Subject: The Waning of the GOP: 4/28/07, National Review, By William F. Buckley Jr.; The political problem of the Bush administration is grave, possibly beyond the point of rescue. The opinion polls are savagely decisive on the Iraq question. About 60 percent of Americans wish the war ended — wish at least a timetable for orderly withdrawal. What is going on in Congress is in the nature of accompaniment. The vote in Congress is simply another salient in the war against war in Iraq. Republican forces, with a couple of exceptions, held fast against the Democrats’ attempt to force Bush out of Iraq even if it required fiddling with the Constitution. President Bush will of course veto the bill, but its impact is critically important in the consolidation of public opinion. It can now accurately be said that the legislature, which writes the people’s laws, opposes the war. It is simply untrue that we are making decisive progress in Iraq…General Petraeus is a wonderfully commanding figure. But if the enemy is in the nature of a disease, he cannot win against it. Students of politics ask then the derivative question: How can the Republican party, headed by a president determined on a war he can’t see an end to, attract the support of a majority of the voters? …The general makes it a point to steer away from the political implications of the struggle, but this cannot be done in the wider arena. There are grounds for wondering whether the Republican party will survive this dilemma.

RESPONSE: This from Bill Buckley a Republican of some repute. The wry observation that BUSH THE LESSER only gets it right after he has exhausted every other option seems too close to the truth. But this one he has yet to get right. The new commander in Iraq and new Secretary of Defense are great improvements, but to just about anyone who is not a Republican whore the consensus seems ‘too little, too late.’ The situation in Iraq now is universally acknowledged to be a ‘civil war’ and there has been so much collateral damage in terms of innocents being killed and maimed that the average Iraqi blames America and believes that they were better off under Saddam...and they were!

The fact that so many elected Republicans are willing to be loyal to this discredited administration and accuse Democrats of a lack of patriotism and support for the troops is the height of fatuous arrogance that the American people simply see through. If such a long time Republican stalwart as Bill Buckley gets it ...one has to wonder why so many Republicans in Congress are foolishly supporting Bush and sentencing more of our bravest to die for nothing. Do they really believe that the rhetoric that the loss of this war can be blamed on Democrats after the Republican record of failure to listen to the advise of the military from the beginning of the Iraq invasion by this Republican administration and the on going failure to support the troops as they come home as exemplified by Walter Reed and cuts to Veterans programs combined with an agenda of more tax breaks for war profiteers contributors to the GOP. HUH!


Subject: We have a really sick puppy running this country: This person just about says it right. I listened to him tonight. He cannot speak without a script and he cannot follow the script unless he reads one...sentence...at...a...time. He seems uninvolved, distracted, disconnected. He now blames the anti war folks for the surge of Al Quida in Iraq. He takes no responsibility at all. He talks about politicians running the war from 6,000 miles away but exempts himself from that group. He was an idiot who has become a maniac. He does not have the brain power to keep a thought in his head long enough not to be prompted. He has no empathy, no conscience, no humanity. He will never negotiate because he has not the intelligence that it takes to negotiate. He may be a puppet, he may be a drunk, but I know he is a politician without a shred of decency. He is a very dangerous man right now. We will survive him if we are smart about 2008 but it will take until after I am dead and gone to make things right again, if we ever can. Very sad night tonight for us and this country and this world. Very sad.


Subject: While Bush is searching for a “War Czar”, the people lose confidence in the president: Four years and more than 3,300 US combat deaths later, … (n)early) 3 in 4 Americans disapprove of the president's conduct of the war, according to a poll released last week by CBS/New York Times. Asked who should have the final say about troop levels in Iraq, 57 percent say it should be Congress; only 35 percent say it should be the president, according to the same poll.

RESPONSE: Who are these one four ...who continue to support this President and his lackey followers? HUH?