Bush's Fraying Presidency (Wash Post)

[Nightwing]

I just love the line "a presidency on life support." Lmao, made my day!!


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These developments came against a background of rising conservative criticism in Congress of runaway spending, of continuing investigations of the administration's faltering response to Hurricane Katrina and of criminal indictments and grand jury probes that have forced out the chief White House procurement officer and the House Republican majority leader and that may implicate other top officials of both branches.

Coming when Bush is recording his lowest-ever job-approval scores, this has led as sober an analyst as John Kenneth White of Catholic University to describe this as "a presidency on life support." Noting the precipitous decline in Bush's ratings from moderates and independents, White argues that continuing problems -- notably the war in Iraq, the high cost of gasoline and home heating fuels, and an unending stream of deficits -- are likely to plague Bush indefinitely

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/07/AR2005100701700.html

[orpupilofnature57]

1. His legacy, will be Poppy's punishment!!!

[Cha]

17. * legacy will be the

neo cons punishment too..chimpy will just go down and eat bananas and clear brush.

[indepat]

2. This presidency would have been on life support more than four years ago

had the Congress, the MSM, and we the people held this Administration accountable for its sins of omission and commission.

[patricia92243]

7. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to Bush's presidency. I'm not

sure he would have been able to finish his first term without it. People forget how badly he was doing in the time BEFORE 9/11.

Remember the China incident (we had to apologize to them after Bush made a fool of us by saying we wouldn't.) The cowboy swagger and arrogance was already apparent then There is much, much more.

[indepat]

10. 9-11: more than four years ago, when our $30 billion intelligence

apparatus completely failed.

[Cha]

18. And miers briefed

chimpy about the August 6, 2001 memo that warned there might be terrorist attacks from airplanes.

[OrlandoGator]

3. Time to pull the feeding tube. nt

[pretzel4gore]

4. at least hitler won the war

i doubt that anyone cares about all these fine sentiments that a pigmedia outlet like washpost shows concern for...too little, too late in any case. heil hit fuuking ler...

[DavidDvorkin]

9. Hitler won the war?

That's odd. I coulda sworn . . .

[pretzel4gore]

11. me too, but

something happened on the way to the white house (aka the crookery)

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Good campaign line - Bush: "Let us pray" - GOP: "Let us fray"

[enid602]

6. life support

No disrespect to the author, but the adminsitration is not on life support. Our country, however is.

[cassiepriam]

8. Exactly. They doing just fine. Making money hand over fist.

Murdering, raping, torturing. Life is good if you are a sociopath. The rest of us are suffering.

[klyon]

13. and cleaning up any Saddam/GHW Bush connection

the reason for it all, to protect daddy... all the rest is just icing.

KL

[cassiepriam]

16. I am sure they have a large clean up crew, like the man with a broom who

follows the elephant at the circus.

[rodeodance]

22. yes, they are making money even as they are falling.

[cliss]

12. This was a great article, Nightwing.

I learned some things about Bush and his presidency. I also didn't know that the main reason why these types of leaders fall, is not because of the public finally getting tired of them, but because their party finally cuts them loose.

thanks for posting.

[Nightwing]

14. Found the article very telling as well

And thank you for your kind comments.

[CatWoman]

15. anything that keeps Rove awake at night

is a very good thing.

a very good thing indeed.

[Emillereid]

19. Music! Sweet music!

[afdip]

20. as much as i'd like to be the one to nail the last

nail in dubya the demigod's coffin, i think we are overestimating the mental acuity of the 59+ million who voted for this motherfucker. as with mark twain, i fear the reports of dubya's demise are premature . . . we've still got him for another three fucking years and can only hope to erode some of his power in the house and senate in '06.

[Demeter]

21. Too Bad The GOP Is Too PC To Pull The Plug

If ever anything cried out for euthanasia, it's the Bush Administration!

[katty]

23. bush does the WH resignation speech mid-november