Reply #57: One small adjustment - it's not only that we are now on the side of [View All]

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most Americans. It's that most Americans have come over and are now on OUR side. More are seeing bush the way we've always seen him.

And you watch - as the james sensenbrenners and other stingey republi-CONs nit-pick and whine and complain about having to help poor people (and that's the kind of word choice we should use when we speak of it) instead of giving more tax breaks to the rich or throwing away money we don't have on a war we can't win, in a fight we weren't ever supposed to pick, their true selves will be out there for all to see. And, hopefully, for people like us to continue to point out.

They won't look good. They'll look like Scrooges. And it'll be our job to keep pointing this out to people.

Besides, this is truly unfamiliar territory for bush and the idea of launching huge federal spending programs that evoke memories of FDR in his observers - is completely foreign to him. It's not in his character. It's not what he knows or moves around in comfortably. It isn't what he was served for breakfast every morning with his corn flakes when he was a kid. It isn't what he learned or was taught, or saw by example while he was growing up. He didn't hang with people who pulled themselves up from nothing. He hung with other spoiled pampered children of corner-cutters. He will have great difficulty sustaining this, and as Bill Maher put it so succinctly, he'll eventually lose interest and walk away - especially when he's had time to think about where he'd REALLY rather see all that money go. And when the usual suspects start yowling at him about overspending, and when the grover norquists of the world start scolding him and coaxing him back onto the reservation. He'll have a lot of people at the far end of this food chain who will find themselves with the shaft, AGAIN, and won't be afraid to say so, as they see their hourly wage whittled because some crony's business refuses to come in unless it can welch on paying them a living wage. And he better hope that, by then, they don't respond with torches, pitchforks, and angry crowds bearing down on the White House or Rancho Pendejo.

A fighter, no matter how powerful and seemingly invincible, can only take so many hits. After awhile, he's damaged goods. Period. And there's no comeback at that point. He either hangs up his gloves and goes into the burger-cooker business or he's so damaged that he's rendered virtually incommunicado.

We're not clear of this yet.

But then again, neither is he.