Breaking News: President Bush, on a collision course with Congress over Iraq....(CNN)

[Aviation Pro]

President Bush, on a collision course with Congress over Iraq, said today "I'm the decision-maker" about sending more troops to the war.

Update later. Web site: http://www.cnn.com

Impeach and remove now.

Edited to put real headline in.

[sabra]

1. Cheney: "They will not stop us" from his i-view with Blitzer

[Richardo]

2. See rules for LBN - I doubt they said 'dictator'

[LynnTheDem]

8. They certainly should have.

[MaineDem]

3. That can't be the real headline?? n/t

[momster]

4. Rules for Removing Insane Commanders

Anybody in the military here who knows the regs for removing looney commanding officers? Since GWB wants everyone to treat him as "commander-in-chief' is it possible to get him out by using the military's own rules against him?

[hippiechick]

11. Not sure about Military but I think it's the 25th Amendment

... that allows for "removal" of mentally/physically incapacitated Executives.

[bdamomma]

17. that's what I thought too

can they invoke the 25th amendment this is really getting out of control, these thugs have/are overthrowing the government.

[Pastiche423]

31. What does "transmitts" mean in the following context?

25th Amendment to the Constitution

Section 3


Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.


Does this mean the president must admit he's batshit crazy?

[jamesinca]

36. Yep

Bush has to give them a piece of paper saying he is not able to do the job. Until he sends them another one, he is still considered unfit to serve. Also if a majority of his cabinet get together and agree to remove him. Otherwise it is up to the congress to impeach.

[RamboLiberal]

5. More info up at CNN

Bush: "I'm the decision-maker" on Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush, on a collision course with Congress over Iraq, said Friday "I'm the decision-maker" about sending more troops to the war. He challenged skeptical lawmakers not to prematurely condemn his plan.

"I've picked the plan that I think is most likely to succeed," Bush said in an Oval Office meeting with senior military advisers.

The president had strong words for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who are lining up to support resolutions opposing his decision to send 21,500 troops to Iraq. He challenged them to put up their own ideas. "Some are condemning a plan before it's even had a chance to work," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/

[Hepburn]

6. What a sick, lying asshole...

...and those are his good points. I am soooooooo sick of his lies about no one else having a plan. Maybe someone should read a few to the idiot ~~ assuming that he would even comprehend anything said to him.

Twisted sick son of a bitch ~~ sending more soldiers and Iraqis to their deaths. If there is a hell, I hope he rots there for eternity.

Edit for typo.

[CJCRANE]

10. When has one of *'s plans ever worked

the way he said it would?

(Ok, so we already know the answer is never).

[badgerpup]

18. It's how he's defining 'plan'

...if it doesn't involve blowing shit up and killing people, then it's not a 'plan'.
It's defeat, or failure, or appeasing the terrorists.
:nuke:
Notice how this COMPLETELY takes the concept of 'DIPLOMACY' off the table?

:banghead:

[Aviation Pro]

22. Notice how Madam Speaker is putting....

...Impeachment back on the table.

[billyoc]

25. Did you see an actual quote from her on that?

I don't want to get my hopes up... :)

[Aviation Pro]

26. Unlike Bush and Cheney....

...I observe her actions rather than her words.

[rodeodance]

7. Bush: "I'm the decision-maker" on Iraq

Bush: "I'm the decision-maker" on Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush, on a collision course with Congress over Iraq, said Friday "I'm the decision-maker" about sending more troops to the war. He challenged skeptical lawmakers not to prematurely condemn his plan.

"I've picked the plan that I think is most likely to succeed," Bush said in an Oval Office meeting with senior military advisers.

The president had strong words for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who are lining up to support resolutions opposing his decision to send 21,500 troops to Iraq. He challenged them to put up their own ideas. "Some are condemning a plan before it's even had a chance to work," he said.
Posted 1/26/2007 10:36:00 AM | Permalink | More developing political news
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/

[Efilroft Sul]

9. Bush: "L'etat, c'est moi!" or "Give war a chance."

What a catastrophic failure his administration is for America and the world.

[azurnoir]

12. This may sound waaaaaaaaay better then it is

This thread on DU last night kinda says it all:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2704235

20,00 not an escalation. The pukes as insidious as they ever was


The poster of this thread should repost it important stuff comes out lat at night.

[More Than A Feeling]

13. Breaking: Bush hopes America has no pattern-recognition skills.

Time to take the keys to the castle away. Impeach him.

[Massachusetts]

15. "Time to take the keys to the castle away"

"Impeach him." LONG OVERDUE. THIS ADMINISTRATION IS A THREAT TO THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION.

[radfringe]

14. the more he has to "remind us"

that he's the president, the commander-in-chief, the decider, the decision-maker, etc. - the weaker he appears

[bdamomma]

29. oh, definitely he has some psychiatric and psychological issues

CALLING ALL PSYCHIATRISTS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS.. DO A EMERGENCY ASSESSMENT ON THIS MAN.

[Fovea]

16. Now I don't want to start a flame war.

But for those who have, for two months plus now, insisted against impeachment, I feel the need to ask if you are still as adamantly against it?

The Bush administration is de laminating into two power groups that seem to be autonomous. Neither of them seems to have much use for the constitution. Is there another way to curtail this military dictator short of insurrection?

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

19. Imp

eom

[proust78]

20. "I am Napoleon!"

We got it George, you're a big, important man.

[glitch]

21. Sounds like "decider" didn't land. Someone must have had a little talk

with baby bush. No georgie, use decision-maker, decider sounds too much like a terrible two-year-old.
Now practice: I am the decision-maker, I am the decision-maker.

[Laurab]

23. I wish Impeachment was FAST

I wish, like Mike Wallace suggested last night on The Colbert Report, that we could have a vote of "no confidence" and get this idiot out of office immediately. Cheney would have to go, too.

Dictator may not have been the real headline, but it certainly describes his actions.

[demo dutch]

24. That's why the non-binding resolutions are a JOKE! So ..when will they really do something about it!

[NoGOPZone]

27. Some decision maker.

He hasn't made a good one yet.

[bdamomma]

30. Welcome to DU NoGopZone

:hi:

[krabigirl]

28. So scary...he is acting like a dictator.

[Straight Shooter]

32. "The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born."

What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.

Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Ars Poetica (138)

[Straight Shooter]

33. Editorial cartoonist Danziger's perfect depiction of bush's attitude toward Congress.

hat tip to DU'er madinmaryland

[lovuian]

34. Bush is not just on a collison course with Iraq but Iran also

WWIII with a leader who defys his people

how long can that last???

[ShortnFiery]

35. Could these boasting proclamations be the equivalent to ...

Khrushchev's 1960 shoe-banging incident at the United Nations?

I'm the decision maker!
Really, I am the decider!
Waaah, Unkle Dick, they won't listen to me!
<take shoe off and pounds the fireplace mantle>
I am! I am! I am the decider!

IMO, throw a net over this psychopath and haul him away!
At least TAKE AWAY HIS POWER to launch a ground invasion into Iran!?!