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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 04:24 PM
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bush no longer believes. He’s given up. He quit. As he has always quit.
Edited on Thu Jan-25-07 04:56 PM by Philosoraptor
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0125-23.htm

Resigning would be too statesmanlike an act for a man who likes to rule by edicts, and to whom power is its own reward. So we’ll spend the next two years sustaining his chaotic clock-running, watching the flashpoints of disasters he lit up spread their fires from Iraq to Afghanistan to Iran to North Korea, watching the promises he made about New Orleans sink in a flood of indifference and government incompetence, watch the machinery of government, corrupted by his years of nepotism and contempt, become its self-fulfilling prophecy of shoddiness and mistrust. The damage done by the Bush junta in the last six years may yet be outdone by the damage of the next two, because at least in the last six there was the hint that some of the criminals involved in the mugging believed in what they were doing, Bush among them. The faith-based business, remember. Now the worst part of the end of the Bush presidency, the most palpable part of that end, as we saw it on January 10 and again in th e State of the Union , is that Bush himself, like his father in 1992, no longer believes. He’s given up. He quit. As he has always quit. What’s left is the old shell, the reconstructed drunk without a goal, the resentful loser. And there’s nothing more dangerous when he remains, all ridicule aside, the “decider” and worse: the commander-in-chief.

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What a great read.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 04:27 PM
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1. It must be apparent by now, Impeach Bush/Cheney asap!
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 04:30 PM
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2. Whats amazing about the whole situation, is that it could
give us two branches of government run by women who both happen to be democrats.
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 04:41 PM
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3. "I’m going to do what I want to do, and if nobody likes it, I’m going to go back to Crawford"
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kimmerspixelated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 04:57 PM
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4. I believe. I believe!
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 04:59 PM
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5. Hey, Dr. Dean -- do we still have that one-way bus ticket?
Send it to him; he just might use it now!
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 05:01 PM
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6. two years of vacation
in Maine, Florida and at Camp David now--not the Texas pig farm, because he no longer needs the rubes to think he's a good ole boy.

Lots of golf and deep sea fishing
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caseycoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 06:14 PM
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7. Doesn't that leave us worse off...
With Cheney runnin' wild?
SCAREY!
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