Indictment Adds to White House's Woes

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051028/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_dark_days_2

WASHINGTON - These are dark days for the White House. And they could get darker.

Less than a year after winning re-election by a comfortable margin, President Bush's approval ratings are at the lowest since he took office in 2001 and he is being whipsawed this week by events, some of his own making.

_The U.S. death toll in Iraq hit 2,000 on Tuesday, a fresh reminder of the president's push to war over weapons of mass destruction that were never found.

_A special prosecutor took aim at White House officials in an investigation into the leak of a CIA agent's identity, a disclosure that may have been part of a campaign to discredit an Iraq war critic. The vice president's chief of staff was indicted on five felony counts Friday, although top aide Karl Rove escaped charges for now.

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"There are times when no matter what you do it seems to blow up in your face, whether it's self-inflicted or inflicted from the outside," said Democratic consultant Joe Lockhart, who was President Clinton's press secretary during the impeachment flap.

[Cactus44]

1. "winning re-election by a comfortable margin" ???!?!?!?

That was a comfortable margin?

[bumblebee1]

4. Comfortable?

If a 51-49 margin is a comfortable margin, then a balance beam is a city sidewalk.

[Mithras61]

9. Two percent is a comfortable margin...

but when the Miers nomination was withdrawn and a 7% margin of support for that was polled, it was a minimal margin?

Amazing how things always seem to be reported in a way that makes it look better for them than it is, huh?

[Enraged_Ape]

5. I guess 1-3% is the new "comfortable margin"

What a sad, sick joke. It's just so pathetic that the media of the old Soviet Union has come to the United States.

[hippiegranny]

6. my immediate reaction was identical!

"comfortable margin?" Lying liars and fucking fucks - all of 'em.

[louis-t]

2. "some" of his own making?

How about 100% of his own making.

[Zorra]

3. Dark for ALL REPUBLICANS. A showcase for their culture of corruption

Hopefully this is just the tip of the iceberg, and the rest of the republican scum will be be rooted out, from Bu*h down to local republican officials.

Vote all of them out, and our country will be safe, sane, and prosperous once again.

Republicans. Just plain evil.

[Journeyman]

7. Within the Electoral College, Bush had 53%. . .

to Kerry's 47, so I guess that could be seen as a "comfortable" margin -- if you ignore that the outcome could have been reversed had the outcome been different in only one of a number of states.

[conscious]

8. Post Covers an Even agrugably MORE Important Scandal

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/worldopinionroundup/2005/10/dsm_the_sequel.html#comment-10706248

[closeupready]

10. Look at the byline: Ron Fournier, again

He's a GOP shill. Has been for as long as I can remember. His stories may be accurate and he may be a good journalist, but he always writes with a pro-Bush angle.

[leftchick]

11. I agree

Though I do indeed love the headline!

[closeupready]

12. Oh, yes - the headline is nice...

:)