{"id":320,"date":"2004-07-16T13:34:16","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T17:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2004-07-16T13:34:16","modified_gmt":"2004-07-16T17:34:16","slug":"dubya-flips-dubya-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Dubya Flips, Dubya Flops…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kurt Kurowski at Democratic Underground outlines just a few of Dubya’s many Flip-Flops<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Kurowski points out, however, it was Ralph Waldo Emerson who sagely called consistency “the hob-goblin of little minds.”<\/p>\n

None the less, in the interest of “a silly little round of political pat-a-cake”, since the bulk of his piece outlines indeed how the “flip-flopping” charge, as the GOP Talking Points put it, is little more than rhetorical sleight-of-hand, political expediency and shamless opportunism.<\/p>\n

But in this season, I suppose, the unanswered shot can be the fatal one. Yes, we’ve covered some of the many George W. Bush “Flip-Flops” before, but it’s always nice to have a well-bulleted list as a refreshing reminder\/reference tool when met with the robotic-like parrotted Rush-rhetoric of your Fake-Conservative-Beyond-Any-Reason Brother-in-Law at this year’s Labor Day BBQ.<\/p>\n

I present to you George W. Bush, running for his first term as president and second term as White House flip-flopper: <\/p>\n

\u2022 Bush is against a Homeland Security Department; then he’s for it.
\n\u2022 Bush is against a 9\/11 commission; then he’s for it.
\n\u2022 Bush is against a WMD investigation; then he’s for it.
\n\u2022 Bush is against nation building; then he’s for it. (Even before 9\/11 it was part of his foreign policy, PNAC. So drop the “everything changed after 9\/11” malarky.)
\n\u2022 Bush said he’ll provide money for first responders (emergency services); then he doesn’t.
\n\u2022 Bush is against deficits; then he’s for them.
\n\u2022 Bush is for free trade; then he’s for tariffs on steel; then he’s against them again.
\n\u2022 Bush said he’ll reduce Greenhouse gases; then doesn’t do it.
\n\u2022 Bush is for a patient’s bill of rights then; then he fights against it.
\n\u2022 Bush say that “help is on the way” to the military; then he cuts benefits.
\n\u2022 Bush talks about helping education; then he cuts funding.
\n\u2022 Bush says the U.S. won’t negotiate with North Korea; then he says we will.
\n\u2022 Bush campaigns at racist Bob Jones University; then says he shouldn’t have.
\n\u2022 Bush says he will demand a U.N. Security Council vote on whether to sanction military action against Iraq; then he announces he won’t call for a vote.
\n\u2022 Bush says the “mission accomplished” banner was put up by the Navy; then he admits it was his advance team.
\n\u2022 Bush is for fingerprinting and photographing Mexicans who enter the US; then he’s against it.
\n\u2022 Bush is for a state’s right to decide on gay marriage; then he’s for amending the constitution to prevent it. (Cheney, whose daughter is a lesbian, shared this flippety-flop big time. “Gee thanks, dad.” “Don’t fret, hon, daddy’s only playing up to the rubes!”)<\/p>\n

And there are almost one hundred more examples, all accomplished in only three and a half years. Just imagine how proud his mother must be. <\/p>\n

From what I understand of the Republican horror of flip-flopping and the integrity deficit it indicates, and given Mr. Bush’s record as a flip-flopper, many Republicans will now be forced by conscience into a third party vote, or into not voting at all. But maybe Rush Limbaugh can give them dispensation, I dunno.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kurt Kurowski at Democratic Underground outlines just a few of Dubya’s many Flip-Flops. As Kurowski points out, however, it was Ralph Waldo Emerson who sagely called consistency “the hob-goblin of little minds.” None the less, in the interest of “a silly little round of political pat-a-cake”, since the bulk of his piece outlines indeed how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}