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Title: Everyone here is flumoxed about why the president is in such a fine mood.
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The New York Times
URL Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/o ... n/16dowd.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Published: Mar 18, 2008
Author: Maureen Dowd
Post Date: 2008-03-18 02:37:25 by Zoroaster
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By MAUREEN DOWD Published: March 16, 2008 WASHINGTON Skip to next paragraph Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Maureen Dowd Go to Columnist Page » Readers' Comments Share your thoughts on this Op-Ed column. Read All Comments (630) » Everyone here is flummoxed about why the president is in such a fine mood. The dollar’s crumpling, the recession’s thundering, the Dow’s bungee-jumping and the world’s disapproving, yet George Bush has turned into Gene Kelly, tap dancing and singing in a one-man review called “The Most Happy Fella.” “I’m coming to you as an optimistic fellow,” he told the Economic Club of New York on Friday. His manner — chortling and joshing — was in odd juxtaposition to the Fed’s bailing out the imploding Bear Stearns and his own acknowledgment that “our economy obviously is going through a tough time,” that gas prices are spiking, and that folks “are concerned about making their bills.” He began by laughingly calling the latest news on the economic meltdown “a interesting moment” and ended by saying that “our energy policy has not been very wise” and that there was “no quick fix” on gasp-inducing gas prices. “You know, I guess the best way to describe government policy is like a person trying to drive a car in a rough patch,” he said. “If you ever get stuck in a situation like that, you know full well it’s important not to overcorrect, because when you overcorrect you end up in the ditch.” Dude, you’re already in the ditch. Boy George crashed the family station wagon into the globe and now the global economy. Yet the more terrified Americans get, the more bizarrely carefree he seems. The former oilman reacted with cocky ignorance a couple of weeks ago when a reporter informed him that gas was barreling toward $4 a gallon. In on-the-record sessions with reporters — and more candid off-the-record ones — he has seemed goofily happy in recent weeks, prickly no more but strangely liberated and ebullient. Even though he ordinarily hates being kept waiting, he made light of it while cooling his heels for John McCain, and did a soft shoe for the White House press. Wearing a cowboy hat, he warbled a comic Western ditty at the Gridiron Dinner a week ago — alluding to Scooter Libby’s conviction, Saudis getting richer from our oil-guzzling, Brownie’s dismal Katrina performance, and Dick Cheney’s winsome habit of withholding documents. At a dinner on Wednesday, the man who is persona non grata on the campaign trail (except for closed fund-raisers) told morose Republican members of Congress that he was totally confident that “we can retake the House” and “hold the White House.” “I think 2008 is going to be a fabulous year for the Republican Party!” he said, sounding like Rachael Ray sprinkling paprika on goulash. That must have been news to House Republicans, who have no money, just lost the seat held by their former speaker, and are hemorrhaging incumbents as they head into a campaign marked by an incipient recession and an unpopular war. If only they could see things as the president does. Bush, who used his family connections to avoid Vietnam, told troops serving in Afghanistan on Thursday that he is “a little envious” of their adventure there, saying it was “in some ways romantic.” Afghanistan is still roiling, as is Iraq, but W. is serene. “Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency, it is the right decision now, and it will be the right decision ever,” he said, echoing that great American philosopher Dan Quayle, who once told Samoans, “Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.” W. bragged to Republicans about his “considered judgment” in sending more troops to Iraq and again presented himself as an untroubled instrument of divine will. “I believe there’s an Almighty,” he said, “and I believe a gift of that Almighty to every man, woman and child is freedom.” Although the president belittled the Democrats for their policy of “retreat,” his surge has been a temporary and expensive place-holder for what Americans want: a policy to get us out of Iraq. “Has it allowed us to reduce troop levels to below where they were when it started?” Michael Kinsley wrote recently. “The answer is no.” Gen. David Petraeus told The Washington Post last week that no one in the U.S. and Iraqi governments “feels that there has been sufficient progress by any means in the area of national reconciliation.” Maybe the president is just putting on a good face to keep up American morale, the way Herbert Hoover did after the crash of ’29, when he continued to dress in a tuxedo for dinner. Or maybe the old Andover cheerleader really believes his own cheers, and that prosperity will turn up any time now, just like the W.M.D. in Iraq. Or perhaps it’s a Freudian trip. Now that he’s mucked up the world and the country, he can finally stop rebelling against his dad and relax in the certainty that the Bush name will forever be associated with crash-and-burn presidencies. Whatever the explanation, it’s plumb loco.
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#1. To: Zoroaster (#0)
Because he is psychotic and they keep him hopped up on drugs. He likes bad things to happen to people - he is a psychotic evil bastard. Remember when he mocked that woman about to be executed?
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
I'll take a double of whatever Bush is drinking. Of course Bush is happy, though. It's not like he's going to suffer the consequences of his actions. The only thing I will give him is that the economy tanking is not 100% his fault. The wheels were coming off long before he got into office. The problem is that as soon as he got into office he took a sledge hammer to said wheels. “I believe there’s an Almighty,” he said, “and I believe a gift of that Almighty to every man, woman and child is freedom.” Said the man who gave us DHS and TSA as he snoops in our emails and phone logs.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death." - Me. "If violence solved nothing, then weapons technology would have never advanced past crude clubs and rocks." - Me.
America is not at war. The military is at war. America is at the mall and the Congress is out to lunch.
Why shouldn't he be happy? He has executed the master plan of the globalists to near completion.
"Cheney considered the hunting trip when he shot his friend in the face successful."- Sodie Pop
I think Bush is brain-damaged from being a dry drunk, and now they've got him on anti-depressants. His brain must be a mess.
The stupider people are the more surprised they are when you kill them.
He's going to have me on anti depressants if this keeps up.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" You best check with your doctor now. Bush just may decide not to leave. Is'nt that frightening? Check with doc ahead of time.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
so articulate....
Hoppe is right.
Red states? Blue states? It's an Obama nation!
Everyone here is flumoxed about why the president is in such a fine mood.
#2. To: Zoroaster (#0)
“I think 2008 is going to be a fabulous year for the Republican Party!” he said, sounding like Rachael Ray sprinkling paprika on goulash.
#3. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#2)
With Rove gone, Bush has a new advisor...
#4. To: Zoroaster (#0)
#5. To: Zoroaster (#0)
#6. To: YertleTurtle (#5)
and now they've got him on anti-depressants.
#7. To: tom007 (#6)
He's going to have me on anti depressants if this keeps up.
#8. To: Zoroaster (#0)
#9. To: Zoroaster (#0)
“You know, I guess the best way to describe government policy is like a person trying to drive a car in a rough patch,” he said. “If you ever get stuck in a situation like that, you know full well it’s important not to overcorrect, because when you overcorrect you end up in the ditch.”
#10. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#2)
It's not like he's going to suffer the consequences of his actions.
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