Bush news conference, and I must say...

[Yzzim]

From CNN:
In the first news conference of his term, President Bush today pushed his budget plan and turned aside questions about the Clinton pardon controversies, saying "I've got too much to do ... to be worrying about decisions that my predecessor made."

 

[loosbrew]

iamwiz,

so you wanting nader in but you settled for bush who wants to destroy alaskan national parks to drill for 9 months worth of oil? hmmm...

loosbrew

 

[tontod]

Democrats kept changing the rules because the Republicans kept interrupting the vote counting process at every step of the way. They tried to discredit the counting right from the start, forcing the Democrats to change the methods of counting so the Republicans wouldnt complain. Remember, it was the Republicans that first went to court.

 

[Zucchini]

loosebrew,

doesn't sound unreasonable most naderittes don't know half the green platform, makes sense they wouldn't give a $hit. As for gore being corrupt as clinton? thats an ignorant thing to say, the thing that clinton did to most piss off the far left is being so centrist. Gore is more to the left, and thus should be more appealing to them..

 

[Recneps]

Why do people act like X partie is god and that (place name of person choosen by X partie officials to be the next leader) can not screw up and got the most votes when no one even got 49% of the votes and about 50% of the people voted for the loser. That means only 25% of the nation want bubba enought to driver to a poll and take 5 minutes of thier time. Why can't we all agree that both the repbulican and dem. sucks?

 

[SpongeBob]

so you wanting nader in but you settled for bush who wants to destroy alaskan national parks to drill for 9 months worth of oil? hmmm...

I have to agree with loosebrew on this one, I also voted for nader. I knew that what I was doing was hurting Gore's chances, but if I voted for Gore or Bush I wouldn't be able to say I voted my conscience. Bush is going to kill the environment, it's sad really, people can talk all they want about helping the economy by cutting down a few trees, but when their children's children don't have clean air they're gonna wish nader had won. Just my $.02

 

[chess9]

George Bush is probably the dumbest president we've ever elected. However, he has a pretty good cabinet and he knows how dumb he is, which is more than I can say for a lot of people, including many of my fellow Democrats. Let's pray he listens more than he talks, and that he gets good advice.

(So far, much to my surprise, he hasn't made any truly colossal blunders.)

 

[Isla]

Ditto on the McCain thing.

I would have voted for him in a heartbeat... He has that spark of integrity that that both Bush and Gore lack.

Plus, for some reason I think the man is sexy as hell! Actually, I think the reason I think he is sexy is because I like men with integrity.

 

[shiner]

<< Democrats kept changing the rules because the Republicans kept interrupting the vote counting process at every step of the way >>



You've got it wrong my friend. The Republicans staged a protest and then demanded access to the vote count because the Democrat controlled election board decided to take the count to a back office out of view of the public which was in violation of Florida election law.

If you will also remember they initially were only going to count &quot;chads&quot; that were punched through but still hanging by one corner, then after that count was done and Gore had in fact lost ground they decided to count &quot;swinging chads&quot; that were hanging by two corners. That vote began and about 1/2 through it they decided to count &quot;chads&quot; that were hanging by three corners, they finished that count and still Gore was behind so they decided to count &quot;pregnant chads&quot; that had been punched but had not gone through, still Gore was behind. It then became &quot;dimpled chads&quot; that just had some sort of indentation in them. In short what they were trying to do with the &quot;dimpled chads&quot; was interpret what the voter meant to do, NOT actually count the votes. I know a lot of people that will skip a race or two on a ballot simply because they don't like either candidate. In that case they may have put the pencil on one of the names for a second but never punched it through because they decided NOT to vote in that race. Would you have the election board trying to read their minds and decide what the voter intended to do?

 

[Recneps]

Who gives a crap about fly chads any more it is over and it will not make any differance how much you bitch about chads.

You can't blame a 3rd partie for you man loosing. It is the way the system is set up. If it wasn't for the dumd ass electral college BS about winner take all then there could be a 3rd partie could run and it wouldn't be stealing votes.

 

[etech]

yahoo news

Bush said that if enacted, his budget will reduce debt by an ``unprecedented amount'' over the next four years. Altogether, about 60 percent of the projected federal surplus over the next 10 years will be used to fund priorities and to reduce debt, the White House said.

Wednesday Bush said he would increase the Education Department budget by 11.5 percent, or $4.6 billion, giving it the largest percentage increase of any department. He told lawmakers last week he would seek to hold overall spending increases to around four percent.

Bush pledged to slow the growth of overall spending and said there might be a ``decrease or two'' in some agencies.

I'm still happy that I voted for Bush. He was elected by the votes that were legal and cast on election day, not the ones that the democrats tried to fabricate in the recount processes. But trying to explain that fact to the Soreloserman crowd is somewhat futile.

 

[OutHouse]

Chess9

what proof do you have that bush is the dumbest president ever elected? And to all you other gore supporters if your going to make a statement like &quot;he (Bush)stole the election&quot; why dont you qualify that statement with some fact!

Bush won, get over it, even with all the RECOUNTS after all the other recounts BUSH not GORE got the most votes.

 

[rgb7]

Red - Earlier in the thread, I was actually pleased to read a post of yours in which you exercised some restraint and offered an observation many could agree with. Then this..,

<< Like it really mattered who won! One couldn't tell the truth and the other couldn't tell tell you who was buried in Grant's Tomb! >>

Your only accomplishment was to show your own ignorance/stupidity, which got awfully tiresome many, many posts ago.


Dead Wrong........again.

Fdiskboy - Amen

LG

 

[UnixFreak]

<< We really elected a Jackass for the White House >>




We elected this guy?? When? I thought bush was the guy who had some good connections and was offered the job, I didnt know we got to choose who got to be president. Maybe next election we'll get to decide, I think they cancelled that this last time.



<< Who are you gonna trust?? The people or the government?? >>

GW Bush

 

[rickn]

I wasnt referring to the election, we are past that. I am talking about the way he conducts himself, body language, his attitue. He is a Jacka$$ and rude

 

[UWDawg]

What a chose this last election Jackass George or @#$#@ Gore.

 

[Jalapeno]

&quot;No, No! It was not &quot;WE elected him, - it was YOU!

I wonder why people don't come to their senses before election day.

 

[JellyBaby]

All things equal isn't it amazing how some people have exactly the opposite gut reactions to two different presidents? The first instant I saw Clinton I couldn't stand him. Yet for others he's a chummy, sincere fellow who they could be friends with. Bush the person doesn't bother me at all. He's likable, sensible and reasonable. Must be his &quot;aura&quot; or something. But other people gaze at him and see the Bloody Devil. Weird.

Now, I wonder if our perceptions would change if we didn't know their politics before seeing them for the first time?

 

[rickn]

Jalapeno: I am aware some people voted for him, some didn't. This country is 1 nation, therefore it was this nation that put him in the whitehouse. I voted for Gore. I am registered republican, I wanted McCain, but I wasnt about to vote for Bush

 

[Jalapeno]

Good. At least you don't have to blame yourself and be in misery for the next four years.

Hey, I live in Texas and I have experienced him for a long time as a governor. Nobody would listen to me, but now - the ones I know who did vote for him - regret it. Too late.

 

[etech]

Just for the people that missed it the first time.
Dade recount

Now can some of you get over your fantasy that Gore actually won the election.

 

[JellyBaby]

Jalapeno,

That brings up a good point. If you actually physically feel oppressed by the president, any president, you've got serious personal issues to work through. A democrat president doesn't automatically steal your money; a repub. president doesn't automatically steal your civil rights.

 

[SuperTool]

Too bad for Bush, the economy is heading for the gutter, and he will get the blame, fair or not.
His only hope is that we are still talking about Clinton in 4 years.
I don't think even the congressional Republicans can stretch this thing out for that long.
Sure when things are going good, people have the luxury of bitching about sex and pardons. But when their retirements are wiped out in this market, and they have no job, maybe then they will figure out what's really important.

 

[bonk102]

ok, at this point, gore nor bush is competent enough to be running our country, where's buchanon when you need him?

 

I agree.
Regan put the country in debt.
Took 12 years to get out.
So now, hey... LETS DO IT AGAIN!!!
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
:disgust: