Typical Republican Hypocrisy

“Bush has ordered federal agencies to conserve fuel to offset possible shortages caused by the hurricanes.

It's the president's seventh visit to the disaster region aboard Air Force 1 since Katrina. Each trip wastes about 25,000 gallons of fuel.
last edited: 9/28/05 12:27:03 AM”

“I am a Republican and I rode my bicycle to work. What are you doing to conserve fuel?”

“Dude you're worthless! Obviously, if he had never visited to the region or only went a few times you would be #&%!$in about how he doesn't care. Pathetic!”

“So you think it's OK that he uses tens of thousands of gallons of fuel for a pr stunt while telling others to cut back?

Thats pathetic.”

“I think that you would be criticizing him no matter what he does, so it doesn't much matter. If he switched to one trip a year and did it in a hybrid car. You'd whine cause he was just doing it for PR.”

“Like said when the storm hit; if Bush doesn't go, he's a heartless bassturd. If he does go, it's a photo op.

there's no pleasing the unpleasable.”

“Hell noprob, they'd bltch that he couldn't swim if he walked on water.”

“LOL....spin, spin, spin

I see, no one answeres the question, just attack.”

“The right is getting boring in their responses, or their lack of responses.”

“So , you all think it's OK?”

“I don't have a problem with him going and I don't have a problem with him going is AF-1. I also don't see a point in him going, other than for purely PR reasons. But looking back over history, I can't think of very many (if any) trips that any president took that wasn't for PR reasons.”

““LOL....spin, spin, spin

I see, no one answeres the question, just attack.”
mtnsteve
9:52:59 AM

Who's on the attack here?”

“Spin spin spin? Who’s the one spinning? If he goes, he’s a hypocrite because he’s called for feds to save gas. If he doesn’t go he’s a bad leader. If he does go and he doesn’t call for saving gas he doesn’t care about the gas plight.

It is easy when you play it from the heads I win/tails you lose viewpoint MS. Then again, I’m not seeing any ideas coming from you either besides an endless stream of crying and whining.”

“How about.....

"Dude you're worthless!"


Nigal

"I’m not seeing any ideas coming from you either besides an endless stream of crying and whining.”

Show me my endless streams of crying and whining.

You folks are the ones with the endless streams of clichés and whining. It's pathetic.


Expected, but still pathetic.”

“So why no ides? You take the standard liberal problem solving route...






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“Thats another worn our response.....I thought it would be clear...the President should not use Air force 1 for PR missions.

Having problems with comprehension?”

“Gotta go to work now....

Have fun boys.”

“Considering how the left always talks about absentee leadership when the president is running things from Crawford I just can’t help but feel you’re less than sincere Steve. And can you honestly tell me you would have nothing bad to say about Bush had he NOT gone?”

“This really is typical.

Thanks for the post USA!”

“What a typical response Violin...”

“Who is saying this is a PR mission? While PR may be involved, your whine would actually be a little more legit if the 100s of billions of taxpayer's dollars were being spent by an administration that had very little first hand knowledge of the magnitude of the disaster. It would be very foolish holding any CEO or other high ranking leader to such standards. Also, remember that there were 2 of the greatest widespread disasters to ever occur in the US within a month, equivalent to an area the size of the United Kingdom.
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“"I am a Republican and I rode my bicycle to work. What are you doing to conserve fuel?”
- bbw
8:14:17 AM


What a coincidence - Bush was busy bicycling around his 'ranch' when he should of been working.”

“See what I mean Steve? V is one of you buddy. :)”

“I can't fault Bush on this one.

The presidential presence is a powerful tool to direct the attention of the nation and to show support. It's one the president should be able to use in a time of crisis without being second guessed. It's not like he took the jet to see a football game, or to bolster the political fortunes of a favorite Senator.”

“"or to bolster the political fortunes of a favorite Senator.”

He's saving this for October when it's crunch time. LOL!”

“I kept my mouth shut untill now. You guys on the Right are getting a tad defensive.

I believe he should have gone the first couple days, but this stuff is nothing more then PR.

Considering the position of this administration on conserving fuel, his 7 or 8 PR flights and now his latest comments on fuel conservation for the rest of us, I feel his latest comment is just a bit disingenuous...dont you think?”

“Invective aside, I agree with Nigal, Trailhound and NoProb on their key argument. Bush gets bashed if he goes, bashed if he doesn't go.

I've got pleny of real issues to bash Bush on. I see no point in piling on in this one.”

““I kept my mouth shut untill now. You guys on the Right are getting a tad defensive."

I don't know about the other guys but I'm closer to the center than the far right. Bush is a failure, a turncoat sell out and a doofus to boot. But to bash him for no other reason than to hear your own whiny voice is just sad.

typical too! (gotta keep with the theme of the thread.)”

“When did I bash him?

Making stuff up is not nice.”

““So you think it's OK that he uses tens of thousands of gallons of fuel for a pr stunt while telling others to cut back?”

“Where the hell was Steve when Klinton was holding up the entire airport in Washington while he got a haircut?”

“LOL, you call that bashing?

Sensitive and defensive ;-)”

“What makes you think I didnt #&%!$ about that?”

“Personally, I didn't grip much about Clinton's haircut because most of the story turned out to be myth! (and the hair cut wasn't in Washington). The only delayed flight was an unscheduled private flight which was delayed by 2 minutes.

See, for example, Newday's investigation:

According to Federal Aviation Administration records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the haircut May 18 caused no significant delays of regularly scheduled passenger flights - no circling planes, no traffic jams on the runways. Commuter airlines that fly routes reportedly affected by the president's haircut confirmed that they had no record of delays that day. The FAA records show that an unscheduled air taxi flight had the only delay attributed to the closure of two runways for an hour in anticipation of Air Force One's departure. The air taxi took off 17 minutes after leaving the gate - two minutes late, by FAA accounting. "If you understand the air traffic system, you'd find that statement (that planes were circling) ludicrous," said Fred O'Donnell, an FAA spokesman at the agency's Western-Pacific regional office. The office responded to Newsday's May 21 request under the Freedom of Information law.”

“OK, pick any other Klinton scandle out of a hat then.

Pedxing ya phuckin' killjoy! :)”

“What, Nigal confused on the facts again?! Say it ain't so!”

“Right on S-rge!!”

“OK, pick any other Klinton scandle out of a hat then.

Pedxing ya phuckin' killjoy! :)”
Nigal
2:38:35 PM
9/28/05

OK - I pick lying about the Monica's BJs. Ain't that the all time favorite? (Personally, my favorite is that that he had a running affair with her and refused to even do her - but I've been unable to generate much outrage or even interest about that one. As Freud said, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar").
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“Ped, you ignorant slut. Do you have any idea how hard it is these days to find a woman with a cigar fetish? Do you?”

“Sorry Geo, I had no idea how painful the topic was for you.”

“I would prefer to know what happened to Vince Foster, Ron Brown and what happened with travel gate.”

“Not for me Ped, for Bill. And I have not even raised the issue of schnauzers.”

“Oh those, those were obviously the result of a convoluted and evil right wing plot.”

“Bush has ordered federal agencies to conserve fuel to offset possible shortages caused by the hurricanes.

It's the president's seventh visit to the disaster region aboard Air Force 1 since Katrina. Each trip wastes about 25,000 gallons of fuel.
last edited: 9/28/05 12:27:03 AM”
USA
12:25:25 AM
9/28/05

Bush should have ordered them to use extra fuel.”

“WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Congressional Democrats blasted former Education Secretary William Bennett on Thursday for saying that aborting "every black baby in this country" would reduce the crime rate, and demanded their Republican counterparts do the same.

"This is precisely the kind of insensitive, hurtful and ignorant rhetoric that Americans have grown tired of," said Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Illinois.

Bennett, who held prominent posts in the administrations of former presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, told a caller to his syndicated radio talk show Wednesday: "If you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose -- you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down.”

“He's right, even if it's incredibly insensitive. You know the argument - that since the legalization of abortion, many low socioeconomic folks have had them, and thus crime has steadily dropped.”

“Of course, he could have said "poor uneducated people" or "people in families with criminals" or some such thing and been as accurate or more accurate. He chose to make it a racial thing.”

“You know the argument - that since the legalization of abortion, the average world temperature has risen.

Hence, abortion causes global warming.”

“You know the argument - that since the legalization of abortion, Americans have grown steadily heavier.

Hence, abortion causes obesity.”