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The curse of Bush II

Yes, the devastation will be extreme. The good news? He'll sow his own destruction.

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By Dennis Jett


Nov. 8, 2004 | At some point in the next four years there will be a great scandal that will make Watergate look like a fraternity prank. All the elements are already in place.

During its first term, the Bush administration took the approach that its policies were divinely inspired and above reproach even though it had lost the popular vote in 2000 by over half a million votes. After this election administration officials began to crow about President Bush's having received more votes than any other president in history before the polls had closed. The fact that his opponent got the second highest number of votes of any candidate ever won't slow the incumbent down for a moment.

In his acceptance speech, Bush spoke of his "duty to serve all Americans." Vice President Cheney, however, noted that Bush ran on a clear agenda and the nation responded by giving him a mandate. Therefore Bush's statement that "a new term is a new opportunity to reach out to the whole nation" will last as long as the echo of those words did in the auditorium where he gave his victory speech. At one of his rare press conferences, a day later, Bush said: "I've earned capital in this election, and I'm going to spend it." It's clear Bush and Cheney see their mandate and their moral certainty as all they need to justify anything they do.


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[newscaster]

1. I think if there is one...

it will involve the Religious Right somehow. They are already prancing up and down claiming to be the reason Bush won and that they do not intend to be left out of the decision making process.
This could easily spark major protests and God only knows what else.

[aquart]

3. Wait till they find out they had almost nothing to do with it.

[Kurovski]

8. They'll deny it

they make up reality as they go along. Remember the PIPA study.

[ibegurpard]

2. A great scandal requires a media that is not afraid

to challenge the powerful.
I wouldn't hold out much hope for this.

[jjanpundt]

7. One of the movie channels was showing

All The President's Men Sunday. Wish we had journalists of that iintegrity around now.

[Kurovski]

9. Both Woodward and Bernstein are still around.

Somewhere.

[Bucky]

4. "Good news? He'll sow own destruction" -- Bad news: We're all gonna die

Yes, the devastation will be extreme. The good news? He'll sow his own destruction.

THAT's the "Good News"? Dear Sweet Jesus, that's not good news! Doesn't this jackass know Bush's screw ups are measured in blood?

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The curse of Reagan II
By Dennis Jett

Nov. 8, 1984 | At some point in the next four years there will be a great scandal that will make Watergate look like a fraternity prank. All the elements are already in place.

Yeh, huh. Only, of course, Reagan's big scandal amounted to just about nothing in the public eye. By 1986 the press was effectively co-opted, altho they paid a little more heed to appearing truly balanced. Still, Reagan's categorically illegal war in Nicaragua never got him hounded from office, or impeached, or even terribly inconvenienced.

Bush is no Reagan, but then again Candy Crowley is no Sam Donaldson.

[regnaD kciN]

5. This article is incoherent in the extreme...

Supposedly, Bush will be involved in a "great scandal," but, thanks to a partisan Congress and the media's complicity, the scandal may well go "undetected and unreported."

:wtf:

Basically, the article is just a compendium of everything awful the Bush administration will do and get away with, but then concludes with a two-paragraph "feel-good" conclusion that, eventually, people will wake up and there will be hell to pay for Bush and the Republicans. Somehow, someway, this will happen despite the fact that the entire rest of the article is spent proving that Bush has gotten away with it already, continues to get away with it, the government, the courts, and the media will do nothing to stop the administration, and the miniscule-attention-span public will forget anything negative within days of it coming to light. Yet, somehow, truth will out.

:wtf: , again...

[TacticalPeek]

6. Kick.

:kick: