Tony Snow's Anti Bush Quotes

[MethuenProgressive]

From ThinkProgress:

Tony Snow On President Bush: ‘An Embarrassment,’ ‘Impotent,’ ‘Doesn’t Seem To Mean What He Says’ »
Fox News’ Tony Snow is expected to be named White House Press Secretary. Here’s some of what he’s had to say about the President:

– Bush has “lost control of the federal budget and cannot resist the temptation to stop raiding the public fisc.” <3/17/06>

– “George W. Bush and his colleagues have become not merely the custodians of the largest government in the history of humankind, but also exponents of its vigorous expansion.” <3/17/06>

– “President Bush distilled the essence of his presidency in this year’s State of the Union Address: brilliant foreign policy and listless domestic policy.” <2/3/06>

– “George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.” <11/11/05>

– Bush “has a habit of singing from the Political Correctness hymnal.” <10/7/05>

– “No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.” <9/30/05>

– Bush “has given the impression that is more eager to please than lead, and that political opponents can get their way if they simply dig in their heels and behave like petulant trust-fund brats, demanding money and favor — now!” <9/30/05>

– “When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who can’t say no. In each of his three years at the helm, the president has warned Congress to restrain its spending appetites, but so far nobody has pushed away from the table mainly because the president doesn’t seem to mean what he says.”

– “The president doesn’t seem to give a rip about spending restraint.”

– “Bush, for all his personal appeal, ultimately bolstered his detractors’ claims that he didn’t have the drive and work ethic to succeed.” <11/16/00>

– “Little in the character of demeanor of Al Gore or George Bush makes us say to ourselves: Now, this man is truly special! Little in our present peace and prosperity impels us to say: Give us a great man!” <8/25/00>

– “George W. Bush, meanwhile, talks of a pillowy America, full of niceness and goodwill. Bush has inherited his mother’s attractive feistiness, but he also got his father’s syntax. At one point last week, he stunned a friendly audience by barking out absurd and inappropriate words, like a soul tortured with Tourette’s.” <8/25/00>

– “He recently tried to dazzle reporters by discussing the vagaries of Congressional Budget Office economic forecasts, but his recitation of numbers proved so bewildering that not even his aides could produce a comprehensible translation. The English Language has become a minefield for the man, whose malaprops make him the political heir not of Ronald Reagan, but Norm Crosby.” <8/25/00>

– “On the policy side, he has become a classical dime-store Democrat. He gladly will shovel money into programs that enjoy undeserved prestige, such as Head Start. He seems to consider it mean-spirited to shut down programs that rip-off taxpayers and mislead supposed beneficiaries.” <8/25/00>

[Ian David]

1. Damn Librul media again? n/t

[babylonsister]

2. Welcome to DU, MethuenProgressive! Can you provide some

sources/links for these quotes?
:hi:

[MethuenProgressive]

7. quote links

Go to http://thinkprogress.org/?tag=Administration and click on the date of each quote, which is a hyperlink to the originl. The ones I clicked on were Tony Snow town hall skreeds. Thanks for the welcome.

[babylonsister]

10. Thanks! nt

[elehhhhna]

3. K&R. He's Harriet Myers part TWO. The offer will be recinded in 10...9..

[xultar]

5. Ya think? I don't think he will.

[MethuenProgressive]

8. Probably just a trial balloon?

The 'trial balloon' theory might be true. Rove will poll and we'll be told they never reaaly considered Snow.

[rocktivity]

4. I guess this proves he can be fair and balanced...

:eyes:
rocknation

[LetsGoMurphys]

12. This guy is a wingnut

“On the policy side, he has become a classical dime-store Democrat. He gladly will shovel money into programs that enjoy undeserved prestige, such as Head Start. He seems to consider it mean-spirited to shut down programs that rip-off taxpayers and mislead supposed beneficiaries.”

I've noticed the right start to cricize Bush. But all their complaints are about Bush not being conservative enough. These people frighten me. Even the spending complaints. Not complaints about the crazy price of Iraq, but programs like Head Start which are a drop in the bucket in comparison. Sickos.

[Inland]

6. "Now that Bush has enacted all my recommendations, I can take the job"

That's what it will be. what were once problems with Bush are now problems being addressed by BUsh.

[Brazenly Liberal]

9. What are the odds of him ever saying anything this honest again?

Zippo? Yeah, that's what I thought, too.

Weloome to DU, MethuenProgressive! Thanks for posting that!

[Pacifist Patriot]

18. Sucker bet!

[gordianot]

11. Bush admitted he has hired wrong person, one of the few he ever discussed.

During the 2004 debate in St. Louis he was asked:

GRABEL: President Bush, during the last four years, you have made thousands of decisions that have affected millions of lives. Please give three instances in which you came to realize you had made a wrong decision, and what you did to correct it. Thank you.

His response really hedged the question but at the end he made this statement:

see link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/debateref...

"Now, you asked what mistakes. I made some mistakes in appointing people, but I'm not going to name them. I don't want to hurt their feelings on national TV."



I think Bush may have to admit another "rare" mistake. :rofl:

[Notoverit]

13. You missed the best part in the "hedging phase":

"You know, I just -- I'm sure

something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press

conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an

answer, but it hadn't yet."

[Hissyspit]

14. Norm Crosby!

Bush as Norm Crosby. Ha! That's an insult to Norm Crosby! :rofl:

[radwriter0555]

15. I have vague memories of rush limbaugh before he sold out to whore for

the republicans. He was playing the role of the dyed in the wool liberal about 15+ years ago. It just goes to prove that many people are for sale. snow is no different, except now he's been peed on by the gop and he likes it... at least he likes the smell of money, right?

[Canuckistanian]

16. THE Rush Limbaugh?

A liberal? You must be thinking of some parallel universe somewhere.

To hear him tell it, he was railing againt New Deal while still in diapers.

[saltpoint]

17. Wow. This is the first I've seen these comments of Snow's about Dubya.

They've got shark's teeth, don't they?

Are these two guys going to be able to work together?

(Well, probably lying to the public brings them together on a common goal!)

[neoteric lefty]

19. Snow will fall in line, Im sure

This is his dream job. Instead of having to get his RW talking points from email or fax machine every morning, they are sitting on his desk in the West Wing.

[MethuenProgressive]

20. waitacottonpickingminute - did we fall for a head fake?

"you should hear what I said about the other guys" - Bush quoted Snow as telling him when they spoke about Snow's anti-Bush quotes. So did we miss it? When we all looked at the relatively few anti-Bush comments by Snow we were ignoring the vast majority of his FOX hate speech. I think we were all deked out of our sneakers on this one..