ABCNews: Bush Presidency Floundering

[DallasTim]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1940034&page=1

May 9, 2006— Things are looking worse and worse for President Bush who said after he was re-elected in 2004 that he had political capital and intended to spend it.

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"The fear is that people are looking at this guy and saying he's a failed president."

[acmavm]

1. It's hard to ignore the obvious even if you have as much

practice at it as ABC

[BOSSHOG]

2. I wonder what tipped them off?

Could it be the truth they find so easy to ignore or pass by?

[Paranoid Pessimist]

22. A leaky source with covert liberal sympathies no doubt n/t

[ixion]

3. he's a failed president.

uh, DUH! :eyes:

Took'em long enough. I could have saved the myself and millions of other Americans and people around the world a great deal of heartache, because I knew in 2000 that, if elected, he would be a failure. How did I know that? Well, he's FAILED at everything he's ever done. I think it's a pretty safe bet.

[tabasco]

8. We knew Bush would be a disaster.

I really didn't think he would mess the country up this bad though.

I hope the people are never stupid enough to put the republicans in charge again.

But of course, after a generation, everybody forgets. If not sooner.

[rkc3]

9. Everything the guy touched prior to his presidency turned to shit.

Why would anyone expect "finding Jesus" would turn his business sense around?

At least most of here were smart enough to see that 6 years ago.

[NJCher]

25. and how do we get out of this cycle?

Republican president sacks the treasury. To keep from going bankrupt, Democrat comes in and cleans up the mess. Result: unpopular Democratic president.

We are going through the cycle right now in NJ. Corzine is attempting to clean up Whitman's mess and his popularity ratings are a low.




Cher

[glitch]

17. Failed as president, wildly successful as mobster. Let's not forget all $$

and resources they've siphoned off of us.

[ginnyinWI]

34. He's succeeded at failing.

He'll probably go down in history with all sorts of records--of the negative kind.


What kind of hubris gives a person, knowing that he's failed repeatedly, the idea that he could be a good president? Or does he not know that he's ever failed? Does being a Bush mean "not having to say you are sorry" (and admit you've screwed anything up)?

[Captain Hilts]

4. Almost as bad as 'foundering'. nt

[Bucky]

7. His favorite WH moment: a 7 lb bass. My favorite: a 7 month flounder

It'd be funny if it weren't for all those dead people

[tanyev]

5. From a perch to a bass to a flounder.

One big fish story.

[underpants]

6. Stop posting-- tanyev just got it right

well done

[Notoverit]

10. That earns you the Colbert of the Day!

[robbedvoter]

12. And a Colbert from me as well!

[tanyev]

13. Woo-hoo! What an honor!

Seriously, I would really like to meet Steve Colbert someday. He owes me $7.00. I went to see "Bewitched" just because he was in it.

[robbedvoter]

36. Yup. He owes you $7!

I hope I can find a graphic with Colbert statuettes - this is only the second I'm handing out.

[yellowcanine]

18. Not to mention THIS big fish that got away.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2268533&mesg_id=2271620

[dweller]

20. 'Fishin Accomplished'

:thumbsup:

dp

[PuraVidaDreamin]

29. Started with his 'cod'piece

Remember?

[peekaloo]

11. "Floundering"

[grytpype]

15. "You f*cked up, Kent! You trusted us!"

[CoffeeCat]

14. Bush spent all of his political capital...

...on his moronic Soc Sec plan--and now he's politically bankrupt.

He's been broke for a looooong time.

[DBoon]

16. and spent all his capital and everyone else's as well

and all he has to show for it is bankruptcy

[hashibabba]

19. Yet he still wants to give the rich a trillion dollars in tax cuts. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

21. drowning in it's own backwash

[Accountability_NOW]

23. He is a failure and yet he is still pushing to nuke Iran

We must force him to resign!


http://benfrank.net/blog/f/dc-march.pdf

[Autonomy]

24. Check this out:

"(Bay Buchanan) said if House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi continued to appear on TV and talk about impeachment hearings and investigating the Republican leadership, she would turn people off because she was out of touch."

I saw her on Russert on Sunday morning, and despite Tim's smarmy attempts at goading her into attacking Bush, she explicitly said impeachment is not an issue. Matthews is trying to do the same thing. That's inconvenient for Republicans, so what do they do? Pretend they got the answer they'd rather have, instead of the answer they got.

F@$%ing creeps.

[electropop]

27. The problem is that Pelosi SHOULD be promising impeachment.

It's a solid platform plank that will help us take back Congress.

[Canuckistanian]

31. Agreed. Seems like everyone's avoiding the subject

"Too soon", "too divisive", "makes Dems look vindictive".

Screw that! Just Do it!

[electropop]

32. If I wasn't a Virginian, I'd steal that idea for a vanity plate!

Nice.

[YOY]

26. He'll be okay...there will be no lynch mobs...who cares what history says

He was never in it for his country anyways. Everyone who needed to get richer has gotten richer.

"Mission Accomplished!"

[The Backlash Cometh]

28. There's that fear word again.

"The fear is that people are looking at this guy and saying he's a failed president."

Only this time, it's comeback time.

[hunter]

30. I'm tired of floundering.

Let this administration sink beneath the tar.



Let their oil stained bones be preserved so that we may remember their corruption.

[ekelmore]

33. What was it they said..?

How many times did they say "We feel Bush's low popularity rating has bottomed out and will soon begin to rise..." Hahaha, seriously, how many times was that said? It's been since after the war started and 6 month intervals since then. Is this another one of those times? Has it bottomed out again, boys? Are we going to scream Lazarus soon? Yeah, riiigghht.

[katty]

35. the fear? how about the REALITY-he IS A FAILURE