Bush An Unrepentant Failure!

the lowest aprovel rating in history, finaly people figureing it out. Its pretty sad when the first lady has a higher rating
and while where on the subject, when the s.o.b was defending the patriot act he put his hand to his heart and said " noones phone is being tapped without a court order, that would be illegal" and now when he gets busted doing just that he gets away with it. i hate stuff like that

 

Developing story:

It seems that the wiretap abuses didn't just include international calls as previously stated by the Bush Admin. but also included domestic calls.
Trivial difference?
Well, the FISA act that bush keeps citing as legal precedent for this domestic spying explicitly forbids the monitoring of any "US person" using wiretaps without a warrant. He at least had a little bit of leway on the international calls, but now it seems he's just screwed.

 

I think if Bush and in my country, John Howard/Peter Costello, are voted in for a 3rd/4th term, the human race is fucked, in my opinion.

 

i doubt that he ever really will be brought down, but pending another "terrorist" attack his biggest problem is the abandonment of his party. there'll be no one to stand up for the administration's fuckups if he has no friends.

 

I don't think Bush will ever be "brought down," if he was going to be, it would have happened already. As you listed, there have been more than enough violations already to warrant impeachment, but it hasn't happened. He's going to finish the term, he'll just go through it with rediculously low rating numbers, and won't have any of his corrupt agenda passed. He's probably praying for another terrorist attack so he can put that pesky constitution on hold...

 

I would hope it is the spying bullshit. But, alas, it will be nothing.

He'll go off scot-free.

 

Bush is going to get off scot free because he has his company of thugs protecting him. He won't be elected a third term, thankfully, but those who are bitching because he's doing bad should have thought about that when voting him in again. It's much too little too late.

 

As much I don't care for Bush, I don't think that he's going to be brought down or impeached. That man gets away with anything and everything.

 

How was I to know my vote for Kerry would actually be counted as 2 for Bush?


I'll have to go with the initial mainstream, since the question is "what will" rather than "what should have". Unnecessarily butting into other countries' affairs hasn't brought impeachment in the past, but on top of that lying about the reasons in the first place should have made more people think than it evidently did. How does it go? Fool me once ... uh ... Damn, got me again.

At least I'm not too concerned about the 3rd term possibility any more. I just wonder which will come next, the 'terrorist attack' or the new scandal.

 

Here's Bush stumbling over the old 'Fool Me Once' phrase (unedited):

http://home.flash.net/~lauras34/foolmeonce.mp3

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Bush explains tribal sovereignty:

http://home.flash.net/~lauras34/bushsov.mp3

(unedited. those are for real)
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The Wire-Tapping thing is pretty weak so far as I can tell.
Its being just hyped like mad by his opponents but for starters - they most certainly can and always have been trying to wire-tap suspected criminals.
Surprise!
If you end up with some handful of wiretaps which are found to be 'illegal' but were actually on seriously bad guys then you end up with nothing more than an episode of Law&Order where the cops overstepped their bounds and the case gets thrown out.
Im not taking it lightly.. Im just saying that it happens all the time with local 'stings' and police forces spying on the local mobsters etc.

Bush is having a rough year and seems almost like he is 'too weary' to fight back but with the incredible success of the Iraqi Elections, a gradual pull-out and assuming no major terrorist attacks on US soil and civilians (or hurricanes) he will bounce back.
If they happen to take out Bin Laden and Zaraquawi - big bounce up.
My prediction: Bush Jr is remembered as one of the greatest US Presidents of all time.
Maybe not quite Reagan but somewhere up there.

 

Bush will be remembered but not for the competence of his administration (or lack thereof). He will always have a special sort of status because the 911 attack happened in his term. Bush is about the only administration that has been gifted a special status with the national media, much of that due to 911 and probably some behind the scenes agreements between the White House and the corporate news agencies.

If you look at all the job approval polling of Bush, the times he had a good rating were short-term and a result of external factors (911, invasion of Iraq, capture of Saddam, fervor of the re-election campaign). Without those events, he has one of the worst job approval ratings of any president.

What happens after his administration is over will have an effect on his legacy. People are claiming success in Iraq and the economy right now but those things can change. During Reagan's term, people liked the kick the military spending gave to the economy. But after his term was over, the debt he ran up in the 80s took a large toll on the economy in the early 90s. The social frustration that developed during the Reagan years let loose in the riots of the early 90s. A similar situation is likely after Bush Jr. is gone as a result of all the debt that was run up in his terms.

The Bush administration, without question, is the most simplistic, preachy administration we have ever seen. Reagan also had a patriotic fervor, but not to the extent of Bush and not nearly as shallow minded. Bush is contantly preaching to other countries that their democracy should be modelled after that of the U.S. (unless it's Pakistan and other other counties that don't have a democracy but happen to be allies of the U.S., of course), not to mention his simplistic 'good vs. evil' model of the problem of terrorism. Also, Reagan didn't spend all of his time making patriotic speeches from military bases, as Bush has done throughout his terms.

If I had to guess, I'd say his administration will be remembered as a blend of Reagan and Nixon administrations. It has had much of the secrecy and authoritarian elements associated with the Nixon administration coupled with the unchecked spending and debt of Reagan, along with some of the patriotic fervor reminiscent of Reagan. His administration will certainly go down as one of the most devisive ones in history.

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Regarding the spying, nothing surprising. The Bush administration has showed an attitude of snubbing laws that it perceives of as getting in its way, while at the same time preaching that the U.S. is a nation of laws (much the same way it has snubbed the U.N., Europe , and the Geneva Convention when it doesn't get its way). There's always one more excuse or gimmick the Bush administration comes up with that supposedly justifies why it can bypass the law.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051230/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/domestic_spying_probe

(Bush: "International law? What's that? I better go consult with my lawyer.")

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Why do you concentrate on George W so much? The specific person who is the face of the republican party is clearly not the issue. The republican party is what the problem is, but even above that, you have the whole American political system (which in turn impacts the whole world) and the attitude of the masses in the States in general. I'm not saying that all Americans are at the level of Bush, but it does take a serious amount of people there to support him which lets him get away with what he's doing, as whilst there is a clear resentment of him, there is not enough of a public outcry to topple him. If he was toppled, he'd just be replaced by an equal evil anyway.

 

That's what's spooky about the Bush administration. No one in the public really knows who exactly in the administration is calling the shots.

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The Bush administration is going to very careful for the rest of the term. I dont think they'll fuck anything else up except respect that the American general public had for the republican party about six years ago.

It will take them about ten years to build that respect back up no matter how popular the candidates.

 

Who calls the shots..

PNAC.. ofcourse

Everybody knows that.