11 GOP Congressmen to Bush: You’ve Lost Credibility

Dammit, all those 11 GOP congressmen are doing is emboldening the terrorists!

 

trying to separate themselves...must be up for election soon.

 

Oh lord! Republicans are imploding before our eyes. --

Lott: Republicans Should Have ‘Kept Their Mouths Shut’ About Bush Meeting

Desperate to cover-up the increasing conservative divisions over Iraq, Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-MS) today blasted the Republicans who spoke to the media about their meeting on Tuesday with President Bush.

During a CNN appearance today, Lott said that he was “concerned” that the Republicans “had this frank discussion with the president, which could have been very positive, and then they came out and started talking about it.”

“[T]hey broke one of the cardinal rules, in my opinion,” Lott said. “If they’d have kept their mouths shut, their value of speaking candidly would have been worth a lot more.”

video: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/10/lott-iraq-2/

 

Somebody make some popcorn! --

Rove berates GOP lawmaker over Iraq meeting.

“Top Bush administration officials lashed out at a pair of House Republicans at the White House yesterday after details about a contentious meeting between President Bush and GOP legislators were leaked to the media earlier this week.”

Sources said that Dan Meyer, Bush’s liaison to the House, confronted LaHood while White House political strategist Karl Rove rebuked Kirk. It is unclear if LaHood or Kirk were the original sources for the stories, but LaHood was quoted in one of the articles.

Regardless, LaHood and Meyer got into a shouting match as emotions ran high and voices were raised yesterday morning in the White House while lawmakers were waiting to meet with first lady Laura Bush, according to two legislators who witnessed the exchange. LaHood and five other GOP lawmakers met with Mrs. Bush in the Yellow Oval in the White House residence to chat about the No Child Left Behind law.

“The White House is not happy,” said a Republican lawmaker. […]

Several lawmakers who attended one or both meetings did not fault Bush, but blamed his aides for overreacting.

“They can have such thick skin,” said Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), who attended the meeting on Tuesday. “[President Bush] ought to embrace this and be seen as getting input from everyone.”

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/bush-aides-berate-gop-members-2007-05-10.html

 

McMark and Amel, your apparent joy at the discomfiture of the GOP is unseemly .

 

I know!~ I should be ashamed.

 

I think the most poignant statement coming from the GOP to Bush, was that he's lost all credibility. No matter what he says about the war, the public knows they can't trust it.

Bush has worked hard to earn that distrust.

 

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Retired generals, Iraq veterans launch anti-war ads

CONCORD, New Hampshire (AP) -- Three retired generals challenged a dozen members of Congress in a new ad campaign Wednesday, saying the politicians can't support President Bush's policies in Iraq and still expect to win re-election.

"I am outraged, as are the majority of Americans. I'm a lifelong Republican, but it's past time for change," retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste told reporters.

"Our strategy in Iraq today is more of the same, a slow grind to nowhere which totally ignores the reality of Iraq and the lessons of history," Batiste said. "Our president ignores sound military advice and surrounds himself with like-minded and compliant subordinates."

Batiste and Paul Eaton, also a retired major general, are featured in the ads by VoteVets.org. They challenge the president's argument that he listens to his commanders on the ground in Iraq and say the president's Iraq policies endanger U.S. security.

"The fact is, the president has never listened to the soldiers on the ground effectively," said retired NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark, who ran for president in 2004. "This administration is not listening to the troops and is not supporting them."
Moderate Republicans target of ads

Other veterans promoted the campaign at a news conference in Manchester, the start of a six-state publicity tour targeting Sens. John Sununu of New Hampshire, Susan Collins of Maine, Norm Coleman of Minnesota and John Warner of Virginia, plus nine House members. All are Republicans

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/09/generals.iraq.ads.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

 

soldiers arent the ones who dictate tactics...its generals.

 

Too bad Jr doesn't listen to them either.

 

Oh he does! If they agree with him.

 

Did Anyone Else See This?

"CNN International's CNN Today program, airing at midnight Eastern, led with the graphic 'Bush Resigns.' Of course, they meant 'Blair Resigns.'

 

So I suppose we'll hear never ending diatribes from everyone here on how CNN can't be trusted as a news source because of incidents like this, right?

 

when he said soldiers on the ground he included everyone especially the commanders