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host · 11-02-2005, 12:19 AM

pan6467, your point about,<b>"Bush and company had even Colin Powell believing we needed to go to war"</b>, IMO. makes up for the fact that you "took the bait"; i.e., the attempt by poweclown to hijack the theme of this thread.

powerclown certainly does not want to see an exploration here of what emboldened Harry Reid to take this surprise procedural move in the senate. The catalyst is the observation that the Bush presidency and the republican congressional dominance are damaged beyond repair. House majority leader Tom Delay was indicted, demoted, defanged. Senate majority leader Bill Frist has been exposed as a liar with a serious financial conflict of interest concerning his false assurances that his investment portfolio was held in a "blind trust". He is under investigation by the SEC.

Bush has been forced to abandon his most important priority, SSI "reform", because he did not demonstrate a credible presentation to Americans about the "crisis" or about the "solution". More recently, Bush was forced to retreat on his decision to suspend Davis-Bacon wage regs in NOLA, and the setback of withdrawal of his nominee for the no. 2 spot at DOJ, Timothy Flanigan, tainted by ties to Jack Abramoff, and his SCOTUS nominee, Harriet Miers.

Bush's polling numbers are in the shitter, and 55 percent of Americans now say that his presidency is a failure.

Last friday, the VP of the USA, and president of the US senate, Dick Cheney, was personally compromised in stature and in reputations when his COS was indicted on 5 felony counts and forced to resign, by a clearly, non-partisan, special prosecutor after a careful, two years long investigation.

Republicans all over the country who are running for high state or national office are reported by the press to be refusing offers of endorsement by or personal appearances with president Bush on the campaing trail.

The much touted Iraqi constitution was passed with little fanfare and is not talked about anymore by Bushco because it seems too slanted toward endorsement of Islam as a state religion and as a criteria for influencing and controlling legislation, and because it is potentially easy to amend and does not strongly bind the political factions or the geographic regions of Iraq together.

Sentate Select Intelligence committee chairman, Pat Roberts, was humiliated by Harry Reid's sudden senate action; he now suffers the indignity of Frist approved oversight by a six senator monitoring group. Roberts stonewalled the Phase II portion of his investigation at the behest of Cheney. Frist lost control of the senate today, and reacted by writing off his relationship with Harry Reid.

The things that are probably most distrubing to powerclown are that republican senators will be increasingly forced to publicly distance themselves from Bush/Cheney if they want to survive politically, and the ones who don't will be more noticed when they carry water for this administration. Cheney himself may be manipulated into presiding in the senate of the oft threatened, "nuclear option", a discredited, lame duck, politcally weakened VP, possible casting the tie breaking senate vote to do away with the filibuster, shortly before his party loses control of the senate majority.

powerclown attempted to put those who disagree with him on the defensive. That tactic won't work, anymore!

11-02-2005, 12:19 AM	#11 (permalink)
host Banned	pan6467, your point about,<b>"Bush and company had even Colin Powell believing we needed to go to war"</b>, IMO. makes up for the fact that you "took the bait"; i.e., the attempt by poweclown to hijack the theme of this thread. powerclown certainly does not want to see an exploration here of what emboldened Harry Reid to take this surprise procedural move in the senate. The catalyst is the observation that the Bush presidency and the republican congressional dominance are damaged beyond repair. House majority leader Tom Delay was indicted, demoted, defanged. Senate majority leader Bill Frist has been exposed as a liar with a serious financial conflict of interest concerning his false assurances that his investment portfolio was held in a "blind trust". He is under investigation by the SEC. Bush has been forced to abandon his most important priority, SSI "reform", because he did not demonstrate a credible presentation to Americans about the "crisis" or about the "solution". More recently, Bush was forced to retreat on his decision to suspend Davis-Bacon wage regs in NOLA, and the setback of withdrawal of his nominee for the no. 2 spot at DOJ, Timothy Flanigan, tainted by ties to Jack Abramoff, and his SCOTUS nominee, Harriet Miers. Bush's polling numbers are in the shitter, and 55 percent of Americans now say that his presidency is a failure. Last friday, the VP of the USA, and president of the US senate, Dick Cheney, was personally compromised in stature and in reputations when his COS was indicted on 5 felony counts and forced to resign, by a clearly, non-partisan, special prosecutor after a careful, two years long investigation. Republicans all over the country who are running for high state or national office are reported by the press to be refusing offers of endorsement by or personal appearances with president Bush on the campaing trail. The much touted Iraqi constitution was passed with little fanfare and is not talked about anymore by Bushco because it seems too slanted toward endorsement of Islam as a state religion and as a criteria for influencing and controlling legislation, and because it is potentially easy to amend and does not strongly bind the political factions or the geographic regions of Iraq together. Sentate Select Intelligence committee chairman, Pat Roberts, was humiliated by Harry Reid's sudden senate action; he now suffers the indignity of Frist approved oversight by a six senator monitoring group. Roberts stonewalled the Phase II portion of his investigation at the behest of Cheney. Frist lost control of the senate today, and reacted by writing off his relationship with Harry Reid. The things that are probably most distrubing to powerclown are that republican senators will be increasingly forced to publicly distance themselves from Bush/Cheney if they want to survive politically, and the ones who don't will be more noticed when they carry water for this administration. Cheney himself may be manipulated into presiding in the senate of the oft threatened, "nuclear option", a discredited, lame duck, politcally weakened VP, possible casting the tie breaking senate vote to do away with the filibuster, shortly before his party loses control of the senate majority. powerclown attempted to put those who disagree with him on the defensive. That tactic won't work, anymore!