He gets assessments of how scary the world really is."

"Yes, Mr. President, our intelligence clearly shows that there are LOTS of horses out there. TERRORIST horses! IRANIAN terrorist horses!!"

the way i see it, if the Pres spends most of his time on vacation, it can't be all that bad. that gives him less time to think of ways to ruin the country even worse.

That would be true, Jon, if Rove, Cheney, Rummy, et al weren't running the show. They don't seem to take many vacations.

I think what this country really needs is for GWB to wrest the reins of power from his advisors and lead us to victory... and beyond!

Snow forgot to mention that after the Prez gets up and before the scary assessments, he takes a big BM on our collective chests and calls it a ice cream sundae.

Let's review some of the rest of what Snow had to say:

The fact is George W. Bush has said over and over, we've got to be patient.

Of course this is absolutely right about how our foreign policy SHOULD be, but is not at all representative of how the Bush administratino approached Iraq, or anything else. It was all supposed top be a cakewalk. Snow just wants us to be patient now with how the impatience of Bush and his team has totally screwed up our short- and long-term interests abroad.

And the thing that we've got to concentrate on is not when we leave, but how we win.

Yes, but if this administration was seriously interested in actually winning in Iraq, it would have handled almost everything differently. Leaving Iraq will certainly have negative consequences that concern me, but so does just sitting there, exposed, bleeding and powerless. The Administration has no policy that could actually stabilize Iraq. Talking about winning is a scam that doesn't reflect our actual efforts, and is devoted only toward winning at the ballot box here - just like our ill-considered and poorly executed invasion.

And that's what he's been devoting all his energies to. He's been working very persistently at it.

Bullshit, as your link to his vacations clearly shows. Bush shirks all responsibility as much as possible, it's just because that it's such a big F'ing and persistent mess that he can't avoid dealing with Iraq.

After September 11th, both political parties worked together. I'll tell you what. You want to put an end to politicization? Great. Everybody roll up their sleeves and figure out how to beat terrorists around the world. That's what we need to be doing right now.

Yeah, sure. This Administration has no interest in acting on a bipartisan manner on anything. It's all about unilateral control of the purse strings at home and cover your ass abroad, and distracting all the way by playing punching bag with the Dems. Both parties worked together initially, until the Administration decided to do something stupid - because it could, and because of perceived political benefits to the Republicans, and the Dems and evil MSM largely rolled over. The Administration devoted considerable effort to gutting our intelligence capacity, our of sheer vindictiveness out of resistance to the invasion.

The mendacity and short-sighted partisanship of the Administration on matters of vital national interest continue to be both astonishing and physically revolting.

M/tch M/lls,

Yep. You have a point. A good one. [scratches head]

On the other hand, perhaps what could be done is a threat to impeach. With the spectre looming in the air, Bush could get rid of his war criminals Cheny, Rove and Rumsfeld in an attempt to shift the blame.

Then he could replace them and their staff with the kind of Republicans (the realist / rockefeller camp ala Senior, Kissinger, Scowcroft, Powell, Jim Baker) who are simply talented at maximizing Middle Eastern resource extraction...rather than those who feel annointed with rebuilding the entire region after torching it in a "caldron of fire" (aka Mike Ledeen and all the rest of the neocons).

Who knows, the realist repubs might be able to talk some sense into him, or at least, steer his plans for the country away from a megalomaniacal spiral on the way to certain doom.

It's a heck of day when I'm forced to root for the Rockefeller Republicans.