the press should demand that bush hold a press conference

[welshTerrier2]

for those of you who watched little Scotty McClellan get beat on today, i'm sure you would have loved to see bush fielding all those questions instead ...

it's time, with a partially awakened press, and a country that witnessed the latest colossal failure of leadership in all its glory, to parade the naked emperor before the American people ...

imagine the following scene as bush pleads for help at the press conference (which isn't going well) through the "wire" he's wearing under his coat:

Captain bush: bridge to engine room, acknowledge.

Voice of little Scotty McClellan: < through control panel > Scotty here, Captain.

Captain bush: What in blazes is going on, Scotty?

Voice of little Scotty McClellan: I dinna know, Captain. We're losing power, and I don't know why!

Captain bush: Well, do something, man! Go to manual override. Cut in auxiliary systems.

Voice of little Scotty McClellan: Saints preserve us, Captain, but even the emergency systems are out.

Captain bush: Well, fix it, Scotty. I don't care how, but fix it! The lives of 430 neo-cons hang in the balance.

Mr. Spock: Life support system are still operative, Captain.

Captain bush: But for how long, Mr.Spock? For how long? Lieutenant Uhura, inform Starfleet Command of our situation.

[baldingrockwarlord]

1. The press has no balls!!!!

Bush will get away with all of this I'm afraid.

[welshTerrier2]

2. did you see the press conference today?

the "you'd better start answering our questions" anger is clearly building ...

question after question demanded accountability over the NO fiasco ... all they got back was "duck (that's lame duck, btw) and cover" ...

the press should start writing articles about how bush is avoiding the media so he can spin the too-numerous-to-mention failures of his administration ...

Iraq, record deficits, failure to respond in advance, during or after the hurricane and a callous indifference to the needs of the American people might be interesting enough to get me to re-subscribe to my otherwise useless newspaper ...

[baldingrockwarlord]

4. .

It's one thing when they smell McClellan's blood in the water and feed off of it, but they NEVER do that to Bush. Fingers crossed and knocking on wood that this time they do, but based on past performance, I won't hold my breath.

[abluelady]

3. Why?

So we could watch him twitch and answer nothing?