Barn Door Closed, Horse Gone This morning Reuters has a piece on some Republicans' growing worry over Bush's declining poll numbers.
The Republican Republican party has met it's enemy, and it's the Republican party. If they had offered constructive criticism instead of slavishly sucking his ass for the past three years, he might have a decent chance of winning the next election.
He inherited an economic slowdown, and did nothing to alleviate it. As months and years went by, he offered nothing more than the tax cuts he proposed when the economy was going like gangbusters. When the cuts failed to help, he proposed more. No high-profile Republicans spoke out.
His administration drove away long-time allies, then his appointees and close allies insulted them, lied about their motives and threatened to punish them. Then he started a war, had no plan for the post-war clean-up, and now--surprise!--no allies are willing to step forward. Few high-profile Republicans spoke out.
He gratuitously flaunted the spoils of victory, refusing to show democrats any magnanimity, and when those same Democrats used procedural tools like the filibuster and "poison-pill" amendments, the White House whined about fairness. And no high-profile Republicans thought to point out than in a democracy, the wheel of fortune always turns.
And now, a week after the President ran screaming out of the burning house with his hair on fire on prime-time TV, Republicans marvel that most American feel that he still has no plan for Iraq.
Even now, some like Newt Gingrich prove that they have access to the sort of primo weed that never reaches Toledo:
Some believe his job approval rating, which slid to 52 percent in a recent CNN/USA Today poll, the lowest since before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, is only a temporary setback and will rebound if the economy continues to recover and Iraq stabilizes.
"I think he's long a way from being in any kind of serious trouble," said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a prominent Republican voice.
Others, more astute, but still not quite getting it, feel that the President ought to go on the offensive against Democrats. Bizarrely, no republican is quoted in the article saying that the President ought to go on the offensive against the problems facing the country. You know, go on the offensive against Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and persistent economic troubles that eliminate 100,000 jobs a month.
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