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Bush Surprises Senate Aides With Unexpected Interruption of White House Meeting
Fox News ^ | 7/16/2007 | Major Garrett and Trish Turner

Posted on 07/16/2007 7:31:40 PM PDT by tobyhill

WASHINGTON — President Bush shocked Capitol Hill staffers and Republican leaders Monday when he crashed a meeting at the White House to deliver a blunt message that he wasn't backing down on Iraq and Republicans need to understand that.

"It was stunning," said one GOP aide who attended the meeting. "We couldn't believe he came in."

"We kept looking at each other, amazed he came in," said another Republican aide.

Bush was described as folksy, adamant and mildly profane as he interrupted the meeting between senior White House communications staffers Tony Snow and Ed Gillespie and GOP leaders. His message: the policy on Iraq isn't changing. He is not backing down and no one on Capitol Hill should be confused into thinking he is letting up.

The interruption precedes what is expected to be an all-nighter in the Senate on Tuesday, ordered by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as a way to protest GOP blocking tactics on moves to compel U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq.

Speaking on the Senate floor, Reid said Iraq is the most important issue facing the United States and attempts to block legislation calling for troops to be withdrawn from Iraq will be met with a hardball response.

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To: Old Sarge
Now build the damned wall!

Build your own damn wall or find something else to whine about

61 posted on 07/16/2007 11:01:56 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Old Sarge

OS, Take your wall to another thread please this one is about Iraq!

You go George tell them!

Thank you very much!


62 posted on 07/16/2007 11:03:31 PM PDT by restornu
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To: tobyhill

Ditto!


63 posted on 07/16/2007 11:04:59 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: elizabetty
It appears its much easier for some here to surrender to the Islamic headchoppers, and fight the Mexicans!

Good grief.

64 posted on 07/16/2007 11:05:50 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: mkjessup
Mr president don't build the damn wall on this thread!

So stuff it!

65 posted on 07/16/2007 11:07:42 PM PDT by restornu
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To: tobyhill
Why didn't you to a search posted here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866898/posts

66 posted on 07/16/2007 11:12:51 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: tiki
I would even dare to say that this [relentless anti-immigration thread-hijacking] is why the freepathon is taking so long to meet its goal.

I agree 100%. I think many posters have been driven away by the anti-immigration nutcases and spammers who hit every single thread, regardless of topic, with their garbage. It makes it almost impossible to discuss any topic rationally and has made the intellectual quality and importance of FR decline precipitously. I'm really sorry the mods didn't get a grip on it early on.

67 posted on 07/16/2007 11:17:10 PM PDT by livius
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To: roses of sharon

The thread hijacking is getting ridiculous.


68 posted on 07/16/2007 11:20:54 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: packrat35

Bump!


69 posted on 07/16/2007 11:25:52 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Open Borders and Shamnesty!/Appeasement of North Korea!/No Win Wars!--I've HAD IT WITH BUSH!!)
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To: 1035rep

LOL, yep, obviously the boogyman Bush and his Mexicans are much easier to battle than the OBL/DNC/MSM axis of evil, and more fun too!


70 posted on 07/16/2007 11:41:05 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: Old Sarge

[Now build the damned wall!]

(spiritual like voice to Bush):

“If you build it, they won’t come”


71 posted on 07/17/2007 2:36:06 AM PDT by RetSignman (DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
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To: tobyhill
"This is the only way we know to highlight their complete ignorance of the will of the people!"
I sure don't hear stories about the switchboards being overloaded. Perhaps they're only hearing the will of some of the people.
72 posted on 07/17/2007 2:57:55 AM PDT by philman_36
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To: stephenjohnbanker
Bush.....wall??

Yeah, as in banging his head against until he 'gets it'. ;)
73 posted on 07/17/2007 4:47:44 AM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
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To: restornu; All
Mr president don't build the damn wall on this thread!

That's right. Do NOT build the damn wall HERE on FR, build it along our southern border with our 'friend' (har har) and 'good neighbor' (hee hee) MEXICO

So stuff it!

Ben Dover pal.
74 posted on 07/17/2007 4:54:48 AM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
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To: Saltmeat

It should no longer be red state, blue state.

It should be red state, yellow state.


75 posted on 07/17/2007 4:56:36 AM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: LibFreeOrDie

I’m afraid his can of whoopass has reached and gone beyond its best-before date. And it did that while he was doing his amnesty number. Sorry, sir - no good any more.


76 posted on 07/17/2007 5:57:34 AM PDT by twonie (Keep your guns - and stockpile ammo.)
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To: tobyhill

Well, tobyhill, the only way that horse is dead is because Americans, and FReepers chief among them, rose up in extreme anger against it. And, like any dead horse, it can be replaced in an instant with another just the same. This has got to be kept front and center for a long time, your views notwithstanding.


77 posted on 07/17/2007 6:00:43 AM PDT by twonie (Keep your guns - and stockpile ammo.)
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To: mkjessup

If the President got on the soapbox and supported the war the way you just described, his approval ratings would skyrocket.
Not that the ratings mean much, just that myself and millions others would get behind him if he did.


78 posted on 07/17/2007 6:08:03 AM PDT by winodog
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To: twonie

It can be and should be front and center but not at the expense of every thread that gets posted.


79 posted on 07/17/2007 6:22:46 AM PDT by tobyhill (only wimps believe in retreat in defeat)
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To: tobyhill

Good for him!


80 posted on 07/17/2007 6:24:44 AM PDT by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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