Congress Must Act - George W Bush - October 1, 2008

We're at a critical moment

For the financial security of many Americans
Congress must act.
Members of the House have a choice to make
We must act now
Congress Must Act Now To Ensure That We.... Keep America Safe
Prompt congressional action [is needed]
Our government has no greater responsibility than getting this work done

I urge congressional leaders to let the will the American people prevail,
Congress has still not taken the necessary action to keep our nation safe
Congress must act now
Congress must act now to keep our nation safe
We look forward to working with Congress
Congress must act now
Seven years have passed since I first stood before [you]
We have faced hard decisions
W’ve answered the call.
We have shown the world
 But yet we still have unfinished business before us,
And the American people expect us to get this done.

Our economy is undergoing a period of uncertainty
At kitchen tables across our country, there is a concern about our economic future
We can all see that that growth is slowing
Unless Congress acts, most of [what] ...we've delivered over the past seven years will be taken away
This body has failed

We are engaged in the defining ideological struggle of the 21st century.
Protecting our nation from the dangers of a new century
[The] Senate mst act quickly
Congress once again left town
The Senate needs to act ... soon
I urge the Congress to join me in acting

Congress also must act
[The] House has acted, the Senate must act.
Congress can act
I ask Congress to work with me
Strengthening the economy and protecting the homeland and fighting the war on terror
       Are critical issues that demand prompt attention.
I urge the Congress to act
My administration has worked with Congress

Unfortunately, Democrats on Capitol Hill have rejected virtually every proposal
The problem is that Congress has restricted access
Congressional restrictions ...have become outdated and counterproductive
I call on the House and the Senate to pass good legislation
As soon as possible

Unfortunately, Democrats in Congress are standing in the way of further development
Congress should do so immediately
There is no excuse for delay
Unless Congress acts,
The Congress has a responsibility
In a vibrant economy, markets rise and decline. We cannot change that fundamental dynamic

Next week, Congress returns
Coming back to a lot of unfinished business. And the clock will be ticking
Congress must address...
Congress must take action now
Congress has important work to do

This is not what Congressional leaders promised
Congressional leaders need to keep their word
When it comes to getting its business done, Congress is only getting started
I urge them to do their job

As Congress approaches [this] , it must take decisive steps
There is no good reason for the legislative process to take this long
It's time to act decisively
Congress must control its enormous appetite
We must act quickly and aggressively
I ask the Congress to join me in this urgent task



QUOTE: Late at night in England meant after the shutting of the pubs. Here there where no pubs to shut, so it was not yet late – Anthony Burgess




God rested on the seventh day to look at the rushes – J G Ballard

Like two semi-metallic beings
Out of the distant future
Making love in a chromium bower

A dank odor rises from their bodies,
An amalgam of rectal mucus
And engine coolant

All this time, however,
My real attention was fixed
Upon the rental-company
Vehicle in the car park.
Everything else –
His irritation with me,
The cramped perspectives of the office,
The noisiness of the staff
It all formed a vague penumbra,
Unsatisfactory footage that I would later edit out

Along the elegant motion sculpture
Of the concrete highway
The colossal carapaces
Of the thousands of cars moved
Like the welcoming centaurs
Of some Arcadian land

Already I had lost
Lost interest in the whimpering
Young woman pulling herself into her cloths.
My scared hands explored
The worn fabric of the seat,
Marking in my semen a cryptic diagram;
Some astrological sign or road intersection

Already the concept of leisure
Was dying in the business park,
Replaced by a grudging Puritanism.
Freedom was the right to paid work,
While leisure was the mark
Of the shiftless and untalented

An airliner rose
From the runway four hundred yards
To the left,
Wired by its nervous engines
To the dark air

An ancient regime
Faced with the revolution
It most feared,
A rebellion of its indentured professionals

At some point in life,
At our medical school
Or during our psychiatric training,
Some one had failed to take us seriously

Besides, everything
Is invented and then pondered upon.
God rested on the seventh day to look at the rushes


Quote: They – lovers, spurned and scornful, hurt and bewildered, proud and defiant – do not really make such strange bedfellows with politicians – after all, few things make us self-justifying as our principles and our partners – Thomas Mellon



Is it any longer sufficient (or even acceptable) to just save Capitalisms' ass? Is there any real hope for progressivism?


This morning I am at the Hard Bean Cafe in Grandview, Missouri. This is small town, God fearing America. It's not really small town; its suburban Kansas City but they precieve of themselves as small town and they act small town, they talk and they walk small town, so it must be small town. One of the contradictions of American life is that those who are struggling to preserve their lifestyle and losing tend to ally themselves politically with the forces trying to destroy it - small business allies with big bussines - the names are simiular (small business vs big business) but there the simularity ends. Nietzsche called this the "transvalutation of values" - the new co-opts the language of the old.