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03/09/2004 Archived Entry: "Bloody brilliant."
Bloody brilliant.
This post at Kos talks about a reader-influenced list of Bush flip-flops, and how it's hit the major media in a big way, robbing ThugCo's Big Issue against Kerry. Josh Marshall painstakingly chronicles Bush's flip on Homeland Security, complete with icky Ari quotes.
In the interest of, well, getting the list out there to the extent that I can, here's the list from Sunday's Kos:
# Bush is against campaign finance reform; then he's for it.
# Bush is against a Homeland Security Department; then he's for it.
# Bush is against a 9/11 commission; then he's for it.
# Bush is against an Iraq WMD investigation; then he's for it.
# Bush is against nation building; then he's for it.
# Bush is against deficits; then he's for them.
# Bush is for free trade; then he's for tariffs on steel; then he's against them again.
# Bush is against the U.S. taking a role in the Israeli Palestinian conflict; then he pushes for a "road map" and a Palestinian State.
# Bush is for states right to decide on gay marriage, then he is for changing the constitution.
# Bush first says he'll provide money for first responders (fire, police, emergency), then he doesn't.
# Bush first says that 'help is on the way' to the military ... then he cuts benefits
# Bush-"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. Bush-"I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I really don't care.
# Bush claims to be in favor of the environment and then secretly starts drilling on Padre Island.
# Bush talks about helping education and increases mandates while cutting funding.
# Bush first says the U.S. won't negotiate with North Korea. Now he will
# Bush goes to Bob Jones University. Then says he shouldn't have.
# Bush said he would demand a U.N. Security Council vote on whether to sanction military action against Iraq. Later Bush announced he would not call for a vote
# Bush said the "mission accomplished" banner was put up by the sailors. Bush later admits it was his advance team.
# Bush was for fingerprinting and photographing Mexicans who enter the US. Bush after meeting with Pres. Fox, he's against it.
'Issue' disarmed. Next...
Replies: 5 people speak up
Excellent: I'm printing that list out. This joker does more tumbles than a circus acrobat.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 03/09/2004 04:53 PM NY
Scoobie Davis is telling everyone he's hanging up his blog. Please visit him, or e-mail him and ask him to reconsider. This guy consistently steps up to the plate and takes on some of the right-wing media shills for the Republican party, and the faux Dems like Tammy Bruch, or Susan Estrich that spend more time bashing the Democratic Party than defending it. If you have some money to throw his way, please consider it. I will when I have some to spend, but I'm asking all those who do to try to get him to change his mind.
Posted by Stentor @ 03/09/2004 05:20 PM NY
Another off-topic post here from the King of Off-Topic. Received an e-mail awhile ago from the American Family Association asking me to vote in their latest poll (Apparently, I received the e-mail because I "took action on a previous AFA-sponsored poll or petition."--must've been the one on gay marriage that they got hammered on. This poll asks who you would favor as the next President of the United States.
Well, kids, they're getting hammered again. As of my vote, the results were Kerry--90.66%, Bush--3.38% and Nader--5.96%. I realize it's strictly fantasy, but wouldn't it be a beautiful thing if even Nader beat the Texas Souffle come November.
Posted by The Tater @ 03/09/2004 06:09 PM NY
BTW, if you'd like to vote in their poll, here's the URL:
http://www.onlinepolls.net/pollv1/default.aspx?pid=10
Posted by The Tater @ 03/09/2004 06:10 PM NY
Jesse at Pandagon seems to be questioning whether to continue also. Shame- Scoobie and Pandagon are great.
I really missed Counterspin when he took a week's vacation. This stuff is addictive.
Anyways, here are some more flipflops I put together from Kos' comments section:
During the 2000 South Carolina Primary, Bush took a States Rights Position on Medical Marijuana. As President, he's had Patients' cooperatives in California raided.
Bush said he would appoint a czar to create manufacturing jobs. He never did it.
Bush was against amnesty for illegal aliens. Now he's for it.
Bush was against Presidents doing an end run around Congress to pack the courts. Then he did it.
Bush repeated ad nauseum on the 2000 campaign trail, "I'm a uniter, not a divider." In truth, he's the most polarizing President in at least the history of sophisticated polling, probably in the history of the United States.
Bush had specifically promised to lower CO2 concentrations in the campaign, and promptly and blatantly broke that promise upon coming into office, saying the "science had changed".
Bush was against Arsenic limits in drinking water - but then he was for them after he got called on it.
Bush is in favor of tax cuts because the economy is strong, then he's in favor of tax cuts because the economy is weak.
Bush is in favor of tax cuts because they'll help the economy recover, then he's in favor of tax cuts because they haven't helped the economy recover yet.
Bush is in favor of invading Iraq because they have WMDs, then he's in favor of invading Iraq because they don't have WMDs (but Saddam is a bad person).
Bush said he would have a humble foreign policy, because we shouldn't be alienating allies.
Posted by Poika @ 03/09/2004 07:09 PM NY
