Bush: I don't worry about anything. I feel -- feel comfortable in my role

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Q You're worried, sir, that you're losing some of your push?

THE PRESIDENT: I don't worry about anything here in Washington, D.C. I mean, I feel -- feel comfortable in my role as the President, and my role as the President is to push for reform. The American people appreciate a President who sees a problem and is willing to put it on the table.

Listen, admittedly, I could have taken the easy route and said, let's don't discuss Social Security until somebody else shows up in Washington. But that's not what the American people want from their President. And we have a serious problem in Social Security. Thalia asked about the Social Security issue, and I reminded her that the attitude is beginning to shift here in Washington, because for a while, people here said there really wasn't a significant problem and I wish he hadn't have brought it up. And now people are beginning to see the realities of Social Security, and the fact that we're about to pass on a huge burden to a young generation of Americans -- a burden, by the way, which doesn't have to be passed on. We can permanently solve Social Security, and should permanently solve it. And I've laid out some initiatives to get us on the way to permanently solving Social Security.

I look forward to the day of sitting down with Republicans and Democrats and congratulating both political parties on doing what's right for the American people -- a day, by the way, the American people expect to come, as well.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050531.html

[atommom]

1. Yikes. That is a very Reaganesque expression on his face.

Think he's been practicing? It's the same expression that used to drive me nuts back in the Reagan years, when he used to get away with murder while pretending to be an affable old man.

"Are they buyin' it? I'm not smirking... will they believe me now?"

[Mnemosyne]

3. Alzheimer's?! Brain damage?!

Raygun drove me nuts also.

When he testified in Iran/Contra I laughed my behind off (not enough, LOL)and called him liar more than once at hearing "I don't recall" 4000 times. He really couldn't remember!! He was still a hateful prick, illness or not.

Hope dimson doesn't pull this when investigated. What a jackass!

[hnsez]

2. What? Me Worry?

[jimshoes]

7. Here's another

[Ikonoklast]

4. Truly amazing; he just doesn't realize

that he is a lame duck and the Senate Repubs. know it. They are distancing themselves from this admin. before the whole thing blows up and takes them with it.

[jaxx]

5. Blair comes to town next week........we'll see how comfortable dubya is

http://www.thisislondon.com/til/jsp/modules/Article/print.jsp?itemId=18991590

Who will have the cajones to stand up and ask the war boys why they "fixed" the intel to get us into Iraq?

[lachattefolle]

14. Betcha it'll be a Brit, unless Blair does a Kharzai and leaves them

all at home.

[carnie_sf]

6. What a f***ing asshole

[tex-wyo-dem]

8. Unfrickingbelievable...

"the fact that we're about to pass on a huge burden to a young generation of Americans"

Got news for ya bubble boy, you've already accomplished that "huge burden" all by your lonesome...and it ain't social security I'm talking about.

[Writer]

9. Narcissistic Personality Disorder

The man is a f'd-up mess.

[PurityOfEssence]

10. Well, my agent sent me out for the gig, and they cast me

Since then, I've been very well taken care of.

There's never a forced call.

Meal penalties just add to my personal fortune.

The per diem is hella good, and the perks flow like the mighty river Jordan.

The writers never seem to get it right, and those directors are assholes. Still, it's good to be king.

The only thing bad about it is that I actually have to show up for shit. DON'T THEY KNOW WHO I AM? Born into patrician luxury, I shouldn't have to do ANYTHING to maintain my aristocratic joy.

[Vinca]

11. The poor man is dumb as a stump.

My hatred is turning to pity. He ought to be institutionalized.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

12. He certainly was a mess this morning...

...the impression I had was that he "listens to the voices in his head."

Now, that may be Rove or Hughes or Cheney speaking into his earpiece, keeping him "on topic," or he may be legitimately losing it, or it could be a combination of the two.

I just remember, as a little kid, the concept of "President of The United States." It was a larger than life man, a "Superman," a man who embodied all that was good and represented the spirit that built America.

George W. Bush isn't that man. He's a small man, a man who hid in the bottle while men and women his age died in Viet Nam. A man who never had to work for a thing, because every time he failed at something he'd given less than a half-hearted effort to, his daddy gave him a bright and shiny new venture to run into the ground. He's a coward, a liar, a fake, a sham. He's burned more bridges and alienated more international allies than any president in U.S. history.

I watch him, especially in recent days, and I think of the title of David Bowie & Pat Metheney's song from the movie "Falcon And The Snowman"...

"THIS IS NOT AMERICA."

[leesa]

13. Right. That's why we have to pay a fortune for your personal security.

What a loser!