Snow: Bush will not 'cease to be bold'

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/01/snow-bush-will-not-cease-to-be-bold.html

Snow: Bush will not 'cease to be bold'

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said Monday President Bush will not shy away from proposing bold initiatives in his annual State of the Union address Tuesday night.

"The president is going to offer some bold proposals that Congress could, in fact, enact and in the process make itself look good - and more importantly - do the people's business," Snow told reporters during a White House briefing. "So, George W. Bush as a president is not someone who is going to cease to be bold because right now the people are concerned about the progress of the war."

[rodeodance]

1. Snow: Bush will not 'cease to be stubborn, and idiot. ect ect '

[rfranklin]

2. Translation: Batshit crazy....if it doesn't work, try it again harder....

Shut the fuck up, Tony.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

48. like grabbing a bigger hammer.

Then again, he may have been discussed the Word program function for the teleprompter.

[Fresh_Start]

3. Bush will not cease to be self-serving idiot fool

Snow will not cease to be the mouthpiece of a crime family.

[Silence Dogood]

26. Snow is an unconscionable idiot..nt

[Doctor_J]

4. Will not cease to live in his bubble.

Umm, Tony. If 65% of the people think Bush is a screw-up, then signing off on his policies would not be "doing the people's business", would it?

[tridim]

5. Can we call him the Insane Dictator yet?

Because that's what he is.

[Bitwit1234]

6. So congress should enact bush's health plan

Now that's bull...they should take away the only cushion that some struggling families have with employer subsidity health insurance and pay for it themselves. And allow it to be considered as part of their income and have it taxed.

He wants to cut taxes fro the super rich and corporations and sock it to the lower and middle class. AND HE THINKS CONGRESS IS AS STUPID AS HE IS.....

I - ASK - AGAIN - AND - NO - ONE - SEEMS - TO -KNOW....who in the hell is this maniac's advisors.

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. Who are his advisors? Easy, that would be his corrupt corporate cronies.

That is who george takes his marching orders from. Same as when he was Texas gov.

[asjr]

7. Tony Snow is simply a

recycling bin for cow patties.

[noonwitch]

52. Yeah, but he's much better at it than the last guy

Don't get me wrong, I don't like him or anything, but at least he isn't in over his head like McClellan was.

[KarenS]

8. Doncha just love the new definitions for words they use???

BOLD. give me a break.

I sooooo agree with those that have posted before me,,,,

Stubborn and arrogant and self-serving is what I see.

[Botany]

9. Bush will not 'cease to be bold' aka bush will not be bothered by facts.

100 killed by bombs in Iraq and 188 wounded today and the idiot "boy king"
is going to expand the war?

[wakeme2008]

10. Yes BOLD NEW Taxes for the middle/lower Class and Tax breaks for

the RICH.. that is reallllllly BOLD...

ie Tax breaks for Medical SAVING accounts

ie New Tax on Company provided health insurance will be taxed to the employee as regular income.

[LiberalFighter]

11. If the media had any guts they would only send in their cub reporters

to this briefing.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. Acronym >

Bullshitting
Oil-crazed
Looney
Dictator

[AzDar]

13. Bold like Nero. n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. Maybe he meant to say "bad," or "a dolt."

.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

15. Just when was Bush bold?

well people ARE concerned with all the cost of lives and money being wasted in Iraq

[Captain Hilts]

16. "Bold." Is that what they call it now. Live and learn. nt

[badgerpup]

42. It's the 'good advice' he got from Joe Lieberman...

"Mr. President, I have just two words for you. Be bold".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/20/AR2007012001446.html

Talk about kissing up...among other things...
Gods, I can just HEAR the slapping, grunting, moaning, slurpy sound effects from here...:puke:

[slowry]

17. How can anyone in America

tolerate listening to these insane murderers, let alone supporting them? These are not modern-day patriots. These are not good people. They are malignant and have no compassion for anyone who isn't as vile as themselves. It has been made so clear that they will do or say anything to get what they want.

W
T
F

Sorry if I having no comment to make which relates directly to the story; they can't be reasoned with anyway. :puke:

[sendero]

45. Welcome to DU...

.. venting allowed.

Believe me, you are not the only one who wonders that. I cannot even listen to the man at all any more. Every word that comes out of his mouth is intended to deceive, it is the definition of a lie.

[gratuitous]

18. Bush will "offer some bold proposals"

And note the phrasing Snow uses, which gives away the ruling mentality of the Bushistas: If Congress enacts these "bold proposals," Congress will first and foremost "make itself look good." Oh sure, there's some fluffer language about doing the people's business and a perfunctory acknowledgement that that's more important. But the first thing out of Snow's mouth is that by continuing to be Bush's bitch, Congress will "make itself look good."

"Look good" to whom, Mr. Snow? Keep in mind that the polls rate your boss at about the same popularity level as a root canal procedure. Who will Congress look good to for bowing and scraping before Bush? Surely not the majority of the citizenry.

You know something, Mr. Snow? Fuck you, that's what. Just fuck you.

[PATRICK]

20. Bush has already been pre-empted

The fast moving Dems have brilliantly undercut this strategy, but Bush boldly forges ahead. I hope they keep digging deeper traps, with spikes at the bottom. The only initiative left to Bush is the bold old non-workable strategy against Iran. That should be undercut as soon as possible. In the response to Bush the Dem spokesperson should NOT follow Bush's lead but mark their own real initiatives and accomplishments. More in 100 hours than Bush could do in 100 years or in a hundred years war.

The switch to Bush's texas co-opting strategy is something that has run out of steam and time. Namely he would praise and then swiftly take credit for good legislation, ruin it and then never let it be implemented or funded. This time there would not even be time for lip service before WAR swallowed up everything in massive Imperial pique that is as bold as Caligula declaring himself Divine.

I would rather see re-runs of Nixon at his worst than watch this charade.

[many a good man]

43. I had a root canal yesterday

and it was WAY less painful than suffering through the boldness of the Chimperor.

[tandot]

21. boldly going ... nowhere

bold is the new code word for "ignorant" ... he'll not cease to be ignorant

[radfringe]

22. I thought it was going to be conciliatory?

that's what a story said a couple of days ago...

can you be bold and conciliatory ar the same time?

but I digress - I think Snowjob should be using a different word - Bold is a laundry detergent and not a sutable image for a presidential speech of this magnitude.


I think



or


or even


and they would be suitable for a backdrop for the road tour that usually follows

[Massachusetts]

23. BOLD? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

News: George W. Bush made his fortune in the Texas oil busines leveraging other people's money -- and leaving his investors high and dry.


"The governor's oil-field career can be summed up in a single paragraph: George W. arrived in Midland in 1975, set up a shell company, lost a congressional election in 1978, restarted building the company he'd put on hold, lost more than $2 million of other people's money, and left Midland with $840,000 in his pocket. Not bad for a guy who showed up with an Olds and $15K. Not good for the investors who lost $2 million -- unless they were speculating in political futures and cultivating connections with the son of the vice president of the United States."

Mother Jones
Slick W.
Molly Ivins and Louis Dubose
March/April 2000 Issue

[TheCowsCameHome]

24. How about being stupid? He's staying the course there, too.

[Double T]

25. bush has been watching too many FORD Motor Company...........

car and pick-up truck commercials. More like 'bold-faced lie proposals'.

[VegasWolf]

27. Somewhere in Texas a village has lost their idiot. nt

[Beetwasher]

28. I Hear That Bush Is Also "Robust"

:eyes:

[Solly Mack]

29. Bush never ceases to be wrong

[Wizard777]

30. Are you sure he didn't say, Bush will not 'cease to be mold'?

After all there's a Fungus among us and Bush is rotten.

[mvd]

31. And we will not cease to make sure we have..

some sense of democracy. When one person is overriding the wishes of Congress, the American people, study groups, etc., then it is not healthy for democracy.

[jody]

32. Bush also will not 'cease to be stupid' n/t

[sutz12]

33. Every time he gets bold, people die. nt

[Orsino]

34. He never started.

Never had any need for courage in his life. When he says he's fighting al-Qaeda, you can take it to mean that he's supporting corporate welfare. When he claimed to have "stood up to the big trial lawyers," it meant, again, that he had sucked up to the corporations. When he says he's ignoring opinion polls, he means that he's paid to listen to other voices--those of Big Money.

[peacefreak]

35. If Congress wants to "look good"

and "do the people's business" they should start looking into impeachment.

[pat_k]

49. Hear, Hear! American's admire strength. Impotent "symbolic" gestures show weakness. . .

. . .and Americans disdain weakness.

It is the bushcheney war on the Constitution that Congress is sworn to defend against. Impeaching Bush and Cheney is the ONLY effective weapon.

Cutting funding is "doing something," about "the surge" but it won't make any difference to Bush. He'll just raid the Budget or get the Saudi Royals to reach into their deep pockets. The quagmire has no good solution (the definition of a quagmire). American's are understandably ambivilent about Iraq, but they aren't ambivilent on their outrage at Bush.

Impeachment is not just the RIGHT thing to do; it is the WINNING thing to do!

From "http://january6th.org/impeachment-clobber-rationalizations.html">Impeach or Not to Impeach: That's the Wrong Question"[br />

. . .
Unfounded Fears and Realistic Rewards

When principle demands action, outcome expectations, positive or negative, do not enter into the decision to act, but a realistic assessment of the risks and benefits can make it easier to take the necessary action.

Discussions of impeachment typically focus on dire predictions of "backlash" or other negative consequences that have little basis in reality. Rarely, if ever, do we hear that taking up the fight to initiate impeachment proceedings will benefit any leader who does so. This omission is mystifying, particularly because there is solid evidence that fighting for impeachment is a political winner.

Being an accomplice to crime is NEVER good politics.

Our leaders just need to look at their failure to take a stand against the Iraq war for proof. The public believes that most of them voted for the war because they feared they would be called names ("unpatriotic" or whatever). They are now paying a serious price for giving in to threats of "backlash" then.

There are reports that our leaders are allowing the same fear to deter them from taking up the fight for impeachment. ("We can't demand an impeachment inquiry. If we do they'll call us unpatriotic for attacking a president in a time of war").

If our leaders do not overcome this fear and act, they will be digging themselves into a hole they may never get out of.

When we find out the magnitude of the crimes committed by the Bush administration (and we will, sooner or later) do they really want to pay the political price for being accomplices in those crimes?

Standing on principle always benefits the leader who does so.

As President Clinton says, people will always choose "strong and wrong" over "weak and right." It's certainly no secret that of what legitimate support Bush gets, much of it is simply based on a, carefully crafted, "strong leader" perception.

Should the Democratic Party finally recognize that they have a duty to take up the fight for impeachment, even if it turns out to be a "charge of the light brigade," it would not be surprising to see them garner an additional 5-7% of the white male vote, simply for showing the fortitude that demographic respects.

The most serious problem members of the Democratic Party face is the perception that they are weak.

Contrary to what many Democratic strategists believe, the perception of weakness has NOTHING to do with stance on national security. It is rooted in:

1. The reticence that centrists seem to have when it comes to accusation and punishment. (Something the right clearly revels in.) Instead of going after wrong-doers, Democratic leaders seek to "investigate" or "make sure it doesn't happen again" (and the Republicans chuckle, "Gee, for a minute there, I though they were actually going to do something.")


2. The tendency to refrain from fighting the good fights for "practical" or "strategic" reasons. Members of the Democratic Party may believe they are "picking fights wisely," but to observers, it appears they spend all their time predicting defeat and "saving their energy" for fights they can win. Outsiders looking in do not see "wise selection," they see cowardice. When the rare "winnable fight" does materialize, it is often for some incremental step or practical end that inspires no one.

Bottom line: You can't fight terrorism if you can't fight Bush. How can members of the Democratic Party expect Americans to believe they can stand up to terrorists, if they can't stand up to the man who terrorized Americans into war with threats of "mushroom clouds in 45 minutes"?

Refuting the perception of weakness boosts general support for the Party.

Fighting on principle, win or lose, shows strength and conviction -- Strength and conviction are qualities that the Democratic Party desperately needs to demonstrate.

There is no fight more critical than exposing the crimes against our constitutional democracy that have been committed by the fascists in this administration. Every candidate who takes up the fight for impeachment challenges the perception of "weak Democrats" and by so doing gives the entire party a boost. . .

Given the enormous risks of failing to impeach Bush and Cheney, the enormous potential benefits of impeaching, and the polls -- over 60% disapproval of Bush; 51% wanting impeachment to be a priority (http://january6th.org/oct2006-newsweek-poll-impeach.html">Newsweek), it is insanity to keep impeachment 'off the table.'

Impeachment IS Our Positive Agenda!

[tabasco]

36. Not toning it down a bit!

[proust78]

37. He's still got CAPITAL to SPEND

Well, he's done a lot of capital murder.

[Canuckistanian]

38. Rash, stubborn, pig-headed, overbearing, aggressive, mindless, foolish

Any one of those can describe Shrub. "Bold" is reserved for the successful.

[LynnTheDem]

39. And a whopping 28% of Americans support your little bold-boy, Tony!

The rest don't, but I'm sure you won't lose sleep over that.

[UTUSN]

40. BOLD: Shrub will not cease to be SNOW!!!1 n/t

[ThePhilosopher04]

41. In "Snowese" I guess bold means incompetent?

[w4rma]

44. Agreed. Bush will not cease to be foolhardy. (nt)

[sendero]

46. There is a fine line between bold and reckless..

... Bush crossed it long ago.

Like a friend said about a mutual friend who was prone to doing crazy stuff - "he's too dumb to be scared".

[leftyladyfrommo]

47. God Help Us All! n/t

[Uncle Joe]

50. Of course he will not cease being bold,

he never began.

[lpbk2713]

51. Translation of *will not cease to be bold*:

Don't blame us. In spite of our best efforts we are unable to keep this asshole from saying or doing something incredibly stupid whenever he gets in front of a camera or micriphone.

[0007]

53. Snow reminds me of one of those little yapping dogs that never

shut up.

[fob]

54. The Dems should seize on his* "boldness" and write a piece of

legislation with everything they want in it and more and include the baseball steroid stuff from SOTU passim, call it the Baseball Steroid-Free and American Needs Act and pretend like the biggest piece of the thing is the steroid stuff. Force the prick* to veto one of his* "bold" initiatives.

Put $6,000,000 in for the steroid thing and rescind all his* tax "cuts" and bullshit add a few billion to bring the troops home, etc.

[otherlander]

55. Beiung brave with other people's lives doesn't count.

[superconnected]

56. Bold is the new code word for theiving murderous slime?

Okay then. He's very bold. Sort of like a marriage between enron and ted bundy, bold.