"I'm the decider and I decide what is best."

[5X]

the latest bushism, or,
statements by an idiot.

edit to add: as reported by NPR this morning
as statement from WH lawn.

[xchrom]

1. no, i'm the decider and i decided that bush is an idiot.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. I reject your call to be decider, I decided to be decider yesterday

however I agree with what you decided. :P

[xchrom]

23. well who died and made you ms. deciderator?

:toast:

i think we should leave it up to florida duers who the deciderer should be --

and i'll warn you now that i have in my possession a very sharp decideror hat!

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. I expect Ohioans will take issue over your Florida decision

*lol*

Is your deciderator hat a straw boater? :D

[xchrom]

31. lol -- let's just say

i LOOK very deciderer in my hat.

regal -- majestic -- etc {there's no equivalent smilie

;) }

[unblock]

2. i know brighter 3-year olds. what a disgrace!

[QuettaKid]

3. "decider" ! ? ! ? ! ?

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[gratuitous]

4. That is, right up to the second when . . .

His decision blows up in a lot of other people's faces. Then, nobody has any clue how those decisions got made, how that legislation got written, where that memo came from, who made that phone call or anything else.

And the media just nod and take it all down as if nothing untoward has happened.

[C_U_L8R]

5. The only decision Bush is qualified to make

is whether to fold or crumble...

and he'd probably make a mess of that too.

[Inland]

6. Bush wants points for making sucky decisions.

Yeah, he makes the decions. But they suck. He wants points for just making decisions and being decisive without any responsibility for them going wrong.

[Fridays Child]

And, always a classic...

You're not the boss of me!

The poster below is right: what a disgrace!

[NotGivingUp]

7. i'm real sick of his dictator comments.

[saltpoint]

8. The president serves the people, and occupies the people's office.

When Mr. Bush has failed and stubbornly refuses to admit failure, it is the people's right to cite objection and demand readjustment.

From the nation's 16th president:

_____

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.”

--Abraham Lincoln
_____

[reichstag911]

12. All well and good, but...

...when part of the country sought to dismember it, we had this thing called the Civil War. Lincoln, whose maintenance of the Union makes him a hero to most, did not ultimately practice the pure democratic principles (embodied in the Declaration of Independence) he formerly preached. Let's not forget, either, his suspension of habeas corpus during the war. In retrospect and in consideration of the leadership wrought by largely Southern voting blocs, I frequently think we'd have been better off without the seceding states.
:think:

[saltpoint]

22. On secession. A friend of mine wonders if legislation could not be

drafted to say, in effect, "Hey, we've thought this over, and yes, you all can just go ahead and secede."

Needless to say, my friend is not a Republican, and is being half-facetious.

But only half. If Connecticut and California pay federal taxes supporting federal projects benefiting Southern voters, it rankles that those Southern voters vote to elect morons who suppress the inalienable rights for those in Connecticut and California.

I'm inclined to agree with you on your point on secession, but we seem irretrievably joined with states that now elect Jeff Sessions and (for years) Jesse Helms to the U.S. Senate. This is why my frustration often takes the form of posting on DU that Jeff Sessions should be tossed into the Everglades, ideally the extreme SE corner, where the American crocodile still survives and is as good as any predatory lizard ever was at eatings things alive.

Lincoln's suspension of habeus, while not my favorite moment in his presidency, does not eclipse his profile as a wide-ranging and self-taught civil servant, especially as contrasted with Dubya's shallow understanding of citizenship and his hackneyed insistence that he's the "boss." Had the South won, the Lincoln quote would still be constitutionally true, if historically tragic. Because slavery only worked economically for the few it benefitted, Lincoln's humane considerations for abolition resonate as high ground, even if saying so might piss Trent Lott's supporters off. If I ever do a film on the antebellum South and need a plantation owner for the lead, I'm giving Trent Lott a call.

I cringe at Confederate flag bumper stickers on vehicles when I see them, as much as I cringe when this president is speaking. Often Bush sounds like a child learning to talk, but who's in a family who scarcely speaks, and so has no effective model to copy. I wonder if world opinion is so low of Dubya because translators from other countries are stupefied trying to figure out what the little fool is saying. Half of them have probably blown their brains out.

[reichstag911]

26. I reached the point long ago...

...where I wished Lincoln would have just let the South go. Where would we be now? Interesting question, but it's a virtual certainty that we'd have wound up with a third-world economy on our southern border, essentially what we have now. Then all those southern Repukes who now decry the flood of immigrants would probably be part of that flood. How rich the irony!

[saltpoint]

27. Very interesting point there on immigration. No question that it

would be a different argument in that case.

__

'Am reading several other blogs on Bush's "I am the decider" remark. Almost universally, people are wondering what the guy's smoking.

[reichstag911]

28. Doesn't need to smoke;

just plain stupid (and delusional, to boot, if you ask me), and a tool for the PNACers: Cheney/Rumsfeld, etc.

[saltpoint]

29. It's more painful to confront his difficulties head on, because we

share their consequences.

I think Nixon may have tilted toward megalomania which was brought to heel only by an equally strong vein of cowardice. But with Dubya, I am truly concerned that he is a man in way, way over his head and has no idea now how to extricate himself. And his handlers are no longer effective at fooling a majority of the public and are so remote from the public good that all they can do is strike out at their critics. Any time anyone offers a negative assessment, the Bush administration revs up the Swiftboats.

Hard to say for sure, but I really don't believe you can sustain governance like that, and that the next couple of years is going to see the downfall of the Bush administration. I think it's distinctly possible that the State of the Union address in 2008 -- ten months before the next election -- will be given by Dennis Hastert.

[reichstag911]

35. There's a step up:

from a Wrestlemania-minded president to a former wrestling coach as president!

[saltpoint]

36. LOL! reichstag911, you are on the case. I love it.

Thanks for a real uplift -- great string of posts there.

[Virginia Dare]

9. That's right, he is....

so the entire Congress and the Supreme Court can just pack their shit and get the fuck out now, they're not needed.

[genie_weenie]

10. * is absolutely correct.

As the Chief of the All Pwerful State, he gets to decide things like your innocence, when and whom to invade, what you should be doing in your homes, whether your home should be taken to make a new mini-mall, etc...

I don't understand why people are so up in arms now? Just because the dictator in office doesn't hold to some of your beliefs? The whole history of the US has been to erode your rights, keep you down and under control.

Edit to include following text: The US Government has, since 1783, been slowly eradicating your rights. Certainly, there have been watershed years, at which time more destruction was done to the rights of Americans, the following come to mind: 1786, 1794, 1841, 1861-1865, 1876, 1894, 1914, 1917-1918, 1932, 1953, and 2000.

But, the tracks have been laid for years and it seems only under the * Junta, who like none before him abuses this power out in the open and with unabashed glee, does anyone care to take notice.

The State does not like you, the State will not help you, the State cares only about how much it can squeeze from you (not just monetary) before you are ground into fertilizer for the next batch of fresh meat...

[kenny blankenship]

11. Actually he said "I'm the deciderator..."

it was somewhat muffled on the audiotape (tampering suspected), and the NPR transcript was gratuitously cleaned up.

[flordehinojos]

14. that statement, in and of itself, shows just what a small minded man he is

for he is/seems to be/ really is threatened by letting anyone take an adult position: have a different opinion, make a different decision, he, the small minded man, the man whose smallness has all of us living in fear of what he will do next, he must exert POWER-AND-CONTROL over everyone and everything. this POWER-AND-CONTROL thing is a disease. It is also a disease from which each of these bushit bastards suffers.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

15. I'm decider.

I'm a refreshing drink made from apples.

[Norquist Nemesis]

16. Can we say Messianic Complex?

:scared:

Today he's the Decider. Tomorrow he drops test bombs named Divine. :scared:

[tanyev]

17. Being sworn in as President must have been such a rush for him.

The ultimate FU to everyone who ever disagreed with him or wouldn't let him have his way. Now he can have all the foot stomping tantrums he wants and he always wins!

[npincus]

18. and that's 2 letters away from "divider"

maybe that's what the idiot meant to say.

[shenmue]

19. "And I best what is decided."

What the hell is he talking about?

[KyndCulture]

20. Got Audio anybody??? nt

[Dulcinea]

34. Try this.

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/

Click on the free video: "Bush stands by his man"

[kentuck]

21. I'm speechless...

:shrug:

[enlightenment]

24. His first statement explains his problem.

"I hear the voices . . ."



:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[baby_mouse]

25. No. You're the LOSER, George. Even you WIN, you LOSE. NT

[mcscajun]

32. I know "Decider" is a word, but once again, Georgie sounds like

a kid on the playground using it.

He couldn't wrap his brain and vocal cords around "decision-maker" or "I make the decisions", eh?

I can hear two six-year-olds arguing in the sandlot now.

"I'm the decider!"
"Says you, I'm the real decider, I called it first!"
"Oh yeah? I called "decider" before you ever got here."
"Uhn-UH! I called "decider" before you were born."
"Oh yeah!? Well, you've got cooties."

[rman]

33. Don't people usually say "decision maker"?

Rove is making up new words i tell you.

[saltpoint]

37. People do, yes. But monkeys often forget the rules.

Hi, rman. Wouldn't it be great if we had a president who could talk?

I can hardly stand to listen to Dubya speak for more than 30 seconds.

[rman]

38. I'd be great if he'd just be president, instead of a crook

I could forgive his apparent lack of language skills (though i do think he does it on purpose, to appeal to one of his fringe bases), if only he'd be legitimate.