Reasons for the Press Conference

[erpowers]

This morning Rachel Maddow was trying to find a reason for Bush holding is Press Conference last night. She speculated that he may have done it in order to take the press off the issue of the first 100 days of his second term. I contend he did it to try to keep as much coverage off the pictures that were released today of soldiers being returned from Iraq. It could also be that he wants to prevent the media from covering the breaking news that the Y2K bomber told government officials about the 9/11 plot three months before it happened. So what do DUers think?

[Gato Moteado]

1. the reason bush did it is because his handlers told him to

bush doesn't make a single decision, every decision is made for him. every script is written for him. he has earpieces in his ear to get coaching when he starts screwing up (which, as everyone can see, is often). he's an idiot. a puppet. a whore. nothing more.

now, what karl rove's reasons behind having a press conference are, i don't know.

[ktowntennesseedem]

4. BINGO!!! No way to say any better!

Personally, I think he did it for a multitude of reasons, but your right: they were Rove's, not Shrub's.

[smurfygirl]

2. Reason: his poll numbers.

Along with the fact he has been traveling everywhere with the two biggest nuts other than himself. I'm talking Delay and Frist.

He looks like a sellout. People are starting to see it (although I can't understand how they couldn't before) Oil company's are making all time profits and we are suffering. And polls show that people blame the President for oil prices. Then he is seen giving kisses to the grand oil man in robes. And it seems that little scare the other day coincides to well with the mp3 player that they found on that plane. And then a cloud comes along to take Bush to meet his maker. Sounds all fishy to me. Just reading between the lines anymore is getting chaotic.

[whistle]

3. So what has Bush accomplished in his first 100 days....

...not much at all! Passed another $70 billion in tax cuts, chopped $10 billion from Medicaid, gutted hundreds of social programs and had the largest spending budget in U.S. history passed while he talked to reporters last night of $2.6 trillion with a deficit that will now go over $750 billion in 2006. The economy looks like it may be tanking, gas prices are at an all time high, interest rates are accelerating, the stock market is vacillating and inflation, something that almost disappeared under Clinton is back and galloping. This president is the most fiscally irresponsible president that we've ever had!

[ktowntennesseedem]

5. But... but... but...

...he has a good heart!

:puke:

[mtnester]

6. It was an attempt at damage control

his poll numbers suck

Delay is his good buddy

The Shiaivo case backfired on him

He, as a sitting president with control of the house and senate, can get NOTHING done

He scared everyone silly with his SS scam

The photos of the war dead

Gannon/Guckert resurrection

The damning evidence that they were warned months in advance about the 9/11 attacks (of all the things this moronic administration is doing/has done, THIS little gem will be the one that hurts the most)

The people AND the press are starting to rumble, dissent is growing strong...

When you have a thousand lies/scams going, one of them is bound to get loose, rise up and take you down. It alwyas happens that way

[DawnneOBTS]

7. They can't hold out forever

Someone on this thread made a good point-that when you are entangled in so so so many lies, you are going to screw up sooner or later and slip up. You can't cover everything, and with so many assholes involved in each scam/lie, you have a lot of information to correlate to a lot of people to make sure that everyone is telling the exact same lie. Kinda impossible with a bunch of assholes, which the entire BushCo is.