Reuters: "Let Bush be Bush" (Strategy for "getting his groove back"... )

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Bush battling to climb out of popularity slump
02 Oct 2005 13:04:41 GMT

Source: Reuters

By Steve Holland

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30209296.htm

WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush is battling to climb out of a slump caused by the slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war and soaring gasoline prices, events that have all combined to damage his credibility and deflate Americans' confidence in him.

The strategy for getting his groove back, aides say, is to narrow his focus and tackle head-on those three top priorities -- hurricane recovery, Iraq and energy -- and set aside for now other items like Social Security and tax reform that he had expected to spend the fall on.

But all three priorities carry their own risks and challenges, with the cost of rebuilding New Orleans straining the U.S. budget and causing consternation among conservatives, American casualties rising in Iraq and gas prices showing no signs of dropping to pre-hurricane levels.

The strategy, said a senior administration official, is to "stay focused on what we're trying to accomplish and recognize that some of that is going to take some time to change." "Doing his job has always been his strongest suit," said one adviser close to the White House. "Let Bush be Bush. Let him lead. It's what Bush does in times like these."

[henslee]

1. Somebodys stolen his mojo. Dick Cheny = Fat Bastard.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Let him lead? Where to? Right down the drain, maybe.

These "senior administration officials" just don't get it, do they?

[ixion]

3. oh, by all means, let him lead... he's been doing SO well thus far

:eyes:
:puke:

[stepnw1f]

4. That's Funny Considering He Is Implicated As a Co-Conspirator...

in the Valerie Plame Case.

Yeah, Bush... be yourself! Rove is such a genius isn't he?:sarcasm:

[peekaloo]

5. Let him lead.......

the lemmings over the cliff.

[janx]

9. Right. I seriously doubt there's anything Chimpy can do

to save his reputation or his party.

[tandem5]

6. How is ripping off "The West Wing" being yourself?

That's all these people do - they commit horrible acts then spout our ideas and wording to make it sound like they aren't the total whackos that they are!

[Old and In the Way]

10. Just read that at dKos.

Unbelievable. When they aren't catapulting the propaganda, they're ripping off TV shows. If I had my druthers, I'd rather have Bartlett being Bartlett. Dimson can be Dimson on his fake ranch.

[deadparrot]

12. Let's just rip right off of an episode title. Douchebag.

*sigh*

[mcscajun]

19. Yeah, I caught that ripoff, too. Damn fuckers can't leave ANYthing

alone...gotta shit on everything they see.

[BuelahWitch]

7. You mean he once had a "groove"?

You can't get one back if you never had one in the first place...

[Digit]

26. Hell, he never had a groove, mojo, or mandate for that matter

It just looked like a sock stuck in his pants to me.

[jobycom]

8. Problem for Bush is people are finally seeing him being Bush

Before, they saw him playing John Wayne, and all of Bush's mistakes were spun so fast the audience couldn't see them. Now Bush's failures have reached near critical mass, and everyone can finally see what Bush is really like.

Yeah, let him lead some more. He's already lost his father's support. Laura's and his mother's are next.

[blm]

17. YEP. Media's finally showing Bush AS IS instead of the way they sold him

to the country as John Wayne meets Abraham Lincoln.

[kstewart33]

11. They've alway hid the 'real Bush'

Letting Bush be Bush has never happened. But if they want to, go ahead. It's the surest path to dropping poll numbers.

[dchill]

14. There ya go.

I totally agree.

[tandem5]

15. yeah... I think bush was being bush during Katrina nt

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

16. Yep...Bush being Bush as people drowned.

[Fovea]

13. Let ** be **

A big line of coke, a bong hit, and three fingers of Chivas with a Wild Turkey chaser, and he'll be good as new!

[mcscajun]

18. "Let him lead. It's what Bush does in times like these."

It IS? You could have fuckin' fooled ME!

When the going gets tough, Bush leaves town. THAT's What He Does in Times Like These...indeed, All the Time, EVERY TIME.

[gardenista]

20. What a joke. Now if they said, "Let Bush be Bartlett", we could talk

They can't even come up with an original excuse for his horridness.

[ThoughtCriminal]

21. Shallow - all about image, not fixing problems

Because they suck at actually fixing things.

[neweurope]

22. *g* Lead - where to??!

-----------------

Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Dunvegan]

23. ...that I'd like to see...with this caveat...

...that * is "himself" preferably on an MTV in cooperation with CSPAN "reality" show, with the cameras running on him 24/7.

Call it "Real World 16: The Offal Office"

...or as a network prime-time show called:

"Survivor: Indictments...and Then There Were None"

[Pithy Cherub]

24. "Bush in Wonderland" and Alice is pissed off!

Bush slid down into the self created EPA after-muck of Katrina desperately seeking his personal White Rabbit savior. That is an impossibility in all the muck, but hey why would his co-conspirators chiggers itchily interrupt while Bush is "leading" them into the maze. "Let Bush be Bush. Let him lead. It's what Bush does in times like these."

So while Bush is seeking his White Rabbit groove, the US goes to Hell because he refuses to acknowledge his failed "leadership" in blowing up the only roadmap that everybody has/had that makes the US a superpower, the CONSTITUTION. A Patriot Act, nope not gonna help, but tax cuts to Exxon, GE & other Big Oil & Big GOP Contributors will. Haliburton as the Queen of Hearts is beautifully cast.

Meanwhile above ground, the leeches in the White House are desperately trying to escape the long arms of justice. Bush's most trusted exterminator is currently stocking up on perfume to cover the corrupt stench that follows him. DeLay will be stinkily waiting at the White House to welcome Bush back right after he finds the White Rabbit, Mr. Groove...

Blech, and apologies to Mr. Carroll:puke:

[rocktivity]

25. LET Bush be Bush...

as in leave him alone and don't pay attention. Don't ask questions, point out obvious flaws, disagree with his policies or hold him accountable. That's a NEW strategy?

:headbang:
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