A headline we thought, on the darkest days of 8 dark years, we might never see: "Put a Fork in Him"

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: Put a Fork in Him
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

President Bush put what was left of his influence on the line in his push to get Congress to pass a massive financial bailout. So yesterday, when House Republicans killed his proposal, it wasn't just the stock market that took its biggest tumble in history.

Bush is now wiped out.

Dan Eggen and Michael Abramowitz write in The Washington Post: "The vote marked the biggest legislative defeat of Bush's tenure and underscored the vanishing influence of a president who could once bend a pliant Congress to his will on wars, taxes, surveillance and a host of other high-profile initiatives....

Jackie Calmes writes in the New York Times: "If there was any doubt that President Bush had been left politically impotent by his travails over the last few years and his lame-duck status, it was erased on Monday when, despite his personal pleas, more than two-thirds of the Republicans in the House abandoned the plan....At the White House, aides described the president as working the phones to lobby a dozen Republicans. Vice President Dick Cheney, a former No. 2 House Republican leader, pitched in, with no better luck."...

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Jonathan Weisman writes in The Washington Post: "For Bush, the defeat was the starkest sign yet that a president who once had lockstep support among congressional Republicans has all but lost his influence. He has had vetoes overridden, on a water projects bill and a major agriculture measure, but nothing to compare to the defeat of a measure he had said was critical to the nation's economy....Yesterday, Bush called nearly every member of Texas's Republican delegation, GOP aides said. He won over four of the 19."

Richard Wolf, Kathy Kiely, Fredreka Schouten and John Fritze write for USA Today: "When President Bush came on television at 7:35 a.m. Monday to urge passage of a $700 billion Wall Street rescue plan, fellow Republicans working out in the House gymnasium jeered his remarks."...

Craig Crawford blogs for CQ: "George W. Bush's White House has gone belly up, not unlike those big banks that failed. The president's political credit was revoked today as his financial bailout failed to pass in the House of Representatives. This is what happens to a president who lied to Congress to start a war, among other things -- even if this time he is proposing the best thing for the country."

Justin Webb blogs for the BBC: "With the Republican revolt in the House of Representatives, President Bush is now confirmed as the weakest Commander-in-Chief in modern history....

Gallup reports: "According to a Sept. 26-27 USA Today/Gallup poll, just 27% of Americans approve of the job George W. Bush is doing as president, the lowest rating of his presidency....His high rating for the year is only 34%....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/09/30/BL2008093000906_pf.html

[givemebackmycountry]

1. WHO said they wanna put a fork in me? I'll tell my Unca' Dick and Aunt Condie!!!

If it only could have happened like 7 years ago.

[gratuitous]

2. Bush's tantrum this morning

Boiled down to "I double-dog dare you to jump off the cliff. I'm gonna jump, but you gotta go first." And pardon me, but we've seen this way too many times, to the ruination of our country. It's time to sweep aside the petulant bully and craft a solution to this problem in a careful, deliberative, and sober manner.

[CatWoman]

10. I remember that sad, lonely day in November 2004

when the monkey bragged about spending all of the "political capital" he's earned.

Monkey Boy has been passing rubber checks.

:hi:

[gratuitous]

18. Spent and overspent

And it's indicative of how this whole rotten administration has acted from Day One. Every time they've been given an inch, they take a mile and a half and dared people to stop them. Every now and then we'd succeed in pushing them back to taking just a mile, and the media-induced psychosis would help us forget that they'd only asked for an inch in the first place. If the Paulson Plan had gone through, $700 billion would have been just the beginning, and they would have come back again and again for more and higher sums.

Have I mentioned lately how much I hate these guys?

But not the lovely and talented Catwoman. For her, there's only :loveya:

[CatWoman]

19. *smooch*

:)

OMG!! Did you see SoCal's pic in post number 8????

:rofl:

[KamaAina]

3. Here ya go

[DeepModem Mom]

4. And here's to ya -- and all of us!

:toast:

[Winterblues]

13. Can we , can we please stick that fork in him and all his cronies as well?

Wouldn't mind a little hot tar and a few chicken feathers to go with the sticking too.

[TomInTib]

5. 4 of 19 Texas reps. Wow.

As my GF just said, "He's no Lame Duck, he's a Dead Duck".

And he's starting to smell pretty bad, too.

[malaise]

6. Pop the corks

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[dixiegrrrrl]

7. I have just one thing to say about the suddenly sad little feller...

[SoCalDem]

8. Here's a graphic I had a DUer make for me..waaay back in 2003

DU would not let me use it as a sig though :)

[opihimoimoi]

14. LOL....he is done....toast.....all over but the shoutin

[Canuckistanian]

9. Wow. He was out-lobbied by NEWT GINGRICH

How humiliating.

Go back to Crawford, fool.

[Bigmack]

11. Great... we get to say nasty things about him now....

and all he did was fuck up the whole world. That's nowhere near even.

Jail...

[opihimoimoi]

12. The Ultimate ZERO HERO ....Bush is now considered a POS

Even Gary Bauer could beat him in the polls

[ddeclue]

15. So WaPo is saying Bush is totally FORKED!!!

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[baby_mouse]

16. Awwwwwwwwwwww. Or something.

Never in my life have I felt such a grim and unsatisfactory satisfaction.

[DemoTex]

17. The Incredible Shrinking Bu$h

The vapid, petulant little man disappears before our very eyes, puling like the spoiled little rich kid he is to the very end.

Good riddance, ass. Hope ya' can get out of town without being arrested for public intoxication. If you do, sit tight in Crawford and await further charges .. very serious charges.

[Infomaniac]

20. That man couldn't get a tray passed at a pot luck dinner.

He's done.

[onethatcares]

21. maybe he should go on vacation.

or have a belated birthday party with mcslime. One question:


WHERE THE HELL WAS EVERYBODY WHEN WE WERE TELLING THE WORLD,(EUROPE KNEW)THAT THIS GUY WAS A MAJOR LEAGUE ASSHOLE AND WOULD LEAD US DOWN THE ROAD TO FAILURE LIKE HE'D DONE HIS ENTIRE LIFE WITH EVERYTHING HE TOUCHED?

you guys rock, socaldem, babylonsister, madfloridian and the rest of you reprobates with fine minds. Ya'll keep me coming back to the DU. Peace to all of you, even the ones I left out.

[Hekate]

22. Prelude to My Schadenfreude Dance tuning up now

Holy moly--Froomkin wrote that? How sweet it is.

Hekate

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

23. I really wish there had been a camera in the Oval Office

after that first meeting with McShame and Obama. Can you ust imagine his tantrum?! Here he went out of his way to include McCain to help the campaign and McShame blew up the deal they had worked so hard to come up with! THEN the next bill with comprimises doesn't pass, whew to be a fly on the wall would have been SO gratifying.

[Uncle Joe]

24. He may be impotent, corrupt, incompetent, immoral, unethical and treasonous, however

that doesn't mean he can't be effective for Republican goals.

I'm coming to believe this whole crisis was instigated on purpose to pit him against the Republican hard core as a means of creating panic and thereby politically damaging a Democratic Congress.

Tying the Republicans to Bush was an effective and truthful campaign issue, however in this case the Democratic and Republican Parties have flipped roles, I imagine this will be used to take energy away from the Democratic Party in November. Maybe this is why McSame wanted to politicize this issue?

This has been a long time coming, after 9/11 while giving tax breaks to the wealthiest, Bush urged everyone to go shopping, thereby exploding the national budget and turning surplus in to deficit, while also encouraging the vast majority of average working Americans that supporting the economy by shopping was patriotic.

At the same time lending guidelines for mortgage approvals were increasingly relaxed to the point of putting people in to homes based on little or no documentation.

Gas prices started increasing at an annual average of 15% per year from 2001 until the recent peak, wages haven't kept near that pace. Of course higher transportation costs adversely affected many other consumables as well.

With all this pressure finally culminating in the lower to upper middle income classes to meet debt obligations topping out, how could the mega wealthy suck more money out of the people? I believe as a secondary means to the bailout or possibly primary means in order to create financial panic causing many of the smaller investors to sell out while the big boys bought in to the stock market, whichever is the case, it equals wealth distribution flowing to the wealthiest aka: Bush's Base. The question is, who bought and who sold on Monday?

In short, Bush can be an evil, reckless, worthless piece of shit of a "pResident" and still help the Republicans by playing good cop, bad cop.