AlterNet/Will Pitt: Wrestling with a Gorilla

[BlueEyedSon]

If despair and despondency still color your world after the election, remember this: Every second-term President since Eisenhower has met with a blizzard of shame and disgrace before they left office. Nixon didn't get to finish his term and needed Ford to keep him out of prison, Reagan needed Bush Sr. to pardon a whole mob of cretins to kill the Iran/Contra scandal, and Clinton was impeached for lying about consensual sex.

If the first four years of this administration are any indication of what is to come, and if the movement continues to hammer him for the next four years as it has for the last four years, the name of George W. Bush will wind up echoing down the hallways of history as the single worst President the nation has ever known. The name of George W. Bush will stand as a grave warning and a strident reminder of how badly and how quickly things can go wrong in our democracy.

I'm going to stick around to see that happen. It will take more than a rock, or a lost election, to blow out my pilot light. I'll see you on the battlements.

Much much more: http://www.alternet.org/election04/20427/

[ithacan]

1. one big difference though

In all of those cases, the opposition party controlled at least one house of congress, so there was a balance.

Bush faces no checks on his power. They will not hold him accountable for his crimes.

Another difference we saw during Clinton: The mainstream media has no problem going after Dems for the smallest bullshit, but they are AFRAID to criticized Bush.

I'd like to see this prediction come true, and clearly it should, given the level of lying and corruption in this regime.

But I'm not betting on it... :-(

[papau]

2. sigh - I agree - US Media will protect Bush - Brit media may be

able to embarrass the US media into a 24 hour news cycle or two - but that is it. The media whores ignored Palast - even claimed - via reading lies from Rove - that Palast was in error in a few stories.

The whores think they are not whores.

Amazing.

[teryang]

3. Another difference: in 2000 the Iran Contra criminals returned

The fact that this group is still in power gives us a starting point that totally nullified any self correcting mechanisms. Now there are no constitutional checks left. They have secured total power.

[GOPFighter]

4. Be not afraid

What gives me hope and heart is the enthusiasm and hard work of the Democrats this election. We, and I mean the people, put backbone back into the Democratic Party. We are energized, we are engaged, we are not about to back down, give up, or give in to the corporatist Bush administration in the coming four years. Almost half of the American electorate despise Bush with a passion. Please remember, we have only recently become energized. The Republicans have been working on getting where they're at today for 20 years! Look how far we've come!

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm still pumped! George Bush has got to deal with Iraq, the mounting deficit, his freaky Fundy supporters....and US! Bwaaahahahahahahahaha!!!

[BlueEyedSon]

5. kick