Bush — Is He Still President?
Just asking. But has there ever been anything like the Republican Straw Poll this far ahead of a presidential election where the same party has control of the White House? I know Cheney is like the first VP ever to not have successional aspirations (we’ve known this for 6 years though), but come on. Has anyone ever wanted to change topics so quickly?
On the day after the last election, I’m sure conservatives figured March 2006 would be full of grand days of celebrating the magnificence of their president, which included the toppling of Middle Eastern governments into benign democracies that looked approvingly for our wise, generous hand; tax cuts and Social Security reform for all; and, of course, the end of the “scourge” of liberalism.
Who could’ve seen the approval ratings diving into the mid 30s and below? I mean, didn’t Grey Davis get recalled for being so unpopular? Good Lord—people in his own party don’t like him anymore. I mean, if he were a CEO president, as he’s pretended to be, he’d have the common decency to step down in the face of such vast disapproval. But, he’s not the CEO president—he’s the dictator president. We’ll be lucky if he vacates the White House on January 20, 2009.
I ask, if Bill Clinton had an approval rating of 35%, could you imagine the chorus of calls demanding that he step down? They would be coming from all sides—Democrats too. He had a 65% approval rating and wasn’t leading the country to ruin and they called for his resignation. But nary a peep with Bush.
I guess in the future, conservatives will point to his two Supreme Court selections as his legacy, especially if Roe v. Wade is overturned. But such selections, as history has shown, are never cast in stone, and these guys may turn out to be big disappointments to their cause.
But the list of disasters is long and growing. Iraq, which will lead to Iran and North Korea disasters because we’ll now be incapable of thwarting their aims. Afghanistan, which should have remained the focus of their anti-terror efforts and not cast to the side. The Katrina response. The illegal surveillance. The Social Security reform that went nowhere. The Medicare reform that passed and gets seemingly more expensive and more useless as time goes by. The Valerie Plame, Scooter Libby, Karl Rove. The rampant spending and lack of fiscal discipline that is ballooning our national debt. Demanding loyalty of your party will end up compromising their hold (or at least their level of trust) on Congress—the Republicans rubber stamped him for years, and only now, too late in the game, are they making distance from him. The Dubai ports deal, which put them on the side of the UAE over the American people’s safety. The neglect of our port and infrastructure security. The neglect of anyone’s opinion but their own.
These things will be the Bush legacy, no matter who admits otherwise. And God help us all.
On the day after the last election, I’m sure conservatives figured March 2006 would be full of grand days of celebrating the magnificence of their president, which included the toppling of Middle Eastern governments into benign democracies that looked approvingly for our wise, generous hand; tax cuts and Social Security reform for all; and, of course, the end of the “scourge” of liberalism.
Who could’ve seen the approval ratings diving into the mid 30s and below? I mean, didn’t Grey Davis get recalled for being so unpopular? Good Lord—people in his own party don’t like him anymore. I mean, if he were a CEO president, as he’s pretended to be, he’d have the common decency to step down in the face of such vast disapproval. But, he’s not the CEO president—he’s the dictator president. We’ll be lucky if he vacates the White House on January 20, 2009.
I ask, if Bill Clinton had an approval rating of 35%, could you imagine the chorus of calls demanding that he step down? They would be coming from all sides—Democrats too. He had a 65% approval rating and wasn’t leading the country to ruin and they called for his resignation. But nary a peep with Bush.
I guess in the future, conservatives will point to his two Supreme Court selections as his legacy, especially if Roe v. Wade is overturned. But such selections, as history has shown, are never cast in stone, and these guys may turn out to be big disappointments to their cause.
But the list of disasters is long and growing. Iraq, which will lead to Iran and North Korea disasters because we’ll now be incapable of thwarting their aims. Afghanistan, which should have remained the focus of their anti-terror efforts and not cast to the side. The Katrina response. The illegal surveillance. The Social Security reform that went nowhere. The Medicare reform that passed and gets seemingly more expensive and more useless as time goes by. The Valerie Plame, Scooter Libby, Karl Rove. The rampant spending and lack of fiscal discipline that is ballooning our national debt. Demanding loyalty of your party will end up compromising their hold (or at least their level of trust) on Congress—the Republicans rubber stamped him for years, and only now, too late in the game, are they making distance from him. The Dubai ports deal, which put them on the side of the UAE over the American people’s safety. The neglect of our port and infrastructure security. The neglect of anyone’s opinion but their own.
These things will be the Bush legacy, no matter who admits otherwise. And God help us all.
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