Think Bush is gonna make any headway on his new full-time strategy: attacking those who said he misled the country?
Seems to be critical whether people buy the two lies:
- They (Democratic Senators) had access to the same info as Bush.
- The vote was to go to war (as opposed to give the President authorization to go to war, so that he would have more leverage in getting Iraq to let the inspectors to their work).
However, the President hasn't had many successes in the past number of months. 57% of the people in this country believe he misled them and Republican Senators & Representatives that could have been counted on to fall in line are thinking of their own political futures. How does this play out?
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I have about a 0 batting average in understanding how the American people get their news and figure things out, and ultimately come to decisions.
I think that Katrina was a tipping point for most Americans in terms of their understanding who Bush really is. He's a good-for-nothing, failed-up, family connections, crony-lovin', nincompoop. It'll be hard for them to overcome that.
Dicke Cheney has a 19% approval rating and almost as bad a record of lying.
They may have dug themselves too deep a hole, and may make it even worse if they keep pushing back so hard against the legalized torture for the CIA.
So you think their thing on attacking the Iraq war critics is going to backfire?
I think the thing that may allow that to occur is that there is a portion of middle America, now for the first time really feeling in opposition to Bush (on Iraq), finally seeing how it feels to have the President of the United States say you are unpatriotic for having a different opinion.
I don't think that flies with anyone.
Yeah, I think it will have limited effect.
It also helps that moderate republicans seem to be fighting, and speaking out against this tactic, specifically Chuck Hagel.
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