President Bush is Doing Well
I guess with only a bit more than a year to go, the MSM has decided that they’d better tell a bit of the truth in order to tidy things up - don’t want to have the historians only find MSM reports at complete variance with the facts, now do they? Anyways, here is the Washington Post’s entry:
The war in Iraq seems to have taken a turn for the better and the opposition at home has failed in all efforts to impose its own strategy. North Korea is dismantling its nuclear program. The budget deficit is falling. A new attorney general has been confirmed despite objections from the left.
After more than two years of being buffeted by one political disaster after another, President Bush and his strategists think they may finally be getting back at least a bit of their footing. While still facing enormous challenges, from the crisis in Pakistan to the backlash over children’s health care, they hope Bush has arrested his downward spiral and established a better foundation for the remainder of his time in office.
In many ways, the shifting political fortunes may owe as much to the absence of bad news as to any particular good news. No one lately has been indicted, botched a hurricane relief effort or shot someone in a hunting accident. Instead, pictures from Iraq show people returning to the streets as often as they show a new suicide bombing. And Bush has bolstered morale inside the West Wing and rallied his Republican base through a strategy of confrontation with the Democratic Congress, built on the expansive use of his veto pen.
Of course, the story goes on to the obligatory reference to President Bush’s record low approval ratings…numbers I don’t entirely buy given the fact that President Bush has managed to put a backbone into the Congressional GOP; something which should not have been possible if his approval ratings were as low as stated. Unless, of course, the Democrats managed to beat just the right GOPers in 2006 - you know, our real wet noodles (and, come to think of it, we’re not burdened with Chaffee anymore…but we are still stuck with Specter).
Anyways, what we have seen since election day 2006 is a masterful political performance by a man who is still misunderestimated by his critics. You’d think that since he’s been running rings around the Democrats and the MSM since 2000 that they would finally get a clue about how over-matched they are by President Bush. But, no: they keep on as if their stories of him being stupid are true. Ah, well - it will be 50 years before a true understanding of President Bush can be presented to the American people. We of our generation with all of our passions will have to pass from the scene, and then people will be able to learn about one of America’s greatest Presidents as he really is.
20 comments November 20th, 2007
