WashPost - Froomkin: "Is Bush Losing Congress?"

[sabra]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/09/29/BL2005092900911.html





Is Bush Losing Congress?

His second-term agenda is in shambles. His spending plan for Hurricane Katrina has torn his party apart. Support for his increasingly unpopular war is eroding. His political capital is spent.

And now he's lost his Hammer.

For President Bush, who was already seeing his influence wane in Congress, yesterday's indictment of Rep. Tom DeLay -- forcing the iron-fisted House majority leader to step down from his leadership post -- was an enormous blow.

Furthermore, DeLay's troubles add to the sense that the Republican Party and the White House are under siege, plagued by missteps and ethics scandals.

....

How could it possibly get worse?

"Finally, the special counsel investigation into whether White House senior adviser Karl Rove or others in the administration broke the law by leaking the name of the CIA's Valerie Plame is nearing a conclusion."

[tompayne1]

1. if you have a hammer all problems look like nails

if you don't?

[Gronk Groks]

15. You get to step on the nails...

...could be painful...tetnus(-2 sp) anyone?

[WI_DEM]

2. Recommended

It couldn't happen to a more deserving president.

[Supersedeas]

11. I'll second that.

[FreedomAngel82]

12. One can hope

:)

[SledDriver]

3. I doubt it.

EVERY repug senator just voted to confirm Roberts.

[John Q. Citizen]

4. If I had a hammer, I'd swing it in the morrrrning, I'd swing

it in evening

all over this laaaaand.......

I'd swing out corruption
I'd swing out fascisim,
And I'd swing out the hate between the have's and the have nots,
all over this laaaand,
ooou ooou oou oouu,

[cliss]

5. There is such a thing called

"winning the battle but losing the war".

I think that analogy is very appropriate here. They came in, they bulldozed their way through the White House. Every single step of the way, they claimed victory. 100%.

So? What are we left with? A shambles, as Dan Froomkin states.

How right he is.

[seabeyond]

6. How could it possibly get worse? and they were ordered to release

the torture pictures. and the bankruptcy law and credit card scandal is about to commence.

let us count the ways,

how this can be much worse

[Rowdyboy]

7. My pleasure to recommend an excellent peice....

I even read the llinks to articles about Ms Mier, Bush's lawyer. She's a good bet to be his next SCOTUS choice because, as a lawyer rather than a judge, her views are well known to George but not documented in court rulings.

[Johonny]

8. Well

He just got a judge into the Supreme court without much actual looking into his past. So I'd say he's still getting bad things through congress with little problem. Heck some terrible environmental bills are heading this way as we speak.

[Kolesar]

14. Endangered Species Act is in danger ... eom

[pacalo]

9. Excellent!

Also, check out the last heading on page 5:

Local activists in Washington: Madison's Ray and Diane Maida say they were treated to an example of how President Bush just doesn't get it as the participated in the anti-war protest in Washington.

The Maidas, who lost their son, Mark, to a roadside bomb south of Baghdad last May, were standing outside the White House Monday morning when they saw a motorcade approach. The quickly donned T-shirts emblazoned with pictures of their dead son as an act of protest.

The president, spying the couple on the sidewalk from his limousine, smiled and waved.

"He was waving like a maniac," Ray Maida said. "He thought we were there to support him. He was clueless that we were there to show him the face of war."

[FreedomAngel82]

13. Wow

He really is insane.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

10. And there's still people who just say it's ALL partisan & "Liberal Lies"

When all of it is lined up like that you wonder how the Bush Bots can explain it all away...

[Glenda]

16. A lot of information in that article

thanks for posting!

:hi: