(This comment is in response to "wayitwas", not to my original post. I must have hit the wrong "reply" button).

That's a good point. I just read that Bush will be standing with Hastert in Chicago on Thursday and Tony Snow will headline a Hastert fundraiser in Illinois on Saturday. Another "heck of a job" moment in the making. No doubt, all part of the continuing Clinton-Soros conspiracy to smear the Republicans.

Posted at October 8, 2006 8:15 PM in response to Anecdotal Evidence

I don't know if that's good news or bad news. The final straw for that man is a scandal that does not have any connection to Bush. Maybe it's indicative of the irrational nature of the American body politic. But since I want the Democrats to take at least one house of Congress, I'll take anything I can get.

Posted at October 8, 2006 6:53 PM in response to Anecdotal Evidence

The stench of Republican hypocrisy hangs heavy in the air.  Whether Rove acted with criminal intent or "merely" reckless disregard for national security, he should be out.  No one can make a credible case for that traitor to be within a mile of classified information or anyone with access to classified information.  But the downward spiral will continue because the Republican barrel has no bottom.

Posted at July 12, 2005 3:00 PM in response to Bergen and McCarthy

I listened to the speech on the radio (mercifully).  The basic message seemed to be "We're not going to do anything differently; no withdrawal and no additional troops.  It's all going according to plan."  It was like watching someone fall down a flight of stairs in front of a crowd, get up and say, "I meant to do that."  That was followed by 10 minutes of Bush trying to wrap himself in the troops. 

At this point I don't care if his poll numbers go up or down.  It's 6 months too late.

Posted at June 28, 2005 8:24 PM in response to Prez says Dance with the Girl Who Brung Ya

I really don't know what, if anything, would work in Iraq, but any suggestion is closer to a plan than anything our Republican overlords have done.

I would let the Iraqi's set the timetable for our withdrawal.  Let them try to complete the work on their constitution, choose a government, and then tell us when to leave.  We owe them that.  In the meantime, the U.S. military needs to stop playing wack-a-mole with the insurgents and do their best to protect what remains of critical infrastructure: water, power, oil, government.

I think Iraq is drifting toward eventual partition into three nations, or at least republics; Kurdistan, Sumer, and whatever is left over for the Sunni's.  Baghdad will become another divided city, like Jerusalem or Cold War Berlin.  The sectarian violence will continue indefinitely, with the Baathists attempting to regain power over all of Iraq.  We can provide the Kurds and Shiites with the means to defend themselves, but we cannot end the violence that we have unleashed on those unfortunate people in the name of liberating them.

That will then free up our combat troops to follow Michael Ledeen into Tehran.

Posted at June 3, 2005 6:06 AM in response to Back to the Present

Rove is one of the greatest special effects wizards the world has ever known.  He understands that the illusion only has to be good enough to be believable to a critical mass of his audience.  Reality is not only irrelevant, it's counter-productive to achieving the effect he is seeking.  The actual public performances of Bush don't matter because relatively few people see them.  The massive spin machine that is the right-wing dominated media steps in like Industrial Light and Magic to generate a world that does not exist; a glorious Bushworld that has mesmerized just enough people to keep the right-wing extremists in power.

Posted at June 1, 2005 1:11 PM in response to The more I watch Bush on TV these days, the lighter my heart becomes.