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Bush: How's He Doing?

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Wed Oct 26, 2005 at 06:11:58 PM EST
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Not much attention has been paid here to international press reports of the current state of the Bush presidency. Tomorrow's Independent has this description:

Senior White House officials face indictment over CIA leak. Protests across US as military death toll in Iraq passes 2,000. Republicans may force retreat over Supreme Court nomination

This perception, quite accurate I think, doesn't help him.

...the leak investigation has become a metaphor for the alleged manipulation of intelligence to make the case for military action.

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    Bush: How's He Doing? | 17 comments (17 topical)
    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#1)
    by jimcee on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:25 PM EST
    Ah the Independent, it makes the NYPost look like the NYTimes. Oh wait, I don't want to insult the NYPost. Is Bush weakened? Sure. Is the opposition capable of taking advantage of his weakness? Apparently not. There are too many cliches and not enough effective ideas on the Left.

    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:25 PM EST
    He'll self destruct He's his own worst enemy when he's left to rely on his own impulsive reasoning. The advisors around him have done a great job of protecting him from the truth. A good example was on his first trip abroad after the Invasion of Iraq. I'll never forget that shocked expression and how he jumped back when the reporter asked his reaction to the knowledge that much of the world population now hated him.

    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#3)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:25 PM EST
    Bush: How's He Doing? Oh, he's probably curled up in a fetal position, giggling and grinning and drunk and sucking his thumb under his desk, after all the recent news about Karl and Scooter's Excellent Adventure:
    By Frank Rich Oct 24, 2005, 13:36 There were no weapons of mass destruction. There was no collaboration between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda on 9/11. There was scant Pentagon planning for securing the peace should bad stuff happen after America invaded. Why, exactly, did we go to war in Iraq? ...the leak investigation now reaching its climax in Washington continues to offer big clues. We don't yet know whether Lewis (Scooter) Libby or Karl Rove has committed a crime, but the more we learn about their desperate efforts to take down a bit player like Joseph Wilson, the more we learn about the real secret they wanted to protect: the "why" of the war. ...based on what we know about Mr. Libby's and Mr. Rove's hysterical over-response to Mr. Wilson's accusation, he scared them silly. He did so because they had something to hide. Should Mr. Libby and Mr. Rove have lied to investigators or a grand jury in their panic, Mr. Fitzgerald will bring charges. But that crime would seem a misdemeanor next to the fables that they and their bosses fed the nation and the world as the whys for invading Iraq. MORE?...


    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#4)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:25 PM EST
    Remember the NOLA wage cut:
    Rep. George Miller (D-CA) played a pivotal role in organizing cosponsors for a bill to overturn the president's Gulf Coast Wage Cut. Later, he found a way to force a vote on the legislation. Unwilling to face that prospect, today the White House caved in and revoked the wage cut on their own.
    That must hurt. link

    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:26 PM EST
    "...the leak investigation has become a metaphor for the alleged manipulation of intelligence to make the case for military action." "Military action," which is a "metaphor" for SLAUGHTERING TENS OF THOUSANDS of completely innocent people and families in the most brutal possible way... ...because a white racist autocrat gets a kick (back) out of it, and a pack of vicious Republican corporate lapdogs handed him the power of the US military, and cheered him on.

    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:26 PM EST
    Jimcee is right. At a time when Republicans would be SAVAGING Democrats, were the tables turned, Democrats seem best at hand-wringing, name-calling, and gloating - and NO action. It's NOT about playing fair or being gentlemanly - it is about ONLY one thing: winning the brass ring. If you have to crush the careers and lives of the opposition, so much the better. Oh, wait, that has-been Kerry had lots of nuthin' to say. Hillary remains silent. Schumer is in self-defense mode over his Iraq vote. Reid looks like a fool for coming out for Miers. Et al, et al, et al. Will a REAL Democrat PLEASE stand up and start taking the offensive!!!??? Is that too much to ask!?

    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#7)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:26 PM EST
    Here is where Char-lie gets his info: red state They have inside info on the Plame indictments. Makes Frank Rich look, er....well you decide. via atrios

    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#8)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:26 PM EST
    Hey Chuckley? Does it hurt when I do this? [grin] Yers trooley (drooley?) bub, Edgey

    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#9)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:26 PM EST
    Char-lie may soon switch to the Democrat position if things continue as they seem to be going:
    If 2008 came and it were Hilary with her AIPAC speeches versus a veteran like Hagel asking hard questions about the Iraq misadventure, my guess is that Hagel wins hands down.
    Juan Cole says Arianna Huffington nails it

    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#10)
    by Dadler on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:27 PM EST
    Earth to Charley, Frank Rich is a columnist, he is an OPINION WRITER. His job is to have a strong point of view. You understand this, yes? So address his opinion, the hypothesis he lays out, his logic. Instead of never-endingly telling us how on the fringe and kooky some regular on this site is, and how they're like the people running the Dem party, yada yada yada. We get it. We got it the first time. Come up with a new bit. Please. Your act is tired. And make no mistake, I'm starting to think it IS an act. Is there a real human being in there somewhere? Hello? Blessings, my angry angel.

    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#11)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:27 PM EST
    Paul Begala, Clinton's council when his WH was under seige, speaks at TPM cafe about what is must be like now in the Bush WH: 
    The last thing this President wants is the first thing he needs:  someone to slap his spoiled, pampered, trust-funded, plutocratic, never-worked-a-day-in-his-life cheek and make him face the reality of his foul-ups.
    TPM cafe

    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#12)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:27 PM EST
    Good heads-up, Squeaky. I love Begala's closing sentence in his post:
    If the waiting is as painful for the Bushies as I suspect it is, it's only because they know how terrible the toll will be when the truth comes out.
    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#13)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:27 PM EST
    Karl's advice for when the pressure's on: how to look like you're just a regular dude.

    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#14)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:27 PM EST
    Squeak: "Juan Cole says Arianna Huffington nails it" Since Cole hasn't figured out the existence of USPNAC yet, while I applaud his expertise, he is no authority on what is happening. Arianna is much like a normal Congress. Worthy of applause one minute; worthy of boos the next. I like her OK, but that doesn't make her brand of firebrand any more accurate than another, so 'nails it' is an exaggeration by someone who apparently cannot see his hand in front of his face.

    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#15)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:28 PM EST
    Bush numbers-bad; Congress' numbers-worse.
    You mean the right-wing Republican-led congress, the congress that has given Bush 95 percent of everything he ever wanted? You mean that congress? charley you have been warned numerous times against posting while drunk. Knock it off, already.

    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#16)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:28 PM EST
    paul-From Juan Cole
    And the guerrillas' ability at this late date to mount such a shatteringly effective operation in the capital itself is why the pitiful and arrogant Project for a New American Century fantasy of just crushing the Sunni Arabs of Iraq is a K Street wet dream generated by intellectual adolescents, not a realistic policy. (And of course the same thing could be said of virtually everything the PNAC has ever said)
    link

    Re: Bush: How's He Doing? (none / 0) (#17)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:28 PM EST
    My point exactly, Squeak. He TOTALLY FAILS to grasp the genocide in the policy, which sociopaths like Ladeen are all too clear on. Cole just seems to ignore that -- it's too unthinkable. USPNAC allowed hostiles to steal a lot of high-explosives and shoulder-fired missiles. The "guerillas' ability at this late date" is something USPNAC command directly fed. So Cole's interpretation, that USPNAC is pitiful and arrogant, misses the essential facts by a mile. Pitiful has established 15 airbases and killed 130,000+ people. Arrogant has just about triggered the desired civil war. So what is Cole talking about? "There is no more Iraq. There will be three territories." -- Henry "Bomb civilians in Secret" Kissinger, early 2004

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