The Bush Presidency Is Like a Marriage Gone Bad

[babylonsister]

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/05/23/the-bush-presidency-is-like-a-marriage-gone-bad/


The Bush Presidency Is Like a Marriage Gone Bad
Posted by Jon Ponder | May. 23, 2007

The first Pres. Bush was once described as “every woman’s first husband.” In a new article at Salon.com, Gary Kamiya argues that the current president’s relationship with the public has become analagous to a failed marriage:

America finds itself married to a guy who has turned out to be a complete dud. Divorce — which in our nonparliamentary system means impeachment — is the logical solution. But even though Bush cheated on us, lied, besmirched our family’s name and spent all our money, we the people, not to mention our elected representatives and the media, seem content to stick it out to the bitter end.

As any newspaper advice columnist would say, the healthy thing to do with a bad marriage is to end it. But Kamiya suggests that despite Bush’s falsified casus belli, the lackadaisical preparation and abysmal conduct of the war, his flouting of laws, incompetence and scandals, he will leave office unimpeached. The main reason for this, Kamiya says is obvious:

The Democrats think it’s bad politics. Bush is dying politically and taking the GOP down with him, and impeachment is risky. It could, so the cautious Beltway wisdom has it, provoke a backlash, especially while the war is still going on. Why should the Democrats gamble on hitting the political jackpot when they’re likely to walk away from the table big winners anyway?

This is risky. Allowing Bush to slink away without being held accountable undermines the government’s system of checks and balances between the branches, which could render the U.S. Constitution, well, quaint. If this rogue president gets away with it, what will stop the next?

[kenny blankenship]

1. I usually think of it as a carjacking gone bad, or home invasion turned nasty

But each to their own taste in metaphors.

[HughBeaumont]

2. Or a bank robbery gone really well . . . for the robber.

[Zywiec]

3. Even some bad marriages remain going

for a few extra years in the interest of the children. I think another 600 days to ensure a sweep of the 2008 elections is worth the wait.

[Louis Cipher]

4. I liken it to vultures and hyenas fighting for carrion.

Each nipping at each other as they fight for a place at the bloated carcass of a wildebeest that is the corpse of America.

[Swamp Rat]

5. IMPEACH!! CONVICT!! IMPRISON!!

[ComerPerro]

7. can we stop with this impeachment BS already? We don't have the votes to convict,

and even if by some miracle we do, it won't solve anything. No matter how far you go down the line, nothign will change. Its all run by the same group of tools. Its not as though Bush is the one, the matermind, who is calling the shots, and getting rid of him will save us.

Fuck, if anything, it might make Cheney look almost human to some voters, and get him enough sympathy to run for (and win or steal) the Presidency.

[Swamp Rat]

10. No, and it is not BS. You don't like it, then get the fuck out of the way.

Why should I waste my precious time worrying about how 'some people' might think?

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. ...

:thumbsup:

[ComerPerro]

14. Well, would you rather waste this remaining year and a half trying to impeach and getting nowhere,

or doing things that might actually make a difference, and winning votes by trying to get our message out.

Impeachment one or two years ago, maybe. But now its just a waste of time.

[Swamp Rat]

15. False dichotomy, and impeachment is NOT "a waste of time."

Impeachment is a cure for constitutional crises, one that we need to employ NOW.

Maybe if you were here with me in New orleans wondering how long before you lose everything, again, you might feel a sense of urgency.

[SaveAmerica]

6. It's more like a rape that needs the morning after pill to get rid of.

[ComerPerro]

9. Nah, no rape. This was entirely consensual, sadly

[etherealtruth]

8. I survived a marriage gone bad ...

... don't know how many won't survive the Bush pResidency

[no_hypocrisy]

12. Wasn't a good marriage to begin with . . . . . .

[roamer65]

13. Well if it is a "marriage gone bad", how do we spell relief?

I-M-P-E-A-C-H.