Reality sends chills through halls of power

[CatWoman]

WASHINGTON - A truly horrible summer that seemed unending is finally fading away, and the cold winds of reality are blowing down the collars of a president and the key players in his administration. Those winds could foretell an even more terrible winter ahead.

The folks who prided themselves on sticking to the message like grass-burrs on a hairy dog suddenly are all over the map on everything that counts when you are a lame-duck president whose party is going into a critical midterm congressional election next year.

The president's second-term "piece de resistance," Social Security reform, is dead on arrival. His cherished tax breaks for rich Americans are on life support. His generals are saying we need to reduce the American presence in Iraq because just by being there we are infuriating the typical Iraqi and thus fanning the flames of the insurgency we are trying to defeat.

The hard-nosed Texan Tom DeLay, who manages the president's agenda in Congress, has had to step down after being indicted on three felony counts of election law violations down home.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12833784.htm

[xray s]

1. haha. did Dan Rather write that article?

"Grass burrs on a hairy dog"

[Cha]

5. That's funny!

Writes like Rather talks, eh?

[rusty charly]

2. news hour

covering rove now

[malaise]

3. All I can say is that

the chickens have come home to roost within less than a year of the 2004 election. Indeed they have come home with the wrath of Katrina and I could not have contemplated the irony of term 'post-Katrina clean up'.

What a tangled web they weave when they attempt to deceive!!!
I remember the tears after the election result last year, but in hindsight it was the best possible result as within less than a year all the lies have caught up with them and they have dug their own graves.
Down they go - a corrupt, lying, arrogant, self serving bunch of scum.
Men never learn from history.

[Cha]

4. Someone named JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY

lovely article..

"The folks who prided themselves on sticking to the message like grass-burrs on a hairy dog suddenly are all over the map on everything that counts when you are a lame-duck president whose party is going into a critical midterm congressional election next year.


The president's second-term "piece de resistance," Social Security reform, is dead on arrival. His cherished tax breaks for rich Americans are on life support. His generals are saying we need to reduce the American presence in Iraq because just by being there we are infuriating the typical Iraqi and thus fanning the flames of the insurgency we are trying to defeat."

[cliss]

6. Wow. an unbelievable article

notice the last sentence, "If we are to become as cruel as Al-Qaida, then why fight them?"

And the reference to RumsFailed: "like when we sent him to shake hands with Saddam".

Yowtch. What a scathing indictment.

[cassiepriam]

7. If we are to become as cruel and inhumane as al-Qaeda, then why fight al-Q

I love this line. Indeed, maybe Bush should join up with
OSBL. They are birds of a feather.