Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Well...IS Bush an idiot?

Who's NOT SORRY now?

Joe Scarborough, for one. Thomas Friedman, George Will, William F. Buckley, Rich Lowry for others. Nope. The conservatives are finally getting the balls to counter their leader and seriously question the absolute failure to create a new middle east. As many have pointed out, it's a new middle east, all right, but NOT the one the new-conartists told Condi and GWB it would be.

The new middle east is quickly forming a Shi'ia Crescent and hot off their defeat of the once-feared Israeli army. The new middle east is emboldened to do new heights it hasn't been in centuries. The new middle east HATES US more than ever. Hey, thanks, GWB, Condi, Cheney, Perle, Feith, Wolfowitz, Kristol, et al. You guys really screwed it up for the rest of us!

IS Bush an idiot? Who knows? Who really cares anymore? We are encouraged by the "real" thinkers on the right flexing their muscles again and beating back the bully neo-conartists, who, IOHO, are as dangerous to America as any terrorist. They're the ones who are turning out to be "one-trick-ponies" with a Likud party agenda that is NOT in the ultimate interest of the US.

Here's WaPo on Joe et al:

Few have struck a nerve more than Scarborough, who questioned the president's intelligence on his show, "Scarborough Country." He showed a montage of clips of Bush's famously inarticulate verbal miscues and then explored with guests John Fund and Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. whether Bush is smart enough to be president.

While the country does not want a leader wallowing in the weeds, Scarborough concluded on the segment, "we do need a president who, I think, is intellectually curious."

"And that is a big question," Scarborough said, "whether George W. Bush has the intellectual curiousness -- if that's a word -- to continue leading this country over the next couple of years."

In a later telephone interview, Scarborough said he aired the segment because he kept hearing even fellow Republicans questioning Bush's capacity and leadership, particularly in Iraq. Like others, he said, he supported the war but now thinks it is time to find a way to get out. "A lot of conservatives are saying, 'Enough's enough,' " he said. Asked about the reaction to his program, he said, "The White House is not happy about it."