'If Past Is Prologue, George Bush Is Becoming An Increasingly Dangerous P

[DianaForRussFeingold]

This has left me kind of sick and speechless!This is way too big for one post,this is the second half of the article.Others on Du are better at posting. The point to posting this,is to point out that history will repeat and I do not want another Katrina or God forbid, another 911. I truely want to trust my government. Just can't think of one thing they did that was trustworthy in 5 years.!This is a MUST READ NOW! :kick: Bush's "Active/Negative" Presidency

Recent events provide an especially good illustration of Bush's fateful - perhaps fatal - approach. Six generals who have served under Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld have called for his resignation - making a strong substantive case as to why he should resign. And they are not alone: Editorialists have also persuasively attacked Rumsfeld on the merits.

Yet Bush's defense of Rumsfeld was entirely substance-free. Bush simply told reporters in the Rose Garden that Rumsfeld would stay because "I'm the decider and I decide what's best." He sounded much like a parent telling children how things would be: "I'm the Daddy, that's why."

This, indeed, is how Bush sees the presidency, and it is a point of view that will cause him trouble.

Bush has never understood what presidential scholar Richard Neustadt discovered many years ago: In a democracy, the only real power the presidency commands is the power to persuade. Presidents have their bully pulpit, and the full attention of the news media, 24/7. In addition, they are given the benefit of the doubt when they go to the American people to ask for their support. But as effective as this power can be, it can be equally devastating when it languishes unused - or when a president pretends not to need to use it, as Bush has done.

Apparently, Bush does not realize that to lead he must continually renew his approval with the public. He is not, as he thinks, the decider. The public is the decider.

Bush is following the classic mistaken pattern of active/negative presidents: As Barber explained, they issue order after order, without public support, until they eventually dissipate the real powers they have -- until "nothing left but the shell of the office." Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon all followed this pattern.

More at link:

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20060421.html :cry: :rant:

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. The October Surprise is being planned so the public has to be immunized

against it!!!
That may be the only way it can be prevented!!!

[badgerpup]

2. Let's start brainstorming then! What do you think...seriously?

Like this article said,I am betting that Dick Cheney will resign due to 'health issues', leaving the way clear for Bush to choose a more popular VP...both to bolster his own sagging polls and to leave a REAL contender for 08.
Cheney's 19% (and falling) can't be helping, and pretty much guarantees that as a presidential candidate, he's not a contender...
A terrorist attack, real or staged, could backfire on them badly...
'Hey, I thought you were supposed to be keeping us safe from this!
"We are fighting them over there so that THIS doesn't happen over HERE!!!"'

What do you all think?
If we have an idea what's coming, we can prepare!
That's what emergency first aid training is all about, being prepared.