Some policy failures, like the yawning budget deficit, didn t hurt Bush too much early on. But they took on new significance when people could no longer say,  I m sure he knows what he s doing.

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“I admit, to having been a college student for the past few years (graduated last may) and not working very much, but even now that I am they arent really any lower. ”

Well I just can’t figure out why you didn’t get a tax break. Dum de dum dum. Doh de doh doh.

BD, Check out the affiliations of the richest US senators. Jane Fonda. Ted Turner. Millions more.

duros,

If you ditched the hate and actually analyzed Bush’s record you would make a much better case than you make now. Like me, you wouldn’t have to love him at all. I don’t particuallry like Bush but the left’s hate and irrationality and outright bullying concerning the man is so over the top, so false, soe xtreme, that #1 with me becomes not seeing that irrational extremist hate rewarded.

Dugger

Pinch Sulzberger.

Why? Has he fallen asleep again?

Haw! That joke never gets old.

Get over it. The unchecked policies and hubris of the WH is the problem, not the fact that most folks don’t like Bush.

So, Dug, if we all suddenly loved Bush overnight, all the nation’s problems would magically disappear, right? Gas prices would drop to 1974 levels, New Orleans would be all better, illegal immigration would cease, and Osama would turn himself in.

Incidentally, what the hell’s a Leftist Media Baron? I’ll buy you a drink if you can name three.

The press is overwhelmigly liberal and hates bush Witness a journal derided here from the left printed a prominent article about ti being OK to hate Bush.

The war did not let OBl go free (that’s a reach even for the most rabid polemicist).

SSN has not been privatized.

Taxes were cut for most Americans including the middle class, not just oil tycoons. I’m sure that many leftist bloggers, leftist professors (redundant, I know) and leftist media barons also had their taxes cut.

Duggers, Funny they didn’t hire Brit Hume. Hasn’t he been out of work for a while?

Of course, they COULD be covering how the Republicans are preventing an up or down vote on the Wyden amendment, which would rollback corporate welfare to the oil companies in the form of rebates for royalties from drilling on public land, but that would make their masters unhappy.

Today, you see the inverse with Chimpie and Co. These cornpone fascists left the door open for 9/11, they urinated on what was left of the Constitution, they lied the country into a phony (and poorly run, except for the profiteers) war, and all this was done under the auspices of a ‘mandate’ of corrupted elections. (The Bushies’ worst sin, though, I fear, is allowing a gallon of gas to climb above three bucks; such are our priorities.) Still, through all of this, the corporate media continue to carry Bush’s water, even while the general public turns its back on Bush. If poll numbers are to be believed, the number of assholes and suckers is steadily dwindling; it’s a shame that so many in high and powerful places are among their number.