WB: Nobody Fears You … – Moon of Alabama

May 9, 2006

WB: Nobody Fears You …

Billmon:

The point is, when you get down to 31% approval in a Gallup Poll, and your disapproval rating is trying to poll vault over the record high set by Richard Nixon just before he resigned in disgrace, it means the American people essentially think you’re the political equivalent of crab lice. At that point, they’re probably going to hate anything and everything you do — even if they actually agree with it — just because you’re the one doing it.

Nobody Fears You When You’re Down and Out

Posted by b on May 9, 2006 at 09:02 UTC | Permalink

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I’ll be happier when they’re REALLY out, and even happier when they’re really IN custody.
In the meanwhile, we are in more danger than ever. Buzzflash points to an Asia Times article by Engdahl http://tinyurl.com/huagh in which he asserts that the “so called realist faction” in foreign policy is reasserting itself. I wonder if they can prevent the Bush Gang from attacking Iran. They have between now and October to stop it, I guess.

Posted by: mistah charley | May 9 2006 12:19 utc | 1

Hastert comes out against Hayden. Now some real fun begins. Bush is really in trouble.
RollCall via Americablog

Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has come out against the nomination of Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden to head the CIA, calling the ousting of former Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) from the agency’s top post “a power grab” by John Negroponte, the director of national intelligence.
Hastert’s opposition to Hayden is not based on any personal reservations about the nominee. Rather, Hastert is concerned that installing a top-ranking military official at the “CIA would give too much influence over the U.S. intelligence community to the Pentagon.”
“I don’t know anything about him. He has never darkened my doorstep,” Hastert told reporters on Monday in Aurora, Ill., when asked about Hayden. “I don’t think a military guy should be head of CIA, frankly.”

“Not darkened my doorstep”. Hasters is angry that he wasn´t asked.
Looks like the only folks to support Hayden are Bush and Dem Senator Diana Feinstein.

Posted by: b | May 9 2006 13:23 utc | 2

“so called realist faction” in foreign policy
Is that the one that says we should have more boots on the ground and a draft?

Posted by: bcf | May 9 2006 14:01 utc | 3

On the Hastert thing…..
Does this mean that the Rovian Deathgrip really and truly has been broken?
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Posted by: RossK | May 9 2006 19:10 utc | 4

…and another issue…because we are a two party politics country-just because I’m not democratic doesn’t mean I agree with the republicans. I think they make this assumption when they look at polls. Ooohhh…they don’t agree with the other side-that must mean they agree with us. FALSE! Everything is not cut and dry like that.

Posted by: business babe | May 9 2006 22:27 utc | 5

“the most vocal opposition came from Republicans, including steadfast White House backers such as House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga. and Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., who will lead Hayden’s confirmation hearings, has declined to endorse him.”

You think the reason all the Goopers are opposing Hayden is that they finally figured out that Bush is spying on THEM too?

Posted by: Night Owl | May 9 2006 22:56 utc | 6

Think Harriet Miles-this is the bait & switch-There’s someone worse waiting in the wings.

Posted by: Mary M | May 9 2006 23:23 utc | 7

The repugs might be right if the dems focus only on the illegal wiretaps; they need to open the discussion to The President Thinks He Has The Right To Break Any Law He Has A Mind to Break. The missing piece in the Boston Globe story the other day about his ca. 700 signing statements reserving to himself the right to ignore the laws he just signed is that FISA predates his presidency by more than two decades: he clearly thinks that all laws on the books from time immemorial are fair game for his lawbreaking. That needs to be hammered home. (“Income tax! As commander in chief I don’t neeed to pay no stinking income tax!”)

Posted by: Brian Boru | May 10 2006 4:29 utc | 8

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