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Title: THE BUSH PRESIDENCY IS IMPLODING
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Newsmax
URL Source: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/10/10/145755.shtml
Published: Oct 11, 2005
Author: John LeBoutillier
Post Date: 2005-10-11 04:56:13 by Uncle Bill
Keywords: PRESIDENCY, IMPLODING, BUSH
Views: 96
Comments: 15
Newsmax Some call it "second termitis" – that affliction that seems to beset all re-elected presidents. But that usually happens later in a president's second term – and usually less severely. Not since President Richard Nixon's Watergate demise have we seen a presidency – just nine months after GW Bush's inauguration – literally collapse from within. The latest AP/Ipsos poll – taken last week of 1,000 adult voters – shows that only 28 percent believe the country is on the "right" track; a whopping 66 percent believe we're on the "wrong" track. And only 39 percent give the president a positive job approval rating – the lowest of his presidency in this poll. But the big story in this poll is the cracking of George W. Bush's once solid base: he has lost 20 percent of white evangelical men, more GOP women, and doubts are creeping into the conservative wing of the Republican coalition. Clearly the Harriet Miers decision – just one week ago – was a massive political blunder; forget her legal qualifications, we're talking here about Bush's political strength – or lack thereof. Picking Miers has unleashed anger on the Right a heretofore solid base for literally any Bush decision. And with that anger comes confusion, resentment and the inevitable Bush Family Behavior: payback for any one who dares to criticize any Bush decision. (That is the genesis of the ongoing Plame Leak Investigation: Joseph Wilson's op-ed piece criticizing Bush's assertions in his State of the Union speech caused the White House to have to "pay him back" by attacking him. It's the Bush Family credo.) And if Bush starts attacking fellow conservatives, then the whole thing threatens to come tumbling down around him. Underneath it all is the festering sore of an Iraq War that is going badly – despite the poppycock put out by Mr. Bush and his minions. Let me tell you a so-far-untold story from this past summer: A print reporter was given private time in Iraq with CENTCOM Commander General John Abizaid. The general spoke on complete background. He told this reporter that "we cannot win militarily here in Iraq. The best we can do is to hold it where it is until the Iraqis take over." Yet – in an eery reminder of Vietnam – General Abizaid did not say the same thing publicly to the Congress when he subsequently testified. On that occasion he painted – undoubtedly at the White House's behest a rosy picture of imminent military success and Iraqi military progress. (In fact, after three and a half years of our occupation there are barely 3,000 Iraqi soldiers we deem capable of fighting for their country.) If our military leaders are telling two different stories – one for public consumption and another in a CYA off-the-record session with a reporter – then we are fooling ourselves. This is a war that is a fraud from the top down. And it is our troops who are suffering for it. From the first day, the entire Iraq Campaign has been a typical case of "who cares about the troops?" – from inadequate troop levels to insufficient body armor and vehicle armor. Iraq is the single biggest factor eating away at the Bush presidency. Gas prices, illegal immigration and other issues are hurting, too, but Iraq is the one constant that is undercutting what is left of Bush's credibility. Prior to last week, the only people left who believed a word from GW Bush were conservatives; but the joke of Harriet Miers as "the most qualified person to be on the Supreme Court" has now begun to erode the president's credibility on the Right. And once he loses the conservatives, he is a total goner as president. With three years and three months left in the Oval Office, Mr. Bush faces a bleak remainder of his presidency; so, too, does the GOP, which has lost much credibility with its fiscal profligacy, sloppy Katrina spending and panoply of scandals. The Republican Party has – at the top – become lazy, arrogant, ego-driven, fat, dumb and self-satisfied. It had better get its act in gear – and soon – or else it will be destroyed – from within as well as from without.
THE BUSH PRESIDENCY IS IMPLODING
By John LeBoutillier
October 11, 2005
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#1. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
It's about time
The mind once expanded by a new idea never returns to its' original size
That's not very balanced. I think we need to list all the good qualities. Ron Paul, Republican member of Congress from Texas Okay, I'm done, lol. We should have confidence in how well freedom works, rather than relying on blind faith in the use of military force to spread our message. Setting an example and using persuasion is always superior to military force in showing how others might live. Force and war are tools of authoritarians; they are never tools of champions of liberty and justice. Force and war inevitably lead to dangerous unintended consequences. - Ron Paul, October, 2005 If Congress does not show some sense of financial restraint soon, we can expect the poor to become poorer; the middle class to become smaller; and the government to get bigger and more authoritarian – while the liberty of the people is diminished. The illusion that deficits, printing money, and expanding the welfare and warfare states serves the people must come to an end. - Ron Paul, September, 2005 If we took some of the steps I have outlined here – eliminating the welfare state and securing our borders – we could effectively address the problem of illegal immigration in a manner that would not undermine the freedom of American citizens. Sadly, it appears we are moving toward policies like a national ID that diminish our liberties. Like gun control, these approaches only punish the innocent, as criminals will always find a way around the law. - Ron Paul, August, 2005
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. - Confucious The Republican Party — at the top — owns the voting software and can change hundreds of thousands of votes via cell phone. Next year, against all odds, the Chimperor will celebrate the increase of his majorities in the House and Senate. The "exit polls" will once again be said to be flawed. He who casts the ballot is irrelevant. He who counts the ballot rules. No, it's not the Bush presidency which is imploding. The United States is the entity imploding. The Bush Crime Family is doing famously well.
Fineman on MSNBC - Rove and Libby will be indicted.
In other words, they have become Democrats
Bush is willing to pay that price. He needs to pack the USC with his friends to protect his war criminal ass.
Hallelujah!
wow, you mean this might actually have legs? i'm not holding my breath though.
I don't think the GOP has conserved anything but their own wealth and power.
Dem/Pube politicians--all anti-American traitorous elites.
Good piece. used to read him regularly but have stopped hitting newsmax..... JMO, but I don't think it's the war as John says, but the price of gas, for the major shift in approval...people say war, because to say otherwise would be considered cold and callous, but not many think or give a shit about the troops, let alone the humongous number of dead Iraqis.....
"I want the American people to know that our dreams are gone, our work was in vain. There will be no future for our children and our grandchildren in the new Iraq. The future is for the clerics. This is not the democracy we dreamed of. "--Dr. Raja Kuzai
I agree. I don't think most Americans care about the "war" per se, because of the volunteer army. As long as there's a volunteer army, our govt is free to pretty much war on whomever as long as the money holds out.
No kidding.. I'm sick of the lame line from Rush that "The Republicans don't know how to act like winners" They have acted like winners from day one. They rode into power on the heels of Newt Gengrich and the CWA, then promptly abandoned any pretext of Conservatism and shit all over anyone who dared to highlight their error. "Destroyed from within" indeed. They did it themselves. We've gone from having our noses pressed against the glass to a majority in both houses of Congress, controlling the White House for eight fucking years and having a good deal of sway on the Nations highest court... Only to piss it all away on a mid-east snipe hunt and paranoid ramblings about how the Constitution is somehow an impediment to our safety. Fuck them.. They've done more damage then Bill Clinton would have ever dreamed possible and, in fact, have made him look like a political moderate and a centrist by way of comparison.
"When the government FEARS the People, there is liberty, but when the People fear the government, there is tyranny."
Bump.
"When the government FEARS the People, there is liberty, but when the People fear the government, there is tyranny."
reciprocal bump ;)
BTTT
#2. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
The Republican Party has – at the top – become lazy, arrogant, ego-driven, fat, dumb and self-satisfied.
The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole? - Will Rogers
#3. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
#4. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
#5. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#1)
The Republican Party has – at the top – become lazy, arrogant, ego-driven, fat, dumb and self-satisfied.
#6. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
Picking Miers has unleashed anger on the Right
#7. To: aristeides (#4)
Fineman on MSNBC - Rove and Libby will be indicted.
One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?
#8. To: aristeides (#4)
#9. To: Soren (#5)
#10. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
#11. To: swarthyguy (#10)
#12. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
The Republican Party has – at the top – become lazy, arrogant, ego-driven, fat, dumb and self-satisfied. It had better get its act in gear – and soon – or else it will be destroyed – from within as well as from without.
#13. To: christine (#9)
I don't think the GOP has conserved anything but their own wealth and power.
#14. To: Jhoffa_ (#12)
#15. To: christine (#14)
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