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[L. Coyote]

Bush: is the president imploding?
Andrew Stephen - 23 August 2007
http://www.newstatesman.com/200708230011

His aides are jumping ship, his inner circle is torn apart by feuds and his orders are being ignored. Bush has 17 months left in the White House, but he is now a rudderless leader. ....

You certainly wouldn't think there was a crisis. ... Bush himself, 61 last month, is about to break a record previously held by Ronald Reagan: before the end of this month, according to my calculations, he will have surpassed the old Gipper's record of having taken 436 days' holiday while in office.

Indeed, this past week, Air Force One touched down at Waco airport in Texas - I swear this is true - for the 66th time since Bush took office, so he could relax at his 1,583-acre "ranch" (there's not so much as a hint of any livestock ....

But the symbolic meltdown of his administration came on the South Lawn of the White House on 13 August when a semi-tearful Karl Rove, 56, announced he will be leaving the administration on 31 August. Though nominally only deputy chief of staff, Rove had become increasingly indispensable to Bush ....

[woodsprite]

1. Wonder if that was the sign to "bail".

The pres thinks his minions are loyal to him, but they're really loyal to Rove and his Republican ideal of 100yr rule.

[yella_dawg]

2. It's been an ongoing process, but

the Monkey King really seems dangerously insane of late. I don't mean in the way he usually seems crazy, but his eyes, his demeanor, the tone of his voice. Sort of a Jack Nicholson feel about the Shrub, if you know what I mean.

[yurbud]

3. MY COMMENT: America, Iraq & World victim of home invasion robbery

I thought I was living in the Twilight Zone when Bush's approval rating was up above 90% just because he happened to be president when 9/11 occurred. Now everyone is finally waking up to what they should have seen before the 2000 election or at least figured out after the Enron scandal: Bush is no ideologue but rather a con man who is trying to move taxpayer money from the treasury to his friends pockets, and using our military to seize assets for them the way Tony Soprano uses Paulie Walnuts and Sylvio.

The United States, Iraq, and the World are victims of a home invasion robbery. The robber has stuffed the good silverware in his pockets, raped and killed a couple of the kids, but the Democrats are still worried that he'll be offended if they tell him it's time to leave.

[coco77]

7. Another thing that always irritates me about that is,,,

how they continue to say that the whole country was with bush when 911 occurred. They are telling a damn lie. I remember that day when he stood there with the bull horn and I was cursing at the tv the whole time.

[L. Coyote]

4. AF! 66 flights to TX. Now that's not what I'd call a GREEN Presidency.

That's a huge contribution to global warming. When will they get it?

Not to mention clearing brush :rofl:

[JohnyCanuck]

5. Shrub figures he offsets the global warming

he causes by excess use of AF1 because he has solar panels on the ranch house roof. Actually, Shrub doesn't really give a rat's ass whether he causes excess global warming or not, but the "solar panels on the roof deal" is a useful PR/propaganda point to toss to the eager beaver, media brown nosers trailing around behind him.

[L. Coyote]

6. Goodbye GONZO. Time to refocus on the BIG whoppers.

[bbgrunt]

8. all the more unfettered power for cheney

[krispos42]

9. What worries me is it is making us vulnerable to a terrorist attack

Even without any help from Cheney, PNAC, or the Carlyle Group, it could happen anyway. Bush's warmongering has created vast new legions of people who hate us with a deep and angry passion, and his Cabinet full of toadies, cronies, and incompetents has been steadily spreading their attitudes throught the rank and file government workers that are suppose to find and counter these kinds of attacks.

And now the first-tier toadies are all running for the hills.