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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: microhoogle! who wrote (44600)	10/5/2005 2:05:51 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

Bush’s image was just that – image. No substance, no backbone, no leadership. The President of the United States was, and is, nothing more than a cardboard cowboy, a creation of political spinmeisters and propped up by the extremist elements of Republican Party determined to maintain power at any cost. A Cardboard Cowboy By DOUG THOMPSON Oct 5, 2005, 06:53 capitolhillblue.com George W. Bush knows he’s in trouble when even the radical right turns on him like a rabid dog. The echoes from a rare Presidential press conference had not yet died before the always-contentious conservatives descended on Bush like iguanas in a feeding frenzy for nominating another of his cronies for the Supreme Court. To the right-wing, Bush’s selection of White House counsel Harriet Miers, an unknown with no judicial experience, was no less than outright treason to the conservative cause. They wanted a fire-breathing conservative judge who would vote to send America back into the dark ages. Nothing less could satisfy the hard-core. Just a few months ago, these same wild-eyed conservatives praised Bush to the heavens for being a “great leader” who, they said, would never “cave in to polls.” Now these same whiners and moaners decry Bush as spineless sap who, you guessed it, caved in to the polls. “Here's what we do know: Polls are driving President Bush's court picks. At a low ebb in his presidency, the president has passed over well-known, if controversial, constitutionalists and chosen a sphinx-like presidential pal," whines Mark Moller, editor of the Supreme Court Review published by the right-wing Cato Institute. Bill Kristol, editor of the even-more conservative Weekly Standard magazine, said he was "disappointed, depressed and demoralized" by the appointment of Miers. "It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on constitutional philosophy," Kristol claims. Somebody get out a violin. The right-wing cabal is in tears and there ain’t enough Kleenex to go around.