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president as failing
-shared sense of sacrifice at a time of war
-to reach across the political divide to build consensus
-gnoring the will of the people on Iraq

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governing with a "my way or the highway" mentality

Ok Dowd, it's about time you come clean and admit that Cheney has not done a good job of running the country. What's-his-name always did his job dutifully which was saying whatever Cheney wanted said.
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amen lwood. bush is too much of a pussy to do much more than to say yes dick.

I'd like to get a warm fuzzy feeling for Mr. Dowd, but he talks about falling in love with George Bush, being in awe of his personality............barf....

I've never been drunk enough to get a tattoo and I've never been high enough to see anything other than a giant horse's ass when it comes to GWB. What was Dowd smoking that enabled him to see something good in Bush and where can I get some of it?

Our country is being run by Republicans Inc., Bush is no more calling the shots than I am. The old Nixon men in the background are the real bosses and Cheney may be the top dog. James Baker is another one. They pulled this same stunt with Reagan and Bush I and got away with it. But this time they pulled up an actor to play President that's too dumb to learn his lines.

The board of Republicans Inc., is populated with the giants of industry and the military industrial complex. They send out hundreds of Jack Abramoffs, they stick in people like Tim Griffin, the twist the rules and cook the books and hand us the bills.

Republicans Inc., has no soul, cares not how many young solders are ground up and surely couldn't care less how many dead Iraqi women and children turn up on their mission of power and profit.

They're fondest wish is that the Iraq War lasts forever, cause where there's war, there's lots of profit to be made. As long as it's not their sons or daughters or them....they don't give a tinker's damn.

Mr. Dowd was once one of em, now Jesus has whispered in his ear and he's trying to wash his sins away by saying things many of us have always known. Mark Pryor will probably be making these same kinds of statements some day, if he ever wakes up and realizes the horror he helped to create.

Let the Senate hearings double and triple! We don't dare reward Republicans Inc., by allowing them to finish out their 2nd 4 years of misery, death and destruction. Investigate, Indict, Impeach!

"I do feel a calling of trying to re-establish a level of gentleness in the world." Matthew Doud

Well, such a calling wouldn't hurt, and maybe more of us should look for one, including those of us who blog here, somewhat hysterically at times. (I include myself among the sometimes hysterical.)

So, in my own first step to "re-establish gentleness," I'll say that Goofus W. has finally done something that's laudable. After 23 years of trade deficits that get worse by the day, he has acted to protect U.S. paper producers by imposing tariffs of up to 20% as a penalty for subsidies that the Chinese government is providing its own producers.

The excuse previous administrations have used for not doing this is that China has a "nonmarket economy." That is absurd, our trade imbalance with China now being a record $233 billion. Hopefully, Bush (or Cheney or whomever) will also apply sanctions to protect steel makers, furniture manufacturers, and other American industries that have practically been killed by a flood of Chinese imports. So, there, how's THAT for gentleness? (And, no, Mark Pryor did not ghostwrite this.)

All these ignorant morons just sicken me. The brain dead bastard wanted "to bring a spirit of cooperation to Washington" as if it were all Clinton's fault that DC was a pit of vipers. Stupid bastards, if not for the world left overflowing with misery they deserve every regret they have, I'd only pray that GOD grant them even more misery than they've inflicted on the world.

>he has acted to protect U.S. paper producers by imposing tariffs of up to 20% as a penalty for subsidies that the Chinese government is providing its own producers.<

We best hope the rest of the world doesn't do too much of that for America's heavily subsidized agri products.

And wasn't Bush's tariff just for glossy paper, like in Time, Fortune, Newsweek, etc?

Lwood, you are 100% correct about Goofus W.'s new tariff being applied to China's glossy paper, only. I was negligent in not making the distinction, and appreciate your doing so.

As for U.S. agricultural subsidies, well, Japan and countries in Europe, among others, do the same. As long as that's the case, I doubt foreign governments will try to make much of a case against us.

Worldwide, there are both proponents and opponents of farm subsidies, and all can make a good case for their position. But, hey, they can fight it out while I fix another bourbon and watch the Florida-UCLA game. Cheers!

I find it very hard to have any sympathy at all for people who suddenly discover that they made a mistake supporting Bush.

It's those people who got us where we are now, and they can't escape that responsibility.

Crazy Horse, I agree, but I don't think most of Bush's former supporters suddenly experienced an epiphany.

I think they have had a sinking, rotten feeling in their guts for a long, long, time.
It's hard for anyone to admit that they are wrong, wrong, wrong, so hat's off to Dowd.

Maybe a few people on this blog can learn that it's ok to admit that you have been wong. (I am not holding my breath.)