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June 2007

Paris for Prez? at The Republic of T.
Published by terrance June 29th, 2007

Maybe I’ve been reading way to much about George W. Bush lately but it strikes me that Paris has that quality in common with the prez, and it might make her uniquely qualified to occupy the oval office some day.

Much has been made, much ink spilled and much bandwidth burned about the uninformed state of that other heir to a family fortune, though in his case it’s called “incuriosity.” And while in Hilton’s case it may not have affected anyone other than whoever happened to be sharing the road with her during her boozy with of joy-riding (don’t people like her have chauffeurs or something?), in the president’s case, it’s a fatal incuriosity, not for him but for considerably more than were endangered by Hilton’s hi-jinx.

He cites the now-famous August 2001 CIA report headlined: “Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S.” According to journalist Ron Suskind, Bush dismissed his CIA briefer with the remark, “All right. You’ve covered your ass now.”

“It’s impossible to know,” Gore replied when asked if a full-scale FBI mobilization would have stopped the hijackings.

“We use the old truism, ‘Curiosity killed the cat,’ ” he added. “Well, ‘incuriosity’ can cause great damage to nations. ... The ‘incuriosity’ in this case was clear and chilling. To have received such a warning — and not asked any questions, and not called any meetings — I don’t pretend to understand it.

“The most important part of intelligence is the consumer: The consumer is the president of the United States,” Gore argued.

There are some similarities, however. In his book The Assault on Reason, Gore goes into a bit more detail.

There are people in both political parties who worry that there is something deeply troubling about President Bush’s relationship to reason, his disdain of facts, and his lack of curiosity about any information that might produce a deeper understanding of the problems and policies that he is supposed to wrestle with on behalf of the country.

Yet Bush’s incuriosity and seeming immunity to doubt is sometimes interpreted by people who see and hear him on television as evidence of the strength of his conviction, even though it is this very inflexibility–this willful refusal even to entertain alternative opinions or conflicting evidence–that poses the most serious danger to our country.

In both cases, Paris and the prez, it’s willful ignorance that’s the problem. Neither of them has to learn anything or know anything, the difference is that in Hilton’s case, she just doesn’t care, while in the president’s case he’s actively hostile to information that doesn’t jibe with what he’s decided to believe.

Diplomatic Immunity - washingtonpost.com
The Washington Poxt
Books
Diplomatic Immunity
By Amy Alexander,
whose reviews appear monthly in Style
Tuesday, June 26, 2007; Page C03
TWICE AS GOOD
Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power
By Marcus Mabry
Rodale/Modern Times. 362 pp. $27.50
Also appeared in the Orlando Sentinel July 22 as Condi remains covered.

What accounts for her [Condoleeza Rice's] power? Her steely composure? Her seemingly bottomless patience for President Bush's intellectual incuriosity? Mabry, a veteran journalist, gets the key in the lock but opens the door only wide enough to reveal a teasing sliver of the rooms beyond.

The Left Coaster: President in All But Name
Sunday :: Jun 24, 2007
by Mary :: 12:04 PM

And almost assuredly, nothing flows out to Bush except what Cheney wants to flow to him. Bush, being incurious and a vain man, doesn't realize he is being played because Cheney knows how to shape what he hears and to get from Bush whatever Cheney wants.

Diplomatic Immunity - washingtonpost.com
Diplomatic Immunity
By Amy Alexander,
whose reviews appear monthly in Style
Tuesday, June 26, 2007; Page C03
TWICE AS GOOD
Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power
By Marcus Mabry
Rodale/Modern Times. 362 pp. $27.50

What accounts for her power? Her steely composure? Her seemingly bottomless patience for President Bush's intellectual incuriosity? Mabry, a veteran journalist, gets the key in the lock but opens the door only wide enough to reveal a teasing sliver of the rooms beyond.

D-Day: Is Fourthbranch Blackmailing Bush?
Monday, June 25, 2007
dashed off by dday at 12:49 PM

. . . with a President this incurious, maybe Cheney just knows how to talk to him easier than anyone else.

Internal Monologue: Shrinking George W. Bush: Meta-stupidity
posted by Zachary Drake at 6/22/2007 10:16:00 AM

I have said numerous times that the problem with George W. Bush is not so much stupidity (he's not brilliant, but he's smart enough), but rather a profound lack of curiosity combined with arrogance and stubbornness.

Greg Grandin: Empire's Workshop - Tom Hull
Thursday, June 21. 2007
Posted by Tom Hull in Books at 23:05

Greg Grandin's book, Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (2006, Metropolitan; recently reprinted in paperback) provides a rather cursory overview of US domination over Latin America. . . .

The link between Reagan and Bush (pp. 230-231):
. . . Bush's ability to stay incuriously on message, like Reagan's communicative skills, is undoubtedly high on the list of PR "exploitable assets."

BottleOfBlog: Blair Is The Man With The Yellow Hat
June 19, 2007
An image of George W. Bush as the monkey and Tony Blair as the Man with The Yellow Hat. Also listed under Links Primates.

Incurious George Goes To War. With a chaperon!

Taking Notes
Elephant Biz
Bill Hobbs · June 18, 2007
As evidence that 2008 presidential candidate former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) is not incurious, this author credits him for visiting a day and a half at the Hoover Instition — a bastion of right-wing groupthink. Oddly, this author suggests that calling George W. Bush incurious is an attack line rather than a fact proudly acknowledged by his supporters.

I recently spent some time surfing some Lefty blogs, and found numerous references by various leftwing commenters to Fred Thompson being intellectually lazy, unintelligent and incurious. In other words, the Left is gearing up to try the same attack line against Thompson as it used against George W. Bush and, before him, Ronald Reagan.

Incertus
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Good question--who is the scariest?
posted by Brian at 1:57 PM

. . . if the last 6 years has taught us anything, it's that we don't want an intellectually incurious person in the White House.

The Carpetbagger Report » Blog Archive » Sunday Discussion Group
June 17, 2007
Posted 9:00 am
Discusion of candidates for the Republican nomination for President, 2008

Fred Thompson — The actor/lobbyist/senator doesn’t seem to have any real rationale for seeking the presidency, other than the belief he might win. Thompson is at least as phony as Romney — the red truck story should be humiliating to him — and developed a Bush-like reputation for being lazy and incurious.

Vote haunting in many ways
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
Letters to the Editor
Jun. 9, 2007

[If the Supreme Court hadn't picked Bush as president] The probability that 9/11 never would have occurred is immense. Not being lazy minded and incurious, Al Gore and his advisers would not have ignored all the many warning signs of an impending attack, as President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, etc. did.

The Galloping Beaver: Chewing their own arms off
Thursday, June 07, 2007
posted by Dave at 14:20

George W Bush is an empty suit; a common sociopath who has never had to suffer the consequences of his reckless, selfish behaviour. He is unthinking, incurious and shallow. Incapable of independent thought, he was surrounded by whatever hack offered to make him feel good and look presidential.

Passing Strange | About the Play
Undated page © 2007, first observed by uncuriousgeorge.org June 7, 2007
Comments by Stew, Playwright/Composer, Passing Strange, performed in New York City May 1–July 1, 2007.

Can you imagine an uber-privileged billionaire's son from any other country that would not have been curious enough to travel to a foreign country or two or 3 or 20? Especially when you're talking the kind of money where you already OWN a few airplanes yourself? As someone whose experience abroad informed and shaped my very being and consciousness about everything from sexuality, politics, culture, language and human nature, I became obsessed with this factoid and decided this incuriosity was at the heart of the war. I realized that we are actually suffering the results of Bush's and his cronies' incuriousness... their dimwitted foreign policy time and again shows that beneath it all these fuckers don't even care about trying to understand the world they wish to dominate.

Gore brings blunt talk, book to Seattle
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
By JOEL CONNELLY
P-I COLUMNIST

He cites the now-famous August 2001 CIA report headlined: "Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S." According to journalist Ron Suskind, Bush dismissed his CIA briefer with the remark, "All right. You've covered your ass now."

"It's impossible to know," Gore replied when asked if a full-scale FBI mobilization would have stopped the hijackings.

"We use the old truism, 'Curiosity killed the cat,' " he added. "Well, 'incuriosity' can cause great damage to nations. ... The 'incuriosity' in this case was clear and chilling. To have received such a warning -- and not asked any questions, and not called any meetings -- I don't pretend to understand it.

"In this administration, disagreement is not welcome."

. . . he cited the example of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki, who told Congress in February 2003 that occupation of Iraq could require several hundred thousand soldiers.

"Not only was his advice rejected," Gore said, "he was punished. It delivered a chilling message to other generals and admirals. Dissenting views were not heard after that.

Political Cortex: Will Fred Thompson Become Karl Rove's Latest Neocon Trained Seal?
Political Cortex
By Bill Hare
06/03/2007 01:07:10 PM EST

The important thing about promoting an incurious and inarticulate buffoon-like figure such as Bush to the presidency was a willingness to please the neocon power structure and that he did.

Comment is free: Mirror images
The Guardian (London)
Mirror images
Presidents Putin and Bush will meet at G8 next week. But they have much more in common than they think.
By Nina Khrushchev
June 3, 2007 3:00 PM
Nina Khrushchev is a professor of international affairs at New School University. She is the granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin.

Convinced that he is right, and incurious to hear contrary arguments, Bush felt free to undermine the rule of law in America with warrantless domestic surveillance, erosion of due process, and defence of torture, in addition to misleading the public and refusing to heed expert advice or recognise facts on the ground. From the tax cuts in 2001 to the war in Iraq, Bush's self-righteous certitude led him to believe that he could say and do anything to get his way.

May 2007

Agnoiologist: The Case For Lazy Fred
agnoiology: n. the study of human stupidity. This is the weblog of an agnoiologist, making sure you and I aren't stupid.
Posted by Agnoiologist on May 31, 2007 02:12 PM
Author Shawn McDonald describes himself as an American, a moderate Republican, a conservative whose idol is Edmund Burke, and a 19 year old student at Johns Hopkins University.

Immediately, people will bring up George Bush Jr. He was constantly on vacation, isn't that a sign of laziness? No, the Decider isn't lazy in action, just in intellection. Look no further than No Child Left Behind. Bush is full of bad ideas, which are suger-coated with good intention. Intellectually incurious, yes? Lazy? He managed to get us into Iraq, didn't he?

A Review of “The Assault on Reason” - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought
Written by Ron Chusid
Posted on Sunday, May 27th, 2007

The country has also turned from reason under a President who lacks intellectual curiosity.
There are people in both political parties who worry that there is something deeply troubling about President Bush’s relationship to reason, his disdain of facts, and his lack of curiosity about any information that might produce a deeper understanding of the problems and policies that he is supposed to wrestle with on behalf of the country.

Yet Bush’s incuriosity and seeming immunity to doubt is sometimes interpreted by people who see and hear him on television as evidence of the strength of his conviction, even though it is this very inflexibility–this willful refusal even to entertain alternative opinions or conflicting evidence–that poses the most serious danger to our country.

The Long War Comes Home - Tom Hull
Saturday, May 26, 2007

Bush (or Cheney or Rove or whoever pulls the strings behind Incurious George) made sure from inauguration day that every nook and cranny of the federal government was staffed with operatives enforcing the party line.

The Blog | Dave Johnson: Gore on Fire | The Huffington Post
05.24.2007

He [Al Gore] talks about what has happened to this country that we could have ever allow a Bush and Cheney and their lies and evasions and incuriosity to take the reigns of our government - and allowed them to stay there after it became clear what they are about.

Transient Reporter: Gore vs Bush
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
The title "Gore vs Bush" has nothing to do with lawsuits; it uses photographs of their work environments to contrast their access to and interest in media resources and information management. Gore is presented as curious and you-know-who as incurious. Click the link for the stark comparison!

A curious mind vs an incurious one. How do they manifest their differences?

E. J. Dionne Jr. - Free To Be Al Gore - washingtonpost.com
The Washington Post
Free To Be Al Gore
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007; Page A15
Prompted by Al Gore's new book The Assault on Reason released the same day. Also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle as The diminishing role for reason.

Gore writes of "something deeply troubling about President Bush's relationship to reason, his disdain for facts, and his lack of curiosity. . . ."

Your Right Hand Thief
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Craziest quote I've read all week
posted by oyster @ 12:25 PM

Are we to believe that conservatives suddenly want a candidate who "does" nuance, and who sees shades of grey, and understands how complex the world can be? Is that it? If so, I'd like to ask one thing:

When the hell did this start?! A week or so after conservatives re-elected one of the most rigid and incurious Presidents in American history?

The Assault on Reason
The Assault on Reason
by Al Gore
The Penguin Press HC
published May 22, 2007

There are many people in both political parties who worry that there is something deeply troubling about President Bush’s relationship to reason, his disdain for facts, and his lack of curiousity about any new information that might produce a deeper understanding of the problems and policies that he is supposed to wrestle with on behalf of the country.

Yet Bush’s incuriousity and seeming immunity to doubt is sometimes interpreted by people who see and hear him on television as evidence of his conviction, even though it is this very inflexibility — this willful refusal even to entertain alternative opinions or conflicting evidence — that poses the most serious danger to our country.

Waist Deep in the Big Sand Dune*
OpEdNews.com
May 21, 2007 at 19:26:13
by Gerald Scorse

The comparisons [between Iraq and Vietnam] are still there and the war is still there too: longer-lived than our involvement in World War II, longer certainly than Incurious George ever imagined when he decided that “shock and awe” was just the ticket to start setting things straight in the Middle East.

Koranteng's Toli: On George W. Bush
Friday, May 18, 2007
by Koranteng Ofosu-Amaah
An essay on knowledge and ignorance and the political uses thereof

Some have speculated about oedipal reasons or ice queen mothering for his [Bush's] essential incuriousity. I demur; one should give him the benefit of the doubt and ascribe his outlook to conscious decision. He has asserted after all that he is "the decider". Also as [Porterhouse Blue author Tom] Sharpe explained, incuriousity can be a deliberate policy, indeed one founded on conviction, if not an instinct towards self-preservation.

Daily Kos: The McCain/Bush Corruption Cover-Up
by dengre
Sun May 13, 2007 at 10:49:38 PM PDT
This is more interesting for its broad analysis of the Jack Abramoff scandal and the corverup thereof than for this incidental use of our favorite word.

In the 1970s a small group of folks decided to take over America and they did. In 2000 they installed a weak, incurious and self-important man as President.

Radar Contact: What We've Lost, by Graydon Carter
Sunday, May 13, 2007

George W. Bush may be the most incurious American president ever.

Alberto Gonzales, Zen master. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007, at 7:13 PM ET

Finally, the AG proves himself to be as defiantly incurious as his boss.

Ross Douthat
The Atlantic Online
Private Lives, Public Duties
09 May 2007 12:01 pm

In hindsight, for instance, it's clear that certain of George W. Bush's personal attributes - his intellectual incuriosity, his sense of personal calling, his abiding loyalty to friends and allies, his stubborness when challenged - have led his Presidency into disasters.

RT: Evolving Anti-Intellectualism
Red Tory
Victoria, B.C., Canada
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Incurious Mike Huckabee is a lot like Incurious George Bush.

Not only does Huckabee’s remark [disbelief in evolution] reveal an appallingly incurious sort of attitude that doesn’t exactly say much good for the quality of his problem-solving abilities, but is also indicative of a willingness to dismiss science whenever it happens to be politically convenient or is regarded as being at odds with the candidate’s blind faith in the mysterious workings of an unfathomable higher power. Those are rather disturbing attributes to have in a president of the United States, something that’s been abundantly demonstrated to tragic effect over the last several years.

Drinking Liberally Louisville - Bu$h To Diss Another Disaster State
May 08, 2007

Incurious George and his WH flack will belatedly tour the devastated town of Greensburg, Kansas on Wednesday. The smear machine was out in force after the Kansas Governor, a Dem no less, pointed out the obvious: The war in Iraq has depleted their Guard uinits and equiptment. Katrina, anyone?

Contrary Brin: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous... to the Just Plain Ugly... Part Two
Sunday, May 06, 2007
posted by David Brin at 7:32 PM

As Daggatt says: “What I find astounding is that the right-wing has chosen this president as the vehicle through which to push their notions of authoritarian government to their most radical lengths. Throughout the history of government there have been arguments about the merits of a strongman running the show versus representative government and the rule of law. But the advocates of the former often assume some kind of enlightened philosopher king up against the irresponsible rabble. It seems pretty hard to make the case that an obviously-incompetent, incurious ideologue should be given unchecked powers.”

News: Without give and take, freedom dies
St. Petersburg (Florida) Times
By BILL MAXWELL
Published May 6, 2007

When Bush raised that bullhorn near the remains of the World Trade Center and vowed to bring the terrorists to justice, freedom of speech as we know it became a casualty. From that moment on, until quite recently, anyone who disagreed with Bush and his administration's policies was branded "unpatriotic, " "un-American" and "traitorous."

In other words, "shut up," exactly the wrong admonition in a civil society. Because of his incuriosity and imperial instincts, Bush was the wrong man to lead our nation after the twin towers fell.

-= NONE SO BLIND =-
he Pathological State of America’s Broadcast Journalism: Some Striking Passages from Greenwald
posted on Sunday, May 6th, 2007 at 1:26 pm

With such primitive sensibilities prominent among those whose job is to help guide the understanding of the American people, it becomes less surprising that George W. Bush’s rigidity, his stubbornness, his lack of curiosity, his incapability of recognizing his errors, might succeed politically by being mis-interpreted as a kind of strength.

Assimilated Press: President Bush: Commander Guy Or Skipper Dude?
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Written for Assimilated Press by roving reporter pinko
posted by Virt at 12:35 AM
This piece appears to be tongue in cheek.

Dr. Tucker mentioned research done by Roper Polls that showed that among Americans between the ages 3-5, the most common names for the president were “Mr. Bush” and “I Don’t Know”, with “Poopy-head” also scoring highly. Terms used by Americans between the ages 5-105 included “The Idiot”, “The Screw-Up”, “Moron Man”, “Incurious George”, “Monkey Man”, “King George the 43rd”, “A National Disgrace”, “Cheney’s Puppet”, and “That F—king Bastard.”

Dyre Portents: 22% Believe Bush Knew About 9/11 Attacks in Advance
Posted by Dyre42 at Friday, May 04, 2007

He may be many things idealistic, stubborn, secretive, ill advised, unimaginative, and incurious but none of those add up to evil.

Hullabaloo
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
The Ugliest American
by digby

Bush (because of his own lack of curiosity and innate provincialism) and the neos (because of their dreams of American Empire) have long been hostile to "Old Europe."

April 2007

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan - VIEW: America’s sleeping media —J Bradford Delong
Monday, April 30, 2007
J Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, was Assistant US Treasury Secretary during the Clinton administration.
Also appeared April 30 in Project Syndicate as America’s Sleeping Watch Dog and May 5 in Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal as While America's Watch Dogs Slept....

It was the summer of 2000 when I began asking Republicans I know — generally people who might be natural candidates for various sub-cabinet policy positions in a Republican administration — how worried they were that the Republican presidential candidate, George W Bush, was clearly not up to the job. They were not worried, they told me, that Bush was inadequately briefed and strangely incurious for a man who sought the most powerful office in the world. . . .

A strange picture of Bush emerged from conversations with sub-cabinet administration appointees, their friends, and their friends of friends. He was not just under-briefed, but also lazy: he insisted on remaining under-briefed. He was not just incurious, but also arrogant: he insisted on making uninformed decisions, and hence made decisions that were essentially random. And he was stubborn: once he had made a decision — even, or rather especially, if it was glaringly wrong and stupid — he would never revisit it.

Jo Swift: Bush & The Cult of Personality
29 April 2007
Posted by Left Turn at 14:38

It’s widely known that Bush is an incurious poseur who doesn’t read the newspapers and has no interest in the grueling task of managing the government.

Joe Scarborough: 'We Can't Win the War'
Watching the Watchers
Thursday, April 26, 2007
By Rogers Cadenhead
Filed at 12:54 PM

Since starting his MSNBC show in 2003, Scarborough has been more critical of President Bush and other Republican leaders than you might expect from somebody with a 93 percent lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union for his Congressional votes.

Last August, Scarborough's show had an infamous segment in which he asked the question, "Is Bush an idiot?"

His answer: Yes. "George Bush is in a league by himself," he said, describing the president as intellectually incurious. "I don't think he has the intellectual depth, as these other people, but do we need that as a president?"

Uncurious George by John Darkow
Uncurious George
Artist: John Darkow
Attribution: John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri
Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2007
This cartoon originally appeared untitled in the Columbia Daily Tribune. Politics Up Close reprinted the cartoon with the title Uncurious George. It shows George W. Bush saying "After Watching Gonzales on my TV it increased my confidence in his ability to do the job!" In the second square, it is revealed that Bush was watching a televized Gonzales other than his attorney general.

MWC News - A Site Without Borders - - An early R.I.P. for McCain's presidential ambitions
Media with Conscience
Editorial
By Ben Tanosborn
Sunday, 22 April 2007
Also published May 23 at Drudge Retort as Is John McCain now a political has-been?

For if there is one thing this nation can ill afford, it’s another dubious Dubya... with comparable lackluster brainpower, similar lack of curiosity or knowledge, and a parallel strong affection for war!

Article of Faith: Incurious George
Friday, April 20, 2007 Incurious George
posted by Todd Mitchell @ 10:13 AM
Includes an image of a Curious George–like character with little resemblance to George W. Bush.

For over six years the man has held the most powerful position in the world, come in contact with tens of thousands of people, addressed millions, feasted on cultures and societies you and I could only dream of visiting, and what has he learned?

Not one damn thing.

The Anonymous Liberal: Completely Unsuited for Leadership
Thursday, April 19, 2007

His insecurity, his lack of curiosity, his unwillingness to re-examine his beliefs in the face of contrary facts, his complete inability to express a coherent thought without reading from a script: these are not the building blocks of competent leadership.

Beautiful Horizons: NoWhere Man
Posted by Richard LoCicero on April 18, 2007 at 10:46 PM

And so even this most unreflective and uncurious of men must know that his "legacy" is secure. Among the worst if not the worst President ever.

The Signal: News for Santa Clarita Valley, California
Let's Not Make a Capital Case Out of a Headscarf
Commentary by Gary Horton
Gary Horton lives in Valencia. His column reflects his own views, and not necessarily those of The Signal.
Wednesday April 18, 2007
The picture of Bush wearing an ao dai is not on the Signal's website. It is visible in a Nov. 19, 2006, MSNBC article Bush seeks Chinese help on North Korea, trade and many other websites.

I've been aching to use this "unique" picture of George Bush for months. The potential for gut-splitting captions are endless. Now, with Nancy Pelosi getting worked over for a headscarf, . . .

Of course, disrespecting other people's culture isn't nice - or diplomatically astute. In reality, this picture was taken last year when Bush attended an Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation meeting in Vietnam. World leaders were (apparently reluctantly) duded out in traditional "ao dai" tunics during a post-summit photo op.

At the time, you heard no outcry that Bush was selling out America to the commies, trading in his suit (with requisite American flag lapel pin) for a striking blue Vietnamese "ao dai." Nope - everyone understood, even if the picture looked absolutely hysterical, that uncurious George was finally being culturally sensitive and politically adroit.

Arvin Hill's Carnival of Horror
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Crisis=Opportunity=Crisis*

As I think I've written before, I don't think George Bush,jr is stupid. He's strikes me as someone who, though narrow-minded and incurious about things that don't strike him as immediately interesting, is generally shrewd with regard to things that do matter to him.

The Impolitic: Paying Lip Service To Great Sacrifice
Sunday, April 15, 2007
posted by Impolitic at 1:24 PM

Today on Face The Nation Dick Cheney showed America the face of evil incompetence. He makes the statement that the democrats will not deliver a bill to Uncurious George that contains a timeline for troop redeployment.

Today's Other Quote « The Opinion Mill
April 13th, 2007

In his new book Where Have All the Leaders Gone, former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca offers his views on the state of the union:

[excerpt omitted]

He then goes on to offer nine points of effective leadership. I don’t think Incurious George displays many of them.

NewsHog: Political Variance Control
Friday, April 13, 2007
posted by fester at 8:54 AM

Somehow in 1998 a significant part of the United States political-media elite decided that a do-nothing, incurious, intentionally ignorant self-enriching at the expense of others, drunken failure would be a better choice of President than people who had demonstrated expertise in the art of politics and governing, expertise in judgement and a reasonable level of self and group accomplishment from either major party.

DownWithTyranny!: ARE KARL ROVE AND ROGER AILES WRITING COPY OVER AT CNN NOW?
Monday, April 09, 2007
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 6:56 AM

After 6 long years someone is finally going to have to explain to Incurious George that the word "bipartisan" doesn't mean "my way or the highway."

The Western Confucian: Bush Lost the War
Monday, April 09, 2007
Posted by Iosue Andreas at 12:57 PM

As far as this blogger is concerned, it was an unjust war from the get go, so who lost it is really immaterial. Who started it is the real question. The buck stops at the Oval Office, whose current occupant is famously uncurious. It seems he likely simply went along with a plan put in front him.

March to a Different Drummer: Blogging Across The Great Divide
Sunday, April 08, 2007
posted by Bill Garnett @ 12:07 AM

he current mess is not so much the doing of one man, George Bush, as ineffective, inarticulate, and incurious as he is — it is the fault of “we the people”. We elected him — twice.

Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: Journamalism Watch: Michael Gordon, Max Frankel, Fred Hiatt
April 08, 2007

It was the summer of 2000 when I began asking Republicans I know--by and large people who might be natural candidates for short lists for various subcabinet policy positions in a Republican administration--how worried they were that the Republican candidate for president, George W. Bush, was clearly not up to the job: underbriefed and incurious. They were not worried, they told me. . . .

By the summer of 2001 . . . a strange picture of George W. Bush emerged from conversations with subcabinet Bush Administration appointees and their friends and their friends of friends. He was not just underbriefed but lazy: he insisted on remaining underbriefed. He was not just incurious but arrogant: he insisted on making decisions about things he did not know, and hence made decisions that were essentially random. And he was stubborn: once he had made a decision--even or rather especially if it was a howlingly wrong and stupid one--he would never revisit it.

Daily Ramblings - Truthiness On Parade
Posted on Apr. 7th, 2007 at 12:17 pm

ANTI-BUSHISM OF THE DAY: "It just would surprise you that someone who wants to lead the free world would not necessarily know what that free world consisted of. And had only been to Epcot Center. It was sort of like his trip to Baghdad. He went for four hours into the Green Zone and comes back and says Iraq is making great progress. It would be like if we went to the Olive Garden and started going, "I understand Italy."—Jon Stewart, on the incuriousness of George W. Bush.

Nation's fundamental beliefs abandoned
[Augusta, Maine] Morning Sentinel
Kennebec [Maine] Journal
Friday, April 6, 2007
by Abbott Meader, Oakland

But today many have abandoned our nation's beliefs, lapsing into that insidious human yearning for a simplistic vision offered up by a so-called "strong" leader, a lord, a king.

Currently the condescending, incurious Bush serves that purpose, surrounded by his cabal of secretive, paranoid, fear-mongering puppet-masters.

Catholic and Enjoying It
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
The Cult of Loyalty
posted by Mark at 10:32 AM

Do we have any indication--any indication at all--the Dubya has ever considered strongly *anyone's* counsel if it does not agree with what he has already decided to do? Does the picture of the White House that has emerged over the past few years suggest to you a place which prizes open consideration of ideas or a place that prizes loyalty and adherence to What the Leader Wants first last and always? Does Bush strike you as an active and engaged intellect or as perhaps the most insular and incurious man to occupy the White House in all of American history? I'm afraid I have to go with the latter assessment in both cases. There's a reason Bush prefers people like Michael Brown, Alberto Gonzales and Harriet Miers: Because loyalty matter far more than competence to him.

Middle East Open Forum: Iraq Redux
by Basil Hakki
April 4, 2007

But fragmentary information leaking out gives an impression of a President who is inarticulate and intellectually "incurious". His closest advisers (probably Cheney) tried to protect him by isolating him. But in so doing they handled him the way that farmers grow mushrooms, in which they keep them in the dark.

Sharp Sand » Politics & Fantasy
Joseph Duemer
04 Apr 2007 09:24 pm

It is easy to laugh at the twelve-year-old boy who has trouble separating the reality of Star Wars or Tolkin [sic] from everyday reality, so why is it so difficult for us — & especially the adolescents of the press — to see that there is a twelve-year-old with shaky reality testing abilities (to say nothing of intellectual mediocrity & lack of curiosity) sitting in the White House directing US foreign policy?

Humor,Comedy and Satire with Jake The MassPube: Jews and Kangaroos.. wrestle with this one!
Monday, April 2, 2007
Posted by The MassPube at 6:30 PM

Next up on the card, "The Protestant Pope vs. The Greek Schlomo" followed by our championship bout, "Man Mountain Mohammed vs. Uncurious George, the Human Baboon." Times have changed!

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