Hamstrung

It's perhaps not polite to say, "I told you so." But a little less than a year ago, in "endorsing" George Dubya over John Kerry, this blog predicted:

No American President since Eisenhower has completed a full eight-year Presidency without being waylaid by scandal during his second term. The opportunities for Bush to add another notch to this impressive record are many ... A second Bush Administration could well be too busy putting out fires to be able to concentrate on destroying the world.

To-day's events have been incubating for some time, of course. But a serendipitous trifecta it is: Shrub's Iraq-approval rating has dropped to 33%; Senate Republicans are said to be considering a filibuster of Bush's new Supreme Court nominee (while Dick Cheney is reduced to groveling at Rush Limbaugh's feet); and Tom DeLay (about whom we then wrote: (a spawn every bit as malevolent as -- and possibly even more powerful than -- his brethren in the Executive Branch) is time and again being called out for his ethical improprieties) has been bitch-slapped with a second indictment -- one that could land him in gaol for life (or at least see him scrubbing Martha Stewart's toilets for a few weeks).

Still to come may be some serious fucking at the hands of Plame Affair prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. All the while details of the magnitude of the sadistic horrors conducted at Abu Ghraib continue to leak, gas prices continue to rise, the deficit continues to explode, and the process of "standing up" the Iraqi Army continues to fail.

Perhaps it'll all blow over. But even if Dubya manages to escape tarring and feathering, do you really think he's going to be able to invade Syria and/or Iran any time soon?

Posted by Eddie Tews at October 4, 2005 12:58 PM