As usual, he's just looking for short term shoreup of the crumbling structure known as the Bush Administration.
All the sucking up in the world isn't going to help that.
Not to mention the whole Saudi/terrorism link.
No one mentions that.
Lamest lame duck evah!
The Saudis largest fields are in decline. And the Saudis want to help the idiot who turned to whole region into a cesspool because why?
Goes directly from the Knessit (sp) where he embarrasses himself and us to Saudi Arabia where he embarrasses us and himself. Why do I think he should have made a ceremonial visit to say Greece or Egypt before the direct flight to beg up oil production.
Do you think we could take the keys for Air Force One away from him for the rest of his lousy term?
O/T Senator Kennedy in hospital.
Yes, let's GROUND Air Force One in this age of expensive fuel in the name of national defense.
It will also (hopefully) reduce the times Americans are embarrassed by this sociophatic jerk.
Yes, Bush asked Abdullah.
And after Abdullah zipped up his trousers he said, "Screw you."
So Bush's Wonderful May Middle Eastern Adventure ends - without a happy ending.
Lame Duck is lame.
Anerica needs a followup ceremony to take place upon the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. The inauguration platform should be equipped with gallows for use immediately after the swearing-in ceremony. The hanging(upside down)of Bush and Cheney can then proceed to the the cheers of a worldwide TV audience.
Thanksgiving will come early next year.......... late January.
I think there should be a ceremonial exorcism following the inaugural.
Considering how Bush covered for them on 9/11, it's not very grateful of the Saudis to tell him to go fuck himself now, is it?
I daresay it was a bit of a shock for Junior; no doubt he'd gulled himself into believing he and the Saudis were on equal terms. Little did the creep realize the Saudis viewed it as more of a "master/servant" relationship, with him as the servant!
The house of Saud is like..." aren't you gone yet? mr. 23%?"
Old joke in the UK:
American: Do you celebrate Thanksgiving?
British Bloke: Yeah!......... 4th of July.
RedDan wins the thread.
If only the head-spinning, pea-soup puking & convulsions had started back in 1999.
Brings back fond memories of Inauguration Day 2000 - the angry mob, the limo coated in rotten eggs & vegetables, the one honorable lynching in American history that almost happened that morning ... golly, just imagine being hired to do the security detail for his ignominious retreat to Texas next January - mmm, danger pay.
After ALL of the Saudi ass that the Bush family has frenched, this may be the unkindest cut of all. :o)
WereBear; WTF; it was only 15/19ths.
Wrong. Bush succeeded in SA. Immediately after his visit oil prices spiked.
Mission accomplished for our oil baron masters.
Hilarious.
I find some parts of LOLSpeak (like FAIL, Not so great akshuly, and Kthxbai) to be energizing and concise in delicious ways. I'm an old cunning linguist, but this community-created form of discourse is ringing my chimes.
And yeah, Red Dan gets my vote, too.
Yeah, I'm not so sure.
Considering how Bush covered for them on 9/11, it's not very grateful of the Saudis to tell him to go fuck himself now, is it?
Oh, Bush earned some serious credit in Arabia. And he's continuing to earn it, by belatedly trying (hopelessly, but still) to avoid a Shia hegemony on the Tigris.
So, why aren't his Saudi buddies agreeing publicly to boost production?
Because they can't.
Hello Peak Oil. Nice to meet you.
im with Richterscale bush didnt' fail at this one...jsut milking the US econamy dry before he ahs to let go of the spigot.
There have been declines in the world production of the "light-sweet" grade of crude petroleum since the peak around early 2006, but these haven't been major declines at all. Most of the big spike in US gasoline prices has been driven by speculation and inflation. But the fact that world production has peaked at the very least means no more spare capacity.
The thing that really concerns me, however, is the effect that modern ultraefficient extraction technologies will have on how the downside of Hubbert's Peak will play out. It's probably because of the very high efficiency of these methods that we're still producing only slightly less light-sweet crude more than two years post-peak. But here's the downside if this extraction efficiency: Once the decline begins in earnest, instead of being the downside of a relatively gently-sloping bell-curve as was the case with the first generation of extraction technologies, it actually becomes a very steep tobaggan-slide down into the bowels of Hell.
Also worrisome is the fact that North American natural gas consumption is approaching peak. And because nat-gas is a gas, when production of that stuff peaks, it also, regardless of extraction technology, tends to be a very steep slope downwards.
And all that doesn't even take into account the utter abysmal insolvency of the banking sector due to the way they've been sucking the economy dry these past few years. (The repeal of the Glass-Steagle Act that was instrumental in preventing fraudulent and ultimately bankrupting banking practices? Not a good idea. At all.) It's only the Federal Reserve's frantic inflation-inducing and bad-debt-accumulating financial black magics that has been preventing that little disaster from coming to full fruition.
And the average American TV-watcher has little or no clue about any of this and will likely be blind-sided into screaming, arm-flailing, running-down-the-street panic when it all finally goes down.
Christ on a crutch, President Obama will have his work cut out for him. I just hope he doesn't end up being made into a scapegoat.
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