Bush is finally on the defensive and boy, does it feel good

If you think about it, it all starts this summer when Bush was criticized for taking yet another long (five week) vacation. Then that great American patriot Cindy Sheehan began protesting outside the Shrub ranch and then "Camp Casey" was established all over the country drawing attention to the war, and how the cowardly Bush wouldn't meet with a dead hero's mother.

Then immediately came Hurricane Katrina. Bush was finally forced to leave the ranch, but what does he do first? He poses with McCain in Arizona holding a cake "Let Them have CAKE". Then he strums some guitar in California and attends a GOP fundraiser while people are dying in the Gulf. He finally makes a quick flight over the devastated area days after the fact.

Then he praises his incompetent friend, "Your doin' a heck of job, Brownie" just days before "Brownie" is let go for incompetence.

How does Bush decide to get his approval rating (down to the low 40's and 2% among African-Americans who make up a large percentage of those neglected and forgotten in the Gulf) up? by doing endless photo-ops in the Gulf region. People are finally seeing what a phony he really is.

Meanwhile gas prices already escalating hit $3.25 or more in the wake of Katrina.


Bush then pledges to rebuild New Orleons (only after some in his party said the city should not be rebuilt) but he will not sacrifice his tax cuts for the rich or begin to bring troops home from Iraq. Meaning that the deficit will skyrocket in the next several years.

He then appoints a fawning crony with no Judicial experience to the Supreme Court and disappoints his conservative base because not enough is known about her. But Bush winks and says "trust me", but clearly his conservative base doesn't trust him anymore either.


Then a new milestone--2,000 combat deaths in Iraq, and still Bush is firm--the US will finish it's mission. Condi says we could be there ten years from now.

Harriet Miers, only weeks after being nominated for the US Supreme Court takes herself out of the running when it becomes clear that conservatives in the party will not support her and the public has many questions about her judicial credentials.

Then last week, it was a dedicated public prosecuter Patrick Fitzgerald indicts the Chief of Staff to the VP of the US and one of Bush's own top advisors, "Scooter" Libby in the case of Valarie Plame. Meanwhile, Bush's top political advisor, KKKarl Rove still is under investigation and is clearly "Agent A" the person who leaked Plame's name. What is Bush's response? Accepting "Scooter's" resignation and praising him, instead of firing him. As for Rove, he still has his job, too despite everything we know about his fingers being right squarly in the middle of this.

Bush then nominates to the USSC a hard line conservative who believes a woman must have the consent of her husband to get an abortion and condones strip searches of children. The Radical Right is enthusiastic while Democrats are talking filibuster.

Now there are increasing questions about the lies and misinformation which led to war; with Sen. Reid today forcing the issue of investigations on the Senate by closing down the Senate. Oh, the cries of some of the Republicans like Frist, Reid's GOP counterpart, and by far Reid's inferior.

Meanwhile Bush's approval ratings in several polls are down to the 30's.

Events are finally catching up with this corrupt and evil administraton and Bush is finally, gloriously on the defensive--and it's hard to see how he can recover.

cabal!

sanitary towelettes for bird flu that might happen 10 years from now. Can you say "out of touch"?

hee! hee!


Great picture, which is not so funny.

that wedged itself between the banks and allowed an eventual logjam.

Energy prices are what is killing him. And that should only get worse this winter.

It showed what the R's *would* go to the mat over - a braindead girl being used as a political tool.

Without the Schiavo mirror, the Katrina and Iraq debacles would have less impact.