What? Nothing on the president's speech last night?

<crickets>

 

You can only announce that you are going to spell out our strategy to the nation so many times before people lose interest/confidence.

The press conference should be more interesting as he is not very good with spontaneous questioning. I agree that it is good that he makes himself more available, but considering his dislike for press conferences, it smacks of a little desperation on his part.

 

Well earned <crickets>

 

I didn't watch. He's got nothing to say that I want to hear.

 

Listening now. Blah, blah, blah Constitutional authority blah, blah, blah.

The constitutional questions are certainly open. This will require some congressional hearings.

 

Filibuster?

I know there was the potential for a filibuster on the Patriot Act, but it was simply defeated by an "up or down vote," no?

Why does he lie when he doesn't need to?

 

If he actually gave a good, informative speech, I'm sorry I missed it.

But he's the boy who cried wolf on this, and has been for 6 months at least.

 

Is he on again? Yeah, he must be worried.

 

No.

The cloture vote got something like 52 votes, which is really 53 because Frist voted against cloture so he could bring it up later.

 

Been in transition, haven't been following... does this mean it's dead?

 

Members of the press are more interested in being celebrities than being journalists. To risk their position by challenging power is too much to ask. How would they get a CNN or FOX show that way?

 

Elaborate, please.

 

"An open debate about law would signal to the terrorists what we're trying to do." George W. Bush- 3 minutes ago.

 

I listened for a few minutes. He used 'free' or 'freedom' four times in the same paragraph. I'll look forward to the Froomkin report later today.

 

I just can't watch Bush give the same damned speech every 2 days. Sorry.

How many times can you just say "I'm the president, according to the constitution, I have special magical powers in wartime." How many times can you say "sure, there are people who say that maybe we shouldn't have gone to war, maybe this war can't be won, maybe we made mistakes, but I'd do it again and stay the course" before people tune you out.

I don't know the number, but it was passed a week ago.

 

What was positive? Was there anything of substance in his speech that we haven't heard before?

Serious question by someone who didn't watch. The Bears were on afterall.

 

Bears 16 : Atlanta 3

 

Was he referring to thin sliced potatoes, deep-fried and covered in salt?

 

I watched about 3 minutes of the press conference because I was waiting for the girl behind the hotel's front desk to reprogram my key cards. He was incoherent.