There was a time when a thread like this was criticized, but not even for the same reasons that it will be, currently:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=113460
We keep receiving ever more dismal reports, and it's hard to fathom, IMO, how that is even possible, concerning the record of the Bush presidency:
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http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/13/...ney-brilliant/
...When Russert noted that the selection of Rice would signify a “third Bush term,” Matalin responded, “People are sick of this Bush-bashing stuff.” In fact, as a <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/11/bushs-approval-rating-at-all-time-low-of-28-percent/">recent Gallup poll</a> shows, people are simply sick of Bush. Watch Matalin’s comments:....
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http://www.usnews.com/blogs/news-des...-to-worse.html
.....The latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll finds that only 28 percent of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing, a new low. He was at 30 percent last month. The pollsters said one big reason is deepening voter dissatisfaction with the economy, which is in a serious downturn.....
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/34030.html
Jonathan Landay GAO: Bush lacks strategy to wipe out bin Laden sanctuary
By Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers
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WASHINGTON — The Bush administration doesn't have a comprehensive strategy for eliminating Osama bin Laden's sanctuary in Pakistan's tribal region and preventing the region from being used for launching terrorist attacks on the United States, the investigative arm of Congress said Thursday.
....Al Qaida established its sanctuary in Pakistan's tribal region when bin Laden and his followers fled Afghanistan after the 2001 U.S.-led intervention.
"No comprehensive strategy for meeting U.S. national-security goals" in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas has been developed even though the administration's counter-terrorism policy, congressional legislation and the mission of the National Counter-Terrorism Center mandate such an approach, the report says....
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...pinion/columns
The Vacation President
...According to the meticulous records kept by CBS Radio White House correspondent Mark Knoller, Bush on Monday lodged his 879th day spent in whole or in part at Camp David or his sprawling estate in Crawford, Tex...
...Bush's current tally represents a little more than a third of his presidency. And that's not counting the 39 days that Knoller says he spent in whole or in part at the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Me. All in all, Knoller says, Bush has made 134 separate visits to Camp David, 70 to Crawford and 10 to Kennebunkport in a little over seven years...
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If it was a plane crash that was featured for discussion, and there was evidence of inattention and incompetence, on the part of those who owned or managed the airline that lost the plane, the discussion about the crash could follow a straightforward course.
Here, we're discussing what a clear majority in the country seem to agree is a political disaster. How do we present the evidence that it is a disaster, and, it seems to follow, offer opinions of who is responsible and why, if the platform for discussion is more intensely limited, inversely to news of the ever increasing scope of the disaster?