Over at
"The American Prospect online edition", Laura Rozen's essay on why Bush's presidency is over is certainly a must be read.
"He's Done" writes Rozen
Bush once brandished September 11 like a weapon against his critics. But in one dramatic recent week, it all caught up with him. The 9-11 era is now over.
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The details of the demise--the gruesome milestone, the indictment, the Senate Democrats' action-- are dramatic enough, given the stranglehold the administration has had on Washington since September 11. But the larger narrative is even more striking, and it shows much more emphatically that something profound has happened in Washington in recent weeks.
Yep. We found our cojones and we've given our eviction notice.
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Got your fork handy? then click here:
http://www.prospect.org/...
Link to full article below.
Rozen gives Fitzgerald and Harry Reid and his gang of four due credit
"Fitzgerald dropped a bomb on Washington. But, at least to observers who'd become inured to Democratic timidity, Minority Leader Harry Reid dropped an even bigger one when he invoked an obscure procedural rule (Rule 21) to force the Senate to deal with the issue of possible Iraq intelligence manipulation by the the Bush Administration. If Democrats make gains in 2006, it will be the culmination of a more than two-year-long process by which Democrats were finally pushed to their breaking point, forcing the Senate finally to do what it was created to do.
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Some observers labeled what the Democrats dis a stunt. But the move--and Reid's vow that he would do it again until Roberts acquiesed--gave the Democrat's leverage they'd never had before."
Read the rest, fully detailed-- Reid's behind the scenes outmanuevering Frist, Roberts and the lasting damage of the BushCo credibility:
http://www.prospect.org/...