Bush's Week from Hell. With Reality crashing in around them, will Republicans start to wake up?

[Mugsy]

Via "Mugsy's Rap Sheet":

Bush's Week from Hell.
With Reality crashing in around them, will Republicans start to wake up?

The past few weeks have been particularly bad for President Bush:

o The "resurgent stock market" they praised two months ago as "proof" that Bush's economic policies were "working" has plunged nearly 1500 POINTS since breaking the "14,000 mark" just one month ago.

o His best friend and key political adviser Karl Rove announced that he would be leaving Washington "to spend more time with his family"... the death cry of the endangered NeoCon... at the end of this month.

o More than 400 Iraqi's are killed in a series of four truck bombs across the country just as the Bush Administration is working extra hard to assure us that "the surge is working".

o Hurricane Dean is making a beeline for the Gulf Coast (maybe heading for his Crawford Ranch?) As I type this, the rains of Tropical Storm Erin is dumping another few inches of rain on our already water-logged lawns/streets.

o A resurgent Taliban refuses to release 19 South Korean hostages in exchange for the release of eight Taliban prisoners being held by the Afghan government.

o The Federal Reserves had to pump $38 Billion dollars into the Home Equity Market to bail out Mortgage brokers due to a record number of people defaulting on their high interest home loans. The Fed would rather incur all that debt buying up abandoned real estate rather than cut interest rates. Why? Because it needs those high rates to attract foreign investment to fund the Iraq war and Bush's tax cuts (an "emergency rate cut" has been discussed... but would only be short term, raising it right back up first chance they get).

o In the "You can't put lipstick on a pig" Department, the White House crowed about a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that found that only 92,000 new jobs were created in July and a mere "8.3 Million new jobs since August, 2003" four years ago... roughly 2 million new jobs a year. By comparison, the Clinton Administration created 22.7 Million new jobs in his two terms (averaging 473,000 new jobs a month).

There is now NOTHING Republicans can point to as "proof" that Conservative policies are superior to those of Democrats. The very fundamentals of Conservative politics are all proving to themselves the complete and utter fantasy they are:

Republican misconceptions being debunked by Reality:

o Tax cuts for the rich create job growth and a strong economy.

o Proactive use of military forces can bring peace and security.

o Privatization allows you to do the same job quicker and cheaper than the Federal Government.

o Putting Republicans in charge would return ethics and fiscal responsibility to Washington.

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[Demeter]

1. Who Are You Going to Believe? Bush or Your Lying Eyes?

[Vincardog]

2. In a related story CONservatism is all CON it is dead as a political principle

[BOSSHOG]

3. But republicans were honest to their supporters

They told the ignorant trash who voted for conservative "values" (who I believe are as complicit as bush and limbaugh and the rest of the conservative idiots) that government does not work:

PUT US IN CHARGE AND WE WILL PROVE IT!

Sub Prime Loans, the latest example of conservative values at work. But bush and rove fucked up the timing. The mortgage crash wasn't supposed to come until the spring of 2009.

[AndyA]

4. So, to sum it all up, Bush is a:

MISERABLE
LYING
CORRUPT
HYPOCRITICAL
CRIMINAL
FAILURE

[Mugsy]

7. I think I'd be more careful when posting such comments...

...directly above a banner for John Edwards.

[AndyA]

8. My comments are my own personal opinion, and while I believe them to

be accurate, they in no way reflect the opinion of anyone else, including John Edwards.

[Mugsy]

9. Look carefully.

Just making an observation regarding putting the words:
MISERABLE
LYING
CORRUPT
HYPOCRITICAL
CRIMINAL
FAILURE

directly above an ad for Edwards. :)

[AndyA]

10. I see your point, but

that is in a signature line that appears in every message I post, and the subject clearly identifies those terms as relating to another person.

At any rate, perhaps I should add a horizontal rule as a separator so as not to confuse.

And what the hell, who knows, if the Dems keep screwing things up and pissing me off, those sentiments may apply to John before the election! :rofl:

[tom_paine]

5. Correction: Clinton's job creation TOTAL is 22.7 million, not per year

That would be an absurd number of 175 million for his residency.

But 22.7 million is damned impressive enough. It is still the most ever in a two term presidency, I believe.

And unlike Bushler "created" McJobs, many of Clinton's were good payers with futures, such as those created by the long-defunct Advanced Technologies Program.

[Mugsy]

6. Oops!

Thanks for the catch! I guess I was in too much of a hurry to get the blog posted.

I'll correct it now.

BTW: a few votes would be nice. :)

[Mugsy]

11. "1500" corrected to "1200" on blog.

Too late to make the correction here, I wrote the "1500 drop in the DOW" in the midst of the 300+ point plunge earlier in the day, expecting it to stay in that range if not recover only modestly.

With the market "correction" to just a -15 point loss, I corrected the original story to correctly describe the recent "1,200 point" drop in the market since its 14,000 peak last month.

I apologize for any confusion.

[AnnieBW]

12. But it's not all bad

He's gaining a son-in-law! Or, at least pawning responsibility for Thing One on to some other poor schlub.