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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 12:13 PM
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"Bush fatigue has set in,"............
and check out the photo accompanying this story :rofl:



Let's say you're a Republican president, a bit more than midway through your second term. You're scrambling to salvage what you can of a deeply unpopular war, you're facing a line of subpoenas from Democrats in Congress and your poll ratings are in the basement. What do you do?

You estrange the very Republicans whose backing you need the most.

That's precisely what President Bush has managed to accomplish during the two big political developments of recent weeks: the commutation of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's prison sentence and the defeat of comprehensive immigration reform. But the president's problems with the GOP base go beyond those awkward headlines. Republicans aren't mad at Bush for the same reasons that Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and the devotees of MoveOn.org are; there's no new anti-Bush consensus among left and right.

No, conservatives are unhappy because the president allied himself with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) over an immigration deal that leaned too far toward amnesty for illegal immigrants. They're unhappy because Bush has shown little interest in fiscal responsibility and limited government. And they're unhappy, above all, because he hasn't won the war in Iraq.

All of this has left Republicans saying, at least among themselves, something blunt and devastating: It's over.

"Bush fatigue has set in," declares one plugged-in GOP activist.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR2007070602003.html

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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 12:25 PM
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1. All I can say is, "It's about damn time!"
This admin. nor the Pub Congress showed any fiscal responsibility for 4 years, but the dumbasses still re-elected Shrub! What the hell suddenly woke them up in the second term that they now see what many saw before he was even quasi elected in 2000?

I don't know that he's any different, just more blatent in his disregard for our laws than he used to be. I guess now having to worry about a re-election, he's comfortable in doing whatever he damn well pleases and TS if nobody likes it!

I'm just glad a majority if finally agreeing he's an AH, and I don't care why they finally realized it!
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