Bush Asserts Sluggish Economy Is on Road to Recovery

[gristy]

So, the economy either turns around in spite of the previous 2 take-aways, or it doesn't and bush and his cronies loot the treasury again.
Ah, it's GOOD TO BE KING!

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By ELISABETH BUMILLER
NY Times

RAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 13 — President Bush asserted today that the sluggish American economy was on the road to recovery, and he said there was no need to push for a new round of tax cuts as he heads into his re-election campaign this fall.

"We are discussing a lot of things, and we believe that the tax relief plan we have in place is robust enough to encourage job growth," Mr. Bush told reporters at his 1,600-acre Texas ranch as he stood flanked by his top economic advisers.

He added, "If we change our opinion, we will let you know."

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[Sushi_lover]

1. road to recovery?

You got the right map there, Georgie?

If it's anything like your roadmap to peace, we're hosed.

[imwatchingem]

2. Or his claim of "Mission Accomplished" n/t

.

[realFedUp]

27. or his claim that Iraq was a "nucular" threat...

Bush's credibility on anything is as thin as
Republican's skin.

[papau]

41. Game - 2nd qtr was puffed up - and will be revised still higher to 3%

GNP growth so that Bush gets good PR for the fall

idea is to keep those poll numbers up in the hopes that they will be sticky in 2004 as the Dem's bash each other.

In Jan we will make revisions downward to 3rd and announce a low 4th qtr, them have growing numbers going into the election.

There was a time when the gov put out honest numbers -

sigh

:-(

:-)

[whathappened]

3. jr. and his purse

it seems to be full of funny money , that he did'nt make at laboring like the rest of the small men and women of this country , we must be a big joke around the ranch ,< his words to his rich buddys> ya these little s.o..b. are such a pain in the ass , but hell we got them right where we want them , eating the crums that fall from our pockets , good old jr. , don't ya just love the little sucker

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. What...

a jerkoff. :eyes:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Did he click the heels of his red shoes while saying this?

[InkAddict]

7. How to Keep Dorothy From Achieving Her Goal

Poppies, lovely poppies - or is that Poppy as in B$sh41.

http://www.talkleft.com/archives/003183.html

As you recall, the A-team ran across the field and fell asleep - It was Good Witch of the South's Glinda's "snow" that awoke the sleeping Cowardly Lion, and only the Wicked Witch had the crystal ball.

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/oz-18.html

I certainly enjoy a mystical analogy - Anyone for the Lounge?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. LOL If I had a bt more energy after this LONG LONG day

a parody would be on the lounge menu du jour! Thanks for that! Maybe I'll bookmark this if someone else doesn't get to it first! :D

[SpiralHawk]

6. The Road to Recovery? WTF? Is this a Bob Hope remake

Mr. Bush, we want jobs, we want them now, and we want you to do something constructive, visionary, sustainable, and economically prudent to make it happen. That's what leadership is about, Mr. Bush. Not slogans and sound bites, but actual far-sighted and positive policies and programs.

We have had enuf of your stinkin oil war. Bring 'em home.

[R Hickey]

8. Prosperity is just around the corner...

GOP President Herbert Hoover used to say that until FDR replaced him.

[DeathvadeR]

10. more lip service georgie..........

O ya and im looking forward to being the next greeter at my neighborhood Walmart or flipping burgurs at one of the 14 local Mcdonalds....

[Mari333]

11. Oh well the cnn online poll DISAGREES

72% of the people on their poll say no way Jose

www.cnn.com

[zekeson]

12. Minnesota DFL and Mark Dayton have a nice answer for this

clap trap.

See my post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=171072&mesg_id=171072

Saw Mark Dayton (DFL MN) at the Rochester MN airport this morning. He and Matt Entenza (Minority House leader, MN) were traveling rural Minnesota today to discuss the failed policies of the * and Pawlenty (Gov – MN) administrations.

snip

My favorite quote of the morning was in reference to *’s traveling circus of an economic team that came into Minnesota last week and told us how MN was on the forefront of the economic recovery. Dayton called it “operating in Evidence Free Economic Zones”. Dayton cited the highest unemployment rates in 10 years (noting who the Pres was that brought about that!), no new hiring, the failure of NAFTA, and migration of jobs.

Choice comments on finding new jobs in Minnesota was as easy as finding WMD in Iraq – you just make them up!

[joshdawg]

13. "If we change our opinion, we will let you know"-----

This patronizing, condescending piece of a**wipe has no opinion that is worthy of mention.

[rman]

23. what better then "belief" and "opinion"

in a world where "facts change from time to time"

[villageidiot]

33. I thought this was a joke

If we change our opinion, we will let you know..."

What's really really really sad is that this fuck isn't meeting with his "economic advisors" down on the pig ranch to discuss ways to improve the economy. The only thing being discussed in Wacko Texas is "how can we spin all this bad news to make it seem like things are getting better?"

:silly:

[AlabamaYankee]

36. Now he's using the Royal "we"

That man has the rare ability to come across as simultaneously overwhwlmingly arrogant,and unbelievabley stupid and inarticulate. Jon Stewart savaged him last night.

[dusty64]

14. And if we all got a

dollar everytime we've heard this crock of shit we'd be eligible for his tax cuts.

[Tracer]

15. That Hot Texas Sun ...

... has completely fried the last synapse in BunnyPants' brain.

I suffered through a couple of minutes of this PR horseshit and listened to him blame the lack of consumer confidence on ....

.... yes .... the "MARCH TO WAR!!!!"

"With all the TV yellin' March to War, March to War, ya cain't 'spect people ta have a lot 'o confidence!!"

(paraphrase).

[PROGRESSIVE1]

16. Which is why we are loosing more jobs????

:kick:

[DavidDvorkin]

17. Hoover, 1932 election

The Republican Party put billboards up across the country saying, "Wasn't that Depression awful?"

The voters weren't fooled. But then, the press wasn't marching in lockstep to support and deify Hoover and absolve him of all blame.




http://www.dvorkin.com

[Cocoa]

18. Bush is not Hoover, he's FDR

David Broder, the Dean of Washington Journalists, says so

http://www.cjonline.com/stories/080703/opi_broder.shtml

[DavidDvorkin]

21. Oops. Right you are.

I keep forgetting. He's FDR, he's TR, he's Lincoln, he's Kennedy. Broder doesn't go far enough!

I keep forgetting that and falling into the trap of believing he's just a smirking putz. Bush, that is. Broder's just a fool.



http://www.dvorkin.com

[Fovea]

28. Is He?

I thought he was Stalin.

[malachi]

19. Bush Asserts Sluggish Economy Is on Road to Recovery

And so is Bob Hope.

[Ganja Ninja]

20. This is like a broken record.

“Recovery is on the way. Recovery is on the way. Recovery is on the way.”

Remember how recovery was on the way last year at this time? It was supposed to happen after the first of the year. In the spring it’s always “Recovery is coming this summer”. In the fall it’s always “Recovery is coming in the first quarter of next year”. It’s the same thing we always heard from George the 1st too. Recovery is always 4 to 6 months out with these Cheap Labor Republicans.

How are we supposed to have an economic recovery in this country when gas prices are rising?

Recovery is nowhere in sight. It isn’t even on the agenda. They want to keep an unemployment rate of 7% so that people can’t go out and find an employer who is willing to offer better pay or benefits. They want us all hungry and desperate so we’ll take any job we can get. Meanwhile they keep recycling the same economic forecast over and over.

[bspence]

22. I hate to say it, but Bush is right

I'm pretty confident that the economy will get stronger in the weeks and months to come. HOWEVER, I would say that when the economy gets stronger, many people will be left out of it. The rich are certainly getting much richer, despite unemployment figures going through the roof.

I believe that the only reason why he won't give us more tax cuts is because we're already seriously in the hole, and he doesn't need to make that budget deficit look worse than it is.

It may be a stronger economy, but most people are worse off than they were under Clinton. Hopefully that will cause a regime change.

[rman]

25. what good is a strong economy

if only the rich benefit.
it seems to me such an economy is not a usefull measure of success of a nation.

It is not the positive thing Bush tries to make it look like.
He'd probably argue "trickle down", but that'd take to long, if it works at all. People need food, healthcare etc now, not n years down the road.

[Ganja Ninja]

31. A jobless recovery is no recovery at all!

[DiverDave]

24. Right

I've been looking for work for 6 weeks...Nobody wants to touch my bum knee, afraid I guess.
However the USDA is supposed to hire folks with disablitys, but only for NO PAY!!??
I could use the experiance, but those pesky bills...

What ever you say, georgie.

[havocmom]

26. A dry drunk knows zilch about any sort of recovery (n/t)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

29. Starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour.

[LeftHander]

30. If you want to call the ditch part of the road.....

Drunken frat boy drives country into ditch.

[QuietStorm]

32. They can just make it up as they go!

people's affiliations and patriotisms make them gulible that and that one newspaper they might read just after they finished watching fox news.

[fizzana]

34. Slug asserts Bush on the road to oblivion! n/t

n/t

[Aristus]

35. Did he knock anything over with his nose

when he turned around suddenly?

[young_at_heart]

37. I'd like to know what he really thinks!

We all know he's mouthing words by Rove.....surely all the people who have lost jobs under Bush will not pay attention to his lies!

[Missy Vixen]

38. Really, Bunnypants?

>He added, "If we change our opinion, we will let you know."<

Let me tell you about the past 24 hours in our circle of friends.

My friend was laid off. They're outsourcing her tech writing job to INDIA. It's kind of important to have native speakers as tech writers while doing software documentation and disaster recovery plans, but hell, what do I know?

Another friend's husband lost his contract gig yesterday. It was originally supposed to go for another six months. They're not replacing him, or the others that got laid off yesterday.

I received a mail from a third friend last night. Her son, a top 5% student at the London School of Economics (!), amazingly brilliant, hard worker, cannot find an internship. Anywhere.

Of course, there's our next door neighbor. He has 25 years' experience in IT. He lost his job in December. He's been through scores of interviews. No job in sight.

Sure there's an economic recovery. * will have lots of time to think about it when he's also unemployed, won't he?

Julie

[samsingh]

39. what else is he going to say?

this is nonsensical

[samsingh]

40. what else is he going to say?

this is nonsensical

[robbedvoter]

42. No need for more tax cuts? A flip flop there Georgie?

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