Can Bush get much lower?--Tahlequah, OK Daily Press

[Demeter]

http://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/policeblotter/local_story_100102600.html

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 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...

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....To buy any of this, the public will have to suffer not just from pathological stupidity, but also from terminal amnesia. We’ll have to forget that Ms. Plame’s name only became public after her husband, former diplomat Joseph Wilson, disclosed that he could find no evidence of weapons of destruction in Iraq. We’ll also have to forget that several subsequent investigations have vindicated Wilson – which means the “declassified information” was completely erroneous, or a complete fabrication.

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[patrice]

1. We've been assuming everyone is committed to * with fanatic fervor.

Though those folks are out there and NEVER to be trusted, but the main block of *'s supporters might be better characterized as kind of like celebrity fans who like to talk about a "winner".

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Yes, recommended indeed

And this is what they're saying in Oklahoma? Is this typical?

[fencesitter]

4. Well the Democrats of the Texas Legislature escaped to OK

in retaliation to DeLay's redistricting plot.

[pretzel4gore]

3. "not only do our fellow countrymen from the opposing party dislike us...

but the rest of the world does too"
just out of curiousity, who is 'us'?

[ixion]

5. uh, pretty major correction on the Joseph Wilson mention

He went to Niger to investigate the (bogus) claim that Saddam had purchased 'yellowcake' uranium from the country.