Bush is TOAST! - Democratic Underground

Zomby Woof

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Thu Mar-02-06 10:13 PM
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Bush is TOAST!

Edited on Thu Mar-02-06 11:06 PM by ZombyWoof

The End Times are here, folks.

I have officially posted the thread with the subject line I have long dreaded. ;-)

Get out your favorite jams and jellies and spread 'em:

The collective benefit of the doubt of the 20-30% of Americans which was previously impenetrable in the approval ratings, held up on a rickety scaffolding of fear, denial, or naive generosity of spirit - however you want to explain or define the reasons - has collapsed like so many Enron stocks. A momentum that got a big push in the harsh desert winds of war across Iraq and swelled into a devastating series of hurricanes unleashed along the North American Gulf Coast, leaves the make-believe legacy of George W. Bush like so many Ninth Ward ruins. The price as always, has been paid by we Americans who can least afford it. The levee of second chances for Bush has been breached, and it didn't take much more than an errant Scooter, a grieving mother, a few bugs, and some scattered buckshot to hasten a flood not even Dubai can secure.

I make no grand predictions. I do not foresee impeachment, even when the Democrats take back both houses of Congress this fall - but the damage is permanent enough and the rot is deep enough, that an emasculated, benighted Bush is the next best thing. Although if impeachment should ever occur, I will at least take this opportunity to say that not foreseeing is not the same as ruling it out absolutely.

If I am wrong, it will ultimately be our responsibility. Unlike the conservatives, the rest of us do take the reigns of accountability seriously and with great purpose. It is OUR responsibility to vote, ensure an accurate vote, volunteer in campaigns, taking NO SEATS FOR GRANTED, donate, agitate the media, agitate your families, your friends, your colleagues, acquaintances casual or formal, and random strangers if so inclined. Seize every opportunity given to you to maintain the momentum of bad will towards Bush.

It is not enough to stop him or even remove him from office. Our formidable agenda as Democrats and progressives must address vast concerns, not least being the continuing war in Iraq, and in no particular order, the salivating for war with Iran, the deterioration of our infrastructure, the decline of quality, affordable, available health care, the degradation of our environment and national parks, our eroding civil liberties (even on this day that the Patriot Act was given new life, I taste toast defiantly), the alienation of our allies... well, hell, now you see why I have resisted toast threads for so long, even as I embrace the concept presently.

But those aforementioned matters need not be irredeemable or inevitably doomed. Because we do have the power, people. Dr. Dean is right, and I give him his due.

So while I do smile with not a small bit of schadenfreude with each passing day of pile-on for the Great Prevaricator, it is tempered by the sadness of our current condition, the seriousness of our task, and the difficulty of summoning the will to carry forward to destroy the status quo as it keeps working to destroy us.

Bush is toast, without the mayo. Vapor. History.

He's through. Five years into eight, he is ineffectual, hapless, and impotent, and not a moment too soon, for the sake of the globe.

This may not be your ideal version of toast, but for a long time and extremely cautious cynic like myself, it is enough to make me take pause.