Posted on 03/03/2006 3:26:40 AM PST by Cannoneer No. 4
An old acquaintance in Washington - a former member of Republican administrations whose foreign policy views are decidedly hard-line - recently had this to say to a friend about the Bush administration: This might be the most inept administration in American history.
But it should come as no surprise that President George W. Bush has fallen to an approval rating of 34 percent in a recent national poll. Just look at the events in this winter of his discontent:
Members of his own party have turned against him on the issues of whether a company owned by the United Arab Emirates should control six major ports in the United States.
As more and more information leaks out about the unauthorized and very likely illegal eavesdropping by the National Security Administration, there is more talk - only whispered at the moment - that there ought to be an impeachment inquiry into Bush's behavior.
But I fear we are now seeing the other side of the coin with Bush. His lack of historical perspective, his crusading religiousness, his Texas-style shoot-first-ask-questions-later approach to complex problems - that is, all the shortcomings that were obvious from the beginning of his presidency - seem to be catching up with him now. It's one thing to be a decisive leader. It is quite another to be consistently making the wrong decisions.
This is a presidency coming unraveled before our eyes. It is not a pretty sight, and it is not good for the country. What a difference a year makes. After his re-election, Bush said that he would use his political capital.
Soon he won't have any left. Then what?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
'Rats and MSM continue to attack. Bush continues to ignore the base on a number of issues.
How quickly we forget Jimmy Carter.
This is an article without sources. In other words, it is an opinion piece written by a long-time Democrat with a bone to pick. Is it any wonder that journalists are now reated below used car salesmen in their believability?
Agreed.
Oh, please. Another liberal wet dream. I wonder if this guy wrote a similar article during 1998 when the Lewinsky affair was at its height and the Clinton Administration was totally gridlocked. It was so bad Clinton had to fire cruise missles into empty buildings to try to distract people! The Bush Administration is functioning just fine. Not perfect, but well enough.
Let me guess..... Pat Buchanan
This guy has been bashing Bush since day one. This is nothing new.
I do not think it is functioning all that fine. What bothers me the most about this administration is that, unlike the Carter presidency, these guys are old hands. They have been in the Washington scene for decades. They know what the press is like. Yet, they seemingly allow themselves to get bitch-slapped by the likes of David Gregory on what seems a daily basis. Take this Katrina tape thing. The press is trying to make the president look bad but if you look at it closely, it exonerates Bush. However, to me at least, it also seems to exonerate Michael Brown, who was thrown to the sharks. As Bill Salmon said on Brit Hume yesterday eve, the press - while committing journalistic fraud - is attempting to rehab Brown at the expense of the President. That this administration cannot get their act together on Katrina is just stupid. Tony Snow himself has stated he is mystified as to why thiw White House allows itself to be defined by their enemies. This administration seems to want and let the alternate/new media - talk radio, the internet - defend him while at the same time continually sucking up to the old media.
The ones from the impeachment wars are all a bit long in the tooth, so this is useful intelligence. ;-)
As badly as they want to get him for this, they ought to be able to come up with an example of a real live person who has been put under surveillance illegally because of the program.
The get behind on every story and issue. He even allowed the Dems to revise history regarding Iraq.... I truly believe the average freeper could do a better job than the President's Press Secretary.
Bush is finding out who is good to ride the river with. His posse is a lot smaller than he thought it was.
He he he you funny
I only have two words to add to this commentary of Bush's failures: Alito and Roberts
Well, he hasn't pulled a "Ron Nessen" on his Press Secretary . . . . yet.
It does appear the wagons are being put in a tighter circle, though.
So, are we going to retroactively impeach Carter, who did the same thing? Oh, I forgot. He was a Democrat. Nevermind. I forgot that they are perfect angels and Republicans are perfect demons.
I guess I should post an (end/sarcasm) to my post, lest someone think I was saying that Alito and Roberts were failures of the Bush presidency...when I'm making just the opposite point.
"This might be the most inept administration in American history"
"But it should come as no surprise that President George W. Bush has fallen to an approval rating of 34 percent in a recent national poll"
These two statements indicate a complete lack of perspective, objectivity and analytic reasoning.
The poll is complete bullshit, parroted by the media the same way the figure of 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians is. This was a fatally flawed poll, done by CBS news. Anyone who understands polling knows why it is a hit piece, done on the President while he is out of town.
While many conservatives disagree with the current administration on many issues, there are many issues that have been handled well. Not to mention robust economic growth in spite of the worst attack on US soil that severely curtailed the economy and several hurricanes that caused enormous damage.
As for the charge of ineptness, one need only look as far as the two years of the Clinton administration which spent the entire time literally and figuratively jerking off with our foreign policy, decimating the military capability, squandering the "peace dividend" to pump up the high-tech bubble which eventually burst.
And that is just the Clinton administration. To say this administration is the most inept, ignores the Carter administration, and possibly even worse, the Johnson Administration. The Ford and GHW Bush administrations are arguably better than the Carter or Johnson administration, and I maintain the Nixon administration was better than the Clintons.
This is a piece of crap opinion piece, not worth the diminishment in working lifespan of my CRT screen to display.
Yeah, but it was almost Miers and Roberts.
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