George Bush Declares Self Retarded

Bush Weighs In on His Legacy

As the clock ticks down on his days in the White House, President George W. Bush is taking part in one of his last presidential rituals — helping to shape the perception of his years in office.

In an interview conducted earlier this month by his sister, Doro Bush Koch, Mr. Bush said he wanted to be remembered “as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process.”

“I came to Washington with a set of values, and I’m leaving with the same set of values,” Mr. Bush said. “And I darn sure wasn’t going to sacrifice those values; that I was a President that had to make tough choices and was willing to make them. I surrounded myself with good people. I carefully considered the advice of smart, capable people and made tough decisions.”

In excerpts of the interview released by the White House, Mr. Bush did not explicitly mention the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks or the war in Iraq, which many would consider to be the defining moments of his presidency.

But he said he wanted to be known “as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace; that focused on individuals rather than process; that rallied people to serve their neighbor; that led an effort to help relieve HIV/AIDS and malaria on places like the continent of Africa; that helped elderly people get prescription drugs and Medicare as a part of the basic package; that came to Washington, D.C., with a set of political statements and worked as hard as I possibly could to do what I told the American people I would do.”

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Mr. Bush said he wanted to be remembered “as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process.”

He would have had a soul to sell in the first place...he wanted to be remembered as? 

Well since we're on the "wish train" I want to be remembered as a stud who made all his bitches happy and all warm and fuzzy on the inside but that ain't gonna happen either...

“I came to Washington with a set of values, and I’m leaving with the same set of values,” Mr. Bush said.

My mama always said..stupid is as stupid does...

On a side note I like how the NY times called him Mr.Bush instead of President...they must hate him pretty bad at the times.

he wanted to be known “as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace

Liberated? He can't be serious...heck liberate me from work and paying taxes too then. Judging by the economy maybe he is trying to.

Baby Bush did just about everything a man could to make Iraq and Afghanistan the 51st and 52nd states...he found out the hard way that you can't instill democracy at the end of a gun.

Democracy grows of it's own volition or it doesn't grow at all...you can't force it on anyone, it just doesn't work that way.

that helped elderly people get prescription drugs

HA HA HA HA...ahhhh this guy kills me..this man probably did more to ensure you pay the western hemisphere's highest drug cost in the free world while at the same time guaranteeing that drug companies makes trillions of dollars off your ill health for decades to come....elderly prescription drugs... hee hee hee what a scamp he is.

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PS- I friggin' LOVE his sister's name...Doro Bush Koch

Seriously, Koch and Bush?

What do your wedding announcements look like in the Kennebunkport herald?

Bush and Koch to merge...over and over...all  night long

What the hell is Doro?

Did she like rob from the rich and give to the less rich while leaving her D mark of Doro everywhere?

Imagine sexy pillow talk with that moniker

...oh Doro you sexy dirty girl...oh Doro Doro Doro....I'm done, good night.

Man I could go for years off that name.

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Big 3 Threatens To Take Ball And Go Home

Democrats to automakers: Prove you can repay $25 billion

Democratic leaders in Congress called on Detroit's automakers Friday to submit "credible" financial plans to lawmakers by Dec. 2 for spending up to $25 billion in government money, including vows for "significant sacrifices" by top executives.
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A letter from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., came just hours before the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site that General Motors Corp.'s board of directors had put an eventual bankruptcy filing into its range of options.

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The Journal, citing unnamed sources, said the board was willing to consider "all options" for GM, which has said it could be near the minimum amount of cash it needs to operate by the end of the year. The story said the board's position on a potential filing put it in "rare disagreement with Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner."

Wagoner had told Congress this week that bankruptcy is not practical for the company because people wouldn't buy vehicles from a bankrupt company.

"I am very optimistic and hopeful that they have gotten the message that they just can't come and say, 'Give us this,' " Pelosi said Friday. "How do we tell the American taxpayer it was worthwhile to put this in not as a life support for a few more months and then they are back again, but as an investment in their viability?"

According to the letter, automakers will have to explain their financial position, how they plan to spend the money and the assumptions behind their assurances that any loan will be paid back. General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC consumed nearly $18 billion in cash last quarter, and analysts have said GM and Chrysler could run short of cash by the end of the year.

The terms for any loan are to mirror the conditions set in a draft bill released by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., earlier this week. Among them: The government debt takes precedence among the company's other loans; automakers have to provide warrants or stock to the government, and if the automaker's plan appears off track, the government can call its loan back immediately. Automakers also must promise to meet the fuel economy standards set in last year's energy bill.

And Congress promises to limit executive pay, bonuses and other benefits of top executives, who were roundly criticized after flying corporate jets to two days of hearings this week and providing what many lawmakers called stilted, incomplete answers.

Reid and Pelosi shut down a last-minute attempt at a compromise rescue Thursday, saying there were not enough votes in either side of Congress to pass a bill backed by Michigan's Democratic senators and key Republicans. That bill would have taken $25 billion in loans for building more efficient vehicles that Congress approved in September and lent it to the automakers immediately, an approach backed by the Bush administration.

Pelosi again suggested Friday that the Bush administration had the power to help the industry without Congress acting by using money from the $700-billion financial industry bailout. She also suggested that the automakers' finance arms could have access to an additional $25 billion under that program. And she promised not to use the $25 billion approved for retooling plants as a short-term lifesaver for the industry.

"It is like taking your kids' college education fund and spending it on your credit card bills," she said.

All Detroit automakers have committed to sharing their plans with Congress, but were seeking more guidance about how much detail they would need to share.

It was still not clear Friday whether lawmakers would question the basic business assumptions made by the automakers -- who have said they don't expect U.S. sales to rebound until 2010 at the earliest. Several analysts have warned that without steep cuts, Detroit automakers would continue burning through cash even when the economy revived.

Pelosi made clear Friday that she wanted proof the automakers were making progress on building fuel-efficient models, not just slashing costs to survive the roughest period in their history and using taxpayer dollars to bail water from a sinking boat.

"Their viability is not just about tightening the belt, which is important; it is about a decision to compete and to innovate," she said, adding, "The behavior of the past generation in terms of Detroit has not produced the preeminence that we would like to see."

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GM, which has said it could be near the minimum amount of cash it needs to operate by the end of the year.

Idle threats my friends, I could probably name 100 ways for them to save money immediately and I don't even work there. I am betting you could as well.

Wagoner had told Congress this week that bankruptcy is not practical for the company because people wouldn't buy vehicles from a bankrupt company.

Uh hello dumb ass...no one is buying your vehicles because you laid them all off, no one has a job to buy your crappy line of junk and the ones that do have jobs are now so overburdened by taxation they won't be buying anything for a decade either...what a tool.

"I am very optimistic and hopeful that they have gotten the message that they just can't come and say, 'Give us this,' " Pelosi said Friday. "How do we tell the American taxpayer it was worthwhile to put this in not as a life support for a few more months and then they are back again, but as an investment in their viability?"

Wake up call Nancy Pelosi, your head is in the sand...you just gave 700 billion to the investment industry...these jackasses are only asking for 25 billion and you make them do the whole dog and pony show...where the hell was your smart mouth when the finance industry asked and received without question? Getting your hair done or something...what a tool.

provide warrants or stock to the government,

How about make the executives give the taxpayer their Class A stock option packages? That worthless public stock the government wants is just that...worthless.

Automakers also must promise to meet the fuel economy standards set in last year's energy bill.

Puleeze! There has been mpg legislation for decades. The automotive industry just ignores it. Period.

And Congress promises to limit executive pay, bonuses and other benefits of top executives, who were roundly criticized after flying corporate jets to two days of hearings this week

If this isn't the pot calling the kettle black I don't know what is. Congressmen and Senators get so many perks for their "public service" it isn't even funny...the fact the the auto execs flew their jets in just shows how out of touch with the reality of regular people they are.

Pelosi again suggested Friday that the Bush administration had the power to help the industry without Congress acting by using money from the $700-billion financial industry bailout.

Jesus Christ! Why is everyone throwing around our money like this? I don't want to bail out the finance industry OR the automotive industry and Nancy here is saying why didn't you ask Daddy first?

All Detroit automakers have committed to sharing their plans with Congress, but were seeking more guidance about how much detail they would need to share.

This is just a smoke screen. They don't want to be answerable at all to the Government. By asking for more detail from the government you might as well throw the whole request into legislation hell.

It will take the government a decade for them to decide they want the reports in 10 pt font and not 12, let alone what content they want.

It was still not clear Friday whether lawmakers would question the basic business assumptions made by the automakers -- who have said they don't expect U.S. sales to rebound until 2010 at the earliest. Several analysts have warned that without steep cuts, Detroit automakers would continue burning through cash even when the economy revived.

If they are "burning through cash" shouldn't they then fail? I mean if you or I "burn through cash" and don't pay our bills what happens?

Everyone is terrified of the auto industry failing, I say let it fail. Yes it would be a bitter pill to swallow but it would put us on the road to recovery quicker than having it happen anyway over the next two decades in chunks of 25 million a pop.

I guarantee you this...this will NOT be the last time the auto industry asks for money if you give it to them now and I would say the same for the financial infrastructure institutions...shit they are already saying the financial institutions will need more than the 700 million and they haven't even received on it yet.

"Their viability is not just about tightening the belt, which is important; it is about a decision to compete and to innovate," she said, adding, "The behavior of the past generation in terms of Detroit has not produced the preeminence that we would like to see."

Again..then let them fail.

Business 101 says if they cannot compete and fail to innovate then they fail.


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Nathaniel Abraham Pleads Guilty To Being A Tool

Nathaniel Abraham pleads guilty to drug charges, will head back to jail

Nathaniel Abraham this morning pleaded guilty to drug possession with intent to sell and will likely spend more than two years in prison.

Abraham, 22, was before Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Daniel O’Brien. Under state sentencing guidelines, Abraham faces between 24 months and 40 months when he is sentenced Dec. 22. His attorney, Byron Pitts, said the judge is considering sentencing Abraham in the middle of the range.

Pitts said he and Abraham had discussed taking the matter to trial, but that Abraham chose to plead guilty instead.

Abraham made international headlines in 1999 when he was convicted as an adult of second-degree murder. He was 11 when he shot and killed Ronnie Greene Jr. outside a Pontiac party store. Despite the adult conviction, he was sentenced as a juvenile and remained in juvenile detention until he was released on his 21st birthday in January 2007.

Pontiac police arrested him in May after seeing what they thought was a drug exchange. They discovered dozens of ecstasy pills in the trunk of his car.

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Nature or nurture?

Who knows? Who cares?

This waste of space will be back on the streets shortly because that's how Detroit handles dangerous criminals.

You remember Nathaniel don't you? 

He is the animal that murdered another human being by age 11.

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Bush Administration Backs Away From The Game

The Bush administration on Wednesday largely abandoned its plan to buy up toxic mortgage assets and said it will focus its $700 billion financial bailout fund on making direct investments in financial institutions and shoring up consumer credit markets.

The U.S. Treasury Department initially promoted the financial rescue package approved by Congress last month as a vehicle to buy illiquid mortgage assets from banks and other institutions to spur fresh lending.

However, that plan never got off the ground and U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told a news conference asset purchases were not the most effective use of the funds.

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And there you have it folks...all wrapped up in a tidy little blurb.

The Bush administration cannot act because it doesn't know what to act on.

The Bush administration is like a fireman with a bladder problem trying to pee on a campground full of small fires all the while a forest fire is ringing him in.

Thank God we currently aren't under enemy attack...the lightning response even forth graders know we need so badly for the national economy is a "work in progress" as far as this administration is concerned.

Why should we expect more though really?

This is why they buried us in debt and are now on they're way out as possibly the most reviled American administration in history.

It's not anything anyone did to them...it's what the did to themselves or rather what they could never do....govern intelligently or responsibly.

Goodbye Mr. Bush...history will indeed vindicate you...but why wait?...just ask people what they think of you right now.


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What Happened?

Well it's been a while but I have been working for "the man".

Thinking back on what happened to this country in my lifetime and further into my parents.

I was born in the mid 60's to a single income Anglo family in the Midwest.

According to my now deceased father, work was easy to come by in the 60's.

By his own accounts to me, if you didn't like your job, you quit and walked down the street to another decent job.

Now you might be a garbage man or a plumber or a assembly line worker but the fact of the matter is you could get a good, stable, secure job that rewarded longevity and responsibility.

Fast forward...my parents had three children total and managed their whole careers to have a single income family in the 80's as we, the children matured into the workforce.

The 80's.

I found numerous great jobs, sure with some connections but frankly they were jobs with a future..something real to keep for experience.

Engineering, Design, Computers....etc.

Careers with potential in other words...no McDonald's or fast food otherwise involved.

The middle class still had the fighting chance then...but it was going fast and no one seemed to care for much other than their own well being...after all it was the 80's

Fast forward to 2000's....jobs are scarce and if you do find work, chances are you have a middle man or contract house taking half of your effort in pay from you.

Employers have little to no intention of ever hiring you because...frankly...in terms of health insurance and pension your a liability waiting to happen.

Contract houses want you because they will take the health and liability risk for say 45% profit on your labor with their only responsibility being to process your paycheck and paperwork....easy beans for maybe 20-30-40- thousand a year on your effort.

The middle class is slowly destroyed by the machine and if you ask anyone who knows anything about American economics...destroy the middle class and you might as well destroy America by atomic bomb.

No seriously...we went from a single income structure to a dual or plural income structure of family units in the country virtually overnight...one generation...way to pump up that gross national product...feel it paying off?....better off than your grand parents were for the return on effort?

Ask your grandma and grandpa what they think of how things work now...most of your labor goes for national infrastructure or as I like to call it "payola for rich f#cks who can't even run a business and need a bailout because we went to the skull and bones society and frankly are better than the little people."

Thanks to the last 8 years of republican rule we each owe , yes each , man woman AND child owe $40,000 each to national debt....WTF is your kid waiting on?

Tell then to get a paper route or something they have some debt to pay off.....f-ing free loaders!

I mean c'mon how old is your kid anyway?...get a f-ing job already!

Some bombs cost $10,000 or more so your life is worth about 4 bombs now....still going to back republicans?

I met a republican today at work...he was great...the nicest man...from a totally different era...but he was great.

I know why too.

He wasn't mad, he wasn't vindictive, he was funny, he was light hearted....he was an American.

Americans have one thing in common, we ALL have the best intentions for our country at heart.

We may be right or wrong about how to do it but we ALL CARE.

We ALL LOVE OUR country.

So as I heard from Barack Obama and as I understand it he heard from a republican..........never doubt the motive of your political opponent.

You may be right, they may be wrong, or vice versa...but the intention to help is there, not hurt.......that is what being American is.

You may not agree with your brother or sister but they are your bother and sister...therefore your allies....always.

So are we better off?

No.

We are far, far worse that those before us...it's a simple truth...deal with it.

BUT...

We are Americans...let's make this work...I want your kids to be able to quit a crappy job and walk down the street to get another job...a better job.

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Sarah Palin Opens Her Cake Hole To The Masses

Halloween rallies with Palin, McCain

Sarah Palin painted Barack Obama as a pretty scary creature for Halloween: a tax-and-spend liberal whose policies would devastate the nation.

"If you believe that America is the land of possibility and you don't want your dreams dashed by the Obama tax plan increases, then, Pennsylvania, we're asking for your vote," she told supporters in a chilly airport hangar in Latrobe, Pa.

The day's schedule reflects Pennsylvania's importance in Tuesday's election. Its 21 electoral votes are viewed as vital to the GOP.

The vice presidential nominee invoked "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher, who after meeting Obama in Toledo, Ohio, questioned whether the Democrat's statement that he would like to "spread the wealth" amounted to socialism.

"They do that in other countries where the people are not free and where work ethic is not rewarded and where an entrepreneurial spirit is stifled," Palin said.

With the official Halloween politicking over, Palin took her daughter Piper trick-or-treating in Dauphin. Piper dressed as a snow princess. On the campaign plane and at a rally, Palin's infant son, Trig, was costumed as an elephant.

Outside the Nationwide Arena, at least eight costumed couples greeted people streaming out of McCain's rally. Each couple wore one McCain mask and one George W. Bush mask, and they held signs proclaiming, "Nightmare on Main Street: More of the same."

Some McCain supporters walking to their cars were startled to see a video projected onto a large beige wall across the street from the arena. It featured the famous Bush-McCain hug from 2004 and ominously proclaimed, "In a state devastated by George Bush, one man stands alone . . . The jobs terminator."

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Sarah Palin painted Barack Obama as a pretty scary creature for Halloween: a tax-and-spend liberal whose policies would devastate the nation.

Seriously Sarah, your party just threw $700 million of my money at the mortgage industry when Republican policies devastated the country and you think Democrats are a threat?

The day's schedule reflects Pennsylvania's importance in Tuesday's election. Its 21 electoral votes are viewed as vital to the GOP.

Vital, critical and paramount might be more like it.

The vice presidential nominee invoked "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher.

Good God please....if you think your tapping into some kind of everyman with Joe Wurzelbacher than your more out of touch than I thought you were.

"They do that in other countries where the people are not free and where work ethic is not rewarded and where an entrepreneurial spirit is stifled," Palin said. 

Is she talking about America? Sound like she is.  

Sarah sweetheart... 2% of the U.S. population currently have 30% of the wealth in this country...how entrepreneurial does the middle class have to be to get some of that back?

The middle class is rapidly becoming the working poor already...30 years ago most homes had a single income as plenty to get by, now most have dual income and can barely get by...oh I forgot we are talking about the lower 48, which you as an Alaskan, generally do not consider yourself to be part of.

With the official Halloween politicking over, Palin took her daughter Piper trick-or-treating in Dauphin. Piper dressed as a snow princess. On the campaign plane and at a rally, Palin's infant son, Trig, was costumed as an elephant. 

Wheres Bristol? Showing too much?

Outside the Nationwide Arena, at least eight costumed couples greeted people streaming out of McCain's rally. Each couple wore one McCain mask and one George W. Bush mask, and they held signs proclaiming, "Nightmare on Main Street: More of the same." 

Some McCain supporters walking to their cars were startled to see a video projected onto a large beige wall across the street from the arena. It featured the famous Bush-McCain hug from 2004 and ominously proclaimed, "In a state devastated by George Bush, one man stands alone . . . The jobs terminator." 

If your policies are so reviled by the general public at large you get people motivated enough to leave their homes and protest like this you should be taking stock in your policies.

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