Reply #5: It's a GOOD thing for readers of the Washington Post who are angry [View All]

at Bush to learn they're not alone.

http://www.speakspeak.org/speak-blog/2006/04/15/bush-makes-some-people-angry/#more-1996

Some visitors to the blog “The Daily Kos” are portraying the article as a hatchet job to help people dismiss liberal bloggers as too angry to pay attention to.

I don’t share those concerns.

“When you’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing to lose” as Bob Dylan sang. Liberal blogs had so little impact on the political process through Friday, that I’m not worried that the publication of this article on Saturday will lessen the impact of liberal blogs.

The worst I believe will come from the article is that some right-wingers will get a chuckle out of the anger described in it. Whoop-dee-doo.

The best which may come from it is a greater awareness of how polarizing George W. Bush is. Maybe Mary Scott O’Connor will get invited on radio and TV shows and become a pundit in the mass media. Probably not, but I hope so.

The harshest view of the Bush Administration typically shown on TV is that it consists of honorable men and women who have made some bad policy decisions.

Some Americans, such as Mary Scott O’Connor, have a harsher view, and I’m glad to see that view quoted in today’s Washington Post.