Thursday, February 09, 2006
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Does anyone else find it interesting that everytime our president does something that might be a little quetionable he does something or says something in a speach that steals the spotlight from the original act.
Earlier this week he announced a huge $2.77 billion budget plan in which the bulk of the budget is for defence and will create another record deficit. Not only did he announce this plan but he continued to say that he will cut the deficit in half by 2009 by cutting programs. He announced cuts to education and student loan programs as well as medical and medicaid programs. If I remember right weren't education and medicare some of the hot-button issues in the elections?
Now today Bush announces that in 2002 the US stopped a terrorist attack on LA. Now don't get me wrong, this seems important. However it seems a little convenient that this is announced just days after the budget fallout and now it is all over the headlines, overshadowing any thoughts about the budget. And why are we just hearing about this now? It is 2006 right? This happened over three years ago.
Things like this always happen. I cannot even count the amount of times I have read a news blurb about something our president did or signed that was burried in the news. A while ago when bush opened up thousands of acres of previously protected forests and wildlife preserves to build roads, I am pretty sure I found it on page 12D of the science page.
Maybe I am off-base but it just seems that this administration is very good at diversionary tactics and that the american public typically falls for it.
Earlier this week he announced a huge $2.77 billion budget plan in which the bulk of the budget is for defence and will create another record deficit. Not only did he announce this plan but he continued to say that he will cut the deficit in half by 2009 by cutting programs. He announced cuts to education and student loan programs as well as medical and medicaid programs. If I remember right weren't education and medicare some of the hot-button issues in the elections?
Now today Bush announces that in 2002 the US stopped a terrorist attack on LA. Now don't get me wrong, this seems important. However it seems a little convenient that this is announced just days after the budget fallout and now it is all over the headlines, overshadowing any thoughts about the budget. And why are we just hearing about this now? It is 2006 right? This happened over three years ago.
Things like this always happen. I cannot even count the amount of times I have read a news blurb about something our president did or signed that was burried in the news. A while ago when bush opened up thousands of acres of previously protected forests and wildlife preserves to build roads, I am pretty sure I found it on page 12D of the science page.
Maybe I am off-base but it just seems that this administration is very good at diversionary tactics and that the american public typically falls for it.
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I always enjoy the terror alert being elevated at very crucial times. Actually, I just enjoy the terror alert in general. I wish there was an alert at bars that told you what the chances were you were going to do something stupid that elevated after much alcohol consumption.
That being said, every president has done this type of thing. They have the best PR people in the universe.
It's just that our current one usually does it while announcing frightening plans that he knows will piss most people off.
That being said, every president has done this type of thing. They have the best PR people in the universe.
It's just that our current one usually does it while announcing frightening plans that he knows will piss most people off.
I was going to respond to this, but I just saw something shiny and became distracted.
And just so you know, he also hid Social Security reform in the budget. The same reform that was universally trounced last year.
And just so you know, he also hid Social Security reform in the budget. The same reform that was universally trounced last year.
Napa, you are not only on-base, but you are standing directly on the bag--slow-pitch softball-style.
It may be a suprise to you, but this even drives the ten supporters of Bush crazy, too. One of the biggest reasons, I believe, there is such hatred from the left and confusion/frustration from the middle on Bush is this kind of stuff. For whatever reason, Rove & Co. believe that the American public is just going to eat what is spoon-fed to them by this administration. They are wrong. Politicians on both sides do this far too often--the American public is much more well-versed than these assholes give us credit for.
I support many policies to come from this administration, but only because I read deeper than the 30-second news blurb on the news, or the four-column article in the paper (I know you guys do this as well, which leads you to not like it). But for most people, it either:
A) Aligns with their political party.
B) Does not align.
-or-
C) Have someone else explain it to them and take the side of the person explaining.
I do think that Bush is finally starting to get this, and has been holding many more speeches around the country, focusing on a question and answer session more than the speech. And, to the delight of myself and liberals alike, it is completely un-screened and off-the-cuff. President Bush needs to do much, much more of this.
The story you're referring to, Napa, unfortunately is a step in the wrong, and ultimately frustrating, direction. I thought Bush had broken free from Rove a bit, but apparently the leak scandal has been out of the headlines enough where ol' Karl can come around creeping again.
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It may be a suprise to you, but this even drives the ten supporters of Bush crazy, too. One of the biggest reasons, I believe, there is such hatred from the left and confusion/frustration from the middle on Bush is this kind of stuff. For whatever reason, Rove & Co. believe that the American public is just going to eat what is spoon-fed to them by this administration. They are wrong. Politicians on both sides do this far too often--the American public is much more well-versed than these assholes give us credit for.
I support many policies to come from this administration, but only because I read deeper than the 30-second news blurb on the news, or the four-column article in the paper (I know you guys do this as well, which leads you to not like it). But for most people, it either:
A) Aligns with their political party.
B) Does not align.
-or-
C) Have someone else explain it to them and take the side of the person explaining.
I do think that Bush is finally starting to get this, and has been holding many more speeches around the country, focusing on a question and answer session more than the speech. And, to the delight of myself and liberals alike, it is completely un-screened and off-the-cuff. President Bush needs to do much, much more of this.
The story you're referring to, Napa, unfortunately is a step in the wrong, and ultimately frustrating, direction. I thought Bush had broken free from Rove a bit, but apparently the leak scandal has been out of the headlines enough where ol' Karl can come around creeping again.
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