Bush Is Now A Lame Duck - Dick Meyer CBS

[rndmprsn]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/17/opinion/meyer/main1623700.shtml

Bush Is Now A Lame Duck
Dick Meyer CBS NEWS Opinion

...Short of another disaster on the scale of 9/11, George Bush no longer has the power, credibility or ability to effectively govern for the rest of his term in office. Contrary to what you hear on television, governing remains more important than campaigning. Government is more important than elections – to the extent the two can be differentiated anymore.

Bush's realm of efficacy will be limited to areas where he can make unilateral decisions, mostly in war and foreign policy. The tax cuts that oozed through Congress last week may well be his last "significant" piece of domestic legislation; I put quotations around significant because they are, in fact temporary. The entire menu of Bush tax tinkering is set to expire in 2010 on someone else's watch, an apt metaphor for this administration.

The Bush administration is now locked in a triple-hammer hold that would defeat Houdini.

Public support for this president has evaporated to historic lows. Last week's CBS News/New York Times poll put Bush's approval rating at an embarrassing 31 percent. In this week's ABC News/Washington Post poll, voters trusted Democrats over Republicans to handle all ten of the major issues the pollsters asked about. That's a new one. The new polling is consistent with a long relentless erosion of public support.

[mcscajun]

1. We have 978 days remaining of this Lame Duck administration

yet to endure. A Long, Long, Freaking time to be without effective governance.

http://www.theofficialcountdown.com/

[life_long_dem]

3. If only he was a quail......n/t

[Jack Rabbit]

6. He is a Quayle

!!

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Misplaced Post

Sorry about that, chief.

[kenny blankenship]

2. if there is another disaster on the scale of 9/11 bush should be removed

immediately as suspect #1.

[Demeter]

4. If George Bush Ever Governed, I Must Have Blinked

because nothing he's done to date resembles governing in any sense of the word.

[frylock]

7. the process of transformation is likely to be a long one..

The process of transformation is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new 9/11.