Breaking: Bush to Iraq plan opponents in Congress: 'I am the decision-maker.'

[RamboLiberal]

Both CNN and MSNBC have this up as Breaking News on their websites.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

On edit from CNN:

Bush: "I'm the decision-maker" on Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush, on a collision course with Congress over Iraq, said Friday "I'm the decision-maker" about sending more troops to the war. He challenged skeptical lawmakers not to prematurely condemn his plan.

"I've picked the plan that I think is most likely to succeed," Bush said in an Oval Office meeting with senior military advisers.

The president had strong words for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who are lining up to support resolutions opposing his decision to send 21,500 troops to Iraq. He challenged them to put up their own ideas. "Some are condemning a plan before it's even had a chance to work," he said.

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

Congress needs to smack and Dickie upside the head.

[Tellurian]

1. So why isn't Contress asking him if he thinks he is a dictator?

[Ganja Ninja]

2. 'I am the decision-maker.'

He's gonna be screaming that as they drag him out of the White House by his heels.

[shadowknows69]

3. He actually said a derivative of "I'm the decider" again???

Could a board of reknowned psychiatrists declare this guy unfit for office or something fucking please?

[Ganja Ninja]

7. If he and Cheney continue in their joint delusions then ...

I think it's time to question their fitness for office. Whether they're insane or not if they refuse to face facts and recognize reality they are unfit for office.

[bdamomma]

16. that is what should be done, he is out of control

should we call our senators and invoke 25th Amendment.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

[ihelpu2see]

4. This is reason alone for Impeachment... The President has no Constitutional

leg to stand on for such statements. After 2 years Bush has no more authority to continue such declarations.

[GOTV]

25. I agree, but I suspect the Senate does not. n/t

[Sydnie]

5. Those words will now haunt him just like

"I am not a crook" haunted Nixon.

[gratuitous]

6. Good heavens

This plan hasn't worked two times before, as Speaker Pelosi told Stupidhead to his face. Why does he think it's going to work now? Because Stupidhead told the generals that it has to work. Unasked is the question why Stupidhead didn't tell the generals that it had to work the last two times.

And Bush says that this is the plan most likely to succeed in his estimation. Which is based on . . . what? His famous "gut" feelings, which have consigned so many thousands to premature deaths over the last four years? And he has the nerve to "challenge" the opposition to come up with its own ideas. We've given you ideas (Democratic, Republican, the Iraq Study Group) by the bushel basket, Mr. Bush; what does it take to get it through your skull?

And more to the point, what does it take for CNN to quit acting as administration stenographer, and present some facts that contradict the demented rantings of a man who can't face reality?

[TlalocW]

8. Condemning a plan before it's had a chance to work

Well, gee, do I need to have 100 people jump out of an airplane without a parachute and see what happens to know that plan is bad? In Bush's case we already have that track record, and everything he's done has turned to shit so why should we trust this new "plan?"

TlalocW

[racaulk]

13. Exactly

He's had 4 years to make his plan work. It hasn't. It's been a colossal failure on a global scale. And now he wants to give us more of the same and have us expect that a different result will be achieved. No wonder the Congressional Dems are skeptical, they damned well should be!

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Hey Chimpy, you've never been right about anything in your life, so why would anybody

believe it will succeed because you 'think' so?

[Bobbie Jo]

10. Fine...

Ya know, Congress tried the "diplomatic" approach. Just impeach the bastards and get it over with already. :eyes:

[bdamomma]

11. he is a freaking dictator, they or us has to rein him in.

can the press since they are love with him call him King George now.

[racaulk]

12. That's some f*cking bipartisanship there, Chimpy!

Bipartisanship means you work together and compromise with those who disagree with you, not that you get to enforce your will on Congress regardless of what they want. It's called Congressional oversight! But then again, that's a concept outlined in the Constitution, and we all know how highly revered that document is to you. Asshole!

:argh:

[whosinpower]

14. Here is the crux of the problem

"I've picked the plan that I think is most likely to succeed," Bush said in an Oval Office meeting with senior military advisers.

He was also the one that "thought" Iraq would be a cakewalk.
He was also the one that "thought" Saddam had WMD.
He was also the one that "thought" Brown was a good FEMA director.
He was also the one that "thought" the Iraq war was necessary in the first place....even though they had no WMD, had no ties to Al Quaeda,had absolutely nothing to do with 911, and were a contained beaten down third rate nation in the middle east.

He has been so very wrong on so many counts after 6 long years, that America has lost all confidence in his leadership.

Nobody wants to follow you anymore George. And very soon--if you bluster loud long and hard enough--America will forcefully show you the door......to your prison cell.

[bdamomma]

21. he picked the plan, yea, his plan is killing Americans.

[spanone]

15. IMPEACH THE BASTARD.

[tandot]

17. Iraq is so screwed. He picked a plan HE thinks will succeed

...like the plan to invade Iraq in the first place?

[bdamomma]

18. * is really going off his head now

he needs to stop throwing temper tantrums. And this Congress better realize this man does not listen to anyone or reasons.

[Swamp Rat]

19. "I'm the Disseyeder dagnubbet!!"

"An' I disseyedid we ain't done killin' all them ragheads yet!!"

[moondust]

20. Right. So was Nixon. n/t

[Old and In the Way]

22. Sounds like he's throwing down the gauntlet....are the Democrats up to the Challenge?

There is no winning, just deciding on the magnitude of our losses.

[doublethink]

23. A much over-used but relevant quote .....

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

John Dryden

[bdamomma]

24. just a question in light of his decision making and our

upcoming march in DC and the discontent that is mounting here does anyone think he will enforce martial law? just asking.

[KansDem]

26. No, in your case it was the Supreme Court who was the "decision maker"

Without them, you'd be back in Texas sucking on a bottle of Lone Star while driving another business into the ground and thinking about the baby you and Robin never had...