It's No Holiday for Bush - WaPo

[rndmprsn]

the latest in a seeming endless series of articles about shrub's and the repugs immediate and long term problems...

house of cards coming down anyone?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/08/AR2005080801145.html

President Bush has survived summers of discontent before. But this season's doldrums -- reflected in dismal poll numbers and a surprisingly weak Republican showing in a special Ohio congressional election -- will be harder to surmount. They are the culmination of doubts about Bush that have germinated below the surface of public opinion for much of his presidency.

Typical of the polls was a Newsweek survey released over the weekend. It showed Bush with a 42 percent approval rating, matching the lowest of his presidency. Only 34 percent approved of his handling of the war in Iraq. A remarkable 61 percent disapproved.


The race in Ohio, where Democrat Paul Hackett, an Iraq war veteran, managed 48 percent of the vote in a district Bush carried with 64 percent last year, has Republicans scrambling for alibis. Many in the party are ascribing the narrowness of former state representative Jean Schmidt's victory to flaws in her campaign and her candidacy. The search for a scapegoat is the surest sign that the GOP knows something is badly wrong...

...Underestimating Bush is always a mistake. In the past, the president has come roaring out of his Texas vacation pursuing strategies for recovery that usually included sharp attacks against his opponents. But attacks may not be enough anymore. Bush's arguments on Iraq are faltering, his Social Security ideas have backfired and his party's intense moral conservatism is becoming a liability. This time, the discontent may not be seasonal.

[wli]

1. we can't let dems let them off easy

We have to DEMAND prosecution to the fullest extent of the law. We're talking all the way to the Hague.

[rndmprsn]

3. agreed...bushco (all of them) in the ICC

poetic justice.

[wli]

4. and the MSM, too, just like Streicher, Goebbels (via Fritzsche), & Speer

They can't be let off the hook either.

[Deja Q]

2. 'moral conservativism' from a party that never was neither.

Just ask that so-called "party of fiscal responsibility" to know more.

[priller]

5. Bush now has a record. That's the problem.

The American people are now looking at the "achievements" of this president, and they can see there's very little positive about it, and a whole lot of really awful things have happened. I'm sure Bush will go to his grave blaming others for every single thing he has done wrong, but the people aren't buying it. Aside from 30% or so who will ALWAYS support Bush no matter what he does, the country is turning on him.

Really looking forward to those 2006 elections!