Don't the irony and hubris enrage you?

[Morgana LaFey]

I can't stop shaking my head in disbelief.

In early November, the American electorate said: Get us out of Iraq! along with: Stop this madman and make all of them accountable once again!

And so what happens?

Instead of thinking of ways to end the war, instead of adopting the Iraq Study Group report recommendations (ANY of them), we have a Commander in Chief who is preparing to ESCALATE THE WAR.

This is signing statement "I'll do what I damn please" writ large. This is a direct and unmistakable flaunting of the public will, while his poll numbers drop even further. This is as in-your-face confrontational ("I dare you to stop me") as I hope it will ever get, tho I'm not sure.

How DARE he? How fucking dare he?

And yet -- who's complaining? Who else sees it this way? Have you heard anyone in the press mention his attitude and actions in anything like these terms?

One way or another, I fear we are headed for a Constitutiona Crisis with this one. He wants it. He wants it badly, I think. We should've gone ahead and gotten it over with in 2000/2001. So many people were afraid back then of what it could mean, a real live Constitutional Crisis. I think that was the major reason that the Florida delegates were accepted after all.

Bullies aren't stopped by being ignored or coddled and catered to. They're just emboldened.

[Vincardog]

1. What the Idiot bush wants is to push us to ARMED REVOLT then he can

declare Martial Law and make himself Dictator Deciderer for life. What he is going to get is Investigated Indicted convicted and imprisoned.

[coalition_unwilling]

2. Hugely reminiscent of Nixon's "secret plan" to end the war

in Vietnam. As Dan Ellsberg and others have noted, Nixon's plan to end the war was to expand it into Cambodia and Laos.

Even as Nixon began the process of withdrawing American ground combat forces from Vietnam, he massively esacalated the air campaign against the peoples of North and South Vietnam.

Among all the things to be outraged about (there are so many, too many), the one that gets me the most is that Kissinger has become an advisor without portfolio to the White House, according to Bob Woodward. That old war criminal who has so much blood on his hands from our involvement in southeast Asia, that he should be consulted by this White House about what to do on Iraq is beyond ironic. I'm at a loss for words to describe exactly what is is.

[leftofthedial]

3. The Congressional Democrats damned well better step up

So far, they are playing WAY too nice

[shadowknows69]

4. Beyond my ability to verbalize

n/t

[Az]

5. He did kind of say that is what he was going to do before the election

That whole it doesn't matter who is with me comment.

I suspect he is hung up on the whole Horton hears a Who position. Ie he picked a path and he is going to stick with it no matter what. Unfortunately this will appeal to the mind set of his most fanatical base. If he backed away he would really lose everyone. He would not even have his 12% support he now has.

Think of it from his point of view. If he backs away does he gain the Dems support? Hell no. Does he win any respect from the Repubs? Not really. They are already planning damage control for the past six years. His only real option is to stay the stupid course.

See the problem is he is thinking of things as to how they benefit or harm him. He is a true sociopath. He is selecting the most advantageous approach for his interests alone. He has no sense of other people's perspective. He is blind to other people's interests.

[Morgana LaFey]

7. True sociopath: good point nt

[MadMaddie]

6. It enrages me but it also puts the pressure on the Democrats

the people have spoken and they do not want continuous war in Iraq and the people do not want to go to Iran...

There is no choice but to IMPEACH all of the criminals....in the WH

With an unstable leader of the US who falls for every tacktic the Iranian leader throws at him....with my dogs I call it the stare down...(or chicken) they are about 15 feet apart and they stare at each other until one flinches and the chase is on....

This is what the Iranian President is doing to * and he knows that * is so simple he will fall for it....and when that happens....the world will be in more trouble...than it already is...

[Morgana LaFey]

8. And then... and then... when I want even more of an adrenalin rush

all I have to do is remind myself how he must laugh at us. Him and Rove, Cheney and Matalin. Carville too, probably. How dumb they think we are -- how dumb we HAVE been to let them get away with all this for so very long, starting back in Nov/Dec. 2000.

We can't let them get away with this. We just can't.

[Solly Mack]

9. He'll get away with whatever he is ALLOWED to get away with

Regardless of whatever excuses/reasons anyone wants to give - as long as Bush is allowed to get away with it, he will

If a President can't be stopped, then we most certainly live in a dictatorship.

[Morgana LaFey]

10. Just as he has so far

Yup.