House Republicans give the president a cool welcome at GOP retreat

[CatWoman]

Where is the love?

Number of standing ovations George W. Bush received during Tuesday night's State of the Union address: 26. Number of standing ovations Bush received during a speech to members of the House Republican Conference Friday: 0.

story here:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2007/01/sotu_part_ii.html

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/?last_story=/politics/war_room/2007/01/27/bush/

[delphinium]

1. I'm shocked!

:evilgrin:

[roguevalley]

25. I saw this. Very, very tepid. He was flummoxed about it too. :)

[peacetalksforall]

2. Don't you think we should give him half a clap for having the guts

to go into a closed sessions with them? Here's my half clap - one hand.

[Demeter]

4. No Big Deal--They Were Searched For Weapons, No Doubt

What good is a Secret Service if youdon't get your money's worth?

[Jim Sagle]

14. Maybe Michelle Bachmann already gave him the clap.

[The Backlash Cometh]

15. Wouldn't you make more noise...

...if you used all five fingers?

[Raffi Ella]

3. They are

treasonous bastards for allowing this man to go unchecked while they were in power and need to be brought up on charges for negligence in their duty but I am glad to hear this. :7

[kentuck]

7. Amen !

Absolutely ! They are not competent enough to sit in the House or Senate. They do not understand their basic duty under the Constitution they were sworn to uphold.

[Raffi Ella]

12. NO DOUBT!

I cannot STAND to watch/hear those bastards,like Hagel, all of the sudden,NOW?,start speaking out against this criminal we have in office...where was their voice last year???When they had full and complete control and could DO something about it!??????

Their coolness towards Bush restores a bit of "one America" faith for me but it does little to quell my disgust!my contempt!My absolute rage towards these vile bastards who let this happen to our country.

Murtha said it when it mattered.HE stood up and said NO to the little criminal in office.WHERE WAS HAGEL THEN????????I'll tell you where they were:they were making fun of him and playing poltics with our soldiers lives by putting up the so called "Murtha Resolution".

They all can KISS MY ASS!

[Olney Blue]

5. It's the closest thing to combat the chickenhawk has experienced.

The GOP is very bitter because of his failed presidency.

Why is Rove still in the White House? He leaked classified information.

[quiet.american]

16. Yes, and so did the "Leaker-in-Chief" who got easily everybody to call him "the decider" instead.n/t

[fooj]

18. Why is Rummy STILL at the Pentagon?

:grr:

[Olney Blue]

21. Good question. Perhaps he has been retained on a govt. contract?

Something is rotten in Denmark.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. there's an update from the first link...

Flood Control & Iraq on the Minds of the GOP
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/

[rodeodance]

8. Repugs Retreating. shameful shameful

[samsingh]

9. that is sooo cool

[Cabcere]

10. Good. n/t

[Wapsie B]

11. So the luster has worn off bubble-boy's image?

The gop bet everything they had on him. The entire party needs to be made to pay for this, big time.

[samsingh]

13. the repugs destroyed themselves through corruption and

being anti-American just to put the bush traitor into office. now they are being tainted forever by his evil stench.

[tabasco]

19. Well-said and every word is true.

I had a feeling when idiot Boosh got selected that the repukes had screwed up big time. They were riding high for a long time but their utter corruption led to the inevitable disasters of war and a shattered economy.

[samsingh]

24. losing repugs makes them talk about working together

until they get power back and then they go back to their corrupt, insurrection ways.

is anyone a worse whiner than repugs?

[Canuckistanian]

17. Hmm, "retreat". Doesn't that mean "cut 'n run" or "give up"?

Although for Bush's handlers, it meant "reheat", as in "leftovers".

[gratuitous]

20. Odd how their behavior changes when the cameras are off

One might almost call it hypocritical. Almost.

[CatWoman]

22. ......

......almost

:hi:

[gratuitous]

23. Well, we know . . .

Not everyone is as understanding and open-minded as us.

:hi: back atcha! :loveya:

[charlie]

26. 6 years...

of wreckage, carnage, and open contempt for everyone, including some of those very same Republicans, and his one unforgivable sin is losing some of his invincible sheen? Worthless pipsqueaks. The lot of them. Fuck them all. Twice.