3 More Years!

I don't know about you, but I used to dread the fact that Mr. President had 4, now 3, more years in office. I worried about our democracy, the economy, our troops sitting in that shooting gallery in Iraq, the residents of the southern coast, our children, the elderly, the environme.......OK, I'LL QUIT!

But now I'm thinking that these next 3 years are going to be a scandal-mongers' overload.

Don't get me wrong, I love my country more than most Republicans. This is the de facto truth: how can they love their country yet excuse and explain away every single failure, digression, and bending of the law their President makes? There is no explanation; they love their party more.

I was willing to criticize Clinton for his loose libido. I criticized Kerry on his campaign, and I've criticized the failures of our current Democratic leaders when they fail to live up to our ideals. I always will.

Republicans, especially in Washington, DC don't. The news is when they do!

But criticism is meaningless unless there is some modification of the policies. Expressing your "deep concern" and that you are "troubled" is a cameras-only trick if you do nothing about it.

Now the Republicans have started to realize that after this 3 years they're going to have to be elected on their merits and on whether or not they supported every last damned illegal thing George W. Bush did. (Yeah, they are slow sometimes - Z) Three years is a long time, but repositioning yourself from a boot-licking syncophant to your next incarnation - "support our troops" "law and order" "get government off your backs" - takes time. The public's memory has to be cleansed. All your illogical arguments to let Bush off the hook have to be revised.

Most Democrats don't have that problem. Most Republicans do.

That's why for most stories like the Jack Abramoff/White House/"I didn't even know him"/"We never took pictures with him" lies - you're going to see this in response:



(Photo: Time Magazine. George Bush meets a tribal leader who probably got ripped off by Jack Abramoff whose head is circled in red. Karl Rove is in the foreground and undoubtedly made this meeting happen.)

And we're going to have the same thing over illegal spying on Americans, Iraq, Katrina, Abramoff, Plame, the Budget, Corrupt Republicans running Congress, and more yet unimagined failures of this small, small man.

He's in over his head. He can't change course. He's given Karl Rove the OK to make everything political. He will never be able to complete the next three years of his term under all these pressures.

Then what will the Republicans do?