More Bush-bashing links. The reason this is different from the usual stream of partisan wrangling is that many things seem to be wobbling in Bush-Cheney Co. all at once. Witness:
- The Supreme Court rules that the Bush administration can’t keep enemy combatants anywhere without a right to trial (HRW article; Amnesty International is less upbeat (they say “it will only matter if prisoners held without charge or trial are freed”.)
- Foreign policy
- Fred Kaplan: “It’s good that Bush has at last realized that diplomacy is the only way to solve the crisis. But he’s come a bit late to this epiphany. North Korea has greatly strengthened its hand in the interim.”
- Paul Krugman: “Insurgents are blowing up pipelines and police stations, geysers of sewage are erupting from the streets, and the electricity is off most of the time — but we’ve given Iraq the gift of supply-side economics.”
- Joe Klein: “But George W. Bush is facing a long, hot summer of investigations and exposes that will last deep into the campaign season, and last week, for the first time, a Gallup-CNN poll indicated that a majority of Americans think that the war in Iraq was a mistake.”
- General state
- Cheney gets booed at a Yankees game (ESPN story).
- Josh Marshall: “Cheney et al. can see all sorts of bad business coming down the pike in the next few months — much of it already on the public radar screen, some of it still clogged up no doubt in back channels, newsrooms and new rounds of dirty-tricksterism. It seems clearly to be getting to them.”
- Looking at the Bush campaign’s “Kerry’s Coalition of the Wild-eyed” ad, Jacob Weisberg says,
What exactly does the Bush-Cheney campaign think that these Democrats have in common with Hitler? Basically, it’s that they’re too darned excited about politics. They yell. They criticize harshly. They use bad language. The message here, to the extent there is one, is: “Don’t be like Hitler—chill out!”
“A state of perpetual optimism is either a dangerous delusion or a calculated pose. In the case of the Bush campaign, it’s evidently the latter. Comparing one’s opponent to Hitler is not, in fact, the sign of a confident or optimistic candidate. To the contrary, it’s the act of a fearful and cynical candidate who is willing to use any tactic to avoid defeat.”
Oh, and GeorgeWBush.com runs on IIS and is open to remote vulnerability scans.
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