I have said this before and I shall say it again...I knew the second term was going to be a cluster-fuck. I knew that what went around in the first term just had to come around if Dubya has a second term. Not only was I right, I was more right then I even allowed myself to believe. Again I don't mean to be all "nah-nah I told you so" about all of this as I don't think it is all that awesome to watch our government slide so far into the abyss that we may as well elect circus clowns (real ones) to govern from here on out. The surprise I am once again attempting to extol is that I thought the fit wouldn't really start to hit the shan until well into like 2007. Instead, perhaps aided by Katrina and the rapid decline of Iraq, 2006 has been non-stop with the Bush failure. I really can't think of anything that has gone well for numb-nuts, not a thing.
Today yet another nail has been gloriously driven into Dubya's coffin (History will ultimately decide how 'The Decider' will be remembered but it ain't looking good) in case a 31% approval rating wasn't enough. There is this doozy that has lit up the blogosphere this week. Now, while I am not all a flutter as the NSA scandal that started this year worries me more. This is really just a massive database and if you have ever managed a database what can you know from this information. However, that is not the point as the better question is why the fuck do the Bushies need to do this?
-Or-Why the fuck is our telecom companies, who are also busy trying to co-opt the Internet, so complicit in this?
-Or-Why the fuck do they need this information in the first place?
-Or-What the fuck do they intend to do with this potential invasion of privacy to the point of violating the 4th amendment information?
Congress got huffy today all about this and which actually caused dickhead to roll out and give a quick talk all about how everything is peachy. However, even the other assholes in his asshole party seem to have had enough. Hell one conservative, Jonah Goldberg, even went as far to call Bush a Liberal because he has strayed so far from Conservative values (Hat-tip to Billmon.)
So, Nixon's end arrived in large part due to his own party turning on him and I believe we are seeing the same sort of shit happening now. After all, Bush's approval is only a few percentage points away from Nixon's career low...When he resigned...Can that happen to Dubya?
Word on the streets is all about how the Democrats intend to fire up all sorts of investigations when they win back Congress and Rove's strategy is to promote this notion (like a Hillary Clinton President, it seems that all this talk comes from the right) that all of government will be halted while the Democrats try and embarrass everyone on the right with investigations into these alleged "crimes" and they also are trying to show how they will play nice-nice and do things conservatives like.
Karl Rove, Bush's top political adviser, and GOP leaders are well aware of the problem and are planning a summer offensive to win back conservatives with a mix of policy fights and warnings of how a Democratic Congress would govern. The plan includes votes on tax cuts, a constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage, new abortion restrictions, and measures to restrain government spending. (Thanks Americablog)
Rep. John Conyers is a name you will start seeing more of in the Republican talking points as he is a Rep who has seriously used the dirty impeachment word. He also may head the judiciary committee next year and may actually be in a to do something about that dirty 'I' word. Stay tuned kids. One thing that would help all of this along might be for the Democrats to, as Senator Feingold has already said, "get out of their foxholes." and maybe, I don't know, pick up the ball and run or something?
How does Bush feel about all of this? Well, he just thinks Jeb would be great for Bush III. Man if Bush II is this bad what would part III be like?
Posted by Ahlberg
at 1:01 PM CDT
