Yes We Can?

[Henny]

President Bush briefed President-elect Obama on the state of the nation this week.

I don't want to say things look bad, but Obama's new slogan is "Maybe We Can."

-- Jay Leno

[Brassmask]

Saw a post title on DailyKos or somewhere.

Something like:  Obama to hold third press conference on economy; Bush to pardon a turkey.

[BT]

Obama to hold third press conference on economy;

There is talk

Bush to pardon a turkey.

Then there is action.

 

[Xavier_Onassis]

This pardoning a turkey bit is truly old. They pardon one turkey and send it off to the Pardoned Presidential Turkey Farm, then kill anther and eat it. Probably they kill many, the White House has a huge staff.

Every three years or so they do the trip to the Pardoned Presidential Turkey Farm somewhere in Maryland or Virginia, I think.

It is repetitive, boring and useless. Like every year you buy a thick roll of Xmas wrap and discover once more that the paper is wrapped around a huge diameter tube. Or you buy a chocolate Easter bunny and find out it's hollow. Like Charlie Brown trying to kick Lucy's football.

How stupid do they think people are?

[Brassmask]

Obama to hold third press conference on economy;

There is talk

Bush to pardon a turkey.

Then there is action.

Sadly, with this simple, pithy post, you have exemplified the exact pitiful mode of thought exemplified by the right for the last eight years.

[sirs]

Naaaa, more so what was exemplified was instead of talking about (Iraqi) regime change, actions of this administration helped facilitate such

Brass, did you also notice in "The One's" rhetoric, he claims it's the deregulation policies of Bush that have largely led to the current economic crisis?  The policies that actually were implimented by Clinton, and his economic team (that Obama is largely retreading now), and who made claim that it was those policies that helped facilitate the economic boon the left keeps trying to lay at his Clinton's feet, during the mid/late 90's.

Did you notice that?  Talk about talking in circles

[Brassmask]

Naaaaahhh, haven't really had time to listen to his pressers.  I've moved from jubilant to "hopeful but guarded".

I still trust Barack Obama's judgment if not those who has has tapped so far.

I'm totally irked that he is picking all these Clintonistas from Rahm all the way down.  I'm also filled with white hot rage at the Clintons themselves and the way they've insinuated themselves into Obama's cabinet.

I'm giving him till about week after the inauguration for him to sign something to get this country going again.  He has no barriers.  Any opposition from the right would be token and hypocritical, so he's basically got carte blanche.

It's also especially aggravating to have Obama and The A Team having to wait for 60 days while Earnest T Bass continues to break winders and cackle and pine for a yoon-ee-forum.

[BT]

Sadly, with this simple, pithy post, you have exemplified the exact pitiful mode of thought exemplified by the right for the last eight years.

The One hasn't been sworn in. The one with the authority to pardon is Bush at this point in time. And that was the point, pithy as it was.

[sirs]

Naaaaahhh, haven't really had time to listen to his pressers.  I've moved from jubilant to "hopeful but guarded".

The point being of course, the complete disconnect The One is having as it relates to trying to lay the current economic mess on Bush policies.  A) they weren't his policies, and B), they were the same policies the left was jubilizing over as the supposed foundation to the 90's prosperity, when Clinton was running the show



 

[Xavier_Onassis]

So Juniorbush is 100% exempt from "The buck stops here?"

Juniorbush, innocent bystander then, now sitting lame duck.

[BT]

Bush is responsible for that which he did.

Clinton is responsible for that which he did.

The roots of the current problem go back further than one administration.

The systemic fixes might to take longer than one administration.

The more i look at these knee jerk bail out the less i like them.

[Xavier_Onassis]

If the bailouts work, that is fine by me.

What is important is that regulations to prevent this be passed and enforced.

[BT]

What is important is that regulations to prevent this be passed and enforced.

What regulations? That seems like a soundbite resolution to me.

[sirs]

Precisely.  Regulations to do what exactly??

[Brassmask]

Bush is responsible for that which he did.

So, just curious, BT, what DID Bush do?