Picture of Childlike Bush from Democratic Underground
I heard a bit of President Bush's press conference on the importance of telecom immunity today. And as painful as that was, I was fortunate to be listening to The Stephanie Miller Show at the time. Steph ran brief pieces of the conference live (with studio commentary from herself, Chris and Jim), and mercifully cut away from the speech several times before abandoning it all together.
Hearing it this way was like hearing a radio version of Mystery Science 3000, only the movies lampooned on that show were far more engaging. It has honestly become a chore to listen to the man. He sounds like a man who never developed emotionally much beyond that of a petulant 8-year-old. And for that, I have a theory.
Bush has always gotten his way. In all his life, he's gotten to do almost anything he wanted, whenever he wanted. If an obligation did come up, he got special treatment, and rarely had to finish what he started. If he got into trouble, there was always someone there to bail him out of it. He's never had to deal with real life, where things don't always go our way.
So he behaves like a child. He gets petulant, and grouchy when he doesn't get his way, and will say anything to demonize those who dare go against him. In his current drive to get retroactive immunity for telecom companies, who he claims acted legally (quite a paradox, that), he continues to use fear, lies and distortions to attempt to get his way. If that doesn't work, maybe he'll hold his breath until he turns blue.
Or maybe he's not an overgrown child. Maybe he's just drunk.
[Excerpt]
GOP ‘Griping’ That They Haven’t Seen ‘The Financial Gravy Train’ From Telecoms
In the fight over retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies who participated in the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program after 9/11, a popular right-wing meme has been that “the real reason Democrats oppose immunity” is because they are allegedly beholden to trial lawyers who “want to push massive class action suits against the telecom companies.” [snip]
President Bush made the same unfounded claims in his press conference today, speculating that “class action plaintiffs attorneys” see “a financial gravy train” in “trying to sue” telecommunications companies. . .
Read more (with video) at: Think Progress
Hearing it this way was like hearing a radio version of Mystery Science 3000, only the movies lampooned on that show were far more engaging. It has honestly become a chore to listen to the man. He sounds like a man who never developed emotionally much beyond that of a petulant 8-year-old. And for that, I have a theory.
Bush has always gotten his way. In all his life, he's gotten to do almost anything he wanted, whenever he wanted. If an obligation did come up, he got special treatment, and rarely had to finish what he started. If he got into trouble, there was always someone there to bail him out of it. He's never had to deal with real life, where things don't always go our way.
So he behaves like a child. He gets petulant, and grouchy when he doesn't get his way, and will say anything to demonize those who dare go against him. In his current drive to get retroactive immunity for telecom companies, who he claims acted legally (quite a paradox, that), he continues to use fear, lies and distortions to attempt to get his way. If that doesn't work, maybe he'll hold his breath until he turns blue.
Or maybe he's not an overgrown child. Maybe he's just drunk.
[Excerpt]
GOP ‘Griping’ That They Haven’t Seen ‘The Financial Gravy Train’ From Telecoms
In the fight over retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies who participated in the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program after 9/11, a popular right-wing meme has been that “the real reason Democrats oppose immunity” is because they are allegedly beholden to trial lawyers who “want to push massive class action suits against the telecom companies.” [snip]
President Bush made the same unfounded claims in his press conference today, speculating that “class action plaintiffs attorneys” see “a financial gravy train” in “trying to sue” telecommunications companies. . .
Read more (with video) at: Think Progress
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