Bush's Administration Becoming a Laughingstock

The last few days the "Press" has been belting the Bush Administration in possibly the most effective way I know of -- by making it look ridiculous.

Olberman's tour-de-force yesterday -- juxtaposing 10 terror warnings with Administration missteps and tonight's scornful mockery of Bush's staged interview with the troops and Scott McClellan's disastrous press interview are cases in point.

Dana Milbank's discussion of Bush's blinking, jaw-grinding, and dancing around during Matt Lauer's interview is another example.

Even Tweety has been slightly less than usually deferential.

The Press are like sharks. They smell blood. At a 39% approval rating and only 28% of the country thinking everything is fine, the journalists are now swimming in chum and beginning to have fun.

It's been a long time coming. As DeLay, Frist, Libby, Rove and Cheney struggle with investigations, as Bush's Supreme Court nominee looks increasingly laughable, and McClellan's press conferences are now coming to be seen as charades, it all seems to be collapsing in around our President.

Iraq's not getting any better either. Soon the rosy reports from the front will be seen as risible too -- scoffed at by anyone with any intelligence.

It's about over for Bush. One can only wonder about when and how the leadership vacuum that everyone now sees is there is going to be filled. I just wish the 2006 elections were tomorrow and not a year away.

carries at least some of the blame for letting this happen as it did ....

Those sycophants should be subjected to the SAME laws that existed before 1996 .... FUCK them ....

now they have the nerve to criticize? Where were they about three or four years ago? Fucking cowards...

The "press" made this mis-administration possible. There will always be liars, thieves, and megalomaniacs. They don't thrive and stay on top for a long time when anyone points them out.

He didn't have a news show three or four years ago, but if he had, I suspect he'd have largely been doing the same as he is today.

Something is going to happen to Bush and they know it. They don't want to lose their audiences.

absolutely, tragically true.

the beginnings of 2006 campaigning are just around the corner.

I just don't know how long it would take to repair the damage.

Such as the oil refinieries bill, cajoled into effect by DeLay and his scumbag buddies - can that be reversed? There is so much more to be fixed, i'm just throwing that out as an example.

They've done so much damage and ignored or undone so many laws and constitutional protections of our rights that only great effort by many good people is going to restore this country to some semblance of a functioning democracy.

... I SO want a ringside seat when the wheels come off of this misAdministration !!!

:popcorn:

and switch to Independent? Maybe we do not need to wait till 2006 to regain the Senate? :)

Line of succession + indictments, scandals, low polls, Dimbot snorting and/or tippling... President Pelosi has a nice ring to it.

Senate it's just six...

an entire year court hearing as the continued investigations. Anyone associated with Bush* would lose any election, even if he ran unopposed as the local dog-catcher.

...even though he didn't call it that.

happen soon, we are looking a 3 more years of this sh*

Dog and poney deMockracy.

That's generous.

presumably because * can't have any other kind of conversation. Small bit of trouble with not being able to think, or think on his feet, his ass, or wherever.

The whole crowd screwed the pooch today, from letting the satellite feed get aired, to Scotty's denial, to the extensive exposes' done by all the big news organizations. The group is self destructing, finally.

What took so long?

I think that even a "big event" wouldn't save Bush, because, as we learned with Katrina, they haven't got any moves beyond the photo ops. People bought the megaphone on the rubble in 2001. Now, forget it. We know that their reaction to a problem is incompetent, so all the spin and pictures and fake turkeys in the world aren't going to help Bush.

After all their arrogance and triumphalism for three or four ugly years, all these Republicans deserve a year of eating dirt, their teeth, their vomit, their words, of having their 'ideas' and public proclamations thrown back in their faces. Hubris, pride goes before the fall, chickens coming home to roost, etc blah blah.

That Party is on fire of its own accord and going to burn down to its foundations after so much engagement in arson for so long. Our job is to show up with gasoline to give their pyros (to speed the job), marshmellows, and proper amounts of satirical advice. And to ensure that absolutely everything flamable gets turned to ashes.

There's a reason for my .sig.

I'll have some marshmallows with the champagne that's waiting in the fridge.

He said if you put Bush's* interview with Matt Lauer on a faster speed, he looks like he's dancing! He commented on Bush's* obvious discomfort.

Milbank and KO also mentioned how badly the WH PR is with Rove "out of the picture," as if he were really gone.

Oh, please!

Then we'd be the majority again and we can impeach them all and Pelosi would be president. Imagine having a leader with class and a brain.