It all started with Schiavo. Since then, downhill for Bush.

[patcox2]

Loooking back, it all started with Schiavo; Schiavo was the "Dean scream" of the entire republican party, made every single republican involved look like an idiot or a psychopath or sometimes worse.

The scales started falling from people's eyes, and since then its been a relentless march downward for Bush.

Imagine, he was destroyed by a brain dead woman in a persistent vegetative state.

[rndmprsn]

1. wasn't the bernard kerik withdrawl before schiavo?

can't remember, but it seems bushy has been in a steep decline for most of his second term...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. I thought so, but it did not crystalize the "ineptness" issue like terri

I agree with this - very good analysis of when in time things went to hell in the public's mind.

Of course, the real point in time occured about the time of the chad issues in Florida.

[NNadir]

2. It shouldn't take a brain dead woman in a persistent vegetative state

This doesn't speak well for the majority of Americans.

The most disturbing thing about the Bush administration to me is that it happened in the first place.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. You go with the braindead woman you have, not the one you want

Oops, mispost. I thought we were talking about the Supreme Court opening for a bit.

[Journeyman]

9. LOL, antifaschits. . .

made my day. thanks.

[hippiegranny]

20. great post!

I laughed out loud... now I have to think of an excuse to tell my co-workers!

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

3. Totally agree. The Schiavo intrusion started the downward spiral

And thankfully for Pennsylvania, (P)ricky was front-and-center in that controversy...even hanging out in front of the hospice.

[MN ChimpH8R]

6. I was thinking exactly the same thing

driving to work this morning. That was the "high point" so to speak, of theocratic neo-con Chimpism. It exploded in their faces like a loaded cigar and it's been straight down the crapper since then.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

8. "Theocratic neo-con Chimpism"....Bwahahaha

Good one.

[ComerPerro]

7. Bill Frist, TV doctor

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

10. Fristing (definition):

Making a long distance diagnosis via videotape with your HEAD UP YOUR ASS.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

12. You gotta stop. I still have work to do. I'll scare my neighbors laughing

too hard.

[Zuni]

11. there were several things

1. Iraq probably did more in the long term to wear down his poll ratings. The more bad news, more body bags and lack of direction have really hurt Bush. That and the lack of WMD

2. Schiavo---that made the Republicans look like complete assholes, willing to bend the rules to support nutcases in their party

3. Gas prices

4. General Incompetence and lack of direction

5. lack of any real boost to the economy in regards to ordinary people---in fact ordinary people are doing worse

6. Katrina

7. Indictments and proven cases of corruption

[ChairmanAgnostic]

13. Bolton? Karen Hughes? social security? tax policy? vacation policy?

I like your list, too. I think if we added them all up, we'd have a day-by-day diary since sometime in 2001.

[Zuni]

18. I almost forgot Social Security

that was a big, big blow to Bush's polls

[ChairmanAgnostic]

33. luckily, it seems as though the shrub and his anti-american cronies

have also forgotten it for the time being.

[Stephanie]

14. I think this was the moment >

[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. steph, I musta mist it. What (other than a JC representation) is that?

thanx

[Stephanie]

17. Jesus Christ on a Trailer Hitch

From the demos the religious wackos were holding outside Schiavo's hospice room.

[RaleighNCDUer]

23. I get it! Now, I finally understand why so many people started saying

"Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch!" as an expletive a couple months ago.

OK. I'm a little slow.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

25. me, too (or three)

thanks!

[CottonBear]

26. LOL! You never saw that? They hauled him in on the trailer and then

they stood him up on the lawn for the protests. At the end of the day, they'd put him back on the trailer behind the SUV. Nice, huh?
;)

[patcox2]

28. I think you got it down to the second.

The whole Schiavo thing exposed the spittle-emitting lunatic-fundamentalist whackjob leanings of Bush and the rest of the republicans.

[Neocondriac]

15. I believe the tipping point was.....

Cindy Sheehan. When Bushy bolted to friendly ground in Utah and Idaho and still saw protesters that was the beginning of the end!

[Sir Jeffrey]

19. I think you can go a few steps further back to this...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12450-2005Jan15.html

"President Bush said the public's decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath.

"We had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 elections," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. "The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me."

After reading/hearing this, I think many swing voters decided then and there to ask themselves what the hell had they done. All downhill since ("right track" numbers, "share your values" numbers, and of course numbers for specific issues like terra, iraq, etc).

[RaleighNCDUer]

21. he was destroyed by a brain dead woman in a persistent vegetative state.

IOW, he couldn't hack it even when evenly matched.

[KittyWampus]

22. No, I'd Say It All Started With Richard Clarke. He Was The Tall Oak

that managed to lodge himself between the riverbanks.

[MrBenchley]

24. Great point...

"he was destroyed by a brain dead woman in a persistent vegetative state."
I love it! Great line!

"made every single republican involved look like an idiot or a psychopath or sometimes worse."
By the way, let's not forget all the help Mel Martinez gave on ther issue. He had a staffer type up a bunch of talking points about how they could use Schiavo to bash Democrats and put them in a memo.

Then he handed a copy of the memo to a Democratic senator (was it Durbin? I forget.) saying "Here are some talking points you can use on Schiavo."

Then he denied that he had done so.

Then he claimed it was a dirty trick by the Democrats.

Then he claimed he did not know who gave him the memo in the first place.

Then he fired the staffer.

[patcox2]

29. Idiot or pyschopath or sometimes both.

I meant to say "both."

[MrBenchley]

30. The thing that makes your post so prescient

now that I think of it is that a lot of what's gone on since is compared to Schiavo...especially the slow Katrina response....

[ChairmanAgnostic]

36. DSM IV(r) Dx: Idio-psycho-pathology (n) 135.67.(a) -(f)

For example, a person ill-equiped to lead or take on responsibility, pretending that he hears voices and that they are truly important in telling him what to do.
Diagnoses are typically hidden until alcohol and drug abuse re-appear and massive behavioral problems arise, with mostly simple activities. (See pretzel eating, bike-riding and wiping one's ass with the constitution)
Can be treated with a serious course of impeachment, imprisonment and institutional course no less than 15 years and no greater than 45 years.

[Hamlette]

27. It was a critical point. Wish it had happened before the election.

It was like watching a train wreck.

Moveon should turn Frist and the GOP response to Schiavo into a great 2006 ad and run it all over the country. A few facts we knew like how many hearings, judges, doctors all reached the same conclusion but Frist knew better.

Do you want Frist to review a video tape of your loved ones and make the diagnosis or the real doctors?

[patcox2]

31. Dems should do everything possible to provoke the fundies at every turn.

This has led me a little further to realize that the republicans look their worst when they are holding hands with lunatic anti-abortion protesters and other addled fools like them. Schiavo turned the public because the public really doesn't like those creepy head turned to the sky kneeling weirdos with their wailing and carrying around dolls and screaching and all, and Schiavo brought those nuts out in droves.

So, dems should do everything possible to provoke the fundamentalists, bring them out into the light of day. Dems should try to provoke fundie anti-science, anti-stem cell protests, imagine how great a spectacle that should be? The more these wahcks are seen and are associated with the republicans, the more the average swing voter turns against the republicans.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

32. and the good thing is, it takes so little effort

ooh, more dino-bones!
ooh, the world isn't flat!
ooh, lookie, the world is billions of years old!
ooh, we are genetically related to pigs!
ooh, dophins have larger brains, with significantly more pre-frontal-lobe activity than any fundie evangelical christian preachers do.

[fujiyama]

34. It certainly seems like it

and it seems to have literally spelled the end for DeLay and Santorum.

[DanCa]

35. buh buh but isn't this country mostly pro life?

Points finger at head pulls a pretend triggere sticks out tongue drops head.

[rocktivity]

37. I called it "The Terry Schiavo Freeper Jesus Freak Show"

Starring George "The Baby (Sun) Killer" Bush
Jeb "The Impeachable Presidential Candidate" Bush
Tom "Pimped Terri, Unplugged My Dad" De Lay
Dr. Bill "The Video Diagnostician" Frist
Rev. Randall "Your Own Personal Jesus" Terry
And a cast of hundreds--of right wing Christian extremists!!!

:rofl:
rocknation