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Is the Bush machine Crumbling?
Robert Rouse
October 10, 2005
There are many stories coming out of Washington that show sure signs of the Bush machine falling apart before Dubya's eyes. I say it's about time. Disaster after disaster is befalling the Bush administration. Over-spending, waning support for the war, falling polling numbers, Plame-gate, slow response for Katrina victims, Harriet Miers nomination, and the hits just keep on coming. Now we see several members of the Republican party starting to distance themselves from Bush. It turns out they want to be as far away from President Disaster as they can.
Sen. John McCain is blasting away at Bush's spending compotation . . . Sen. Chuck Hagel is telling everyone who will listen that the President has a distorted view of reality, especially when it comes to the war in Iraq . . . Rep. Thomas G. Tancredo doesn't think Bush is doing enough to stem the tide of illegal immigration . . . Sen. Sam Brownback is shepherding the Republican opposition to Harriet Miers nomination for SCOTUS . . . Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is angry about Bush's proposal for the Defense Department to handle natural disasters. The way these GOP mainstays are acting, an outsider might believe Bush was in a different political party . . . and perhaps he is. Although Bush didn't really have anything to do with Tom DeLay's problems, many insiders are linking the two because of DeLay's unabashed loyalty to the President.
You can count the number of candidates for the 2006 election who are asking for Bush's help on . . . well, it doesn't take that many fingers. For the first time since he took office in 2001, Bush is seen as a liability. Many are worried that it may be too late to turn the tide . . . even for candidates who are already distancing themselves from Bush.
I'd like to say I told you so, so I will . . .I told you so, I told you so . . . nah-nah-na-na-nah. Okay, so maybe I'm finding a little too much delight in this news. Nah, every pitfall that materializes in front of Bush makes me a little more giddy.
Bush, like Reagan before him, came into the Presidency as a Beltway outsider. But unlike Reagan, Bush used the power of his office to push his own agenda . . . one which to many Republicans, now looks like the work of someone who knows how to work the system for his own ends . . . and not for the betterment of his party or the country. Bush's use of cronyism and powerful corporations seems more inline with someone whose sole goal was money. Money for the FOB . . . Friends of Bush. Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton is making billions from the Iraqi war and stands to make billions more in the rebuilding of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
They say absolute power corrupts absolutely . . . and Bush is perhaps the best example of that axiom in many years. Josiah Gilbert Holland once said, "Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power." Bush lacks the responsibility part of that quotation. Or perhaps a better understood and wider known quote goes like this, "With great power comes great responsibility."
George Bush, I know Spider-Man, and you're no Spider-Man.
Is the Bush machine Crumbling?
Robert Rouse
October 10, 2005
There are many stories coming out of Washington that show sure signs of the Bush machine falling apart before Dubya's eyes. I say it's about time. Disaster after disaster is befalling the Bush administration. Over-spending, waning support for the war, falling polling numbers, Plame-gate, slow response for Katrina victims, Harriet Miers nomination, and the hits just keep on coming. Now we see several members of the Republican party starting to distance themselves from Bush. It turns out they want to be as far away from President Disaster as they can.
Sen. John McCain is blasting away at Bush's spending compotation . . . Sen. Chuck Hagel is telling everyone who will listen that the President has a distorted view of reality, especially when it comes to the war in Iraq . . . Rep. Thomas G. Tancredo doesn't think Bush is doing enough to stem the tide of illegal immigration . . . Sen. Sam Brownback is shepherding the Republican opposition to Harriet Miers nomination for SCOTUS . . . Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is angry about Bush's proposal for the Defense Department to handle natural disasters. The way these GOP mainstays are acting, an outsider might believe Bush was in a different political party . . . and perhaps he is. Although Bush didn't really have anything to do with Tom DeLay's problems, many insiders are linking the two because of DeLay's unabashed loyalty to the President.
You can count the number of candidates for the 2006 election who are asking for Bush's help on . . . well, it doesn't take that many fingers. For the first time since he took office in 2001, Bush is seen as a liability. Many are worried that it may be too late to turn the tide . . . even for candidates who are already distancing themselves from Bush.
I'd like to say I told you so, so I will . . .I told you so, I told you so . . . nah-nah-na-na-nah. Okay, so maybe I'm finding a little too much delight in this news. Nah, every pitfall that materializes in front of Bush makes me a little more giddy.
Bush, like Reagan before him, came into the Presidency as a Beltway outsider. But unlike Reagan, Bush used the power of his office to push his own agenda . . . one which to many Republicans, now looks like the work of someone who knows how to work the system for his own ends . . . and not for the betterment of his party or the country. Bush's use of cronyism and powerful corporations seems more inline with someone whose sole goal was money. Money for the FOB . . . Friends of Bush. Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton is making billions from the Iraqi war and stands to make billions more in the rebuilding of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
They say absolute power corrupts absolutely . . . and Bush is perhaps the best example of that axiom in many years. Josiah Gilbert Holland once said, "Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power." Bush lacks the responsibility part of that quotation. Or perhaps a better understood and wider known quote goes like this, "With great power comes great responsibility."
George Bush, I know Spider-Man, and you're no Spider-Man.
