Republicans fear George Bush's new book could influence the midterms
It's all coming into place. My hope that America would be reminded that the mess our country is in is a direct result of George W. Bush's administration is actually coming true. I know the grand poobahs of the GOP have kept George locked in the basement for almost two years. I was pushing for President Obama and Congress to make a point to tell America that they are trying to clean up the mess they were left with via Bush & Cheney, but they've been ineffective on that front. I've written about it and so have many other bloggers, but who would have thought that it would be Republicans and George Bush himself who would lead the charge?
"Monumentally bad timing."
According to former Bush aide Matt Latimer, that's the Republican reaction to the news that former president George W. Bush will release his memoir, Decision Points, the week after the 2010 midterm elections. Yes, the races will be decided by the time the book hits stores, but as with any major print release, a slew of excerpts are sure to be leaked in the weeks prior to Nov. 2. Latimer gives his take on The Daily Beast, reporting on Democrats who are "gleeful" at the news, Republicans who are on the fence about it, and what Bush himself might be thinking:
The former president, who I knew to be an often "misunderestimated" politician, may indeed think his book will help his party--by setting the record straight. (There are parts of that record that can use some plain old Texas clarifyin'.) Undoubtedly some people will look more kindly on the Bush years now than they did at the time, particularly on national security. But the problem is that Bush himself will not be able to make his case before the elections. As with most high-profile books, W. will likely be embargoed from talking until his book is released--far too late to change the minds of any voters.
I love this reaction to the news that the Bush Memoirs are being released in November:
One prominent conservative compared the Bushies'
public-relations savvy to LeBron James.
Last night a fan at a Cleveland/Yankee game had to be escorted out of the stadium because he wore a LeBron Miami Heat jersey in Cleveland. Here's the reaction.
I hope this is the same reaction Americans will have to 'The Bush Book Bomb."
In the meantime, if the Obama administration has their way in the media, the weeks before the election could be about revisiting issues the party still has nightmares about: Why didn't we find WMD in Iraq? Did the Bush administration drop the ball on Afghanistan? What did the administration do to stave off the collapse of our economy? Was Alan Greenspan right that the Bush-led Republicans "deserved to lose"? Not to mention Katrina and "Heckuva job, Brownie" and prisoner-abuse scandals and on and on—discussed by the same cast of characters from Rove to Perino to Gillespie who presided when Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama came to power in the first place.
How soon will it be before Rahm Emanuel and James Carville circulate excerpts of Decision Points to major media outlets to get that conversation started? Maybe they'll even co-host the former president's book party.
My hope is that Meet The Press, Face The Nation, FAUX News Sunday, This Week and many others will have George Bush on for a lengthy interview so he can tout his book. Keep your fingers crossed.
Bush was an incompetent criminal.
These new Republicans are raving mad.
Let's not confuse the two.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
There is a substantive difference between an idiot manchild in over his head and a malevolent lunatic out to destroy the very foundation of the country.
Unfortunately it looks like these will be our two basic choices from here on in.
I would say bush fits the first of your catagories and cheney fits the second.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
President Obama is no man-child JS.
nor is he an idiot or in over his head.
You have to figure in the tooth and nail obstruction that the Thugs
are piling on JS. I'd like to see you do better than president Obama. ;)
Let's just get rid of the trouble makers in November and the concern trolls
will follow.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
he was a malevolent lunatic out to destroy the country - how does that apply now?
umm. rewarding republicans with another win would be suicidal?
[sorry to jump in like that]
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
after all, he doesn't speak or understand english.
he's real smart. Oh wait, were talking about Bush.
n/t
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
What's the problem with publishing _Profiles in Douchebaggery_ or whatever?
I thought history was going to vindicate George Bush as a great president, if not the greatest president?
This is just funny. I guess they don't miss him yet. Guess they don't want the dolt to be out there reminding everyone that his administration put our country through hell for eight years with their crime spree. Only tea baggers and idiots need to be reminded just how bad those eight years were and the mess they left in their wake.
I thought I saw on tv today that we are going to have a national Ronald Reagan Day. Does anyone know if that's true and if it is, how did it happen?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Not national. Ahhhnie signed it into existence in California.
.
Just send people out with stickers that change the book title to "Delusion Points."
Anybody noticed the "newsflash alert" in the video:
BUSH: WE HAVE A VIBRANT AND STRONG ECONOMY
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang.
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking.
Republicans for Voldemort.
Sadly, some still believe it.
NOBODY 2012
This is how GOP cover up (BP style) when they are in power. I just WONDER why NOBODY cover their "cover ups".
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang.
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking.
Republicans for Voldemort.
Deciderer Pointy-Thingys
How Bad I Suck, and Why
Heh-heh.
Mission Apolog-ished
The Feel of Dick's Cold Claw Up My Arse
The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Chimpington
Rummy and the Dead-Enders
Won't Get Fooled Again
It's Everyone's Else's Fault but Mine
I Broke It. Now It's Yours
How to Make Everybody Hate You
It Ain't Easy Being Stupid
My Buk
NOBODY 2012
Al Kayda and Me
How to Steal Two Elections (Without Really Trying)
I'll Show Daddy!
Cooter, Scooter, and The Dick
Presidentin' for Dummies
btw, excellent titles, New_Damage and JohnnyB!
Nero's Got Nuthin on Me.
What Was That Laura?
How to Start a War, The Wrong Way.
What? Me Worry?
I Dun bin Misunersetimated. Agin.
Shrub, the Real Nemesis.
My Daddy Done Told Me!
Well, heh,heh,heh, What?
Pretzels, Pickles, eh, Whut Wuz I Sayin?
( oh yeah, pretzels.)
What is your conceptual, continuity?
mission accomplished,how i destroyed social progress and cut brush
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
"Now, Watch This Drive and Read My Book"
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
What is the name of the book ? It must be something like this "How Iran TRICKED me into invading Iraq".
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang.
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking.
Republicans for Voldemort.
I hope there's an especially hot place in hell for Bush, Cheney and their buddies.
NOBODY 2012
Incidentally.
Boogie Man Gingrich is telling a new lie, designed to find a weakness
in the president. He says the president has a blind spot. An
Achilles heal. guess what it is? Republicans are good at national defence.
This is wrong on the face of it, as we are all still finding out that
all of this national in-security never had to happen in the first place, if we had had a pragmatic president at the time.
[They will never find that weakness, but i hope they keep trying.
When they do it won't take the president down anyway. The Thugs are
delirious about that too]
This lie is because the scaly one has nothing people want.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Well Duh, NO ONE IS PERFECT !!!
I don't know what Obama's weakness is, but I know that the RETHUGS will keep POUNDING him until they find one or CONVINCE the public that they have one. This is how they win elections that they DON'T deserve.
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang.
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking.
Republicans for Voldemort.
would be funny if the consequences were not so grim.
9/11, Anthrax, kidnappings/renditions + torture + murder, Afghanistan, Iraq, North Korea, Katrina, Plame, economic depression.
That Bush can read and write. But seriously, I'm still not sure how Dubya will be able to justify New Orleans and both crashes on his watch. And wouldn't bringing them back up in the first place remind Americans why they kicked the Republicans out in the first place? But yeah, book or no book, I knew the mid-terms wouldn't be a repeat of '94, because the Republicans seem to think their Jerry Springer-esque "gotcha" bullshit will cut it in the face of a suckonomy.
They're cracking.
First it was "media is Bad"
That was the beginning of the end for them.
Then "i'm not going to let media play "gotcha" with my facts"
That was the turning point for them.
Now, they just turn and walk away.
[hey MSM!.. ya you... you gonna suck on that? hehhe. huh?]
The next part hasn't been written yet..................
I am real hopeful that energetic journalists will now leave their
wool and manure filled studios and find out what we here at
C&L already know. The Republicans really shouldn't get anywhere
near America's driver's seat.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Not sure what the big deal is. We know Bush didn't actually write the book and more then likely, much like with Palin's, this will be a white washing of history with himself as the misunderstood hero. While there might be the occasional quote to make hay with, the GOP has done a remarkable job (with the help of a mornoic public like say the Tea Party) of re-selling the Bush agenda to the American people while not calling it the Bush agenda. If reality hasn't derailed that train of lies, a book isn't going to.
Revising history to make Bush look okay is going to take a lot of effort but what else has the GOP got to do? They sure as hell aren't fixing problems.
If they don't call it the Bush agenda, then they can get away with it. The guy himself is still toxic, though, guaranteed. So much so that even Jeb is dropping out of any possible Presidential run.
Bush with Tea.
Or, tea with Bush.
..Shudder..
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Yeah!! That's the attitude that will save us!
Biggest jackasses in the world.
High-fiving each other like they're real tough guys because they managed to gang up on some schmuck 50-to-1. Hey, dipshits, to LeBron James you're a bunch of microbes.
It is disappointing that C&L seems to be endorsing such ignorant mob behavior. The mob should have been taken out of the park in handcuffs and the game canceled.
Each copy comes with a small box of crayons.
A teeny, tiny box.
Like bringing home your fiance to meet your family and and you find your cousin with Tourettes is visiting
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
but typical of Cleveland fans, I suppose.
Man smart, woman smarter.
trying to stir up some trouble.
...don't ya just love it!
ie continuing being apologists for Bushco...
I wonder if Pelosi will be popping out of a cake at the book launch !?
Might I suggest that C&L organize a used shoe drive for GW Bush, in keeping with the Iraqi tradition made so famous by that Iraqi reporter at a GW Bush presser in Bagdad? Imagine multiple dump truck loads of used shoes delivered and dumped in front of the George Walker Bush Presidential Library, due to open this Fall about the same time as his new book.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
I hope Bush, in his effort to appear like he really was presidential, will expose all the advice his so called "friends" gave to him. In order to achieve his status as one of the worst presidents in history, he had lots of advice and I think he should identify those who conjured up so many egregious ideas. But only he can reveal the real perpetrators of crimes against the constitution.
CarmanK
"Middle class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action." Paul Krugman.
export version (pic)
Good one!
Why would you want him on conservative sycophantic programs? I want him on Keith or Rachel or Ed or NPR or any reputable news organization. You know the type that know how to ask follow questions and challenge a lie.
cross NPR off your list there (National Petroleum Radio). They were co-opted years ago. See Cokie Roberts, Mara Liasson, et al.
me-oww!
country, the least he could do is help Republicans NOT get elected.
Hoping the MSM will publicize the Bush years' horrors without the use of rationalization and false equivelencies? Fuget it.
According to this press account, the book comes out Nov. 9. Bush will be talking to a group about drug and alcohol abuse on Nov. 10.
Former President To Speak at Milwaukee Charity Fundraiser
By Tom Murray
MILWAUKEE - Former President George W. Bush is planning a trip to Milwaukee this fall.
He will speak at a mega-fundraiser banquet for Teen Challenge this November, one day after his book "Decision Points" is due for release.
In that book, Mr. Bush writes about his own battle with alcohol and his decision to quit drinking.
That is expected to be a theme of his speech in Milwaukee.
"We are really excited," said Rev. Craig Harper. "Great opportunity for Teen Challenge, our students and the 17,000 supporters that help us exist."
The former President pointed to Teen Challenge as an example of a successful faith-based program.
"Matt was addicted to drugs," Mr. Bush said during a speech about the organization's effect on one person.
"He had spent time because of robbery. He was lost and then he was found by people at Teen Challenge."
Former First Lady Laura Bush has also publicly voiced support for the Christian addiction rehab program.
"With the power of faith and hard work, Teen Challenge graduates have gone on to become doctors, business owners and community leaders."
Wisconsin's Teen Challenge center, with dorms and classroom space, is on Milwaukee's northwest side.
Tickets are $100 each for the event on November 10th.
An estimated 600 of the 2,000 tickets have already been sold.
I have not doubt that the withholding of Sarah's new book is the fear that releasing it would just be an opportunity to rehash Sarah's many failures.
Same with Bush's book. Except the RepoCons probably assume it will help them during an election. And Fox can be counted on to replay Bushes successes over, and over, and over.
I'm starting to feel like a middle-school English teacher. Salon has been terrible lately about letting simple, glaring examples of correctable mistakes get past their gates. Et tu, C&L?
I'd say "taut" could pass as a typo only if the "o" key were anywhere near the "a" key.
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