Republicans Unnerved by Paralyzed Presidency

[Bravo Zulu]

Republicans Unnerved by Paralyzed Presidency: Albert R. Hunt
By Albert R. Hunt
May 14 (Bloomberg) -- There's a number that chills Republicans: 616. That's how many days remain in the Bush administration.
Private conversations with Republicans throughout America reveal doom and gloom about a politically paralyzed presidency and party. The on-the-record observations are almost as bleak.
“There's a lot of nervousness up here," says U.S. Representative Ray LaHood of Illinois. "It's a very difficult time for Republicans." LaHood was one of 11 House Republicans who met with President George W. Bush this past week to tell him the party was in political peril.
“Unfortunately, the big issues will not be dealt with between now and the next election,'' says Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina.
“The country doesn't believe George W. Bush, it doesn't trust him, and with 19 months to go it's only going to get worse,'' predicts Ed Rollins, a Republican strategist who ran Ronald Reagan's 1984 presidential campaign. “There is nothing the president can do to get his (poll) numbers back up.''
According to those polls, almost two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Bush's job performance; that is Richard Nixon territory. A majority of the public approved of the performance of the last two lame-duck presidents, Reagan and Bill Clinton, at this same stage in their administrations.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=alUZ69YIBCtg

[MadMaddie]

1. It's only going to get worse because the stone wall that

Rove carefully crafted is falling apart with people jumping ship and trying to save their own necks.....

This administration and the Republican Congress may very well go down in history as the most Corrupt and most imprisoned in this country.


The Bastard wanted a legacy I think he is on the right path to one that will stand out in the History books.

[Old and In the Way]

8. Very true.

"he is on the right path to one that will stand out in the History books" And unlike past incompetent/criminal Presidents, this one will be documented in hi-def digital technology so future generations can marvel at his complete inadequacy to be in this Commander Guy job.

[Skittles]

17. they will wonder how he was ever made president

how anyone with half a brain could have voted for such an incompetent nitwit

[sam sarrha]

2. so will W just fall off the earth and we never hear from him again.. or will the GOP Martyr him and

blame it on Al Gorta.. or Al Clinta..

[MasonJar]

3. The petrified brain of the Bush/Rove/Cheney presidency! Crooks

incorporated! Torturers supreme! Warmongers galore! The list goes on and on!

[rodeodance]

4. 'unnerved'?---they should be outraged about the State of the country!!

[mrcheerful]

5. Why ? This is exactly the shape they been trying to put this country into every since FDR was

elected. The haves and the have mores.

[patrice]

6. Paralyzed!?!?!! He's been meeting with the End-timers . . .

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Bush_meets_with_Dobson_Christian_right_0514.html

Talking to Dobson et al, setting up the script for a "terrorist" strike here and, then bombing Iran.

Brzezinsky's scenario is way toooooo plausible.

[Grandrose]

7. Bull....

For six years the repubs rubber stamped the Bush/Cheney cabal's every wish! :puke: :kick:

[Gregorian]

9. If Jesus had been a conservative, everyone would have hated him too.

The conservative agenda is a failure. Plain and simple.

When you steal from the poor and give to the rich. When you privatize everything. When you deny basic civil right. Then what you have is a company town. Not a democracy.


I rest my case.

[Warpy]

10. ITMFA

and his own damn party needs to be the ones to do it.

They're caught between the rock and the hard place: destroyed if he hangs on and destroyed if they impeach one of their own.

The Democrats are playing rope-a-dope on this one. I just hope the gamble pays off, that he doesn't start a world war by attacking Iran in the meantime.

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. There is something he can do to help the Republican Party and I'm

almost afraid to mention it, but I know he won't do it anyways because he's so damn selfish.

Bush can appoint the most honest and popular Republican he can think of to the Vice President position, and then he can resign. He can take it on the chin, for what he's done, and his party will live on to fight another day.

[Lint Head]

12. There are no honest Re-Pubic-Rats.

:dem:

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. Well, there's that too.

[Rydz777]

14. "The country doesn't believe George W. Bush."

That is the absolute truth, and it is a tragedy for the country that he will be in office for another 18 months - a year and a half out of the effective history of this country. A man of character and conscience would resign. (But he would need to take Cheney with him.)

[Cha]

15. It's not as if the bushits haven't

killed people in attempt to soar his polls into the stratosphere!

Their big plans for world domination and all the oil Iraq could pump blew back in their big mofo, greedy,collective face.

[Lugnut]

16. Awww. What a shame

:sarcasm: You sleep with dogs you get fleas.

My sincere apology to dogs.

[Skittles]

18. problem is, he gave the whole counry fleas

he infested America

[Demeter]

19. GOP Not Unnerved Enough To Actually DO Anything, Though

As there isn't one GOP officeholder with intelligence, ethics and nerve to step up to the plate and give W the hook, things will not improve.

Because we have cowards for Democrats, too.

[krkaufman]

20. Given the critical situation this country is in ...

... might not the Republican Party redeem itself, somewhat, by coming to the realization that a "paralyzed pResidency" is about the last thing we need right now, that an actual change in course is necessary, and that change is the removal of the problem and vice-problem?

Get on board with impeachment of Bush & Cheney, Repugs, or begin acclimating yourselves to the political oblivion you've earned.

[Bravo Zulu]

21. "paralyzed pResidency" might be a good thing

Considering the mess we’re in, the country needs a time out!