How many feces hits can one fan take?

[greekspeak]

The news is now shamelessly reporting all the screw ups of ShrubCo. I guess when you are (P)resident and make about 200 mistakes a day without doing anything right at all, they have to put SOMETHING on about you. The problem is that few people seem to give a serious crap about it. I hear nobody discussing problems at the gym, at work, the store, or anyplace else but here or the op ed pages. One can look at polls (when the ugly results don't cause said poll to be disappeared) and see people do not approve of the crap de jour. Hardly a venting of anger, especially when the poll is a push poll. What is it going to take for Mr. and Ms. Sixpack America to give a rat's red rosy ass? Having their kids hauled off to a "terra" camp? Their home towns bombed into the stone age? Nah. A gigantic hurricane slammed into two states, followed by a criminally indifferent response, and it is old news to most people who just want to see who will be the next American Idol. The "Soma" of the day? A cackling blonde talking head frantically reporting the next missing Aryan girl, which quickly defuses all the really bad news. A little more "Soma" on the radio, as the cacophony of RW shitheads spin all Americas troubles away faster than a frontal labotomy. They know it is easy to hate, and hard to care, and use this to their advantage in lining their pockets. Can you imagine what would happen if Bill Clinton had put the UAE in charge of some ports, or had been playing J. Edgar Hoover with our phone system? The man lied about an illicit hummer and got impeached, while the blah blah talking heads wallowed in the glory of the ensuing feeding frenzy. Even NPR had constant coverage on that crap. Today the fan is full of real crap. No septic tank could take the volume. But "Lost" is on tonight!

[meegbear]

1. "Lost"? How gauche.

[greekspeak]

3. LOL...I guess I am out of the loop

Someone will have to take away my "reality TV" card. :(

[meegbear]

5. LOL!!

[Nomen Tuum]

2. Yet, my sister STILL says "Don't matter. He's God's Man"...

She STILL worships the ground he walks on and she blames everything wrong on Clinton. Sadly, the rest of my family is just as brainwashed by the Jesusbots.

[greekspeak]

4. I just wonder what Thomas Jefferson would have to say to her

and the rest of your family.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

6. Your question is best answered

by inquiring as to what it took to destroy the Repiglican stranglehold on this country during the 1920s.

Had the Great Depression not come (partly as a result of Repig policies and greed), Hoover himself might have gotten a second, third or fourth term.

Thus, I think the answer is that what it will take is for Dear Leader's disastrous policies themselves to begin negatively affecting almost every family in America, and unavioidably so. And even then, the Religion Industry weirdos will *still* say "He's Jesus' best friend. Good things come to those who wait."

Ack!

[TreasonousBastard]

7. The news also shamelessly reported the screwups of Reagan...

and Clinton, but both managed to survive under brutal assault. The resiliancy of the Presidency is awesome, and it's rare that one is pulled down.

Aside from the few of us on either side who constantly rail against them, it seems most people think with their gut and accept a flawed President if they trust him to not screw things up too much. Carter and Nixon lost that trust, but Reagan and Clinton never did.

It looks like we might be at a tipping point, though, since it's finally getting through that this one is the worst yet, and the masses just might be getting a little bit afraid of what he's doing.

[rucky]

8. Not too many disillusioned GOPers are proud of being duped.

they're not going to talk about it. hopefully - at the least - they just won't vote in '06.

[zbdent]

9. Bush's secret:

Teflon-coated adamantium . . .