“Stay the course!”
That is all you will get from both Bush and Lieberman.
Despite President Bush’s recent denials that “We’ve never been stay the course” and the NY Times’ FALSE assertions to counter Ned Lamont’s caqmpaign charges that Joe Lieberman has been a consistent cheerleader for Bush’s failed “Stay the course!” policy, the fact remains that this is a bold face lie that exposes BOTH Bush and Lieberman’s penchant for polticizing this war by telling people whatever they have to in order to cover their political asses and get more votes. It also doesn’t say much about the researchers and writers at the post Judy “neocon propaganda” Miller NY Times.
In Bush and Lieberman’s own words BELOW:
BUSH: We will stay the course. [8/30/06]
LIEBERMAN: We have to stay the course in Iraq now and continue to build a stable, modernizing, democratizing country there. [01/04/04]
BUSH: We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]
LIEBERMAN: We can do better. I will do better. I will make it international. I will stay the course, and I’ll create a stable, democratizing, modernizing Iraq, which would be a tremendous step forward in the Middle East and the Islamic world and in our war against terrorism. [01/11/2004]
BUSH: We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03
LIEBERMAN: Well, let’s put it this way. What I’m most happy about is that he said that he will stay the course in Iraq until we finish the job, and the Iraqis are in control of their own destiny. [07/28/04]
BUSH: And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04]
LIEBERMAN: We want to not only stay the course: we want to achieve victory. [04/26/04]
BUSH: And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. And that’s why when we say something in Iraq, we’re going to do it. [4/16/04]
LIEBERMAN: “I thought the president gave the strongest case that I can remember him giving about why we went in and why we have to stay the course,” Lieberman said, adding, “We’ve got to adopt a strategy of success. A defeat will create chaos in Iraq, chaos in the Middle East, and will embolden the terrorists in a way that will endanger our future and our children’s future.” [04/15/04]
Think Progreas has around 30 examples of Bush saying we must “Stay the course!” in some form or another. Media Matters has the goods on more of Lieberman’s “Bush enabling” statements that mirror Bush administration talking points as perfectly as if they had come straight out of Karl Rove’s mouth, even emulating the GOP talking point that defeat will create chaos “and will embolden the terrorists” that we have heard so often from every mouthpiece for the Bush administration.
If defeat will create chaos then we must be losing pretty badly since those terrorists are getting pretty emboldened according to defeatist Republican Senator Lindsey Graham:
“We’re on the verge of chaos, and the current plan is not working,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in an Associated Press interview. U.S. and Iraqi officials should be held accountable for the lack of progress, said Graham, a Republican who is a frequent critic of the administration’s policies.
Asked who in particular should be held accountable Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, perhaps, or the generals leading the war Graham said: “All of them. It’s their job to come up with a game plan” to end the violence
Bush and Liberman clearly say stay the course over and over. Because you never know who you might embolden in defeat. Now BOTH Bush and Lieberman are trying to hide from their mutual love of staying the course.
It’s almost like Bush and Lieberman are freaking flip-flopping clones.
This is why Ned Lamont is correct in attacking Lieberman’s support of the failed Bush policy of staying the course. And Lieberman hates that.
And Senator Graham is right in laying alot of blame on Donald Rumsfeld. Here is what Rumsfeld has to say about Bush cutting and running from his “Stay the course!” policy:
Rumsfeld called media reports about Bush’s reversal “nonsense,” and said “of course” Bush is “not backing away from staying the course.”
The ever-incompetent Rumsfeld says that “Stay the course!” is still the Bush plan.
Lieberman and Bush are both in some hot water over their attempts to hide from their “Stay the course!” whitewash. If you vote for Joe Lieberman you are clearly voting for more of the same CHAOS. And all of the Bush backpeddling and NY Times’ lies can’t hide Lieberman from his own public record of support for the failed “Stay the course” Bush policy.
Vote For the Democratic candidate Ned Lamont, because he will work to “CHANGE THE COURSE!” of Lieberman’s and the Bush administration’s failed policies.
If you only check out one link in this diary, make it this one:
Lieberman and Bush are both in some hot water
LMAO 😀
OK…Maybe this one too:
Vote For the Democrat candidate Ned Lamont
Thanks CM1! I’m sure that eastcoastmoderate will be along any time now to “enlighten” us.
If anyone wants to support Lieberman they can just jump in the old hot tub with Joe and George…
Ned is the man for the job.
I would be happy to welcome Joe Liberman back to the democratic party, the day he withdraws from the Senate race in Connecticut and supports Ned Lamont..the only democrat on the ticket.
Did you say eastboastrepublican? Hmmm, yes, I thought you did. Or maybe it was eastcoastpettycash? Yes, that must be it…
Please don’t feed the troll… unless you must…just for some good mega-troll-rating fun…
O:)
Dude, you know they sell zeroes by the case lot at Costco these days.
Just sayin’ . . .
Thanks for the heads up on that. I do need to re-stock after the latest run on zeroes….. 😉
Well being a Perl programmer I find it handy to stock up on dollar signs, percent signs, and other necessary tools of the trade when I’m over there. (Sorry, that’s much funnier if you’re a programmer, I guess. One of the complaints made about Perl by the uninitiated is that it resembles nothing so much as the results of an explosion at a type foundry heavy on the punctuation.)
I usually run out of ……..’s. It’s this.that.theother.whatsis all over the place. Have you seen the prices on those things! It’s outrageous, positively OUTRAGEOUS, I say! You need a few GROSS of those to write “hello world” in some of those damn OOPS!
Yeah, and the bad thing about those is, they’re so small and round they just fall out and get lost all over the floor and you can never get them all out from under the desk. Besides the crunch they make when you step on them is unnerving.
But boy, they’re handy for Java programming when you get into namespaces like com.foobar.sys.mil.arf.snardle.we.get.paid.for.our.class.names.by.the.character
Dude, that’s not the half of it. The main problem I’ve been having is sliding around on em and falling down a lot. You say you know where to get ones that just crunch into bits when you step on ’em? My supplier only sells the hard ones. Please tell me what brand you use.
I’m also lookin for some curly braces that don’t need setting up in rollers. You know, the naturally curly kind. It’s hell to do all that prep work with the blow-dryer and dippity-doo.
And if you know somewhere to get good pipe symbols, I could use a few of those. I’m willing to trade some extra asterisks for ’em.
Just thought I’d ask.
Dude, look on the side. I bet they say “Acme.”
After all those Roadrunner cartoons, you’d think you’d know by now. Sheesh.
Well, I couldn’t find the company name, but I did find a barcode and a serno. After tracking it down, I realized that I don’t have the proper stiffness factor in mine. I’m ordering some of the OEM depriapismic softener to soak mine in, so they won’t be so hard anymore. It’s dangerous if they’re that hard, you know.
I followed the link because I trust you. And now I think I’m BLIND! Icky but brilliant!
I’m STILL not sure what’s wrong with all those Dems in CT that are in Lieberman’s camp.
Scary, isn’t it? lol
Very clearly stated Connecticut Man! And in this election year, that is saying a lot.
Thanks!
This is an election year?
My moments of clarity are few and far between…
NYT Correction. Article titled, CORRECTION:Lieberman Often Repeated Key White House Phrase was published after readers’ complaints and the NYT conducted several data base survey checks, returning more accurate results.
However, the NYT can not offer a clear explanation for why, “. . .when the database was checked for the phrase before publication, three times, it did not come up.”
Thanks… The Link I have in there is the “Empire Zone Blog” (the NY Times Blog) diary where they apologized and announced that they would be printing the retraction and all of the neat stuff you talk about there.
I didn’t even bother with the original article link since this has been linked and quoted to death on Connecticut blogs.
If you go to the Empire Zone you will note the considerable pile on of CT lefty bloggers chewing the original author up for lazy journalism OR for blatantly lying if you don’t beleive it possible that editors, writers and researchers on politics at the NY Times wouldn’t have known Joe’s previous statements/positions just a little better. (Give me a break!)
The Grey Lady is dead, and has been dead at least since the Judy “Neocon Propaganda” Miller right wing coup there.
the NYT. As for me, I’m wondering if the explanation for the error will ever be published. If there is any good “professional” journalism out there, it’s about time it wrote the story on how such egregious errors are a) made; b) unchallenged by editors; and c) unchallenged by the collective common sense of the sentient newspaper staff so that laughable and embarrassing stories like the one you talk about get published in the first place.
I know, I know, I’m making a lot of assumptions about intelligence in the media.
Over at My Left Nutmeg a Connecticut Blogger that has gained some noteriaty in CT’s Left Blogistan (partly because of the great home made “gotcha!” style political video he gets out on the net… lol), CT Bob, is saying The Media is Lazy and Dumb.
I disagree a little… I think some are lazy, some are dumb, and others are simply politically motivated fabricators.
I think that there are very few political news stories in the MSM that are truely credible these days.
At least in the Blogosphere most of the Bloggers have the integrity to provide sources for what they write within their diaries, fix their “erors” in diaries ASAP, and most Bloggers are honest enough to state their true political allegiances and beliefs outright.
And the MSM has the gall to attack OUR credibility?
Talk about hypocrites…
ybruti the rest of the dKos Diary Rescue Rangers for noticing and trying to get this diary a few more views over in “Orange”.
And of course to anyone that read this here at the pond… Since green is my favourite flavour of “Left Blogistan”.
I haven’t got much to offer scholarly-wise in most of my diaries, but what I write always comes from the gut and the heart. 🙂
A BIG thanks to “ybruti the rest of the dKos Diary Rescue Rangers”