cross-posted at dkos.
Listening to Bush attack his doubters during his Veteran’s Day speech today it dawned on me that today is the day that he lost America. It hit me like a ton of bricks.
Bush, who had bullied his way to reelection with a toxic combination of lies and bravado had finally gone too far. He had stepped off the cliff. He had burned his bridges.
He took the occassion to launch yet the same raft of shit about our duty to support the war in front of a crowd that was sick of his bullshit and could smell its stink. For the first time,
it felt like he’d played this bluff one too many times, and it was so obvious not even his greatest loyalists could buy it.
The tipping point has been reached. The nation sees this man clearly, and doesn’t like what it sees. He’s lied us into war and gotten our sons and daughters killed for no good reason. Now, finally, he is revealed as a liar everytime he opens his mouth. The troops know. They may not say it straight out, but they know.
Those who question this war are on the soldiers’ side. They care about their deaths and wounds, and they want to know why they had to happen. They aren’t Republicans or Democrats. They are Americans. They are us all.
Welcome back, America. Now let’s begin the task of getting our country back.
Take the poll…
Every time this national idiot opens his mouth he digs his hole deeper. This is the beginning of the end. What scares the crap out of me is what will happen if he goes over the edge?
is that yes the people have decided he is slime and a change is needed. The Dems have prospered by saying and doing little. However, now people will be looking for something new. What does the Democrat party stand for and what will it do for people. It is time for a Democrat “manifesto”. What worries me is that the Dems will continue to sit while the republicans reinvent themselves under some new “moderate” presidential candidate and list a whole range of policies.
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The Supreme Commander is retreating to his last bastion: the military.
However no glorious PR of deck landing, or photo shopped events, he just landed flat on his ass.
A Rovian adventure has not yet ended, that is political fortune for the Democrats and mid-term Election 2006. The court trials of I. Scooter Libby will be very fresh in memory as Fitzgerald and defense lawyers will be embattled over Security Clearance issues for coming six months.
Bush is losing footing in his very own pasture, the United Methodists Church.
Peace Soon!
Kick the culprits out of Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008.
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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I always had a knot in my throat whenever I watched them lay the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns. Even before I was a military wife it just caught my heart. When the President passes the ball to the VP on Veterans Day in order to make the same old tiring speech to a military crowd to uphold a bullshit war the most Americans now understand was bullshit…….not only has he lost the nation, but he obviously has lost his damn mind too!
How do explain the 72% approval rating of Bush with the Republicans?
He seems to be appealing to his base as a way to set up the themes of the 2006 election. Demographics indicate a high probability of the Repubs keeping their majority in both houses.
LBJ and Nixon held on despite much worse facts on the ground during Viet Nam. Lessening the power of the president is hard to do, no matter how bad things get.