Sorry, folks but he’s not going anywhere. He can’t be elected again. He won’t be a true lame duck because he has his party in control of congress. Even if we chastise him day and night, the best we could hope for is that he’ll just start implementing more of the congressional GOP agenda instead of his own. Big whoop. Capital Hill is full of even bigger head cases.
Stop focusing your ire on one man. He’s perfectly happy to accept all this blame. It is protecting GOP power. He goes away in a few years, and with him, all this blame for all these failed policies. That is one of the real weaknesses of our system: the sense that the slate is cleaned for each new administration.
It would be wise to try to focus this newly fired up nation of ours on a lasting enemy, be it party or policy. Not Bush. It’s a ton of waisted heat and energy, and we are all good conservationists, right?
It’s time to refocus our energies to the corruption and scandal that spreads throughout the GOP leadership. It’s time to redefine what liberalism means while everyone is paying attention: a liberal is someone who wants government to redress the inequities of the marketplace. Use NOLA as an example of why that is better than whatever it is the GOP does (they speak in terms ideology, but their actions are disconnected from thought let alone ideology). Don’t forget they publicly derided proposed levee-reiforcement money as ‘pork’.
Make the point that the GOP’s anti-science policy is the true source of the negligent lack of pre-hurricane resource movement. I can just hear Bush’s brain cell when he got the NOAA warnings: “Hurricane Shmurricane. What do those egg heads know anyhow?”
By the way, isn’t NOAA and absolutely awful acronym? I mean it’s sort of ironic at least, y’know. With all the flooding. Noah’s ark. Mmph.
Some more good news:
NOAA Raises the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook
Bulk of This Season’s Storms Still to Come
