Bush paying dearly for poisoned politics

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Bush is famously stubborn, as the world well knows; he finds it hard, nay impossible, to admit error, even when the sky is falling around him, as it is at this hour. But he has no choice now. Even his own party in

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Bush never thought it would come to this. But, in truth, he has asked for it. The great blunder of his tenure -- greater even than the Iraq invasion, for it made the invasion possible, even inevitable -- was his decision after 9/11 to demonize Democrats instead of reaching out to them for a government of national unity. It was a natural; we were "at war," as he said himself. Unity, not division, was called for. Democrats wouldn't have dared turned him down.

But Karl Rove was determined to make the GOP a governing majority for a generation, as his idol, Mark Hanna and the "Ohio Gang," had done at the start of the 20th century. Democrats were to be marginalized. They'd be too cowed to oppose a popular wartime president, Rove reasoned. And that re mained true -- so long as Bush re mained popular.

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It's funny how things change. Several years ago, Rove was hailed as a grand master of the political chess game. Now it's clear that by fracturing the unity of the country and poisoning it politics -- even manipulating U.S. attorneys -- Rove has done more to damage the Bush presidency than any other single figure.

Or am I shortchanging Deadeye Dick Cheney?


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http://www.nj.com/columns/ledger/farmer/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/1179203927258460.xml&coll=1&thispage=2

I'd like the first chess set turned from the tusks of the republicon Pachyderm!.
Normally I wouldn't do Ivory, but this is a special occasion.

thanks for posting, maddezmom. . . you've put up a lot of good stuff this evening. Thanks.

or if he is truly incredulous that he lost all the perceived love he used to garner. Think of it: Congress would do whatever he said without question. MSM was uniformly behind him (now, only a majority of same). He was the ace-in-the-pocket to get any republican elected in any district. His words interpreted as profound political messages. Everyone loves W.

I'm leaning toward the latter as he seems to need a lot of confirmation of his mediocrity as an amazing record. He seems to have believed that he could actually control the will of the people and the country by sheer personal determination by removing their independent ability to decide to NOT like him.

when Engler bankrupted the state with tax give aways to big business, in order to keep them from "out sourcing" michigan manufacturing jobs. What did our puke friends do? Thats right voted a democrat in then blamed her for the mess the state is in and the jobs being lost to the state. When shrub cut back the amount of dollars he sent to states again it wasn't what shrub did, it was Granholms fault. Last year the pukes got rid of the single business tax, it cost the state over 2 billion in lost taxes, pukes never put anything in place to make up for that tax cut, yet now the state is in the red who's fault is it? Thats right the democratic leadership of the state. Want to talk about blame games and ignoring the state failings and why its failing? Talk to our puke friends. They bitch about the massive job loss of the state, its all the democrats fault, Then when people are out of work and go on work first, theres a good one, welfare became work first in a state where adults are pushing high school and college kids out of low wage jobs, often the adults try to get hired by 2 or 3 fast food type jobs, which work first then claims they are gainfully employed. The ones who can't get jobs are just lazy assholes living off the fat of the land birthing 14 kids for more welfare dollars. Never mind the fact that the last time real jobs were hiring that over 20,000 people showed up for 100 job openings. Its all about people being self reliant and not depending on government to help them out, after all they didn't rely on anyone to get where they are at. Bull shit. Fucking hypocrites of the worst sort everyone that voted for a republican to log cabin pukes are guilty of being self centered egotistical assholes of the worst sort. They got theirs screw everyone else from getting the same opportunities they used to get where they are.

all they've got left are spitballs

... and Zell

I'm hoping he will see a Democratic landslide in 2008. Be careful what you ask for, Karl.