I guess we can thank God for this:
The four leading Republican presidential candidates have aligned themselves with President Bush’s veto on Wednesday of an expanded health insurance program for children, once again testing the political risk of appearing in lock step with a president who has low approval ratings and some critics of the veto within their party.
I think Guiliani has the potential to rescue the GOP from their impending oblivion, but it is never going to happen if he doesn’t aggressively separate himself from the president on domestic issues. The idea that the GOP can restore their reputation for fiscal conservatism by denying children health care is foolish. They are making this too easy.
I am sitting here watching the wh press goggle and ms perino is absolutely the most argumentative person I have ever seen and to not allow the press to ask legit. question and answer them with a calm answer. She is pms-ing out if you ask me. She needs to take a chill pill. She is way to combative to be a spokesperson for us and the wh, etc.
My opinion is if given enough rope they will hang themslves with all of the American citizens.
Perino is an amateur.
be answering fewer questions than Tony Snow.
This is how their job is now defined. If the White House press corps had any sense, they’d boycott these timewasters.
What’s weird is that being part of the WH press corp is considered a prestigious position by journalists. With this administration, they might as well just give the WH a fax number for their talking points.
Maybe W. kissed on the cheek before the news conference and said “go get’em tiger”. Well W is a little ambivalent to professional woman, or he could have cleaned his glasses with her shirt or jacket.
Relevant stuff: I think Orrin Hatch said SCHIPS is morally the right thing to do for Children. So I guess Bush is immoral.
In the nature of the job, the WH is a cushy slot. Lots of face time, lots of byline time, the egoboo of rubbing elbows with the rich and powerful…
and you don’t really have to do much (well, any) actual reporting or work.
For careerists on the make, it’s ideal, and the handful of real journalists left don’t WANT to be there any more.
And then there’s Helen, who remembers the old days when it mattered, and is hanging around hoping to maybe convince a few of the new kids that WH reporting CAN be done well. Or she just likes yanking the chains of the idiotocracy.
I think your observation is spot on!
They’ve got a plan, which includes another, bloody (but not toooo bloody) ‘terra attack’ to be staged within weeks of the ‘election’ next year.
Once that happens, fear and terror, the only two planks in the GOPuke platform, will become all the more attractive…
I hope we get them all on the record as many times as possible. I wouldn’t be surprised if Huckabee came out against it, he’s the only one with any real political sense beyond the 28% dead enders.
Luckily, they won’t nominate him.
I wish I was hearing Congressional Dems and candidates hammering on the real point: Bush says we can’t afford to insure sick children. What ONE DAY of the Iraq debacle is costing us could buy health coverage for more than 400,000 American kids.
So: more billions for Halliburton, Blackwater, Cheney, and Bushes, and a useless criminal occupation, or healthy American kids? Time to choose for once and for all.
I SHOULD WORRY what kind of potential Giuliani has for rescuing the GOP from impending oblivion? Honestly, Booman, you’re starting to sound like a concern troll. Giuliani is a putz like the rest of them. One of them will have to turn out to be more popular than the others. So maybe it’s Giuliani. Let’s just hope and pray that it’s not him vs Hillary.