Hopes fade for Bush to turn around political fortunes, analysts say

Is the troubled Bush presidency prematurely cooked? Many prominent Republicans have reluctantly begun to embrace that conclusion.

"The country has given up on him," said GOP consultant Ed Rollins, echoing several other Republican sources, including longtime Bush confidants and party officials. "It's too late to turn it around."

Along with a robust economy and lower energy prices, every get-well scenario includes these big-ticket items:

A dramatic capture of Osama bin Laden or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would give Bush a strong boost in the polls. "He could then say with some credibility that progress is being made and paint the Democrats as the party of defeat," said Marshall Wittmann of the Democratic Leadership Council.

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/03/19/1471692.htm

Asta la vista!

C'mon George it'll be just like old times again! Throw a dart at the map, make a few discreet calls...

of Buffoon-in-Chief and Truculent-in-Chief. Hope Pickles has laid in a good supply of meds.

(presuming they do) . . . that we'll see a rash of easy-to-plan-and-execute hits on America (4 guys with AK-47s in a mall would be pretty easy to carry off) by Al Qaida or like-minded groups, just to prove how pointless it is to try to kill a mushroom patch by shooting at it.

For George (and anyone at the mall) a nightmare; for Al Qaida, massive street cred and a pretty good assurance that the Bush administration would do something really stupid and vicious, the end result of which would be to drive even more disaffected people into the Islamofascist ranks.

the fuck took you so long?

He's got his closed tiny circle and thats it. Rollins spoke in terms of disgust.

a good one percent over the next three years. Neither of them are in Iraq or Afghanistan. And, neither of them have much tactical value, they are just figure heads, and its easy to be a figure head because you don't have to do much, be near the battle field, or plan attacks. Bush knows alot about being a figure head.