Re: When Bush's approval rating drops below 50%, and its very close to doing that, then I will know the Amer. public finally has figured out what we have in the White House!
Karl Rove will go ballistic when the ratings drop that far. He'll simply call for another 9/11 type attack to get the public back into fear mode. This is the most cynical mal-Administration that has ever taken over the reins of power in America's history.
Karl Rove is many things including the brain behind Mr. Bush but he too is capable of falling for his own spin. Like the conservatives on this thread, he and the administration do not think this 'problem' has legs. They believe its a slow media thing due to the summer and it will be forgotten come fall.
Its why they have been so slow to deal with it, and when they do, its done so poorly. They believe that the Amer. public is in their pocket......and rightly so, for so long, this administration has operated with impunity. It could do no wrong!
However, I don't think they realize that most Americans are very busy and are slow on the uptake; that the media has finally come awake and is not about to let it go. Finally, that seems to be changing with the latest polls. They are beginning to see the ineptness of the current administration as well as get a glimpse of their motivation......how that is ideologue based.
So let the administration believe they still have the upper hand. The longer they think that, the more damage they will do themselves.
We are on the cusp of becoming a police state/empire. This is the fantasy of the neo-con lunatics who've taken over the Departments of Death and Injustice. Squashing civil liberties at home, and stealing Iraq's oil are the goals.
Right now, its their view of the world and our role in it that has me worried. They have not met a country or situation that they don't feel we should jump into with both feet. Its extraordinary that we have a president who goes to war like most people grab a cab; and then runs up bills like he's literally minting the money on a case by case basis so that while his people are reporting that Iraq/Afghanistan will cost over $5 billion per month, he's off to Africa playing the Top Gun, good guy role he so loves, offering all kinds of money for aid and for the fight against AIDS. How inept and ridiculous can you get?
Worse....that most conservatives can make believe nothing is happening. Clearly, they put their party before their country. Fortunately, there are Reps. like John Dean, Gerald Ford, J. Wilson, C. Johnson [former CIA Director]etc. who place their country before their party. These are the true patriots. If it weren't for them, things would be worse IMO. |
