Second-Term Jinx

[Dangerman]

Remember the Iran-Contra foul-up at Reagan's second term, what do you think will be GWB's second term screw-up?

[Lucky Luciano]

1. I believe he is in a continuous state of screwing up...

one thing after another...

[B Calm]

2. All the lies are going to bite him in the ass. But, I'll say the lies

that took us into war and the outing of Plame..

[whathappened]

3. don't see any

thing diff now then when he was selected the first time around , same old idea's , same old asswipe spilling the same old crap

[The Minus World]

4. It'll happen on a Friday night.

There is already a groundswell of opposition to his supposed "mandate", and the mainstream media - as unprincipled as they may be, in their current state - are much more open with their criticisms of Bush than they were, say, on September 12th, 2001.

One can't ignore the impact that Progressive radio is having, and Howard Stern is doing his part to elucidate his political turnaround for his audience. A "punk" album, critical of Bush's presidency, has made it to #1 on the Billboard charts - not that it's near the level of criticism and satire the Dead Kennedys reached in the 80s.

Even Republicans are mumbling, as difficult as it may be for them, about Bush's "The Sky is Falling" Social Security routine; and if it isn't that, then the hard righties and fundamentalists are criticising him for not turning this nation into an isolationist police-state or a theocracy quickly enough

Not to mention the fact that right-wingers, themselves, are self-destructing. A political argument with a modern Republican is a delicate matter: one must take care not to state any facts, (e.g. - something not repeated ad nauseam by Rush Limbaugh or O'Reilly) for fear of immediately discrediting one's self as a liberal.

Gannon is just the tip of the iceberg. Once we start posting a relentless offense, they'll be put on guard; from that point, it's only a matter of time before the cracks in the dam become torrential ruptures. The accusations will explode like fireworks on the 4th of July, and the criminals will jump ship, pointing fingers and sloppily covering their own tracks in the process.

One thing about right-wingers not having integrity: these people, if we divide them and conquer them, will not have the principles to stand up for their fallen comrades.