In your opinion, When did the * administration "jump the shark"

[Mind_your_head]

I was considering asking this as a "poll question", but thought that there were too many opportunities vs. the six (?) options one is allowed to post in a poll. Perhaps some of you don't think the 'shark hasn't been jumped' OR you don't understand the question (google can be your friend?)....

....what say you?

[uppityperson]

1. 1999

[madokie]

2. The surge done it for many here in my part of the world

much leading up to that but thats when their eyes glassed over

[amitten]

3. Katrina. No question. n/t

[MADem]

Absolutely Katrina. The splash was heard shortly thereafter, and now

people are realizing that they're drenched in the backwash from that shark jumping, and they know no one will pay their cleaning bill. They're pissed.

[rhett o rick]

18. Agree. They are so incompetent it is unbelievable. They wanted to

be in power sooo very bad. Then they got it and didn't have the slightest idea what to do. GWB and his band of idiots (Meirs, Gonzo, Brownie, etc) is just sad. Then there are the neocons Cheney, Bolton, Pearl, etc. thinking they were so tough that the World would bow to them. And then lets not forget the Christian Taliban. May they all rot in hell.

[Hosnon]

11. Seconded, with an equal amount of certainty. NT.

[Warpy]

14. That's when I saw it start to tip, Katrina

People were shocked out of their complacency by the loss of a major city, the evacuation of its inhabitants who had survived a week of neglect thanks to the DHS clusterfuck FEMA was turned into, and Stupid's posing with a couple of photogenic black folks and saying how fine everything was now that he'd arrived on the scene.

The robbery of rebuilding money by family cronies hasn't helped. The continuing misery of folks who can't afford to rebuild houses on land their families had owned for generations is adding to it. The finger pointing in the aftermath that is still going on is adding to it.

Small government leaves people to die. People are starting to realize that at long last, along with the fact that the pResident is a callous, overgrown fratboy at best and a madman at worst.

[Toucano]

16. Absolutely correct.

I bet someone has an opinion poll chart that could back that up.

[uppityperson]

20. Changed my mind, you are right When public saw media coverage of Katrina, then Brownie/bush

saying everything was under control. Media coverage of the massive destruction, mrbush giving stupidic platitudes about patience and help is on its way. I am very thankful enough media was there to show the disconnect.

[Initech]

22. If Katrina had happened before the '04 election, we'd have President Kerry.

There's no doubt in my mind.

[ComerPerro]

4. hard to pinpoint, its been a steady decline with occasional spikes

but each time it spikes, it doesn't spike as high as it did last time, and it falls back off faster and lower

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Schiavo

That was the first time that most Americans saw through the scuminess.

Honorable mentions for the "jump the shark" moment being:

1. when no WMD were found in Iraq
2. when the Republican chair of the 9/11 commission demanded that Ms. Rice testify under oath because he was sick of the BS from the White House.
3. Katrina

[rhett o rick]

19. Good point. nm

[MedleyMisty]

6. Umm, when Bush was born?

To say that the administration jumped the shark would imply that it was decent and good at some point. Yeah....not so much.

[Canuckistanian]

7. The WH "trashing" lie.

I was willing to give them a chance.

I believe it lasted two whole days.

[MadBadger]

8. "Mission Accomplished"

[BuyingThyme]

9. 1981.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. When Poppy has his orgasm. Sorry...hope no one was eating.

[Cobalt-60]

30. disgusting. but accurate.

[Cabcere]

12. For me, it was when they sent us to war.

It's just gone straight downhill since then (and probably even before, but that was the big one for me). :(

[never_get_over_it]

13. Funny you should ask

the other day after I heard about the recent Extreme Court decision I said to myself this whole effing country has jumped the shark.......

think about it folks Roberts, Alito and Thomas are all in their 50s and could be around another 30 years - we're SCREWED

and you know it really pisses me off this puke in chief was NEVER elected but we're stuck with his legacy for DECADES....

[MissMarple]

17. The SCOTUS takeover and this latest decision lead to the jump, IMHO.

Well, coupled with Gonzogate. It's all piling up. It is all so sad for all of us.

Gonzales has given a bad name to gonzo. I am so sorry, Hunter.

[countmyvote4real]

15. 2000 when appointed (by cronies) rather than elected (by the people).

[Initech]

21. When Bush was governor of Texas

Remember? And he signed more death warrants than any governor in the history of the United States?

Hell, his whole political career has been built on death and lies and subsequent cover-up.

[Mme. Defarge]

23. Abu Ghraib

[Ready4Change]

24. Before Afghanistan was completed, drumming up the Iraq Attack.

Attacking Iraq at that time was unwise.

Attacking Iraq with such a piss-poor drive to establish a true coalition was insane.

Attacking Iraq with falsified intelligence and no plan for post-war recovery was criminal madness.

Attacking Iraq was the shark jumping moment I think.

[phaseolus]

25. Pre-Katrina

January 2005, when he went on tour to promote his Social Security privatization thing that nobody wanted, except maybe the guys who run mutual funds. About this time the typical American was starting to get clued into the fact that he's incompetent.

[AtomicKitten]

26. when they filed a case before the Supreme Court in 2000

to settle the election

[WCGreen]

27. His solution to Stem Cell Research...

Actually, when Gary Condit was hounded out of office and the press started to look at Bush...

[cosmicone]

28. Katrina hands down n/t

[leftofthedial]

29. somewhere in the Schiavo-Katrina area

Katrina sealed it for many

[MasterDarkNinja]

31. I think there's two times

I think the administration kind of jumped the shark multiple times, getting worse each time.

-Going to war in Iraq (it was when it was becoming obvious that we'd go to war that I started to see Bush & republicans for who they really were and not like them, I was still in high school then and grew up with in a house full of republicans).

-The troop surge plan, even after just about everyone says it'll never work (since then it seems that Bush has grown more isolated and out of touch with reality to).

[illinoisprogressive]

32. Terry Shiavo. People were so disgusted by the power plays at one womans life.

[Vidar]

33. When Babs gave birth to the abortion that resides in the White House.

[The_Casual_Observer]

34. Winter of 2001.

[area51]

35. "When did the * administration 'jump the shark'"

The very moment it took office.

You had to ask. :evilgrin: