If Hillary is smart, she won't run. Whoever takes the presidency in 2008 is going to inherit the biggest pile of shit ever, as Bush is the worst president in our history, leaving a huge pile of crap to be dealt with. I am kind of hoping that a republican wins, with enough democrats to keep congress from being such lap dogs, because the republicans are going to be hated like no other for what they are doing/have done to this country. It doesn't get noticed much, but the bloated budget just passed by a "conservative" had only 1 single democrat voting for it..... I continue to believe that a populist, someone who is not a career politician, who is not part of the political machine, either republican or democrat, could rise up and win. With a split vote between two hated candidates, i.e. Hillary and say McCain, an independent charismatic leader who could speak to the growing disenfranchised on both sides could squeak by. Polls show that the people are disgusted with both parties, and the level of trust in career politicians is likely at an all time low....
Don't be needlessly disingenuous Z. The budget wasn't BIG ENOUGH for the Democrats and hence this budget is MUCH LARGER that the budget proposed last year by the White House. Liberal Republicans like Spector led the charge for greater spending. The Democrats want spending and tax increases and many liberal Republicans want spending without higher taxes. Unfortunately only about a third of Congress is both anti tax and anti-spending. If I were a GOP member of the Senate I'd tell the administration they'd best start getting a handle on the expense of the war. Three years of budgets being fucked up by Iraq is getting tiresome.
Still blaming dems I see.... They are not in power, nor in control. This is all one your beloved party.....led by the worst president ever.
I don't know what you mean by "control". A slim minority is hardly tantamount to absolute power. Just because one is a Republican does not make one a conservative. Conservatives are not a majority in Congress thus they are hardly in control. As far as worst Prez. LMFAO. I can tick off Carter, LBJ, FDR, Harding, Wilson, just in the past 80 years. If the electorate's unhappy then the salad days of yore that they long for are close ahead. 4% daily breaks in the Index, 11% mortgage rates, 40-50,000 combat deaths in Iran just like Korea and Nam, race riots, ect. Yea life in 2006 just SUX. Whatever.
You answer your own doubt. Edwards serving only one term and now being out of the Senate is a huge virtue, not a hindrance (see below). Further, the guy maybe a scum sucking PI lawyer but a he's hardly an air-head pretty boy a la Quayle. Dude's sharp and articulate...has a presence about him. Yet just as you allude to the next statement is axiomatic: SITTING SENATORS DO NOT BECOME PRESIDENTS. There's simply too much too voting record to slice and dice and dissect and attack. That's why Allen can never win. Hillary and McCain are so yesterday its ridiculous
Bush gave Pabst a tax cut, so the rest doesn't matter..... The following list doesn't even include Katrina, Dubai deal, Harriet Meyers, etc. *Attacked and took over two countries. * Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury. * Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history. * Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period. * Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market. * First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner. * First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record. * First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history. * After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history. * Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history. * In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job. *Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history. * Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period. * Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history. * Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television. * Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history. * Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed. * Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have. * Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans. * Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. * Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history. * My presidency is the most secretive and un-accountable of any in US history. * Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (the 'poorest' multi-millionaire, Condoleeza Rice has an Exxon oil tanker named after her). * First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt. * Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world. * First president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation. * Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States. * Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history. * First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission. * First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board. * Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history. * Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. * Withdrew from the World Court of Law. * Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions. * First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections). * All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations. * My biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation). * Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history. * First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community. * First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1) * First US president to establish a secret shadow government. * Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history). * With a policy of 'dis-engagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years. * First US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability. * First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea. * Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts. * Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts. * Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'. * Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capital building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects. * In the 18 months following the 911 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States. * Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history. * In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war. * Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.
Bush approval rating..... Current chart is in mid 30's.... <img src=http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/9281/aproval_vs_alert_chart_NEW.gif>