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They all know that Bush is done. The NIE was the final fork in him: his last remaining lever, that he was craaaazy enough to start a war with Iran, is now gone.
Now he has no threat with which to compel obedience. He's at 23% and dropping, the Republican congressional prospects are unrelentingly dismal, and none of the clown car Republicans could even beat Kucinich at this point. The only way Republicans could do better than dreadful is to run against Bush. And this is one of the first volleys against him.
Expect more drunken, incoherent press conferences and more hearings. And expect the Dems to sit on their hands and watch the Reps self-destruct, both because the Dems are cowards and fellow-travellers and because it's much easier and nearly as effective as running on the merits of progressive policies.
by felagund on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 05:59:20 AM PDT
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Kucinich,
But I bet Huck could. He is their last hope I believe.
-6.5, -7.59. John McSame - running for Bush's third term. We can't afford it.
by DrWolfy on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 06:05:09 AM PDT
He's appealing to the Christian voters but the general population of Rethugs wont support him. I don't believe economic Rethugs will support a Fundamentalist in the Oval Office. But, maybe I'm just being naively hopeful.
"I am here because of Ashley." - Unknown Obama supporter.
by rainmanjr on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 06:27:59 AM PDT
The fact that at this point, I don't think having an honest-to-goodness Christian, even a fundamentalist one, in the Oval Office would be as bad as what we have now as long as they didn't try to sell America down the river to the corporate interests running the show.
T.
-5.38 -4.72 T.
by trevzb on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 09:47:36 AM PDT
Huffington Post says a scandal is a brewing
If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy. - Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
by BehereBenow on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 07:04:59 AM PDT
Heh. Yeah, that's a scandal all right.
I just read Murray Waas' dynamite HuffPo piece. The Reverend Huckster is in bad trouble now.
by DBunn on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 07:32:40 AM PDT
People won't sit still for that. Minimally it demonstrates terrible judgment.
by St Louis Woman on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 08:01:47 AM PDT
had the mother of the woman who that rapist killed and asked her about the fact that because one of the victims was related to President Clinton the rightwing conspiracy theorists believed that the rapist was innocent of the charges that landed him in jail in the first place - and that movement apparenly inspired Huckabee to release him - even in the face of overwhelming evidence.
The knives are out for Huckabee on this one if that Harry guy from the CBS Morning Show is asking a question like that.
by inclusiveheart on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 08:07:50 AM PDT
by Brooke In Seattle on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 10:10:44 AM PDT
For whatever reason I can never remember that guy's whole name.
by inclusiveheart on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 10:25:51 AM PDT
In the eyes of many righties who blame the victim, these women were probably asking for it anyway.
I don't know if it's gonna stick to him.
Maybe it's a "Willie Horton" moment, but who knows.
Remember, many conservative Christians believe that women who get raped brought it on themselves by being "hussies" who "tempt men to do bad things"
by DrWolfy on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 08:45:05 AM PDT
Bush is a disaster vulture out of food.
In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen.- Louis Brandeis
by crystal eyes on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 06:15:57 AM PDT
"The sound of one duck quacking" deserves to make it to top comments. Fitting and hilarious.
-8.38, -4.97 "...there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii.
by thingamabob on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 06:56:58 AM PDT
The republicans are waiting for their Goldwater to come along a ask Bush/Cheney to resign before the party is totally ruined. Democrats are just waiting for this to happen so there is no blowback. It needs to be handled party within party.
by chigh on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 11:51:27 AM PDT
That is what I have been thinking, knowing, but I haven't been able to put it in such simple, obviious terms.
by philipogog on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 07:26:16 PM PDT
he's far from a lame duck.
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by wu ming on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 12:55:27 AM PDT
wide narrow
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