Bush under stereophonic attack

[struggle4progress]

By : Fraser Nelson
September 25, 2005

PRESIDENT Bush may have made many mistakes in the past few months, but he has made real progress on his promise to heal the wounds of last year’s presidential election campaign. It split America in two, but both sides are now uniting: against him.

In Congress, a revolt is growing among Republicans dismayed by his handling of Hurricane Katrina – seeing it as the last straw of ineptness. Right-wing columnists are fast joining their left-wing enemies to form a stereophonic attack. <snip>

In New York, from where these words are written, the small but dedicated band of Republicans are in despair. They swallowed hard and backed Bush to the hilt in the election – but now find warnings of the Democrat neighbours coming true. It isn’t that Bush is demonic, stupid or corrupt – though all these labels are attached to him, still, in home-made posters stuck to Manhattan lampposts. There is one charge that Republicans and Democrats are now agreeing on: incompetence. <snip>

http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Stories.aspx?StoryID=E22608ED-100F-4061-BA9F-DBA5EC2227DA&SectionID=CE32B1D2-7454-418B-A470-41A635475378

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http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1990492005

[rodeodance]

1. ncompetence.--he could not hold his businesses either.

[Digit]

2. Can you say....TRACK RECORD? eom

[KoKo]

3. Odd...this article in the Scotsman promotes Rudy Guliani for 2008...

Those who believe in small, effective government see little to support in the White House.

One political effect of the hurricanes has been to advance Rudi Giuliani's chances for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. If crisis management skills are important, the party need look no further than the former Mayor of New York and his handling of the chaos that followed in the wake of the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers.

Bush's partnership with Rove may have been an electoral masterstroke, but it is fast looking like a governmental disaster. As he fumbles on through his second term, American conservatives are growing less and less afraid to say so.

[struggle4progress]

4. Rudy is, I think, a has-been hack, whose undeserved bounce post-9/11 ..

.. really resulted only from widespread shock and a desire to see heros everywhere ...

What's most interesting and important is, IMO, the fact that "Bush as disaster" is increasingly widely recognized, and the Republicans who have mindlessly supported him until now now face major difficulties distancing themselves effectively ...

[Loge23]

5. rudy was cooked before 911

Guiliani was well on way out from NYC on 9-10-01. His administration was considered by many NY'ers to be a failure. His personal life revealed him as a uncaring philanderer. NYer's were sick and tires of his petty quality of life schemes that sought to turn NY into some kind of law and order utopia. The unions hated him.
Now, several yeras later, it seems that he was one of the few repug insiders that didn't know what was coming.