LA Times Strikes Again!

[Carla in Ca]

The LAT has been on a streak this week with articles and editorials full of stings to this administration. Here is another one, by Doyle McManus, blaming Cheney's "last throes" comment as one the reasons for his sinking poll numbers.
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-bushiraq26jun26,0,2052700.story?coll=la-home-headlines>

Here is one paragraph:

But last month, Vice President Dick Cheney broke from the administration's "message discipline" and declared that the insurgency was in its "last throes." The White House has been paying a price ever since.

snip.

Even Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld distanced himself from the vice president's words. "I didn't use them, and I might not use them," he told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week. Rumsfeld said the insurgency could conceivably "go on for four, eight, 10, 12, 15 years, whatever…. We don't know. It is going to be a problem for the people of Iraq."

snip

Bush will try to repair the damage Tuesday evening when he speaks at Ft. Bragg, N.C. Aides say that the president will point to reports that an increasing number of insurgents in Iraq appear to be fighters from other Arab countries, bolstering his argument that Iraq is "a central front in the war on terrorism."

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That last paragraph proves his complete denial of reality. It is 'a central front in the war on terrorism'. Ah, yeah, NOW it is, thanks to you! This new cart-before-the-horse line will not sell. We know what happened, and we know why.

[Carla in Ca]

1. Evening kick

n/t

[NYFlip]

2. Thanks

Great article. I wish NY Times would grow a spine and write articles like this.

[Carla in Ca]

9. This one is pretty good

<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/27/politics/27bush.html?oref=login>

From the article, 'Some in GOP Call on bush to Focus on Governing':

In discussing the White House's problems, Republicans cited a variety of assumptions and decisions that have not worked out as Mr. Bush and his team had planned. They said the administration may have overestimated how much of a mandate Mr. Bush had coming out of last year's campaign, underestimated the willingness of the Democrats to stand up to him and relied too much on a belief that he could force Congress into action by taking his case directly to the people.

They said a degree of difficulty was to be expected, given the scope of Mr. Bush's second-term ambitions. At the same time, they said, Mr. Bush and his team are struggling with a problem they never had during the campaign: with no high-profile political opponent as a foil, and with Democrats refusing to put forward competing proposals on issues like Social Security, the president and his policies stand on their own, with nothing to deflect partisan fire.

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Not quite a spanking but more and more R's are going on record with a litany of complaints, and they all add up.

[Up2Late]

3. four, eight, 10, 12, 15 years, whatever!

Yeah, Whatever Rummy. Jack Ass.:mad:

And yet, they still have people like this guy, chack it ou at this link:

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1887488&mesg_id=1887488>

[senseandsensibility]

4. I'm glad I wasn't

the only one offended by that "remark". Insensitive jackass doesn't even begin to describe this creep.

[gratuitous]

5. The situation isn't hopeless for the administration

All they have to do is admit that they don't have the foggiest fuck of a notion about what they've been doing so far, apologize to every nation on the planet, ask for help in Iraq and Afghanistan, agree to true multilateralism, relinquish control of the Iraqi oil fields, and submit to the authority of the ICC for what they've done so far.

I stand corrected; the situation is hopeless.

[Carla in Ca]

6. That is an impressive list you have there

I'm afraid it will take someone with a heart and a soul to accomplish those things. It will take a Democrat.

[Pachamama]

7. I think its Cheney & Bush who are in the last throes....

How's the old Ticker Dick? How is your approval rating George?

[Carla in Ca]

8. I think you are right

From everything I read today the consensus seems to be that Tuesday night's speech will be the beginning of the end.
Unless he will have traded in his brain for one that thinks before then, it will just be more of the same twisted logic we have all heard before. Standing on a military stage will not help either.
This administration is sick, in one way or another.