BUSH WON’T COMMENT on Plame leak “ongoing” investigation, but has no problem declaring Tom Delay innocent and Randy Duke should be punished.
President Bush said yesterday he is confident that former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) is innocent of money-laundering charges, as he offered strong support for several top Republicans who have been battered by investigations or by rumors of fading clout inside the White House.
In an interview with Fox News, Bush said he hopes DeLay will be cleared of charges that he illegally steered corporate money into campaigns for the Texas legislature and will reclaim his powerful leadership position in Congress.
"I hope that he will, 'cause I like him, and plus, when he's over there, we get our votes through the House," Bush told Fox News's Brit Hume.SOME INVESTIGATIONS are more ongoing than others. The White House must think the people are fools that this won't be noticed. Whether "reporters" are fools will be discovered at the next White House Press Briefing. Who will ask Scott McLellan about the apparent disparity, or inequity, in "ongoing" investigations? Until then the message seems clear here. When an ally is still an asset, he is innocent. You can tell somebody is on the way to guilty when the investigation is "ongoing."
MORE FROM THE BRIT HUME George Bush Fox interview: When all the politics cease and the debate ends, Bush said he hopes that people will remember him "as a fellow who had his priorities straight: his faith, his family and his friends are a central part of his life."
Bush said that he still prays several times a day and particularly appreciates the prayers of fellow citizens. He said his faith plays a big role in his life and guides him through it. Despite that devotion, Bush said that he is not confused about how he got into office.
"There's a difference between a personal relationship with an almighty and kind of this notion in some quarters of the world that some have God as directing policy out of the White House," Bush said.
"I think I was chosen by the American people and I knocked on their doors an awful lot in 2000 and 2004 ... I do pray that I, to the best extent possible, that God's will shines through me as an individual, but I don't subscribe to that God picked me over somebody else," he said. [transcript]
Yeah, it's a sonofabitch. And he's a sonofabitch. I think he's actually reversing the Earth's gravitational poles. Soon no known laws of science will prevail anymore and bizarro world will be here.
Posted by: Neil Shakespeare | December 15, 2005 at 08:48 AM
Don't forget the famous Hitler/Ayn Rand dork Disclaimer:
Hey guys, its a joke. Helllllllllllllllllllllo, its F-U-N-N-Y (even if Bush's remarks were far from funny, futile maybe, treasonous maybe, stupid for sure, humorous - not).
Posted by: Primordial Ooze | December 15, 2005 at 11:32 AM
Jesus H. Christ! What is this mentally ill motherfucker doing in the White House?!?! And please, Mary, tell me that there really will be a rapture and he and his kind will all be carried far far away.
Posted by: Missouri Mule | December 15, 2005 at 10:20 PM