Today's Bushism on Social Security

If this duck were any more lame, he'd be shot to be put out of our misery already.

I'm spending a lot of time convincing seniors nothing changes, and convincing folks there's a problem," Bush said, making his 33rd campaign-style appearance on Social Security since declaring it his top domestic priority in February.

60 days...wasn't that also how long he thought we'd be in Iraq?

"This is just the beginning of a very difficult debate," he told reporters during a news conference Tuesday. While Bush said he expected an eventual breakthrough "like water through a rock," he added again, "We're just beginning the process."

Brain melting from stupidity overload....

•  We're just beginning the process...

  Yes, like Iraq.  Thanks George.  You sure convinced me.

  by Gabriele Droz on Thu Jun 02, 2005 at 06:25:27 PM PDT

•  Oy Vay!

   nothing changes
  +we have a problem
  --------------------------------
  =we keep the problem?

  I repeat...oy vay....

  by TigerX on Thu Jun 02, 2005 at 06:56:53 PM PDT

•  Ahh

  but the polls show "including a better financial rate of return than the current system, the Bush plan was supported by 52 percent of Americans and opposed by 40 percent. "

  From

  Zogby
  

  by Sub Hunter on Thu Jun 02, 2005 at 07:10:17 PM PDT

  •  question

    In the interests of full disclosure, are you a republican or a democrat?  
    

    by markymarx on Thu Jun 02, 2005 at 09:31:26 PM PDT

    •  Dem

      Going way back to the Carter Days? What about you?

      (By the way- I am not left wing)

      by Sub Hunter on Fri Jun 03, 2005 at 05:18:33 AM PDT

      •  so.... right wing?

        by markymarx on Fri Jun 03, 2005 at 05:52:30 AM PDT

        •  No

          center... Thus not loved by the Left wingers, or right wingers.

          by Sub Hunter on Fri Jun 03, 2005 at 02:21:37 PM PDT

•  thanks for this information..

  ...the key phrase that you cited is, I believe, "like water through a rock".  In Nature, that happens - though it takes years for the freeze-thaw cycle to finally allow the water to pass through.  The translation here is that even the Repukes know they are not likely to prevail right now and gut SS - but they envision themselves as the "water" - which will initially get repelled but will prevail over time - and us as the "rock" - which initially offers strong resistance, but which crumbles over time.

  Screw these Repukes!  Let's "steam" their darn water, and win this thing!
   

  by grunmann on Thu Jun 02, 2005 at 07:23:31 PM PDT

•  The more of those ridiculous

  dog-and-pony shows he does, the worse it gets for him, and the better for the country.

  I hope he campaigns on this right up to the 2006 elections, but Rove will tell him to stop once his polls go below 40.

  by devtob on Thu Jun 02, 2005 at 07:28:46 PM PDT

•  George thinks the Grand Canyon....

  was created by the Biblical flood 6 thous years ago, so water through rock is not quite as long a process for him...but even 6000 years is beyond his lifespan...think he knows that?

  is this guy gonna go directly from the White House to some sort of ward somewhere?

  I think Cheney would suggest that Bush's activity level on SS means that he is beaten.

  by seesdifferent on Thu Jun 02, 2005 at 07:52:52 PM PDT

•  Good Lord,

  what is wrong with this man?  And what the hell is he still doing shilling the SS piratization anyway?  Isn't this like, the 90th day, of his 60-day tour?  Our fucking tax dollars at work.

  As this is a Bushism diary, I must share my absolute favorite Bushist "WTF!?"'s:

  SS piratization=Vegas gambling...
  "That's how interest works. It compounds. It grows. Now, people say, what does that mean, a personal savings account? Can I take the money and go right down to the road where I was staying in this part of the world and put it in the slots?"
  -Mar. 11, 2005

  President of the United States, Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces gives "Pimps Up, Hos Down" a run for their money with this bizarre comment...
  "I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed in the atmosphere, and they say, man, you're looking pretty."
  -- Washington, D.C., Nov. 4, 2004

  New Constitutional requirement for presidential candidates: they must be able to be put to sleep without a nighty-night bedtime story...
  "Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of Hop on Pop." - 2002

  by GN1927 on Thu Jun 02, 2005 at 08:08:29 PM PDT