George W. Bush Is Dead To Me: Nation cringes.......

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George W. Bush Is Dead To Me: Nation cringes as the worst president ever continues long, painful slog to the end

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist-Thoughts for the author? E-mail him. -Friday, July 7, 2006
It is like some sort of virus. It is like some sort of weird and painful rash on your face that makes you embarrassed to walk out the door and so you sit there day after day, waiting for it to go away, slathering on ointment and Bactine and scotch. And yet still it lingers.

Some days the pain is so searing and hot you want to cut off your own head with a nail file. Other days it is numb and pain-free and seemingly OK, to the point where you think it might finally be all gone and you allow yourself a hint of a whisper of a positive feeling, right up until you look in the mirror, and scream.

George W. Bush is just like that.

Everyone I know has had enough. Everyone I know is just about done. There is this threshold of happy deadened disgust, this point where the body simply resigns itself to the pain, a point where the disease, the poison has seeped so deeply into the bones that you just have to laugh and shrug it all off and go for a drink. Or 10.

I was having cocktails recently with a group of people, among whom were two lifetime Republicans, each in his 60s, corporate businessmen, one admittedly slightly more moderate than the other (to the point where, after once hearing a senator read off a long list of Bush's hideous environmental atrocities, actually let his conscience lead his choice and ended up voting for Kerry) but nevertheless both devoted members of the party. ...

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1. yes, it will a longggggggg 2 and half years! more damage no doubt!!

[ginnyinWI]

2. I'm counting on the midterms.

If we can at least take the Congress away from the GOP, we can neutralize the damage, and show the world that our country is no longer going to be held hostage. If we work hard, we'll at least take the House back.

[Hailtothechimp]

3. After the midterms....

Cheney is out for "health reasons" and Condi is nominated (and confirmed) as VP. She runs for Prez in 2008 as the "heir apparent" and gets the nomination.

Take it to the bank.

[unblock]

4. the worst thing about shrub? he killed political discourse

will i'm being dramatic or overstating my case, perhaps, because there are SO MANY things up there contesting for "worst" thing he's done.

but the thing that, to my mind, will take the country the longest to recover from happened as soon as he trotted out his "you're either with us or against us" crap. everyone not agreeing with me is a traitor.

with this single decree, all political discourse died.

one would like to think that all it would take is for a democrat to become president and we'll be right back to where we were. but that's wishful thinking, because in all honesty, the "black and white", "liberals are traitors" crap started much earlier. shrub just granted it presidential legitimacy. at best, political discourse would return to the clinton years, when all we heard about was that hillary wasn't baking cookies like good little first ladies and besides, they lost money on some real estate deal, and that's why so many people still don't have health care.