Many Republicans may be tempted to give up in exasperation on a Bush administration that often seems incapable of defending itself. This would of course be bad for the country, leaving the nation at the mercy of the Democratic Congress for the next year and a half. But it would also be a political mistake. Even though Giuliani and McCain and Romney and Thompson have a fair amount of distance from the Bush administration, there is almost no precedent for a party’s retaining the presidency if the outgoing administration ends its term in a shambles. So if Republicans–even not-particularly-Bush-friendly Republicans–want to save the country from a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress in 2009, with all that implies for foreign policy and the Supreme Court, they need to fight to save the Bush administration. It would be helpful if Bush would fight too.
The wheels on the bus go ’round and ’round…
That is, they go ’round and ’round until they fall off. At what point do the Republicans want to get off the bus? That’s the question. If they don’t impeach Bush and his quail-hunting sidekick soon, they are going to wind up having to defend them to the bitter end. And, trust me, things are not going to get any better for the Bush administration. Why? Well, first of all, look at their track record. But, secondly, there is some truth to this:
Surely President Bush must realize that the Democratic Congress is not merely struggling with him over policy, or jousting for political advantage. The Democrats in Congress are trying to destroy his presidency. They are trying to cripple his ability to govern for the rest of his term. And they are not far from succeeding.
I’d switch around a couple of words and change the emphasis in places, but Kristol has it basically right. He simply fails to note that the President has destroyed his presidency and his ability to govern, and the Democrats are merely trying to clean up a really sordid mess. But I’d agree that we are not far from succeeding. Success will come if and when the Republicans’ will to self-preservation kicks in. Exhorting the President to fight back can only carry them so far. He can’t fight back because he’s a crook and a liar. His administration is filled with underqualified evangelicals, party hacks, and sleezy businessmen.
We’d have to legalize drugs to find enough cell rooms for them all.
When Congress gets back from their vacation, Henry Waxman, Pat Leahy, and John Conyers are going to start nailing the coffin shut. The Republicans would be well advised to prepare themselves for a slew of indictments, scandals, invocations of the 5th amendment, and possible impeachment hearings. And if it does come to impeachment hearings, they better get out in front of them and make sure there are convictions. No one want to go on the record as saying what this administration has done is okay…not if they want to see a sniff of power anywhere after the 2008 elections.
Bwahaahaahaa!! Thanks for a great laugh on a rainy Saturday.
I sure hope not — they could never do it as well as Bush has.
Well I can empathize with Bush on this one. Terrorists are trying to cripple my ability to lactate.
The president should fight back? What’s Kristol want him to do? Strap on his codpiece and start spewing Old West threats?
ITMFA.
LOOK at him, Kahli.
The caption next to this picture says “Esteemed Washington Post reporter David S. Broder met with Sean O’Brien and Coy Barefoot of the Sorensen Institute yesterday at the Post building in Washington.”
LOOK at him.
What do YOU think his fantasy life is all about, if not strappping on codpieces and going to war.
LOOK AT HIM!!!
Weak.
Look at the little soft hands and the plastic fork. The weak shoulders, the heart disease mouth. The squinty little yes man eyes.
LOOK.
Look at ALL of them.
All of the journalist wannabes sitting at the feet of power. Living vicariously through dreams of emperorhood.
And the funniest thing of all? Funny of you are not getting your ass shoot off in Iraq, anyway.
The people who the wannabes want to BE are wannabes themselves!!!
Deep.
Our President.
Preznit Butch KenDoll.
Deep.
AG
P.S. COY BAREFOOT!!!???
Who is making this shit up?
Hey!!
You there!!!
Yes, YOU!!!
Come out from behind that curtain!!!
Oh.
Nevermind
that a Democratic White House and Democratic Congress would be a bad thing — which it might if you’re an advocate of Business As Usual.
Does he really believe that our foreign policy is better under Bush than it would be if a Democrat was in office? He likes the fact that we’re fighting two wars at once, and we’ve pretty much alienated everyone except the British (and even they’re not as chummy as they once were).
As for the Supreme Court, unless Scalia chokes on a pretzel or Thomas comes down with a case of terminal hives, a Democratic President is only going to be able to potentially fill one seat (Stevens), maybe two if Ginsberg runs into something iffy, so we’re still going to have the marginal majority, with the chance that someone on the fence is going to flip. But he talks as if we’ll end up with a 9-0 liberal Court — that ain’t gonna happen.
I just hope that if we end up with both houses of Congress and the White House, that Congress does a helluva better job with oversight that the Republicans did of their President, or we wouldn’t be in half the mess we currently are…
repub congresscritters must be terribly terribly potent. I complained to Sen. Bond about the fact that we now have an Aegean Stable to clean and he was an enabler of that mess. But it was silence that greeted that statement. Instead he is continuing to support a useless whacked out policy!
yes, what’s all that NSA stuff for anyway, if not to keep everyone in line. I wonder about Specter – does he really think he’s going to oppose Bush then change his mind at the last minute, or does he succumb to pressure?
“We’d have to legalize drugs to find enough cell rooms for them all.”
Took me a sec, but now I get it…
LOLOL!
Immediately. At the very instant I see the name Bill Kristol I think icepick. How many times and what specific points could I insert the icepick without causing terminal damage.
And after that I have to ask if there is a benevolent omnipotenet God why such concepts of pure unadulterated exil can be allowed to exist.
Somehow “they know not what they do” just does not seem to cut it anymore. But Lord, they are fully awarre of what they do!
The day of the Kristol’s is coming to an end. Like Bush, he and his type were undervalued because they are intellectual lightweights. Most of us figured that everyone else knew that, too. Big mistake. Pretty much the same kind of mistake the Germans made in the early 30s. But now we know, and those guys aren’t going to get anymore slack.
baring a major event with Iran or another invented catastrophe the Bushies will fade away leaving us with a Supreme Court that won’t die off fast enough – I still think we ought to add 4 to 6 members and balance the damn political bs that they pulled allowing this eight year legacy to happen to our beloved country