Editors of The Nation: No Longer Sitting Pretty

[Jack Rabbit]

From The Nation
Issue of May 8, 2006
Posted online Thursday April 20

Editorial: No Longer Sitting Pretty

Two years and nine months to go. How much more can George W. Bush take? More important, how much more can we?

Bush's approval rating is bottoming out. Retired generals have launched a media coup against his Secretary of Defense. Republican strategists have actually started to consider the unthinkable: Their party could lose control of the House. (That does not yet seem likely, but the consequences are frightening for GOPers: Congressional investigations and subpoenas.) Bush's best pals in the "coalition of the willing" are not faring well: Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was defeated in Italy, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair is once again on the ropes. The war in Iraq continues to get uglier--perhaps morphing into intractable sectarian conflict--and progress on the political front there seems elusive. And let's not forget, no WMDs have been found.

Worse (for Bush), it seems that every few days there's another news story--some related to the prosecution of accused liar Scooter Libby--that reminds the public that Bush's primary case for the now unpopular war was based on bunk and that he overstated that bunk. A coming-to-an-end (or a chickens-coming-home?) feeling has enveloped the Bush White House that no staff shuffle can puncture. (Will the American people cry, "Hooray! There's a new press secretary and Karl Rove has a different job title"?)

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[Demeter]

1. He Hasn't Hit Bottom Yet!

Dubya is going for the whole enchilada--0% approval!

[Jack Rabbit]

2. He won't hit it

Read some posts from of small contingency of Bush Bubbas at The Nation. Those guys would back Bush if he shot their children before their faces.