Weird."
* josh:we sure are gonna see some rough & tumble.The president is unpopular for a lot of reasons. The biggest reason is probably Iraq -- in all its many manifestations. But a very big reason -- and one that suffuses many of the other reasons -- is a growing sense that the president and his chief advisors are dishonest, incompetent, cynical and possibly corrupt.
That's not great. But when you think about this coming election, and the stakes for the White House, you need to figure that that's all come about without any independent, let alone antagonistic or hostile, investigations into the key issues that have led to this souring view of the president.
Would the president look better after a new look at the Iraq intel bamboozlement that wasn't controlled by Sen. Roberts? How about an investigation into the executive branch side of the Abramoff scandal? What about a look into the Plame affair? What about the folks in Rumsfeld's office who knew about Duke's corruption but looked the other way?
Aggrieved opposition parties can go overboard when they come back into power and damage themselves -- the Republicans in 1946 and 1994 are good examples. But the Bush administration has built up a very big backlog of bad acts.
Get ready for a rough summer and fall. The White House can't afford to lose either house of Congress."
this one intrigued me:
"What about the folks in Rumsfeld's office who knew about Duke's corruption but looked the other way?"Has that been reported before? Or does Josh have a secret?
Remember what Larisa said:
"Or take another example, a decorated Vietnam veteran like Duke Cunningham - who seems like a normal person, nice guy - one day he's approached, soon he's being bought off by Wilkes and his operatives in the various agencies - and all of a sudden he has all this money."and
"Well, I'm not sure about the actual mechanisms. But consider now that Duke has gone down and Wilkes is still operational - because apparently he's too important to go down - well, who's going to replace Duke?"Spill the beans Josh. Whaddya know?
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...is a growing sense that the president and his chief advisors are dishonest, incompetent, cynical and possibly corrupt.
Say is isn't so. Our fearless leaders in the War on Terror are possibly...scumbags? But...but that would mean FOX has been lying to the public all this time. Could it be true...could we really have an unqualified Presdident who only got the job because he had no qualms about F'ing the public? Could the mainstream media have been so cynical as to package this President and his administration as heroic figures leading the world into an era of unprecedented democracy exportation?
you're a traitor for even asking...
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