WaPost column: B*sh is "taking instruction from his dog"

[LiberalEsto]

Richard Cohen is far from liberal, but his column in today's Washington Post suggests the Preznit is barking mad.

It's interesting that even established members of the DC press corps are finally reaching the conclusion that we DUers and many other Americans made years ago.

"Still, there is accumulating evidence that Bush is talking to mirrors and taking instruction from his dog. He makes no sense, saying he's amenable to change one day and digging in his heels the next. "I'm not going to pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete," he said recently. Yes. Absolutely. But what is the mission? Please, ask the dog. Lives are being wasted."

The rest of Cohen's column, for a change, is worth reading because it's about the recent exchange between * and Senator-elect Jim Webb. Cohen suggests that it might require Webb to perform a "polite version of a Cagneyesque grapefruit to the face" of * to finally get him to pay attention to the loss of young lives in Iraq.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401051.html?nav=hcmodule

[Eurobabe]

1. Dear Richard....we didn't elect Jim Webb to BEHAVE HIMSELF

We elected him because he has a free-thinking spirit, and is just the type of person to rattle the cages inside the Beltway.

Bush's mind has gone missing, he has no manners and is genuinely not concerned about anyone but himself these days. His query to Webb was somewhat disingenious at best.

If we wanted someone who behaved and did the Bush two-step, we'd have re-elected George Felix Allen.

(don't expect an answer from Richard Cohen either, I already blasted George PRIG Will for his column)

[LiberalEsto]

2. If anyone needs a lesson on manners, it's *

The sheer gall of * tweaking Webb about his son in Iraq, when *'s own daughters are partying their butts off, is breathtaking.

[kenny blankenship]

6. One could possibly interpret Bush's question about Webb's son as a threat

I don't know what Webb Junior is doing over there in Iraq, but he could be ordered into dangerous areas and situations by a Commander In Chief who wasn't happy with that Marine's pa was a-sayin' up in the Senate. It's not definite, but the nature of such a "how's your _______ doing?" threat is always ambiguous.

[Eric J in MN]

8. It sucks that we don't have video or audio.

Maybe Bush said in a threatening manner. Maybe Bush said it in a compassionate manner. We don't know.

Personally, I believe that Bush probably had good intentions in this conversation.

While I consider Bush despicable, I don't think that threatening a man's son in a crowded room is his style.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

9. It wasn't a threat so much -- started polite then turned impolite

I have seen some posts in the last few days to the effect that Bush knew Webb's son had been in a convoy that was attacked, and several nearby Marines had been wounded and killed. If, when Webb said, "I'd like to bring them all home," Bush had said, "So would I," and then asked about Webb's son again, the story would have had a much different ending. Instead, Bush went straight to bully mode, and Webb was right to shut him down.

[Eric J in MN]

7. Richard Cohen writes that if Jim Webb shoved a grapefruit

...in Bush's face, he'd deserve a "medal."

[Hoosier Dem]

3. Talking to his dog...Just like Son of Sam

Except that the Bush Reign of Terror has a higher body count.

[LiberalEsto]

4. I wonder which dog, Barney

or Miz Beazley, is his key advisor.

[radfringe]

5. bush refuses to listen to his dog

Bush: Hey there Barney, How's things going?

Barney: ruff!

Bush: I don't want to hear it...

[necso]

10. I find this offensive to

the w's dog, and to dogs in general.

Now, mind you, I've known some fairly mentally-ill dogs (making this judgement based on comparing their acts to the canine gold-standard -- or to the common standard).

(For example, one of trailer-tweeker's dogs that I used to feed would urinate on his food before eating it, if it was more than a mouthful (so as to discourage the other, dominant dog from eating it, I suppose). We evolved an arrangement where he would come over when he could get away alone (and I was outside), and I would feed him -- but he still pissed on his food, even in these circumstances -- and he was still a nasty, vicious piece-of-work. (If he came over with the other dog, I enforced sharing by various means, including a ready willingness to resort to quick, explosive, brutal, overwhelming force*.))

But no dog is so frelled-up as to give such guidance. w must be misunderinterpreteratating.

*: For all you softhearted types, I never did anything violent to them (although they were vicious, ungrateful POS's, who tried their best to bite me on a number of occasions -- but I was expecting this), my ready, and readily-apparent, willingness to resort to effective violence (when the circumstances demand it) proved to be a sufficient deterrent... as it often does.

"I first produced me pistol, and I then produced me rapier,
Saying stand and deliver, for you are a bold deceiver."

[necso]

11. The poor bastard hobbled around with

an untreated broken-leg (or an otherwise badly-injured back leg) for several months. (During which time is when we worked out our arrangement. Although they were poorly fed, and I fed them whenever they came over: which was not that often generally, as their owner was very domineering with them.)

And when I thought (think) about how the neighborhood suspected he got this injury, I harbored (harbor) dark, dark thoughts.

However, they've moved.

...

I also gave their owner dog food (even bought it!) -- as did another neighbor. But even when he had dog food, his dogs attacked crunchies (including the super-cheap kind) in a way that spoke of real hunger. I suspect that he used food as a means of control -- and as a way to torture.

[gratuitous]

12. Dear Mr. Cohen

Regarding your new-found skepticism. You're about 100,000 deaths and a trillion dollars too late. Kindly shove it.

[Coaster City]

13. Better Find Some More Secret Service Agents........

So he don't take a shit on the White House lawn while the cameras are rolling. Where is that guy who takes pictures of Britney's crotch when you need him?