George Bush in Hell [View All]

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by David Michael Green

You would not want to be George W. Bush right now.

Not that you ever would anyhow, but especially not now. Indeed, there are indications that not even George W. Bush wants to be
George W. Bush right now.

That second term in office, the one that just a year or two ago seemed so precious that he was willing to launch a war just to obtain
it, now feels like a life sentence. Plans for four years spending political capital now look a lot more like endless months of capital
punishment.

The Bush Administration has nowhere to go but down, and that is precisely where it is headed. Poll data show that even members
of his solid-to-the-point-of-twelve-step-eligibility base are now deserting him as his job approval ratings plunge like so much Enron
stock, lately crashing southward through the forty percent threshold. With almost his entire second term still in front of him, Bush is
poised to set new records for presidential unpopularity. That scraping noise you hear? It's the sound of sheepish voters creeping out
to the garage late at night, furtively removing "Bush-Cheney 2004" bumperstickers from the back of their SUVs when no one is
looking.

Meanwhile, as the scales fall from the eyes of the hoi polloi, even the one constituency which could plausibly make the claim that
Bush has been good for America (read: their wallets), is speaking the unspeakable as well. Robert Novak, of all people, wrote a
column last week chronicling his experience watching rich Republicans at an Aspen retreat bash the idiocy of Bush administration
policies on Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, stem-cell research and more. Perhaps these folks realized when they saw Trent Lott's house go
under that Mother Nature doesn't care whether you're rich and well-connected any more than does al Qaeda. You may be on Karl
Rove's Rolodex, but now Bush is taking you down and your yacht too, not just forgotten kids from the ghetto who enlisted in the
Army as the only alternative to a life of poverty.

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