Dead President Walking
George Bush is still walking, but his Presidency died today from a massive stroke.
Like Bush's soul(less)mate Ariel Sharon, White House doctors can probably keep his Presidency's heart beating, but its brain will never come out of its coma.
I learned Bush's Presidency had suffered a fatal stroke this evening from Bill O'Reilly during his segment with Dick Morris, when they announced the latest FOX poll had Bush's approval rating down to 33%. That was 3% below their previous poll - with the drop coming from a loss of Republicans, only 66% of whom still approve of Bush. When Morris and O'Reilly agreed that Bush's Republican base was hemmorhaging, I knew Bush's Presidency had suffered a fatal loss of blood.
It's hard to specify the time of death. It didn't happen last night, because Bush's Presidency was still somewhat alive when I turned on the TV this morning.
Perhaps it died during Bush's Q&A with Hu Jintao, following the meeting of "the world's two most powerful men," as the press billed it. There was Bush, sitting "Texan" with his legs apart, literally going through the motions of answering press questions. His mouth kept moving, but only because the answers kept coming in through his earpiece; clearly his mind was somewhere else entirely. Perhaps he had just realized the U.S. was no longer the most powerful nation in the world, that China's 1.2 billion hard-working, well-educated people had created a modern industrial economy that was more powerful than anything the U.S. could ever create in the post-Iraq, post-Katrina, post-NAFTA era. Perhaps he quietly realized that his Presidency was a complete and total failure, and that he would go down in history as the President whose corruption and warmongering allowed China to surpass the U.S. as the world's economic - and inevitably military and political - superpower.
Or perhaps Bush's Presidency died earlier in the day when Wenyi Wang, a New York pathologist working as a reporter for a Falung Gong newspaper, interrupted Hu's opening remarks by shouting "President Bush, stop him from killing. President Bush, stop him from persecuting the
Falun Gong." Wang's passionate - and profoundly solitary - protest exposed the whole summit as a monumental farce, a meeting of two violent dictators both pretending to be democrats, paying lip service to dissent while watching a real dissenter gagged and hustled off to jail.
Or perhaps Bush's Presidency died when Jason Leopold silently posted his latest Carl Bernstein-like Plamegate story on Truthout.org:
Grand Jury Hears Evidence Against Rove
Fitzgerald is said to have introduced more evidence Wednesday alleging Rove lied to FBI investigators and the grand jury when he was questioned about how he found out that Valerie Plame Wilson worked for the CIA and whether he shared that information with the media, attorneys close to the case said.
Fitzgerald told the grand jury that Rove lied to investigators and the prosecutor eight out of the nine times he was questioned about the leak and also tried to cover-up his role in disseminating Plame Wilson's CIA status to at least two reporters.
Additionally, an FBI investigator reread to jurors testimony from other witnesses in the case that purportedly implicates Rove in playing a role in the leak and the campaign to discredit Plame Wilson's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, whose criticism of the Bush administration's pre-war Iraq intelligence lead to his wife being unmasked as a covert CIA operative.
This report confirmed exactly what I wrote yesterday: that the significance of Rove's shedding of his policy job was to make him dispensable, so the Bush Presidency could survive his indictment. His temporary preservation of political duties was just a masquerade so his fall from the zenith of power will seem gradual, rather than instantaneous. Of course, the Bush Presidency cannot survive the indictment of Karl Rove, because Rove is literally "Bush's Brain."
Or perhaps Bush's Presidency died when Chris Matthews finally let loose after rightwing talk show host Michael Smerconish smirkingly tried to dismiss the Plame investigation as unimportant. All of a sudden, five years of accumulated anger over an endless stream of Big Lies poured out of Matthews, in a 2-minute breathless monologue that may be the definitive epitaph of the Bush Presidency.
Or perhaps Bush's Presidency died when Senator Harry Reid said publicly what everyone in Washington is saying privately: that military action against Iran is impossible. By stating the obvious, Reid exposed Bush as the Emperor Who Has No Weapons. And since the only policy of the Bush Presidency is Empire - and its only strategy is fear - a weaponless Emperor is a dead Emperor.
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the death of the Bush presidency
So does this mean it's like the Fukuyama End of History, to be revised at a later date? More importantly, how do we the people get rid of the whole rotten barrel and regain the dignity that used to be called USA? Will O'Reilly and the slimmy Republican operative Morris go down with them or will the Dems continue to give them the voice and the power to install someone else? We need some Democratic candidates to step up to the plate and fill in the void with plans for a real policy and legislation that will dismantle the power base, special interests, and corruption that has legally (by legislative mandate) been allowed to fester.
1005 Days and counting
Perhaps 1005 days will come sooner than later! It appears the Bush Administration is going down in flames. Not soon enough for me!
It's time for the American People to STAND UP and be heard! WE are the ones that will change the country by voting for the RIGHT PEOPLE! To allow ALL our votes to be counted and to allow EVERYONE TO CAST THEIR VOTE! In November we MUST take back all the branches of goverment and make AMERICA the great land it once was and can be again. Thank you...
Rolling Stone Magazine calls "Bush Worst President in History"
The Worst President in History?
One of America's leading historians assesses George W. Bush.
George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around the White House once again, there seems to be little the administration can do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier of U.S. presidents. And that may be the best-case scenario. Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history.
From time to time, after hours, I kick back with my colleagues at Princeton to argue idly about which president really was the worst of them all. For years, these perennial debates have largely focused on the same handful of chief executives whom national polls of historians, from across the ideological and political spectrum, routinely cite as the bottom of the presidential barrel. Was the lousiest James Buchanan, who, confronted with Southern secession in 1860, dithered to a degree that, as his most recent biographer has said, probably amounted to disloyalty -- and who handed to his successor, Abraham Lincoln, a nation already torn asunder? Was it Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, who actively sided with former Confederates and undermined Reconstruction? What about the amiably incompetent Warren G. Harding, whose administration was fabulously corrupt? Or, though he has his defenders, Herbert Hoover, who tried some reforms but remained imprisoned in his own outmoded individualist ethic and collapsed under the weight of the stock-market crash of 1929 and the Depression's onset? The younger historians always put in a word for Richard M. Nixon, the only American president forced to resign from office.
Story continued:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/the_worst_preside...
**I wonder what was their first clue??**
worst
Submarine USS Wahoo ss238
1.GW Bush....He has invaded 2countries, worst deficit in history,
the rich are getting richer, Corporations are making billions,
one of the most corrupt administrations in history.
2.Hoover.....His inaction during the great depression made him
a non leader
3. Buchanan.....Again his inaction preceding the Civil War was
a sign of non leadership, there were a lot of things he could have
done.
4. Harding...Scandal, Scandal, Scandal
Tricky Dick doesn't make the
Tricky Dick Nixon doesn't make the top 4?
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security
like it's some kind of federal program."
- George W. Bush in a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
How does any president's reputation sink so low?
How does any president's reputation sink so low?
The reasons are best understood as the reverse of those that produce presidential greatness. In almost every survey of historians dating back to the 1940s, three presidents have emerged as supreme successes: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
These were the men who guided the nation through what historians consider its greatest crises: the founding era after the ratification of the Constitution, the Civil War, and the Great Depression and Second World War.
Presented with arduous, at times seemingly impossible circumstances, they rallied the nation, governed brilliantly and left the republic more secure than when they entered office.
Calamitous presidents, faced with enormous difficulties -- Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Hoover and now Bush -- have divided the nation, governed erratically and left the nation worse off.
In each case, different factors contributed to the failure: disastrous domestic policies, foreign-policy blunders and military setbacks, executive misconduct, crises of credibility and public trust.
Bush, however, is one of the rarities in presidential history: He has not only stumbled badly in every one of these key areas, he has also displayed a weakness common among the greatest presidential failures -- an unswerving adherence to a simplistic ideology that abjures deviation from dogma as heresy, thus preventing any pragmatic adjustment to changing realities.
Repeatedly, Bush has undone himself, a failing revealed in each major area of presidential performance.
http://www.coia.org.uk
Nixon was bad, but Bush is WORSE!
Dumbya/Cheney is going to try to hang on to power any way they can. Look out in November, because they are going to use every trick in the book to rig the upcoming election.
Bush is a Criminal
Bush is a confessed serial felon. He talks to God. He thinks he is above any man-made law. He's a barbarian. The Republican Party is his mirror-image. There is nothing the Republicans won't do to hang-on to power in the 2006 elections. And I dread, short of a military coup, that there is anything that can stop them.
"War is a Racket" Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler