Very funny, but Sad

[kdrago]

http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/dsp/specialReports_pc_carden_detail.htm?reportID=%7B08FAD3B1-9FAF-4037-BF26-573B2826B2C3%7D

FLASHBACK 1997

GLOBAL WARMING ALERT: GORE BURNS 439,500 LBS OF FUEL TO ATTEND SUMMIT

"The most vulnerable part of the Earth's environment is the very thin layer
of air clinging near to the surface of the planet, that we are now so
carelessly filling with gaseous wastes that we are actually altering the
relationship between the Earth and the Sun - by trapping more solar
radiation under this growing blanket of pollution that envelops the entire
world," Vice President Gore told the U.N. Global Warming conference of 159
nations this morning in Koyto, Japan.

In what was one the most dramatic speeches in recent memory, Gore announced
to world leaders: "Whether we recognize it or not, we are now engaged in an
epic battle to right the balance of our Earth, and the tide of this battle
will turn on when the majority of people in the world become sufficiently
aroused by shared sense of urgent danger to join an all-out effort."

Applause filed the halls of the Kyoto International Conference Center. "We
must achieve a safe overall concentration level for greenhouse gases in the
Earth's atmosphere."

carbondioxidemethanenitrousoxidehydrofluorocarbonsperfluoroc arbonssulfurhexa
chloride.

The message is serious. So serious in fact, the DRUDGE REPORT has
calculated that Vice President Al Gore is burning more than 439,500 pounds
of fuel, or 65,600 gallons, at a cost of more than $131,000 on his 16,000
mile daytrip, just to deliver the warning.

Now that's commitment.

Air Force II's Global Warming Express features an itinerary that takes the
vice president from Washington to Florida to Washington to Alaska to Japan
and back -- all in just 72-hours.



Unprecedented Leadership.

[mhafinancial]

Nothing a little more current for us, eh kd? Just 8 year old info about the VP doing his job by going to a conference.

How about something more current, like how Bush's approval ratings in the low 40s, perhaps? :roll:

[mhafinancial]

Or how about this one, kd. That the President has taken more vacation days in office than any other President, including those who served out their full two terms.

339 days moseying about in Crawford out of his 1675 days in office (plus or minus a couple of days). And what has he done to earn such prodigious vacation rights?

Anyone here want to sign up for the work 4 days get one free plan?

Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and Bush keeps playing cowboy while America burns $3.00 a gallon gas.

You keep worrying about Gore. Sleep well.

[kdrago]

thanks Richard Maurice

[VermontNJGirl]

Or how about this one, kd. That the President has taken more vacation days in office than any other President, including those who served out their full two terms.

339 days moseying about in Crawford out of his 1675 days in office (plus or minus a couple of days). And what has he done to earn such prodigious vacation rights?

Anyone here want to sign up for the work 4 days get one free plan?

Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and Bush keeps playing cowboy while America burns $3.00 a gallon gas.

You keep worrying about Gore. Sleep well.


I just don't get this vacation complaint thing. It seems to me that the Bush-bashers are just so desperate to find everything wrong with our president that they refuse to recognize that in this day and age the president can and is doing his job no matter where he is. With computers, cell phones etc. etc. he does not need to sit in the White House to get his work done. And over the past few weeks I've read all about meetings and and hosting important guests, seen him do press conferences, make a statement about Katrina etc. etc. Bush might be in Crawford, but he hasn't stopped doing his duties as president. Good for him. I always thought that having to move from home is the worst thing for a president and family. So if you can do the job anywhere, why not hang at home at the same time?

Deb

[TIES2]

I just don't get this vacation complaint thing. It seems to me that the Bush-bashers are just so desperate to find everything wrong with our president that they refuse to recognize that in this day and age the president can and is doing his job no matter where he is. With computers, cell phones etc. etc. he does not need to sit in the White House to get his work done. And over the past few weeks I've read all about meetings and and hosting important guests, seen him do press conferences, make a statement about Katrina etc. etc. Bush might be in Crawford, but he hasn't stopped doing his duties as president. Good for him. I always thought that having to move from home is the worst thing for a president and family. So if you can do the job anywhere, why not hang at home at the same time?

Deb


I agree!

[mhafinancial]

I just don't get this vacation complaint thing. It seems to me that the Bush-bashers are just so desperate to find everything wrong with our president .....

Deb

We haven't even scratched the surface. :D

[mhafinancial]

I just don't get this vacation complaint thing. It seems to me that the Bush-bashers are just so desperate to find everything wrong with our president that they refuse to recognize that in this day and age the president can and is doing his job no matter where he is. With computers, cell phones etc. etc. he does not need to sit in the White House to get his work done....

Deb

Yup, doing a great job generating support for his social security plan and his Iraqi policies.

Maybe what we should hope for is a real vacation where he does nothing. That might get things on the right track. :D

[TIES2]

What, did you take you an extra helping of your vituperative pills this morning? You seem to be a bit more negative than your normal negative self. Or parhaps the oatmeal did not work this morning?

[mhafinancial]

What, did you take you an extra helping of your vituperative pills this morning? You seem to be a bit more negative than your normal negative self. Or parhaps the oatmeal did not work this morning?
Just pointing out the obvious to those too blind to see.

[VermontNJGirl]

Just pointing out the obvious to those too blind to see.

Projection! There are blind folks on both sides of the aisle.

Don't call me blind. I know exactly what I see. I see a bunch of folks so hysterical about the fact that they lost the presidency that they have lost the ability to acknowledge that there are positive solutions to the problems that our nation faces, and our president is not, and could not possibly be, the root cause of every supposed wrong. It doesn't matter whether the root cause of a problem was Bush, Clinton, another nation, history, ourselves, or Mother Nature, complaining about stupid things like a president's working vacation is a waste of time.

Deb

[mhafinancial]

I wasn't talking to you nosey-body. I was talking to the other shrill female.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9148526/site/newsweek/

[TIES2]

I wasn't talking to you nosey-body. I was talking to the other shrill female.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9148526/site/newsweek/

YOUR TRUE COLORS ARE SHOWING :)

[mhafinancial]

YOUR TRUE COLORS ARE SHOWING :)
I thought you would like that :p

[VermontNJGirl]

I wasn't talking to you nosey-body. I was talking to the other shrill female.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9148526/site/newsweek/


Yes, but I notice that you do not respond to what I just said. All you can do is hurl an insult about the opposite sex to save yourself from facing the truth. Can you imagine the imagery if I were to call you shrill? Wouldn't even occur to me. Just because you don't agree with me doesn't mean I'm going to accuse you of being loud-mouthed or something.

Deb

[mhafinancial]

Yes, but I notice that you do not respond to what I just said. All you can do is hurl an insult about the opposite sex to save yourself from facing the truth. Can you imagine the imagery if I were to call you shrill? Wouldn't even occur to me. Just because you don't agree with me doesn't mean I'm going to accuse you of being loud-mouthed or something.

Deb

Just pointing out the obvious to those too blind to see.

Projection! There are blind folks on both sides of the aisle.

Sigh....please show me where I said there weren't.

Don't call me blind. I know exactly what I see.
Ummmm.... I was responding to Ties2. If you think I was directing it at you, maybe you are a tad too sensitive about the subject.

I see a bunch of folks so hysterical about the fact that they lost the presidency that they have lost the ability to acknowledge that there are positive solutions to the problems that our nation faces, and our president is not, and could not possibly be, the root cause of every supposed wrong. It doesn't matter whether the root cause of a problem was Bush, Clinton, another nation, history, ourselves, or Mother Nature, complaining about stupid things like a president's working vacation is a waste of time.

Deb
I do not believe it is a waste of time. And even if it is, what do you call responding to a message board...productive use of one's time?

Now, back to Yes, but I notice that you do not respond to what I just said.
Happy now?

You want to know more about what pisses me off about Bush? How his Secretary of State can go to a friggin' comedy club in New York last night and have her yucks whilst we are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis that might make 9/11 look like a walkin the park. How she can be on 5th Avenue today buying high priced shoes. How the guy Bush picks as Undersecretary for Emergency Preparedness for FEMA was an estate planning lawyer. How he puts put who swears loyalty and fealty into positions they are not qualified for. How Dennis Hastert can think for a billionth of a second that an emergency session of Congress might not be called for. That rebuilding New Orleans might not be called for.

This is a wake-up call, America. It says if you are rich and white and working for Cantor Fitzgerald we will take care of you, but if you are poor and black and barely subsisting and you have everything taken away from you, well, hell, you had nothing to start with. If that is Hastert's and Cheney's and Bush's and Coulter's and Frist's America, you can have the whole bunch of them and their vision of what we are and who we are. It is not my America. It is not Lincoln's America. It is not FDR's or JFK's America. And maybe now the poorest of the poor will realize they have been bent over and KY'd by this Administration. The '06 interim elections can't happen soon enough.