The Threat to Bush

[rodeodance]

I would like to believe this but am skeptical. He and RoveCo have pulled out lots of tricks and I am sure they have lots more!!



http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021005E.shtml

The Threat to Bush
By Sidney Blumenthal
Salon.com

Thursday 10 February 2005

The fear the president invoked to marshal support for the Iraq war is failing him in his war on the New Deal.

Fear made George W. Bush's presidency, gave him his "mission" and allowed him to remain in office. Before Sept. 11, 2001, he had drifted to the lowest approval rating ever for a president after just eight months on the job. Throughout the 2004 campaign, Republicans hammered "Sept. 11," "terrorism" and "Saddam Hussein" like an anvil chorus. Bush's victory, carried by the theme of terrorism, was the smallest win of any second-term president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916, but he acts as if it is the moment of deliverance Republicans have awaited for three generations -- the chance to undo the unnatural world that has been built up since Herbert Hoover lost the White House. Bush's transference of fear from the war on terrorism to the war on the New Deal may not be confusing to him because he remains its conductor. Fear fostered his "political capital." Why should it fail him in his attempt to instill social insecurity against Social Security?.......


.......Bush's gibberish on Social Security is not the symptom of a man without qualities. Bush can be articulate, a master of his talking points and highly focused. His inability so far to sell his latest case of fear, however, may presage growing political incoherence.

The momentum of events abroad and at home has carried him to an unknown place where complication may ambush him at every turn. The consequences of George W. Bush are the greatest threat to George W. Bush.........

[acmavm]

1. Well, you can only be proven a liar so many times before the label starts

to stick. And you can only screw up so many things and get caught at it before people finally get a clue that you're a total fuck up.

I would have thought people would have caught on to bush** and Co. long before now.

[whathappened]

2. why is this

numb nuts getting so much fame , i see this man as a nobody from a rich family , who has failed in every corner , just like myself , but i didnt have a silver spoon in my mouth from birth

[Kolesar]

3. Bush cannot sell SS privatization on fear like he did with Iraq

What's that Nazi Goebbel's quote: "if you want to control people, make them think they are being attacked from abroad"? (yes, I mangled the quote, and probably the attribution). I think Bush is at his end with SS already.

"Sid Vicious" Blumenthal treated us to this gem of a quote:
"Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled. Look, there's a series of things that cause the -- like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate -- the benefits will rise based upon inflation, as opposed to wage increases. There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those -- if that growth is affected, it will help on the red. OK, better? I'll keep working on it."

[DebJ]

4. You know what happened to the boy who cried 'wolf' one too

many times....he got eaten, didn't he?

Sigh. I hope this SSI crap fails.