Shrum: "The Bush Project is Over"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10284912/#051207b
2nd blog down, good article!

"By the calendar, the Bush Presidency has three long years to go, but the Bush project is over. Amid the twilight, panicked Congressional Republicans are abandoning Administration policies and separating themselves from Bush; midterm elections are local, they’re suddenly telling us; and in 2006, Bush is likely to be seen and heard only in the safest Republican districts. (And even that may not work; Bush’s last minute appearance in Virginia may have pushed the Republican candidate for Governor over the brink--of defeat.) At the same time, newly hopeful Democrats, who had been unaccountably frightened by a close defeat in 2004, are finding their voices again. Even the cautious are beginning to call for a beginning of the end of the Iraq War. Then Monday morning, one of the clearest flares signaling the faltering Bush project lit up the Beltway sky: White House Chief of Staff Andy Card reportedly wants to pull a Baker, abandoning his West Wing post as Jim Baker did in the Reagan years to take over the Treasury Department."
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the Bushies will concede power, even aside from the rigged elections. I recommend this DU editorial that was on the Home Page last week. it's superb and raises these questions that we should not forget:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/05/12/03_splash.html
DU editorial title (12/3): "A Splash of Cold Water"

in the last 5 years.... how's that for a plug for the democracy we push on others? Yes, I am sure others are just drooling to get their hands on a broken system such as ours.

n/t

from my very stubborn Bush-supporter friends is, they know darn well that the subject is one on which I feel very strongly, and they don't want to humble themselves by admitting that some of what I've been telling them about Bush is right. (I'm being charitable when I say "some". The people on this board know that there is pretty much NOTHING about Bush that is right.)

Yes, I still have friends who are supporters of the Chimp. Yes, I've considered writing them off. But these are friends of over 20 years. (I even thought of getting that new "Time" magazine, the one with the pictures of soldiers' coffins in it, and sending it to them with a note that says, "So this is the future YOU want for me and my family? Thanks a lot, good to know you care about us.")

The good news is, the friend I've had since I was 5 years old has ALWAYS known that Junior is a toxic piece of shit who has no business occupying the Oval Office. She knew that, even back when I was stupid enough to vote for said piece of shit in 2000. She was not shy about her views, but we always stopped short of arguing and agreed to disagree. I hope she is as happy about my seeing the light as I am about it.