When Democrats criticize President Bush, Republicans accuse them of hating the president, which is the same as hating America. Writing for the ultra-rightwing website Human Events Online, GOP propagandist Robert Novak chronicles the growing tide of Bush-hatred among Republican members of Congress:
Republican congressmen are tired of being bullied and ignored by a heavy-handed executive, and they are playing hardball with their President. Given his unpopularity, many of them find it useful to distance themselves from Bush anyway. In short, Bush has little leverage left within his own party, and his transformation to lame-duck status is all but complete.
Republicans in Congress is are arraying themselves against their Dear Leader across the board:
Ports Deal: [Language] de-funding the ports deal will be written into the upcoming emergency supplemental [by the GOP congressional leadership]. This would be some real intra-party hardball—Bush would have to veto funding for Katrina, homeland security and the troops, or else suffer the undoing of a deal he has promised will go forward.
And…
Budget: Another Republican rebellion is breaking out on the budget front, where independent-minded Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is taking on the administration for its budgeting proposal. Bush’s budget zeroes out the so-called “Crime Victims Fund,” which is funded through criminal fines, fees and forfeitures, and thus pays for itself. Coburn is accusing the administration of playing a “budget shell game” by zeroing out the fund in order to make room for more spending elsewhere, but planning to restore the fund later.
Coburn’s hearings, set for today, will include a victim of the Oklahoma City bombing. They are significant because they could be politically damaging for Bush if anyone notices them. More and more conservatives seem emboldened nowadays to snipe at the President, whose poor efforts at reaching out to Congress have not helped his overall cause.
And…
Katrina: [The] administration’s inert posture and opacity with respect to the Katrina rebuilding process is all the more baffling. The White House has done little to get its act together and work with members of Congress on the reconstruction… Moreover, through its curious inflexibility and inaction, the White House has again incurred the wrath of conservative Republicans in Louisiana’s congressional delegation, including Sen. David Vitter (R) and Rep. Richard Baker (R). Even in matters as small as the itinerary of visiting congressmen, FEMA proved inflexible, drawing criticism from conservative Rep. Bobby Jindal (R).
The blood of the Iraq Debacle, the “Red Rivers of Afghanistan” and the bloody swamps in which our vets find themselves and their families is on the hands of this congress and the senate as well FOR THEY, COLLECTIVELKY, ARE THE ENABLERS OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN TRAGIDY OF ALL TIME —“THE BUSH YEARS”!
May it come to pass, therefore, that their collective political hemorrhaging become politically terminal for all “Bushites” and fellow travelers of any stripe whatsoever.
History will record the Bush years as the most secretive and unconstitutional ever.
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It’s about time conservatives caught on to the fact that they’ve been had by Bush! Bush is anathema to both conservatives and liberals in that he believes that the state is absolute, individuals have NO rights; they are, rather, subversient to the all powerfull state. He most certainly learned that at the Skull and Bones society.
Actually, what will be remembered is Bush strumming the guitar while New Orleans drowned. Like Nero, history will be very harsh. Then again, considering the scope of the disaster that is the Bush legacy, that view may actually be charitable.
What did “these people” expect from a super-annuated frat-boy?
Most cons ARE superannuated frat boys. Their stock answer is to shrug and say, “hey, I fucked up.” It’s worked for Bush so far.
9/11: Yeah, there was that August 2001 memo. We fucked up.
WMD: We were wrong about the weapons. We fucked up.
Iraq liberation: Guess it didn’t work. We fucked up.
Abu Ghraib: Some bad apples fucked up.
Katrina: Guess we fucked up that one too.
That’s a frat boy’s response to his own debacles. “Yeah, I fucked up.” Or, as Kramer would say, “Hey. I owe you one.”
Sour grapes. Bush is a winnter. Elected Governor, President (twice). His life (personal & political) is well known and the Republicans voted for him anyway. They deserve each other. We deserve better.
Bush is everything our founding fathers tried to prevent. The child of old money, the power grab by the economic elites, the facade of state religion.
The best we can hope is that he becomes a cautionary tale in the civic textbooks of our great-grandchildren.
What all is going to happen to america before they get out of office Doesn~t look good for anyone on all issues.
Bush is not a fuck up. They just stopped telling him what to say. They are worried about going to prison themselves so thay havent the time to program or protect him (Bush).He has told his fathers friends to fuck off so now he has nobody to bat for him And anyhow Chaney treats him like shit so why should anyone else respect him? The republicans who once feared him no longer do and they have to prove to their constituents that they no longer bow down to their discredited leader. So watch them, for hell hath no fury like a congress scorned.
Not only did Bush strum while NOLA drowned, he tried to finger an open G chord but positioned it on the wrong fret.
It shows he has some of the information he needs to accomplish the task, but doesn’t understand the big picture. His incompetence even extends to his guitar playing.
The republicans are not “waking up” to Bush. It’s time for an election people! If they don’t “distance” themselves, they won’t be re-elected. We’re the ones that need to wake up. It’s called manipulation…nothing more, nothing less.
Vanna, you give these neocons way-y-y-y too much credit. I don’t see that they have ever admitted they fucked up. They usually change the subject. Being a conservative apparently mwans never having to admit you were wrong.
And people who can never admit an error, are incapable of self-correction.
Impeach Bush and Cheney!
In response to Vanna’s post about Bush and his band of superannuated frat boys’ pat explanation to all their crimes, foulups and transgressions being “we fucked up,” I believe the original phrase from Animal House is, “You fucked up, you trusted us.” It applies to many of our fellow Americans who bought all the hype and undeserved praise bestowed upon one they should have known better about, the coke snorting, drunk driving, wife abusing, company sinking, insider trading, idiot son of a president who was more than a bit flakey himself. Thank God, I wasn’t one of them.