GOP suffers because Bush is a clueless, AWOL misleader

[ProSense]

Newsview: GOP Malaise Due to Iraq Unease By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 55 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Most presidents get a boost from overseas trips. President Bush, though, may return from Asia wondering why he left U.S. soil in the first place.

Caught off guard when South Korea announced plans to pull one-third of its troops from Iraq, the president also could look back on the home front and find things have not exactly been quiet.

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While Bush was away:

In a rare across-the-world exchange of invective, the White House traded daily barbs with its Democratic critics. They accused Bush of manipulating prewar intelligence and deceiving the nation in starting a war he is unable to end.

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When the Senate passed a $50 billion tax bill early Friday, it left out one of Bush's second-term priorities: an extension of tax cuts on dividends and capital gains that are now set to expire after 2008.


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In Bush's first term, GOP leaders prided themselves on their unity and discipline. They are hampered now, for a variety of reasons: Bush's plunge in the polls; an unpopular war; the stepping aside of Rep. Tom DeLay as House majority leader after his indictment in Texas; and a federal investigation of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's stock transactions.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051120/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_uneasy_home_front

[randr]

1. GOP deserves the leader they choose

[ProSense]

2. Yes they do, but spare the rest of us from his hell. n/t

[Bluestar]

3. Malaise?? More Like Malfeasance

No one could tell so-called moderate Republicans that they needed to take back their party, that George Bush would unleash anti-American policies through a coalition of Fundies, neo-cons and racists. Now they are seeing how much damage giving power to these misfits has caused. My beef is especially with Republican pro-choice women who refused to believe that Bush would push to take away their reproductive rights. I fear this is coming.

Aw, the poor poor Repugs having a party suffering "malaise". There should be punishment after this life for those who are responsible for what Bush and a Republican Congress have done to America.

[ProSense]

5. Or in Bushspeak: malfeance

[Mme. Defarge]

4. I think they are all off the hook

with the jet lag defense.