Fear of Clowns

I agree with Rich Bond:

• "This is a signal that the president is going to go back on offense," said former GOP chairman Rich Bond. "It's what he does best, personalitywise."

Good thing for Bush as most of his policies, actions and decisions are indefensible. Really, think about how Washington has fared under Republican leadership:

• Lying about filibusters of judicial nominees and all around dishonesty and underhandedness in this area
• Nick Smith (R-MI) offered a bribe for a "yes" vote on the Medicare bill
• the unprecedented expansion of pork spending
• driving a popular radio host to drug addiction
• spying on our allies so we could better manipulate them
• the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame
• driving the country down into unprecedented levels of debt
• not finding nefarious weapons in Iraq which were said to threaten our very existence
• developing new weapons of mass destruction of our own
• welcoming radical Islamists into the White House for chit-chat and political strategizing
• cutting veterans benefits
• offending multiple countries and embarassing the US by making ignorant statements
• Energy Task Force stonewalling
• irritating much of the world by pulling out of or outright rejecting multiple treaties without offering alternatives
• causing economic panic by referring to "deflation" as "devaluation"
• the prez' cozy relationship with Enron and lay (Bush's campaign jet was provided by Enron!)
• the unification of the Christian Right with the radical left
• creating the lie that the WH was trashed
• and then, there's always the manner in which Bush came to be President

Not the kind of stuff that can score you points trying to defend. The only option Bush and the GOP have is to attack on the offense.

// posted by Erik @ 2/07/2004 09:32:00 PM
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