"Can Bush Get Much Lower?": Small Town America Speaks

[kpete]

Here is a little gem with folksy clarity. Tahlequah, Oklahoma: population 14,500.
I find it encouraging to read this straight talk from a small town.

Tahlequah Daily Press


Published: April 10, 2006 10:26 am

Can Bush get much lower?

As more details are brought to the fore about the seamy underbelly of the Bush administration, the perpetually trusting souls among the American electorate are having trouble keeping those scales firmly in place on their eyes.

The president has sunk so far down in the polls it’s hard to imagine he could get any lower without being adept at limbo dancing. And it’s no wonder: Even staunch loyalists are at pains to name one positive thing Bush has accomplished during his five years in office, except perhaps the seating of two new justices (presumed to be conservative by ardent Bush supporters, who could be sorely disappointed if they merely turn out to be fair).

The usual response from Bush fans, when asked such impertinent questions about their fearless leader, is to fire another accusatory salvo at his predecessor, whose peccadilloes are not only irrelevant to the situation at hand, but pale by comparison.

Bush’s “political missteps,” on the other hand, would fill several pages, even with small type. The senior citizens are having trouble with his Medicare program, and his fence-straddling on the immigration issue is ripping his own party apart. The cronies he empowered within FEMA dropped the ball in spectacular fashion when Hurricane Katrina roared through, and the fallout on that fiasco continues. The violence goes on unabated in Iraq, and Afghanistan is lurching toward a theocracy that Western states will ultimately find as unpalatable as Iran’s government. The national deficit has ballooned to incomprehensible levels, and the wages of the average Joe are stagnant. Philosophically, Americans are polarized, and not only do our fellow countrymen from the opposing party dislike us, but the rest of the world does, too.

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http://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/policeblotter/local_story_100102600.html?keyword=topstory
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[Bobbieo]

1. The real horror story here is that no one seems to be able to stop him.

from doing anything he wants to do.

[renate]

2. I thought this line was revealing:

"Philosophically, Americans are polarized, and not only do our fellow countrymen from the opposing party dislike us, but the rest of the world does, too."
(emphasis mine)

If this were worded more like "countrymen from opposing parties dislike each other," I'd say "us" was generic and that the writer was just saying "Americans dislike other Americans from the opposing party." But the rest of the world doesn't hate the Democrats. Ergo, the "us" in this editorial stands for "Republicans."

I like this line too: "Someone in this equation is destined to turn out stupid: The administration, for expecting the public to swallow this fish tale, or the public, for doing just that."

:rofl:

* is getting the pants roasted off him by this little Oklahoma Republican newspaper. It is a beautiful thing to see.

BTW, I really do admire people who are willing to admit they're wrong and/or that they were hoodwinked. It's folks like these who are going to turn the tide.

[priller]

3. At 35% he's already about as low as I ever imagined

But still not low enough for the DC Dems to hammer him and the rest of his God-forsaken party. Not low enough for the likes of Tweety and the other Beltway pundits to give up on the notion that he's popular. That "sunny nobility" shines so bright!

[IsItJustMe]

4. No, that's how many brain dead people there are in this country. Sorry

[Maine-ah]

5. Tahlequah, Oklahoma: population 14,500.

that's small town?

shit, my town has 1300, we must be freakin' invisible.

Great article though, thanks for posting it.