Are Bush and Rove running scared ?

[kentuck]

It is being reported that Bush is "re-thinking" his hard-line approach to Iraq...too bad he didn't think about this before "shock and awe". He's blaming it on Dick Cheney. We are supposed to believe he has changed and is going to govern differently after Cheney has been dropped from the ticket next year?

His polls are in freefall. Now he's going to go to the UN and tell them it was the "right thing" to do to get rid of Saddam Hussein. We can expect the UN to sit respectfully quiet except for maybe Poland and a few more of the coalition that we bribed to be on board.

But what is really scaring them are their inside polls that show their own conservatives are not happy with the way things are going in Iraq and especially, the request for $87 billion more dollars to bribe more people. His "re-elect" numbers are sitting at about 41% and it doesn't look good for Bush Junior. They can see the power sifting thru their fingers, slowly like an hourglass, and the tighter they squeeze their fist, the faster their power slips from their grasp. Their recent actions say they are running scared.

[diplomats]

1. It's quite possible his internal polls

are worse than the mainstream ones. And they do seem increasingly disorganized - and desperate.

[mourningdove92]

2. Yes, I believe they are running scared.

Right after General Clark announced his candidacy, the r/w media began a frenzy unlike anything I have heard recently. Limpballs, O'Reilly on talk radio went totally insane. They made real asses of themselves. Total fear talking. Now the "confessions" come out....no we really and truly never said Saddam was involved in 9/11...no, we just combined Saddam, Iraq and 9/11 every other sentence using tried and true tactics to combine them in your collective minds. But we never SAID that Saddam was directly involved. We did say that we "thought" Saddam had AlQaeda links, and we all know Al Qaeda attacked us, but hey, we never said Saddam was involved.

on and on, ad nauseum.

[rocktivity]

5. Also, notice their exhumation of Clinton-stein

Watched a little Chris Matthews this morning--they were talking about how Clinton was "behind" the Clark candidacy and had the ulterior motive of "taking over" the DLC and having Hillary decide to run "at the last minute." Dean is no good because he's "the people's choice;" he likes Clark because he can be "owned" by the party. Just when you thought it was safe to believe they'd finally stop blaming him.


rocknation

[MoonRiver]

6. Their desperation is palpable.

How sweet it is! :kick:

[samsingh]

3. 30,000 innocent Iraqi's were killed

by shrub and his evil supporters.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. A fair while back...

I posited that once the maladministration hits a bad patch, watch out for the "flailing". Well, welcome The Bad Patch and gee, look at all the flailing. Next thing you know, they will sacrifice Cheney on the steps of The Heritage Foundation and hold his still-beating heart up for the assembled to see.

You see, The Neo-Cons(Oh, for that to someday morph into "Neo-Convicts"!) have been working from a script, a chart. At no time did they plan for any improv, for anyone to break into Modern Jazz ala Sonny Stitt. Nope, it was all supposed to Follow The Plan.

Now look. They got themselves a big ol' honkin' runaway train of a mess. A mess that is getting bigger than their egos. Right now, they need a front man who can Think on His Feet. They have themselves a front man who can hardly think, and may well have returned to the embrace of his old best friend, Demon Alcohol.

One thing to remember: a flailing beast is always dangerous, and the maladministration is, most certainly One Flailing Beast. Failings connote a certain unpredictability, an entertaing trait in significent others, but the shits when you are talking about The Most Powerful Nation on Earth.

Don't be surprised if, at some point, they do something that redefines the word "Boneheaded". Not that they haven't already, while wallowing in their smug hubris, but I mean The Cosmic Fuckup. If they haven't already.

It's the nature of the beast.

[kentuck]

7. And another characteristic is impatience...

Just as they were impatient in invading Iraq, they are likewise impatient in their political decisions. They will not sit idly by as their polls continue to sink. They will do something. Anything. They are an Adminstration of "action" - even if that action is usually wrong and not thought through. It fits into their latest comments about changing their hard-line approach. They are an impatient bunch and it will come back to bite them in the ass.

[TacticalPeek]

9. a la Sonny Stitt?

Their act is more like the famous Guckenheimer Sauerkraut Band (Music for non-thinkers). (This album is the funniest music I have ever heard in my life.)

Jeebus, I just checked Amazon to see if they had a sample and I see that a mint condition LP goes for $57! Too bad it's out of print. Their 'Stars and Stripes' rendition is worth the price though.

[BeatleBoot]

8. Perhaps they are

Their polling numbers would make any incumbent freak out, but they have time to turn it around.

I just hope that 8 months from now their polling numbers are this bad or worse...