Bush on MSNBC "I have no knowledge of Brown resigning"

[Jeanette in FL]

Reporter asks him if he has accepted Browns resignation. Says he is not going to comment on something that he doesn't know about. Says he hasn't talk to Chertoff, he has been working on the ground. What an asshat. This is getting worse and worse.

[justiceischeap]

1. Just goes to show he lies or has absolutely no clue! (eom)

[SodoffBush]

3. How about "C"--Both of the above?

[Jeanette in FL]

4. Yep

Says I can't comment on something you all might have more information than I do. Isn't that the f**king truth.

[TahitiNut]

44. He hasn't been told by Cheney, yet.

:shrug:

[Imagevision]

55. And Rove remains clueless on next strategic moves to bail out Bush

Everything is happening so fast... Bush is still in Blame game mode.

[converted_democrat]

2. How fucking clueless can one man be???? n/t

[merbex]

6. I don't even want to hazrd a guess just how inept he can be

because what we've seen so far is scary enough

[wtmusic]

5. Brown must be pissed

to not let him know before making a statement.

This keeps getting more flavorful.

[MsTryska]

7. that's funny....

cuz your boy over at the American Enterprise Institute knew on friday night.

[moodforaday]

Well, BBC does have that knowledge

The United States' top emergencies official has resigned in the wake of criticism over the rescue effort following Hurricane Katrina.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4239364.stm

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. The shit must be really falling apart at the WH

anyone know whose got the football?

[havocmom]

23. One hopes the 'football' has no air in it.

The brass wouldn't let the idiot play with a full football would they?

[DoYouEverWonder]

43. Actually, Rummie is the one I'm more frightened of

He's got all his stooges in top posts and enough bots to be dangerous.

Rummie was running the response the first week and we were well on the to turning New Orleans in Fallujah.

[havocmom]

70. Yeah, Rummy scares me too. Especially since news got out about private

contractors 'guarding' top commanders in Iraq. Any career officer making it to Gen rank probably knows enough about people to pick his own body guards with confidence. Having private contracted goons makes me think the officers are under house arrest and taking orders from the corporations. Guess it backs up my theory that the troops in Iraq are hostages and we pay ransom to Halliburton and the others.

Makes me really fear for our troops and our people at home.

[Blue Belle]

48. Full football... No. Nerf Fotball... Perhaps.

Although this idiot would bungle even that. :eyes:

[marions ghost]

60. yeah really

I had the same feeling ...seems like there's no quarterback anywhere at the moment

Is nobody at the helm or maybe the rudder broke?

[RevolutionStartsNow]

9. Are you kidding me?

That's hilarious. Apparently no one bothers to tell him anything, poor George.

And what's this shit about "working on the ground"? What is he doing down there?

[defiant1]

63. He's clearing brush....

and cutting down trees.

You know, hard work!

:rofl:

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. he has to talk to chertoff... hey what is going on

dick told me to take care of it

You &**^&^**((*& This is admiting *(&^^((9b Guilt

Sir, we took care of it... got my drift?

There your fly in the wall momeent, thank my X-25 fly form UAV

[gollygee]

11. They didn't know about the hurricane, mentioned on TV, now

they don't know about brown's resignation, also on tv.

Do they not keep on top of current events?

[emulatorloo]

45. should we pitch in and buy the White House a television? or the internets?

EOM

[Lone_Star_Dem]

12. Once again he finds out what's going on in this country from the media

What the hell does he do all day long?

[stevietheman]

39. Maybe he'll start reading the newspaper or watching the news now....

hahahaha... who am I kidding? :)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

54. He might hear ill of himself

I think they only let him watch programs like "Blues Clues" to make sure he doesn't find out what America is thinking of his sorry butt. Well, that and the fact they're hoping he may benefit from some pre-k educational TV.

[all.of.me]

13. 'working on the ground'?! bwahahahahahhahaha

no, riding around the flooded streets in a humongous military vehicle. fucker should roll up his sleeves, don some waders and join the others going house to house to find people, dead or alive. dead or alive. where have i heard that before?!?!

[demzilla]

61. kinda like Dukakis in that tank! NT

[Generator]

Christ on a crutch!

These people are trying to drive us mad. Oh wait we are already pissed, angry and insane. But he's the crazy one! He DOESN'T know huh? Cue Jon Stewart.

[SillyGoose]

14. OMG! You are kidding, right? How can he NOT know about this?

Here I am a measley little middle aged homemaker with CNN and a computer and I know about it. Sheesh.

[GOPisEvil]

15. "No one could have anticipated Brownie's resignation."

:eyes:

[bballny]

16. Why would he know

Dick Cheney and Karl Rove asked for his resignation. Why would Bush know

[faithnotgreed]

17. sweeeet response - thanks bush

just proves it again how completely disconnected you are and that you arent running squat in this country (except towards your bank accounts)

[Enraged_Ape]

18. He has no knowledge of his own rear end

Which is why he's always making a stinky mess.

[Pithy Cherub]

19. the borg bushbots have some screws loose and falling parts

are appearing everywhere...:popcorn:

[Totally Committed]

20. Well, that about says it all right there...

The

President

of

the

United

States

says

he

doesn't

know

about

the

resignation

of

a

Cabinet-level

appointee.

Well, SOMEONE, accepted his resignation! I was taught that since Cabinet-level positions served at the pleasure of the President, they could only be released by the President.

Is Bush the President or not?

TC

[justiceischeap]

26. C H E N E Y accepted it (eom)

[charlie]

28. A nit...

Chertoff's cabinet level, FEMA's been demoted. Otherwise, good point.

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. yes, yes he is

Dick told Chertoff to take care of it, he did... bush is just a figure head.. this is as much confirmation as you ever wanted

[texpatriot2004]

21. If only he watched TV or read a paper n/t

[understandinglife]

22. OUT OF CONTROL -- Can you broadcast that to Osama any louder, Georgie boy

Peace.

[Solly Mack]

24. I'd laugh if it wasn't just so damn tragic

[Whoa_Nelly]

25. About a week ago, when Brownie was asked re: resignation

He replied, "It's not up to me. It's up to the President."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

That was a lie, Bush is lying now, it isn't up to the prez for Brown to resign....this is getting better and better. Damage control is so out of control. :popcorn:

[justiceischeap]

32. Good catch! I'd forgotten all about that

There honestly has been too many lies to keep up with in the last weeks. It's worse than a tennis match I tell you.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

37. Damage Control

See, that's the interesting thing here. This little incident today, Brown resigning all over the press but * not having a clue and ADMITTING it on TV, is not like this group. Rove usually has a tighter handle on things and would've had a spin on this story even before it hit that Brown had resigned.

Somebody's starting to slip...

[nadinbrzezinski]

41. Why do the names Erlichman and Halderman

keep coming up today?

[necso]

27. A bad farce.

Bush keeps his image of being a loyal master (critical to keep flunkeys-at-risk from getting nervous) -- and (still) the (publicity) "problem" is removed.

Not a bad strategy, it might "sell".

[demzilla]

65. Nope, it won't sell this time.

I think it was HR Haldeman who told Nixon: Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.

Bush's failure to know about the resignation of his own FEMA director creates yet another publicity problem, which only ties into the perception that he's not on top of things, which is a huge publicity problem resulting from his response to Katrina.

[onecent]

30. Don't his people tell him ANYTHING???

[JuniperLea]

31. He could have simply said "I have no knowledge"

Why not cover all bases at once? He seems to have no knowledge whatsoever with regard to anything.

[OneGrassRoot]

33. what a friggin moran..........

but he's sure making our jobs a lot easier.....

[HoosierClarkie]

34. La la la la

La la la .....

[RevolutionStartsNow]

42. or as Laura would trill...,

zip-a-de-do-dah, zip-a-de-day!

[Liberalynn]

35. Dumbya

is too busy watching the Dukes of Hazzard for the 25th time. He love's Jessica in those Daisy Dukes. :shrug:

[Cassandra]

36. I don't think that totally clueless...

is the best way to play this. Does anyone tell him anything? Does he ever want to know?

[ThoughtCriminal]

38. Aids are still drawing straws to figure out who tells him

Newsweek made it pretty clear that nobody likes to deliver bad news to the brat.

[OhioChick]

40. I saw this while watching CNN

It was crawling on the bottom of the screen. I "thought" that I read it wrong.........guess not. What a joke.

[faithnotgreed]

49. oh its unraveling now.....

[stevietheman]

46. "Working on the ground" = "Posing for photo-ops"

Boy, the chimp really loves to underestimate the intelligence of the American people, most of whom are actually smarter than his ass-holiness.

[librechik]

47. testy, testy--"I'm not gonna answer that again!" n/t

[displacedtexan]

50. If Brown resigns, and Bush doesn't know it...

... does "Brownie" continue to get paychecks?

Just asking.

[JaneQPublic]

52. And does * continue thinking he's doing a heck of a job? n/t

[Kazak]

51. Well, gee...

And it was done "in the best interest of the president" even!

:crazy:

[Marr]

53. In five days, Bush will do a fly-over on Brown and survey his

unemployment status from 25,000 feet.

[Batgirl]

56. if his handlers tell him something he doesn't want to hear...

...the little snot will wish them into the cornfield. (old Twilight Zone reference.)




"The people in Peaksville have to smile all the time, think happy thoughts, and say happy things, because that's what Anthony commands and, if they disobey, he can wish them into a cornfield or change them into grotesque versions of themselves."

[emulatorloo]

59. nice analogy-- thank you...

EOM

[demzilla]

57. Every morning I wake up

to witness yet another crunch in this eight-year-long traffic accident called the Bush Administration.

Nice to see they're crashing into each other for a change. . . .

[Jeanette in FL]

58. They have been playing the clip over and over on MSNBC

Nora O'Donnel said this is very unusual for the President to admit that he didn't know of the resignation of the head of FEMA.

[mtnester]

64. Nora, hate to tell you, it is SOP for this asshat

what little brains he has are located so far up his ass there is no way they will ever see the light of day.

[soleft]

62. I think they sent Bush to NOLA to make him think he's still Pres

[Eurobabe]

66. emperor has...

[tjdee]

67. And he SAID he didn't! Poor Georgie has been working so hard....

There are two hilarious pieces to this.

The first being that the news and the public found out about this before he did, when they like to tell us how he's so in charge. :rofl:

But even BETTER, he doesn't even have the ability to APPEAR as if he knows WTF he's doing--he straight out says "I have no knowledge" of his resigning. You're the fucking pResident, dude, don't you think you should at least pretend you know what's up?

Poor widdle Georgie. It must be soooo hard, having to fly in planes, pretend to like people and care about them....makes him sleepy...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[donheld]

68. "He has been working on the ground."

How sweet. He's been out back of the white house playing in his sand box.

[ComerPerro]

69. That's always his response. But I don't know how in the hell he gets away

with it.

Ask Bush anything, live, in front of the cameras. He will either spout a bunch of bullshit at you, or he will tell you he "isn't familiar with that situation" (or however the fuck he fumbles through saying that).

He does it so he doesn't have to answer any real questions about developing issues, or issues that he couldn't coherently respond to (not that he is ever coherent, but you get my point).

One example that immediately springs to mind (it was absolutely stunning to me that he got away with this one, which is why I remember it) is when he was asked about Janet Jackson / The Superbowl Halftime Show a few years ago. He answered with "I fell asleep before the show", and somehow that was enough. They didn't even bother to ask him what he thought about it. Apparently, since he slept through it and doesn't watch the news or read a newspaper he had no idea that it even happened.

So, apparently, our president has no idea about local, statewide, national, or world events because he lives in an information bubble.

And people are ok with this?

Shouldn't they be scared out of their minds?

I am.