Bush sticks to agenda amid conflicts

[maddezmom]

Source: Associated Press



WASHINGTON - The attorney general is struggling to keep his job in a standoff with Congress over the purging of U.S. prosecutors. The war spending bill is stuck over whether troops should stay in Iraq, another bit of brinksmanship with lawmakers.

And President Bush is again talking, for two days in a row, about converting switchgrass and wood chips into ethanol.

The president's public schedule has Bush operating in two different worlds of news: the one threatening his administration, and the one he is determined to promote whether anyone is listening or not.

So while Congress challenges Bush on the firings of U.S. attorneys, the president is sticking to energy.

His only planned public event Tuesday was a visit to a U.S. Postal Service plant, where he was to stand near vehicles that run on alternative fuels and hail them as a way to reduce reliance on oil. If it sounds familiar, it's because he did something similar Monday at the White House.



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[Faux pas]

1. You know how it is with children, keep them distracted and out

of trouble.....boosh is such a putz.

[ClintonTyree]

2. Like Nero fiddling while Rome burned....

Bush is attempting to ignore the myriad problems within his administration. Instead he'll have more photo-ops for projects he thinks Americans are concerned with to try and curry favor with them. His "agenda" is all but lost. Notice we hear nothing about his pet projects like Social Security reform (or as most call it, gutting) that he was pushing when he had ALL of that political capital to spend? :rofl: Bush having political capital..... like he ever HAD a mandate to begin with! :rofl:

He can run, but he can't hide. These issues and many more are gaining ground on him every day. He can't ignore them much longer. It's time to pay the piper, Georgie. :)

[entanglement]

8. Are you sure about the man date?

;)

[mac56]

3. Naturally the spin on this will be how he's so dedicated to principle.

Even as those awful liberals are trying to bring down his good and noble works.

:puke:

[rodeodance]

4. rather Interesting that AP would make a story out this this (not that I am

complaining)

[rodeodance]

5. His band-Aid approach to our energy problem is sickening!

[kstewart33]

6. Agenda? What agenda?

He's behind this issue because it's one that everyone except the oil industry supports, so it's politically safe. But will he DO anything about it? No.

Bush has no agenda but Iraq. He'll pass no major legislation for the rest of his term. He's done.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. The AP just amazes me with their 'headlines'. Always making the Chimp out as having some

worthwhile quality. Here he's portrayed as having 'resolve' again; 'sticks to agenda'! I could just scream and pull my hair out!!

[gratuitous]

9. "Stubborn and wrong" is not an agenda

It's a character flaw.

[KansDem]

10. Translation: "Bush will do whatever the hell the voice in his earpiece tells him to do"

And the Corporate Media whores will spin it in an effort to make him look good...