{"id":7486,"date":"2006-05-23T11:05:56","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T15:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7486"},"modified":"2006-05-23T11:05:56","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T15:05:56","slug":"bush-believes-we-should-be-considerate-of-different-points-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bush-believes-we-should-be-considerate-of-different-points-of-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush believes we should be ‘considerate’ of different points of view"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his speech<\/a> to the [tag]National Restaurant Association[\/tag] yesterday, [tag]Bush[\/tag] was asked about his brother’s possible political future (Jeb, not Neil). The president said he’d let others speak for themselves, but added that he wished the political environment in DC didn’t discourage participation.<\/p>\n

“[T]here’s too much [tag]politics[\/tag] in [tag]Washington[\/tag] these days. There really is. And so my worry is, not so much about Jeb, but when people take a look at Washington and say, why mess with it? Why do I want to put my family through it all? And my advice to them is, one, it’s worth it. But my advice, also, to all of us in public office is not to [tag]demean[\/tag] somebody because you don’t agree with them. At least, in the debate, be considerate of the other person’s point of view.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, [tag]George W. Bush[\/tag] suddenly believes in [tag]tolerance[\/tag] for [tag]opposing beliefs[\/tag]. It’s wrong to “[tag]demean[\/tag]” political opponents, he said. We can disagree without being disagreeable, the president suggested.<\/p>\n

It’s not that I disagree with the sentiment; it’s that I find it hard to believe Bush has the gall to make the argument in the first place.<\/p>\n

This is, after all, the president said in 2002 that Senate [tag]Democrats[\/tag] are “not interested in the security of the American people<\/a>” because they disagreed with him on a labor issue, and then refused to apologize. Indeed, it’s quite a list. When Dick Durbin questioned the administration’s gulags, Team Bush has accused Democrats of being [tag]traitors[\/tag]<\/a>. When [tag]Jack Murtha[\/tag] unveiled a redeployment plan for [tag]Iraq[\/tag], Team Bush said Murtha has endorsed “the policy positions of Michael Moore” and suggested Murtha wants to “surrender to the [tag]terrorists[\/tag]<\/a>.” When [tag]Patrick Leahy[\/tag] questioned no-bid contracts for [tag]Halliburton[\/tag], Bush’s VP told him to go f*** himself<\/a>. And, of course, lengthy books are available on Team Bush’s vicious smears of John [tag]McCain[\/tag] and Al [tag]Gore[\/tag] in 2000, and of John [tag]Kerry[\/tag] in 2004.<\/p>\n

And now the president wants us to believe it’s wrong to “demean somebody because you don’t agree with them,” and asks us to be “considerate” of other people’s views.<\/p>\n

Somehow, Bush managed to offer the comments with a straight face. He’s is a better actor than I give him credit for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his speech to the [tag]National Restaurant Association[\/tag] yesterday, [tag]Bush[\/tag] was asked about his brother’s possible political future (Jeb, not Neil). The president said he’d let others speak for themselves, but added that he wished the political environment in DC didn’t discourage participation. “[T]here’s too much [tag]politics[\/tag] in [tag]Washington[\/tag] these days. There really is. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}