The imploding of a presidency

Submitted by Robert Jung on Mon, 11/07/2005 - 9:23am.

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For those who still doubt that we're now witnessing the early stages of the implosion of the Dubya Administration...

Republican Leaders to Bush: "Your Presidency is Effectively Over"

A growing number of Republican leaders, party strategists and political professional now privately tell President George W. Bush that his presidency "is effectively over" unless he fires embattled White House advisor Karl Rove, apologizes to the American people for misleading the country into war and revamps his administration from top to bottom.

"The only show of unity we have now in the Republican Party is the belief that the President has failed the party, the American people and the presidency," says a longtime, and angry, GOP strategist.

Lots of juicy dirt in that one, so go read it already. What I found most perversely amusing was Bush's explosive response:

Bush, however, has dug his heels in on Rove. When a GOP strategist suggested last weekend that the President fire Rove, Bush exploded.

"You go to hell," he screamed at the strategist. "You can leave and you can take the rest of these lily-livered motherfuckers with you!"

My my, such language, George. Didn't your mother raise you better?

Almost everyone I've talked to says, "We're going to move to Houston." What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.

And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them.

-- Barbara Bush, on Hurrican Katrina evacuees taking refuge in the Houston Astrodome

Uh, never mind...

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Well, while I'm a little

Submitted by Luke K. Walsh on Tue, 11/08/2005 - 4:22pm.

Well, while I'm a little skeptical about the quote attributed to Bush - partially because it seems like quite an outburst to make it out into public awareness, and partially because it seems like too sophisticated a sentence for the man - I am heartened by the idea of division in the Republican ranks. Although, many of the problems with the Bush administration WERE present before the '04 election, and they didn't stand in the way of the continuation of the Republican monopoly. I am trying to be optimistic about upcoming elections, but recent results have left me with little confidence in the percepiveness of the electorate.

Not implausible at all

Submitted by Robert Jung on Tue, 11/08/2005 - 10:03pm.

Aside from the phrase "lily-livered" (which sounds like it came straight out of a bad movie), I can easily see GWB yelling "You can leave and you can take the rest of these lily-livered motherfuckers with you!" all too easily.

As for the future breakup of the Republican Party, I think it's too early to tell. The early scuttlebutt from tonight's election results seem to indicate that gubernatorial candidates who embraced GWB and the Republican platform are sinking fast, which is encouraging. The religious right won't be swayed, but I can believe independents and moderate Republicans (a.k.a. "sane conservatives," truly an endangered bird if I ever saw one ) are finally realizing just how big of a mess the GOP has made of the nation. Of course, that's not going to mean anything unless the Democrats (or anyone else) can muster enough of a plan to fight the right-wing noise machine, but Harry Reid's recent bout of gutsiness is another encouraging sign.

Still, I keep flashing back to that Boondocks strip from September:

Caesar: "What was it people didn't like about John Kerry again?"
Huey: "He windsurfed."

--R.J.

The imploding of a presidency

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