Bush's Strange Pre-Inaugural Comments

Bush gave the Washington Post a pre-inaugural interview, published in today's edition. The whole interview is so bizarre, and Bush's comments so disturbing, it is hard to know where to start.

A good place to start is Bush screwing the 'values voters' who are credited with his election success.

There were 2 issues that Bush used to seduce the Christian right and homophobes, called values voters, the ones credited with Bush's election just 2 months ago: gay marriage and abortion.

As for abortion, anyone with a brain by now knows that Bush has no intention of doing anything to stop abortion on demand. After 4 years in office, the majority of that time with both houses of Congress his GOP lapdogs, he has done absolutely nothing to reduce abortion on demand or make it illegal. Nothing. Zip. You know, exactly what he did to fight terrorism prior to 9/11--nada.

The other issue was Bush's pledge to push a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage, Bush has decided that it is really not worth his time to do so, after all.

On the domestic front, Bush said he would not lobby the Senate to pass a constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage.

While seeking reelection, Bush voiced strong support for such a ban, and many political analysts credit this position for inspiring record turnout among evangelical Christians, who are fighting same-sex marriage at every juncture. Groups such as the Family Research Council have made the marriage amendment their top priority for the next four years.

The president said there is no reason to press for the amendment because so many senators are convinced that the Defense of Marriage Act -- which says states that outlaw same-sex unions do not have to recognize such marriages conducted outside their borders -- is sufficient. "Senators have made it clear that so long as DOMA is deemed constitutional, nothing will happen. I'd take their admonition seriously. . . . Until that changes, nothing will happen in the Senate."

"Suckers"

Ok, I added that last part.

And he didn't know that the DOMA was sufficient during the election??!!?? All of that should have been just as obvious during the campaign. Instead, he said over and over that a Constitutional Amendment was necessary to protect the DOMA from being overturned in court. That is why a lot of people voted for Bush. Compare that to what Bush said during the campaign:

Yet there is no assurance that the Defense of Marriage Act will not, itself, be struck down by activist courts. In that event, every state would be forced to recognize any relationship that judges in Boston or officials in San Francisco choose to call a marriage. Furthermore, even if the Defense of Marriage Act is upheld, the law does not protect marriage within any state or city.
For all these reasons, the Defense of Marriage requires a constitutional amendment. An amendment to the Constitution is never to be undertaken lightly. The amendment process has addressed many serious matters of national concern. And the preservation of marriage rises to this level of national importance.

So, was this just one of U-turn Bush's all-to-familiar flip flops? Or is he really so incompetent that he couldn't count the number of Senators needed to pass such an amenment prior to the election?

Next, there is the unbelievable statement that Bush will hold no one responsible for the WMDebacle in Iraq. The leader of the 'party of responsibility' says there is no need to hold anyone accountable for invading Iraq on false pretenses or incompetence.

Why, you ask?

"We had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 elections," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. "The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me."

Just another message from the mistake-free president. and a new phrase: accountability moment.

Bush added this little gem, about the report that his misadventure in Iraq had turned the only nation in the Middle East without terrorists into a breeding ground for terrorists:


Bush called the report "somewhat speculative" but acknowledged "this could happen. And I agree. If we are not diligent and firm, there will be parts of the world that become pockets for terrorists to find safe haven and to train. And we have a duty to disrupt that."

Somewhat speculative????? And this is coming from the dolt that invaded Iraq over imaginary WMD, the evidence for which was extremely speculative.

Keep in mind that this president, in the only successful private-sector job he ever held, fired Texas Rangers manager Bobby Valentine for finishing 4th in the division. But, after presiding over the 2 worst National Security failures in US history, 9/11 and the Iraq invasion, has had an 'accountability moment' with a total of zero people for either of these disasters.


Finally, Bush displayed an amazing grasp of the obvious. I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried:

As for perhaps the most notorious terrorist, Osama bin Laden, the administration has so far been unsuccessful in its attempt to locate the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Asked why, Bush said, "Because he's hiding."