President Bush's Temper Tantrums

Posted 4/4/07

Stop the Insanity. I truly believe this President has lost what little mind was left. He looks and sounds like a two year old throwing a temper tantrum. “Do my way, do it my way, do it my way”. (Stomping feet up and down)

"They need to come back, pass a bill," said Bush during a press conference about Congress' efforts to attach conditions for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq to a war spending bill.

The President said Congress' traditional spring recess over Passover and Easter holidays has delayed the passage of emergency Iraq war funding.

"The Democrats in Congress … have left Washington for spring recess without finishing the work," said Bush. "They need to come off their vacation, get a bill to my desk, and if it's got strings and mandates and withdrawals and pork, I'll veto it and then we can get down to business of getting this thing done," he said.

Should you open up that can of worms Mr. President?

President Bush plans to spend Thursday through Sunday at his ranch for an extended Easter weekend. In 2005, Bush was roundly criticized for taking a lengthy vacation of nearly five weeks away from the White House -- one of the longest presidential retreats in at least 36 years -- when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and left New Orleans engulfed in floodwater.

He is already the most-vacationed president this nation has ever had, having spent 405 days, or nearly two out of every five of them since he took office, at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. We‘re not even counting time at Camp David.
And the president‘s hypocrisy on this subject hardly ends with days off, it barely begins there. There‘s his argument that the time for funding the troops is running out, Mr. Bush stated it has been 57 days since he sent Congress his funding request, warning that if lawmakers fail to act soon, quote, “The price of that failure will be paid by our troops and our loved ones.”

The reality is, after Mr. Bush submitted the previous two emergency supplemental bills during the last Republican-controlled Congress, some 86 days, and then 119 days elapsed, respectively, before he signed those measures into law. He said nothing about how long the Republicans had taken to blank-check him on those bills.
"In a time of war, it's irresponsible for the ... Democratic leadership in Congress to delay for months on end while our troops in combat are waiting for the funds," continued the President, adding that the delay could result in the Army being "forced to consider cutting back on equipment, equipment repair and quality of life initiatives for our Guard and Reserve forces."

WHAT? You sent our troops into combat knowing they were not sufficiently trained, did not have armored humvees, did not have body armor and no exit plan. Are you kidding me? Now you want to blame the Democratically controlled Congress. Give me a frigging break.

It should also be noted that both previous funding bills were chock-full of pork, a fact that undercuts even more of Mr. Bush‘s feigned outrage on 4-3-07. Suffice to say, whatever has gone wrong in the war in Iraq and in the separate fight against terrorism, Mr. Bush tried to blame it on Democrats in Congress.

Second, the president insinuated that Congress was taking a remarkably long time to deliver a bill to his desk. 57 days, he said. Think Progress, meanwhile, informed us Tuesday that previous Republican "emergency" bills took as long as 86 and 119 days to reach his desk.

Then there's the pork. President Bush suddenly hates earmarks, which is weird since he signed a steaming Hastert-sized pile of spending bills loaded with pork from the formerly Republican controlled Congress.

Let’s try to take a quick look at his rubber stamped pork filled spending bills that his Republican controlled Congress sent to him.

I borrowed the following information from CAGW, thanks for uncovering these facts.

2006 (from Citizens Against Government Waste)
_$46,908 for Hampton Jitney, Inc. (What exactly is a Jitney anyway?..Taxi?)
_$500,000 for the Arctic Winter Games
_$1,000,000 for the Water-Free Urinal Conservation Initiative (conserving urinals now?)
_$1,000,000 for the CLOSED Philadelphia Navy Yard
_$5,600,000 for the Ernest Gallo Center (wine and alcohol research)
_$3,400,000 for the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, "which was initially designed to capture energy from the aurora borealis [northern lights], but is now being configured to heat up the ionosphere to improve military communications." (I'm wondering if heating up the ionosphere is such an awesome idea.)
_$8,270,000 for breath alcohol testing equipment
_$10,000,000 for the Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium

2005 (from Citizens Against Government Waste)
_$200,000 for the Military-Civilian-Education and Sexual Health Decision-Making Program
_$1,000,000 to restore Woody Island and historic structures
_$1,000,000 to eradicate Brown Tree Snakes
_$1,603,084 in handouts to the hugely profitable Greyhound Bus company (2004)
_$5,000,000 for the U.S. Secret Service National Special Security Event Fund (this is for the Secret Service to protect Super Bowl football players)
_$5,000,000 for the CLOSED Bayonne Military Ocean Terminal (used by Royal Caribbean cruise ships, the movie A Beautiful Mind and the TV show Oz)
_$5,500,000 for the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program

And on further into the speech he actually stated:

Bush: “In other words, suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.”
(Is that a word? Does anyone really say suicider?)

“But nevertheless, I strongly agree that we've got to continue to make it clear to the Iraqi government that this is – the solution to Iraq, an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself, is more than a military mission. “

“It's precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad: to be able to provide some breathing space for this democratically elected government to succeed. And it's hard work, and I understand it's hard work.”

What? (Scratching my head) More than a military mission, so he sent in more military????????

I absolutely think he has cracked.

Oh..... even better, look at the picture of Bush yesterday, Cheney is hiding in the bushes behind him. "PAY NO MIND TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN, I MEAN BUSHES". Talk about creepy. Cheney looks like "The Penguin" smirk, smirk smirk. Where is Batman? He was here. Make the bad men go away..........