Bob Cesca - The Post-Election Nightmare Scenario: The President Declares Another Mandate

[Hissyspit]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20061106/cm_huffpost/033348

Bob Cesca: Our Post-Election Nightmare: The President Declares Another Mandate Bob Cesca
Mon Nov 6, 11:56 AM ET

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In this nightmare I was watching television. It was the day after Election Day and the cable news networks broke into their post election programming to carry a victory address by President Bush, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld and Scarlett Johansson live from Rush Limbaugh's forehead.

Yeah. My dreams tend to take place in unusual settings and sometimes involve Scarlett Johansson.

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President Bush went on to note that the Democrats failed to win enough seats to control the House and the Senate. "This result," the president continued, "is a clear sign that the American people support my policies and most especially my Iraq policy that isn't cut and run. Sucks to be these guys, I guess." The president gestured downwards and, suddenly, the president was standing atop a pile of bodies. Thousands of them. American soldiers. Scarlett's gone.

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Thankfully, at this point, I woke up.

As fantastical as it might seem, this nightmare scenario holds one very basic and terrible truth: if the Republicans retain control of the House, the president will declare it as an endorsement of his Iraq policy. He will see it as verification that the polls have been wrong and that American voters really don't buy into the incompetence meme.

Two years ago, we had an opportunity to stop this madness and fell short. As a result, the president declared a mandate and since that day, exactly 1,500 American soldiers have been killed and 10,281 American soldiers have been wounded under the direct supervision of the most incompetent president in modern American history.

Whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, you have to agree that this is bad. I think we can all agree -- partisanship aside -- that if President Bush is given a renewed opportunity to bungle and botch this war for another two years without oversight and without accountability, we all lose.

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[Hardrada]

1. He can say that anytime he wants anyhow since he is not

connected to Reality.

[radiofreesrini]

2. opportunities

i hope the DU community understands that its very existence is the most important karmick consequence of the bush rove rumsfeld rice axis of evil. i hope that should we lose tomorrow we will not lose faith but rather be inspired to replace this government with a real one. even in defeat is opportunity, and i hope we win tomorrow but i don't want any of you to be down if we don't - you folks are the cream of the democratic movement and you're all i need in order to visualize utopia despite the oblivion in bush's eyes.

-radio free srini



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