Monday, June 07, 2004
BUSH THE FLIP-FLOPPER
By Stockton
These observations come courtesy of Dan Payne at the Boston Globe, showing Bush flip-flopping like a Small-Mouth Bass just yanked out of the water.
Those are just a few of Bush's flip-flops the media and talking heads seem to overlook. We here at LB in '04 urge all right thinking blogs to begin highlighting any real, verifiable flip-flops by the President in the hopes that the media may one day pick up on the issue.
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By Stockton
These observations come courtesy of Dan Payne at the Boston Globe, showing Bush flip-flopping like a Small-Mouth Bass just yanked out of the water.
Bush can't get enough of Chalabi. Chalabi cons Bush's neocons into toppling Saddam; sits behind Laura Bush at State of Union speech; always looks marvelous in custom-made $1,000 suits. US paid him $335,000 a month for "intelligence."
US troops raid Chalabi's house. US soldiers raided Chalabi's home and seized documents and computers. (Hope they didn't wrinkle his suits.) While on US payroll, told Iran that US had cracked code for Iran's secret communications. Time magazine says, "The US's abandonment of Chalabi may prove to be the most head-snapping reversal of all."
Bush opposes Department of Homeland Security. Former press secretary Ari Fleischer says Bush told Congress, "There does not need to be a Cabinet-level Office of Homeland Security." (White House press briefing, Oct. 24, 2001.)
Bush supports Department of Homeland Security. "So tonight, I ask the Congress to join me in creating a single, permanent department with an overriding and urgent mission: securing the homeland of America." (June 6, 2002.)
Bush acrobatics on 9/11 commission. Bush was against creating commission, then for it. Against National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testifying, then for it. Against testifying himself, then for it. Said he'd testify only for one hour. Then said no time limit but had to have Cheney along -- to keep their stories straight.
Bush then: gay marriage is state issue. "The states can do what they want to do. Don't try to trap me in this state's issue like you're trying to get me into." ("Larry King Live," Feb. 15, 2000.)
Bush now: for constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. "Today I call upon the Congress to promptly pass, and to send to the states for ratification, an amendment to our Constitution defining and protecting marriage as a union of man and woman as husband and wife." (Feb. 24, 2004.)
Those are just a few of Bush's flip-flops the media and talking heads seem to overlook. We here at LB in '04 urge all right thinking blogs to begin highlighting any real, verifiable flip-flops by the President in the hopes that the media may one day pick up on the issue.
