- he can't even speak! I just find him an embarrassment. I'd be very happy to stay in London. There's nothing in America that I would miss at all."
Director Robert Altman

"Enron is the September 11 of financial security—a wake-up call—but Levitt was sounding the alarm well beforehand. When he held the SEC job under President Clinton, he warned repeatedly that a “culture of gamesmanship” was rigging the system with phony numbers, hyped earnings and worthless stock analysis. His calls for reform were rebuffed by members of Congress legally bribed by Wall Street and the green-eyeshade lobby."
Jonathan Alter

"A senior official predicted to TIME that voters who care about Enron and its White House ties will lose interest after the next big bombing raid. If Bush has his way, investigating the Administration's links to Enron or challenging his plans for mending the economy will seem as unpatriotic as questioning the choice of bombing targets in Tora Bora."
Michael Duffy and John F. Dickerson, Time.com

"If they don't have anything to hide, they ought to let it out. If they want to be suspected, they ought to keep on hiding things."
Rep.John Dingell

"The big rumor going around is that we are going to bomb Iraq next. Or, as they call it at the White House, "Operation Keep Enron off the Front Page".

"Enron is now offically out of the energy business. They are now going into another business – the confetti industry."

"Pat Buchanan is making a stir again. In his new book he claims homosexuality is addictive – apparently, so are intolerance and stupidity."

"The president said he is going to put all the terrorist training facilities out of business. I believe him – there’s not many businesses that have stayed open while he’s been in charge."

"Next week on "Fear Factor" there will be a special episode where they lower Dick Cheney into a pit full of people asking questions about Enron."

"In Florida the governor announced that they have a new state holiday – Take Your Daughter to Jail Day!"

"Vice President Cheney is on his way to the Middle East. This is called "Operation Avoid Enron Subpoena."

"Tom Ridge has announced a new color code system for national defense. The colors are green, blue, yellow and red. The Republicans have been trying to get more color in the party."
Jay Leno,  The Tonight Show

"Peace, prosperity and a president smarter than his dog - already [the Clinton years] seem a golden age by comparison."
Arkansas Times

"We are not talking about the President's dick anymore. We are talking about a dick for President."
a caller to a talk show radio

"I believe that a government's legitimacy is based on the trust of its people, and when decisions are made on behalf of the American people, citizens eventually have to be able to see the process of how those decisions came to be."
The last TRULY elected President Bill Clinton

"The White House press corps is so cowed by Bush you can hear them moo."
Paul Begala

"Putting Enron in charge of America's energy policy is like putting Dracula in charge of the Blood Bank."
Mark Shields

"We've got an Enron government. I've never seen a better example of cash-and-carry government than this Bush administration and Enron."
Senator Fritz Hollings, (D-SC)

"Clinton's advisors met nearly weekly on how to stop bin Laden ... I didn't detect that kind of focus from the Bush adminsitration."
Two Star General Donald Kerrick

"President Bush delivered his first State of the Union address, riding high on an 82-percent approval rating, and with Attorney General John Ashcroft dispatching agents to interview the other 18 percent."
Jon Stewart,  The Daily Show

"In his [address], President Bush made it clear that the war on evil is just the beginning. Afterwards, there will be the war on good, and - for what could be the long haul - the war on gray areas."

"Defense Secretary Rumsfeld says that things will get worse and worse and worse unless he gets $48 billion. Then things will only get worse and worse."
Michael Feldman,  Whad'Ya Know?

"Every worst tendency toward secrecy has come out of the woodwork of this Administration. The mentality is that of the intelligence agent whose only goal is to protect sources and methods. It is a mentality that does not understand the value of openness."
Tom Blanton, executive director of the National Security Archive

"A few more votes in Florida, and we could have had the best environmental president we ever had. Now we've got an oil man. He (President Bush) is like another Julius Caesar. Just what we need."
Ted Turner

"This budget is about as credible as an Enron accounting statement."
Al Hunt

What I can tell you is that he [Bill Clinton] tripled the budget in terms of counter-terrorism between ‘95 and 2000, both the FBI and the CIA. Obviously interested. He signed orders to go out and get Bin Laden, to kill Bin Laden and I can’t, you know and the fact that he didn’t kill Bin Laden and we’ve had the entire United States military since September 11th, until we started the bombing in October, we haven’t been able to find him."
Greta Van Susteren,  Bill Clinton terrorism rumor debunked

"The international community thinks we have lost our minds."
Madeleine Albright"Sometimes watching Bush & Cheney reminds me forcibly of Pinky and the Brain."
Nina Katarina

"I have never seen a better example of cash-and-carry government than this Bush administration."
Senator Fritz Hollings, (D-SC)

"The bedrock principle of political conservatives has always been Money über alles."
Frank Cerabino, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

"When you hear somebody say, 'This is not a political scandal,' it's a political scandal."
???

Dubya Administration : "govt. of the rich, by the rich and for the rich"
P.A.

"Rarely has the world heard a more belligerent American president. His tone and substance have dismayed our allies as much as the targets he cites -- Iraq, Iran and North Korea."
Helen Thomas

"Having Dick Armey offer [a campaign finance reform bill] calls to mind the line about Doris Day : 'I knew her before she was a virgin.'"
Rep. Barney Frank

"As important as identifying Iraq, Iran and North Korea for what they are, we must be equally bold in identifying other evils that confront us, for there is another axis of evil in the world : poverty and ignorance; disease and environmental disorder; corruption and political oppression."
The REAL victor in election 2000, Al Gore

"I'd say you were a carnival barker -- except that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers! A carny will at least tell you up front that he's running a shell game!"
Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL) to Kenneth Lay

"The whole country is broke and bogged down in some dubious foreign war that our children will be paying off for another 99 years. Our national economy is in ruins, Harvard-trained crooks have destroyed the roots of investor confidence , public-school systems from Maine to California are downsized to death by greedheads, our baseball-loving President comes back to work after a weekend of unspeakable football adventures with a nasty-looking puncture wound on his face. "Who needs that kind of berserk crap in this hour of national crisis? It is exactly the kind of sleazy , Third-world behavior that we have always denounced as 'unacceptably corrupt' when it happens in primitive banana republics like Haiti and South Texas."
Hunter S. Thompson

"What [Enrongate] is about, and what the public will get to hear and read about in wrenching detail over the coming months, is how business gets done down in Texas. How a small group of business leaders exert enormous clout over Bush and his team in getting the rules changed to their benefit. It will explain why Bush has locked up presidential records, locked out any voices opposed to his pro-business agenda and rammed through an expensive economic plan that wiped out the budget surplus but to date hasn't had any positive effect on the economy."
David Calloway,  CBS marketwatch

"I'm very disappointed. I know my president has lied."
Senator Harry Reid, (D-NV), regarding the nuclear dump in the Nevada backyard.

"A number of you have asked me if I had any interest in running for the most powerful office in the land. But I want to make it clear - I have no interest at all in being secretary of state of Florida."
Senator John Kerry, (D-MA)

"Enron is running the Bush administration's energy policy."
Ann Richards, the other former governor of Texas

"The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What I object to on the right is the obsessive hatred, the bigotry, and the personal savaging of their opponents, all achieved through an echo chamber of talk radio, the Internet and Rupert Murdoch's media outlets. That kind of well-funded disinformation campaign has no analog on the left."
David Brock, Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative

"For Bush, who has done nothing at all so far except sign off on Ariel Sharon's failed hard-line policies, to blame Clinton for his tireless, 11th-hour efforts on behalf of peace is shameful. But the shameful, when it comes to the Bush administration's foreign policy, is becoming the expected."
Gary Kamiya, Salon

"Bush is starting to grow on me --- Sometimes he actually seems almost Mayoral."
Mankoff

"Mentally retarded are treated equally in Texas - some executed, some elected."
Don Wright

"Bush has been using fake IDs for years. 'Compassionate Conservative,' 'Environmentalist,' 'Moderate'"
Politex, et.al., Bush Watch

"The latest study by gays finds that republicans can change their orientation through counseling."
Mike Peters

"The White House pumped up the president's schedule to show him being much busier and more engaged than he is and Tom Brokaw let it happen - the show was a valentine to Bush. That illusion may be what we need right now, but the truth is we're simply pretending to believe that Bush exhibited unspeakable courage at the World Series by throwing out the first pitch or that he, by God, showed those terrorists by going to Salt Lake City and jumbling the first line of the Olympic ceremony. The media is waving pompoms and the entire country is being polite."
Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing

"You've been a drunk, a thief, a possible felon, an unconvicted deserter and a cry baby... for the sake of all that is decent and sacred take leave immediately and bring some honor to your all-important family name."

"During the Cheney Energy meetings, Cheney met with members of the Taliban and oil companies that wanted to build the pipeline in Afghanistan."
Michael Moore , Stupid White Men

"Better to burn a flag and wrap yourself in the Constitution than burn the Constitution and wrap yourself in the flag."

"In this fight for our cherished freedoms, those cherished freedoms should definitely be the first thing to go. Sieg heil, y'all."
Molly Ivins

"He [Tom Daschle] obviously doesn't understand the Republicans' continuing need for villains. It's their substitute for policy.
Mary McGrory

"Dr Strangelove is clearly still alive in the Pentagon."
John Issacs, President of the Council for a Livable World

"Terrorism, unfortunately, is all too real. But so is one's terror of the Bush presidency."
Robert Kuttner

"There is a hooligan element in the US administration who take pleasure in defying world opinion."
Labour MP Tam Dalyell

"Terra! Terra! Terra! Looooooong war! Patient country. Loooooooooooooooooong war! Terra, evil, terra. Evil evil evil. Good versus evil. Loooooooooooong war. Terra, terra everywhere. Loooooooooooong war. God bless America."
Fergus on SOTU

"Maybe Bill Clinton could run. I don't know if he's really allowed, but the Supreme Court owes us one."
Rep. Charles Rangel, (D-NY)

"My opponent has a .22 caliber brain in a .457 world."
President Bartlet , The West Wing

"Cheney goes 0-9 in his attempt to overthrow a government in the Mid East. Why didn't he stay home where he can overthrow a government 5-4."
Bill Maher

Found  on  the  Net

It's a good thing we have two parties. Republicans to destroy the economy, Democrats to rebuild it.

Enron is NOT a political scandal; it is a republikan way of life.

BUSH 2004 - Don't care what you think, we aren't counting your vote anyway!

YEAR TWO of America Held Hostage.

"The next time somebody says you can't think for yourself, here's what you tell them ..."
Rush Limbaugh

GW BUSH -- DESTROYING THE UNITED STATES >>> ONE DAY AT A TIME ...

If Clinton's peace efforts produced war, then Bush's war efforts should produce peace.

Member of the Axis of Pissed Off Democrats.

It turns out that Our Glorious Leader does have a solution for global warming. It's called nuclear winter.

Blast  From  the  Past

"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done."
Julius Caesar, nearly 2 millennia ago

"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
Benjamin Franklin

"When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent."
Isaac Asimov

"We are a loyal member of your team and are prepared to do whatever fits your strategic plan ...
In public policy, it matters less who has the best arguments and more who gets heard -- and by whom."
Ralph Reed to Enron executives, October 23, 2000

"He who wins by injustice may dominate the present day, but history will always judge him to be a shameful loser."
South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, December 10, 2000

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt

Looney Tune : "Civilized people — Muslims, Christians and Jews — all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator. Civilized people of all religious faiths are called to the defense of His creation. We are a nation called to defend freedom — a freedom that is not the grant of any government or document, but is our endowment from God." - John Ashcroft

GOP yesterday : "Clinton did nothing to resolve the unrest in the middle East."
GOP today : "What could Bush do that Clinton didn't try?"

Great  Left  Quotes

"If I wanted to see a bozo rant, make a fool of himself and try to impose his 17th-century philosophy on others, I'd just watch The O'Reilly Factor."
Frank Fitzpatrick

"It's not clear what the purpose of the report is other than to promote Robert Ray's senate campaign, Monica's HBO special and the Paula vs. Tonya boxing match"
Jennifer Palmieri, ex-Clinton spokesperson

"Journal editorialist John Fund, a close political adviser of house speaker Newt Gingrich, announced to the group that impeachment was not a matter of evidence of wrongdoing but of 'political will' by the right."
David Brock, Blinded by the Right : The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative

"These are the guys who proclaim, 'We report. You decide.' I simply decided to let them report. The result wasn't real journalism, merely an incredible simulation."
Ray Richmond, Hollywood Pulse (As seen on Fox News Channel!)

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