Dead Agenda
From the very right-wing American Spectator:
Mission accomplished.
Publicly, the White House will tell you that it intends to push ahead with two of its big legislative issues throughout the fall: making permanent the first term tax cuts and Social Security reform.
Even privately, with the political and policy debacle that the White House created with its Clintonian response to Hurricane Katrina, policy and political types at 1600 Pennsylvania insist what's left of an agenda is still viable.
But at this stage of the game, barring some imaginative political moves that bear some resemblance to the Bush Administration circa 2002, Republicans on Capitol Hill and even some longtime Bush team members in various Cabinet level departments say this Administration is done for.
"You run down the list of things we thought we could accomplish and you have to wonder what we thought we were thinking," says a Bush Administration member who joined on in 2001. "You get the impression that we're more than listless. We're sunk."
Too pessimistic? Maybe not. Rumors are flying through various departments of longtime senior Bush loyalists looking to jump, but with few opportunities in the private sector to make the jump look like anything more than desperation.
Mission accomplished.
"...longtime Bush team members in various Cabinet level departments say this Administration is done for."
Even my parents, who watch the 700 Club, and who wanted to kick me out of the family when I told them I thought the war in Iraq was a bad idea, say they are very disappointed with the president and the rest of the administration. The said they don't think he will ever recover from this latest mistake.
Yep, there done with, but who will be the one to stand up and stick a fork in them? Will no one do it? Are we just going to sit around and let them rot and continue to stink up the place?
Posted by Tim Stark | 10:25 AM
Somebody is going to have to clean up the tremendous shitbath that this administration has left in it's wake. But I don't see a Bill Clinton on the horizon and even if we do sweep a Dem into office and retake the House and Senate, there's no internet bubble to help us balance the books. We are in the worst possible shape (huge deficit, unwinable war, regressive tax code, decaying infrastructure) at the worst possible time (baby boomer retirement, global warming bill coming due). Thanks, George!
Posted by Joe | 4:43 PM