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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (750786)	10/2/2006 3:06:37 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

"Hercules needs to clean the stables again....both sides of the aisle." Very well put! "But it will never happen..." I agree... the odds against it are very long, as always. Still... with Approval ratings for Congress around 30% (hardly ringing endorsement)... I suppose that it's possible it might not take too many more 'straws' to break this particular camel's back --- and open the flood gates to allowing change. I think that --- were approval rating to drop by half again, to around 15% or so --- that that might just open the door. (And, what could cause that? Who knows? But I suspect that a damaging economic crisis might bring that about... recession, scandal, massive failures, national debt load causing bond rates to spike, etc. Something of that nature [already far more likely then the public is aware of] might offer up the 'silver lining' of helping to 'clean out those stables'. We were close to such a breaking point the year Perot rose in the polls to where he out-polled the Democrat candidate Clinton, but it was a brief period of revolt against the establishment, which self-destructed....)