PROOF that GWB rules like a dictator from Mitch Daniels.

[barbaraann]

Last week Mitch Daniels was on News Hour and something that he said has been ringing in my ears ever since. I'm going to paraphrase:

Everyone knows that there are three rules for meetings with George W. Bush. First, be one time. Second, don't bring a cell phone. Third, DON'T BRING ANY POLLS.

Now, this isn't referring just to popularity/election-related polls. What Daniels was talking about is also polls about POLICIES--do Americans want better access to health care, do Americans want gun control, do Americans want environmental protection, etc. TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IS WHAT BUSH AND HIS TOP LEVEL PEOPLE WANT. The rest of us are IRRELEVANT and if anyone even mentions our beliefs, wants, and needs to our "emperor" he will be furious.

I guess if you don't have time to read O'Neil's book, this is a quick way to grasp what the inner circle is like. Evil rulers have to live in high-security echo chambers.

[Cocoa]

1. that Daniels interview was chilling

I can't believe that guy is running for office, he looked like an assassin.

[barbaraann]

3. Yes, you could see the barely suppressed rage.

He did look like an assassin.

[brainwashed_youth]

2. I've never thought

Bush cared what the people said, be they republicans or democrats. The only people he tries to appease our the big businesses

[patricia92243]

4. If he is lke that now that he is a Christian, I wonder what he was like

before. Poor Laura Bush - I'll bet she didn't know what she was getting into.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. --or, for that matter,

what was getting into her.

"I'll bet she didn't know what she was getting into."

[lovedems]

7. Once he has big business pleased, he will then go all out to please

the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Roberts. Instead of the rush to give tax incentives and roll back crucial environmental laws, it will be a rush to reform text books, make school prayer mandatory, ban homesexual marriage, make abortion illegal, fund out the butt faith based programs thus allowing job creation based on religion.

There is after all, not much more he can possibly do for big business. The fundies are next. Especially if he is a lame duck for the next 4 years.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

6. * has said a few times

that his job would be easier if he was a dictator. i think the dem candidate should use those sound bites.

[kentuck]

8. he did a great job predicting the deficit for our country, didn't he?

Perhaps he will do another great job on Indiana...er-r..I mean "for Indiana...