Won't Get Fooled Again?

I have trouble understanding how a president who is roundly disrespected, widely ridiculed, dismissed as an incompetent and has basically no support among rational people in his own country can continue to set the terms of the debate and run the war any way he sees fit. How can this be?

I saw Bush on my teevee last Thursday and it finally hit me. The battle is lost. I felt beaten down. The fool on the hill has won. Bush is going to ride this thing all the way through, leaving the "pottery barn" disaster for his successor.

The man should be impeached, but the failure of the Democrats to stand up, to filibuster his horrific requests, to oppose him in any meaningful way, to pound their shoes on the podium, as it were, is going to let Bush off the hook. Oh, sure, history is certain to be a harsh judge, but in the meantime every day that passes brings more death in Iraq, and more misery.




"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

--Edmund Burke.