The Administration is in a "slump"....

[kentuck]

More like disarray. For the last couple of weeks, it has been one PR blunder after another. They sat on their thumbs when the O'Neill revelations came out. They teed off their conservative base with a poorly planned immigration policy to coincide with the Latin America trip. Then they plan poorly a political trip to Atlanta, in attempts to disguise it as official business, they decide to let Dubya lay a wreath at MLK crypt. Then the next day, as the cherry on top, gilding the lily, they let Mr Bush appoint the very controvesial, Charles Pickering, to the Court of Appeals as a recess appointment. What next? These people are falling apart. Wonder what big blunder will come out in his SOTU address?

[wryter2000]

1. I think you're right, Kentuck

Plaid Adder's column is pretty prescient in that regard, too.

I think the space exploration thing is going to blow up in their faces, too. Even the most die-hard space lover knows we need the money here at home.

[kentuck]

2. Another good example....

What's going on? Are they totally preoccupied with Iraq while everything else crumbles around them?

[Cocoa]

10. many distractions

the investigations, the war, the economy. All that secrecy and spinning takes energy, they've been making some mistakes.

And the dem presidential campaign against Bush hasn't even really started yet...

[lovedems]

3. And they also know how expensive it will be. They know * numbers

don't even come close to the actual cost.

[cthrumatrix]

4. there are just soo many lies out there....it's a house of cards w/O'Neill

coming out with the facts.

[TheDalaiMama]

5. remember.. they were in a slump 9-10-01.....put nothing past these guys

they have an agenda to complete before leaving office. Nothing will stand in their way if they can help it.

dalai

[enough]

6. Reality is too complicated for them.

Since they are not really interested in governing, but only using their power to advance their corporate agenda, they are unable to handle the things that keep "cropping up" in the real world. Iraq is a perfect example.

I am not saying they will fall -- they may be able to keep up the semblance of a government for as long as it takes, given the absence of actual reporting and the media hypnosis of most of the populace.

[Cat Atomic]

7. Don't forget the 'healthy marriage proposal' that pisses off the

very people it's designed to pander to by costing $1.6 billion in taxpayer money.

[CityZen-X]

8. The Big Blunder Is...

that he intends to list the achievements of his criminal administration. Imagine that!

[Solomon]

9. Naw. It's just business as usual for

these guys.

[Cocoa]

11. Don't forget Bush's "Deliverance" moment

said to the Canadian PM's aide, "you have a pretty face."

Not a lot of play in the U.S. press yet, but that one is destined to be a classic on the Internet.

[Wapsie B]

12. Maybe he'll be

snokered at the SOTU. That would be so fitting of this misadministration. The pressure's got to getting to even his drug-addled brain. Gotta please KKKarl. Mother Bar's not going to like it if her son is a one-termer like Poppy. Even he has to be hearing the beating heart below the floorboards.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. Slump

Clearly while Rove has cunning and ruthlessness he is no genius. On space exploration I doubt if that will cost him many votes, it's just that no one really takes it seriously and sees it for what it is since the budget has been run into the ditch with no end in sight.

On immigration amnesty alone there's no way any benefit that may have accrued would outweight the backlash against. This is simply a serious miscalculation.

Also I think some complacency has set in. Administration has gotten away with so much for so long they seem to be beginning to believe their own press and feel they can say and do whatever they wish without limit with no consequence. They've gotten away with it so far but as more truth gets out there is actually a toll, and they are beginning to push up against the limits of exhausted credibility.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

14. Slump

This is a welcome development BTW. I was beginning to think there was no end to the free pass. Maybe Lincoln was right, and not a moment too soon...

[meow2u3]

15. Clever name, Machiavelli

welcome to DU :HI:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

17. Howdy

How many posts before I can initiate a topic?

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In the January 2003 issue of Esquire, John J. DiIulio Jr., the former head of Bush's faith-based policy office, told Suskind, "There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus. . . . What you've got is everything -- and I mean everything -- being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis."

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16. How did they react to Edward Kennedy's lecture about the administrations

Iraq war rhetoric?