Poor George

President Bush is down at the polls and at the mouth. Iraq, the hurricanes, Social Security and Harriet Miers have taken their toll; George has lost his Texas swagger and now bears the look of a deer in the headlights.

While he didn’t cause the hurricanes, saying that no one could have anticipated that the levees would fail in New Orleans when in fact the problem had been anticipated and studied for years certainly compounded his problems. But that was just an error.

But his greatest difficulty is with logic. From years of constantly rising in politics, he came to understand that his utterances didn’t have to make sense for him to be elected and to govern. Over the years he found that he could make the most outrageous assertions and that he wouldn’t be called on them by his base and others who supported him and that what was reported in the media and said by the opposition never slowed his quest for the top job.

He and his surrogates could spout bald faced falsities and it made little difference in his standing with the American public. Assertions that: Saddam’s Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; al Qaeda and Iraq were acting in concert; we won’t need more troops to occupy Iraq; the Iraq War is going well; we’re fighting the jihadists in Iraq so that we don’t have to face them here - yet we’ve foiled X number of plots against our cities; that private accounts would save Social Security; that Harriet Miers is the most qualified person in the country for a seat on the Supreme Court; and that Brownie is doing a heck of a job in the recovery from Rita just don’t play any longer.

How could George Bush say things that made no more sense prior to our attack on Iraq and not be penalized? But now that the sun is low in the sky on his presidency how is it that he is called for every wrong phrase? My guess is that it’s like a courtship. A fellow can croon his way into a willing heart at the beginning of a romance, but after several years of a rocky marriage, those explanations of how he came by those lipstick stains on his collar just no longer pan out.

Too many half truths and tall tales have done George in. He’s lost the trust of the people and is perceived by all but the most foolish of his true believing base to be a man whose word is not to be trusted. Can you imagine having to serve another thousand days under such a dark cloud?

Blog on!

Wild Bill