New Yorker | David Remnick | Posted October 30, 2005 10:24 AM
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David Remnick, in Comment (p. 37), reports on President Bush’s “Hell Week,” in which he has witnessed the two thousandth military death in Iraq, the withdrawl of Harriet Miers, and the indictment of a senior member of his Administration, all in the context of rising gas prices, the failure of Social Security reform, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and a pernicious insurgency undermining every moment of progress made in Iraq. Remnick writes, “Bush had been unmasked in all his insularity, arrogance, and executive incompetence…. But the lessons that Bush is likely to derive from the complex of recent disasters will not automatically lead to a more considered, modest, and moderate Presidency.” The emboldened attack Bush faced for his nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court came not from the left, but from conservative ideological radicals, “leading members of the true-believing Republican Party.” More than three years remain in President Bush’s second term, Remnick notes, and, “in his anger, and after all his many failures, the President, quite suddenly, seems unpopular, alone, and adrift.”

I think it may be time to start looking, not just at the crony incompetence of George Bush’s appointments, but he Kingmakers who decided to prop up and place the RNC Machine squarely behind GWB.

They took this National “Brownie” with the most meager qualifications; the shallowest talent pool, and his glaring lack of curiosity about how things work, and made him Director of FEMA, uh, no President of the United States!

The incompetence of Bush, may be no more glaring than Harriet Miers lack of credentials. The incompetence; no, the reckless disregard shown by the Republican intelligentsia which selected him, need to be shown the door as well.

Or, to put it another way, JWG, a whopping 85% of Americans think this administration is no better.

You Republicans must be so proud.

CS

Barely a third of Americans — 34 percent — think Bush is doing a good job ensuring high ethics in government, which is slightly lower than President Bill Clinton’s standing on this issue when he left office.

While a large majority of Democrats (76 percent) said the case is a sign of broader ethical problems in the administration, an equally large majority of Republicans (69 percent) said it was an isolated matter.

Most Americans believe Bush had nothing to do with the incidents that resulted in the indictment

Additionally, if fewer than half of the respondants replied that the level of ethics has fallen, then MORE THAN HALF do not think it has fallen.