So what do you think: Will we get a "Jimmy Swaggart" moment Thursday?

[LittleClarkie]

Tears and "Forgive me" and "I've sinned" and then all will supposed to be alright?

[Bouncy Ball]

1. From chimpy?

Are you kidding me?

No fucking way.

The only reason he even said what he did is because the aftermath of Katrina was so incredibly fucked up. He did it totally for damage control and PR. Not an ounce of sincerity in it.

He can't and won't work up tears. He's got that fake tough image to protect. :eyes:

[babylonsister]

4. Agree, Bouncy. There is no sympathy there to work up.

He doesn't have a clue. Whatever he says will be a result of who counsels him.
I just read what I wrote, and I am so sad that that is the way of the world I live in, and how I feel. I know we have no prez, but it makes me so damn mad.

[Maccagirl]

5. Agree with the other posters

No f'in way. He simply isn't capable of even faking it. I predict a very standard tera-tera-tera speech. High drama isn't in the cards.

[Stinky The Clown]

20. 'He' did nothing. Karl told him to say that

Karl's been managing a kidney stone and was out of commission for a few days. idiot son had to cope on his own.

Karl's back and trying to fix things.

Funny ... in the back of my mind I'm thinking now - in this particular set of circumstances - the worst thing idiot son can do is say he screwed up, or even take responsibility. Right now, the country's not scared. They're just plain pissed and looking for someone to blame. He's got a big fat target on his forehead. If he invites bl;ame, he's gunna get way more than he asked for.

I HOPE I'm right about this. That he's zigging when he ought to be zagging.

Of course, the screech monkeys will be out right after his mea culpa saying what great guys he and Harry Truman are, but Harry actually dealt with the bucks that stopped on his desk.

Nope, I think this is a bad strategy ... for them.

[cynatnite]

2. I hope he sobs enough...

that Cheney comes on camera to medicate him. :evilgrin:

[tom_paine]

3. No. Emperor Tiberius is incapable of shame, empathy, humanity

[Maestro]

12. Funny, sad, and true. -nt

[LittleClarkie]

13. Well, I'm pretty sure so was Swaggert, but the act was pretty good

you have to admit. I reckon it will depend on what Rove has told him he has to do to get himself out of this mess.

[Blue_In_AK]

23. Yeah, I just can't see ** working up the sweat and tears....

....like Swaggart did. That was truly a bravura performance.

[ecoflame]

6. No..... (n/t)

[jobycom]

7. No way. He didn't even really take responsibility, the media is just

pretending he did.

He basically said "If there were any mistakes made, then I guess I'm sort of responsible for them, since I'm the leader, but you know, it wasn't really my fault." (that's a paraphrase, obviously).

He doesn't believe he did anything wrong at all, and that will show on Thursday. Look for a Marie Antoinette speech where Bush basically says "Time to move on and look to the future. Fix the problem instead of fixing blame. Yadayada. By the way, 9-11 was a real mother. Remember that? Yeah, me too. So let's get on with fixing the Katrina disaster."

He'll probably announce more aimless spending bills that will basically give lots of money to some of his rich buddies in exchange for them halfway fixing up New Orleans.

[TahitiNut]

9. Don't forget the "obstructionist Democrats" and the "hard work."

I totally agree that he too 'responsibility' for nothing - parsing it as another way to say he'd 'lead' an investigation into how FEMA could do better. (More pork, of course.)

[jobycom]

18. Yeah, you could play a drinking game with "hard work" on Thursday

[TahitiNut]

21. Not me. After 15 years of abstinence, I don't have the capacity.

:party:

[jobycom]

22. Well, then, you could play a drinking game

based on the number of times he says "It was all my fault." :-)

[BrklynLiberal]

8. He is totally incapable of that.His narcissistic ego would never allow it

[LittleClarkie]

14. Even as a fake response, you're probably right

He'd likely never act that way.

[Maestro]

10. Whatever he does will be insincere and will be done only to

save face. He's poser and even this little guy realizes it.

[jwirr]

11. Listen carefully, if it is the same as today

then he is not taking the blame so much as repeating the right wing "government does not work" philosophy. FEMA and rescue attempts in the past have worked better than this.

[eleny]

19. Gov't doesn't work when you choke it with no-nothing cronies

This tact won't work because we all know that he's hired his cronies and cronies of cronies. His argument falls apart before the words fall off his miserable, spittled lips. But I hope he tries it because we've got it covered.

They need to face it. They've run out of tactics. He might as well show up in the buff or a dress and sing the national anthem of France.

[jwirr]

31. Exactly.

[rocktivity]

15. "Ah have SINNED..."

In honor of the occasion, I called a radio station and requested that they play Van Halen's "Jamie's Crying!"

:headbang:
rocknation

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. In your dreams maybe

In my reality, no way.

[TankLV]

17. I'm hoping for a outdoor "mussolini" moment myself.

I won't hold my breath, tho.

[gauguin57]

24. Nah ... they'll have the chip in his brain changed out by then.

The "I take responsibility" was a glitch in his wiring. Unca Dick will get that fixed right up for ole Bushy boy before Thursday's speech.

[OneBlueSky]

25. I don't know where this notion that Bush will apologize came from . . .

but any mentin of Katrina will be in passing as he lays out his case for an attack on Iran . . . that's my guess . . .

[Fox Mulder]

26. The man is without conscience.

If he were to try that, he'd put on a worse performance than Ashley Simpson did on Saturday Night Live back in October.

[newyawker99]

27. Hi Fox Mulder!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[yurbud]

28. he might cry about lost oil rigs in gulf, like dad in 89

Onion did a great bit on Papa Bush about Exxon Valdez oil spill that showed him in tears saying, "What a senseless loss of precious, precious oil."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. Katrina Czar. But it won't stop Floodgate

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23889-1779465,00.html

[MN ChimpH8R]

30. No, but there's the chance he may just

melt down completely, stuttering, stammering and blithering as what's left of his mind blows its last circuit. He won't apologize for anything, but he might have to be taken away in a rubber truck.