So. How's that permanent Republican majority going for ya shrub?

[charlyvi]

Thinking back to Nov, 2004, I remember shrub pushing his so call "mandate" which was pretty much nonexistent. How he jumped on Social Security privatization right away--repubs thought the time had come at last to overturn and obliterate the crowning achievement of the New Deal. Even after denying during the campaign that Social Security privatization was a second term goal when Kerry mentioned that he intended to do it.

Anyway, how's that mandate going now, shrub? How's that utter duplicitous mandate lie turning out for ya? Huh? How is that lie, added to the Iraq lie, the energy bill lie, the compassionate conservative lie, the prescription drug fiasco, the bankruptcy abomination, the Valerie Plame treason, the Karina incompetence--which will damn you to your special place in hell--how's it all going now?

To quote an unknown WH aide, whose initials I would bet are KK:

''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

How's that reality you created treating you now, shrub? What, exactly, will you leave behind for us to study?

[jackster]

1. and wasn't it our buddy DeLay

who actually said that they were the permanent majority party?

[charlyvi]

3. All of them, especially DeLay and Rove,

dreamed of a permanent repub majority--as if their castle built on a mountain of bullshit would never be questioned. Hubris. If you can't deliver the goods, the hype will get you only so far.

[Elidor]

2. Regarding that unkown white house "aid"

There was an article somewhere several months back in which someone - I don't recall who - suggested that the "aid" in question was in fact Cheney. The person noticed that the language in the quote is very reminiscent of Cheney's. I wish I had bookmarked it. I believe it to be true.

[charlyvi]

4. Cheney is possibility.

But I think Rove, who thinks of himself as a student of history, said it--sounds like the philosopy behind his wall of propaganda. He forgot, though, that propaganda without any shred of policy savvy gets you nowhere in the long run.