In 1979 America was depressed by the Iran hostage crisis, gas prices, and Jimmy Carter’s dour demeanor. His approval rating slipped below 30% and Ronald Reagan brokered a deal with the Teheran mullahs to delay the release of the hostages until after the Old Dutch’s election.
Most Americans were not sad to see Jimmy go.
Not me.
I exiled myself from the USA to France.
I deserted New York after 9/11. I could see where the leader was stteering the country. This time my refuge was Pattaya. Strangely GW Bush’s popularity has rivaled that of the peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia.
Even staunch GOP Supporters are bailing on the incumbent in reaction to his immigration reform bill. Repubican senators voice their dismay at his Iraq quagmire. Democrats hated him. Independents deny backing him. Only 29% of a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll consider his job performance as satisfactory. My sister-in-law is one of those diehard devotees.
“People should give him a chance.”
Six years is chance enough, but Congress is joining GW Bush in the hate fest.
Americans consider the Senate and House as lurid cesspool awash with special interest money and corrupted by power to the point of being unable to serve the electorate. Only 20% deem the country is heading in the right direction. My sister-in-law is also one of them.
As Woody Allen once said, “We are either heading for mass destruction or the end of everything we believe in., I hope we have the wisdom to choose the right course.”
Other options?
Impeach GW Bush and close Congress for several years.
Anarchy?
Not necessarily. Thailand existed without a government for several months last year and during the Clinton era the GOP Congress refused to fund the government during a snowstorm. The worse thing that happened was that Slick Willie got head from a chubby intern.
And the GOP sought to impeach him for that peccadillo as well as lying to a Grand Jury.
“No, I did not have sex.”
Bill Clinton was very popular after that statement.
Maybe not with his wife or the GOP, but men throughout the nation said, “Tell it like it isn’t.”
GW Bush unfortunately is like a pit bull with a bone stuck in his craw.
Iraq is a war he can’t spit out or swallow.
At least he doesn’t have to run for president so he can continue to be a lame duck loser for the next two years, unless someone has the gumption to impeach him and Cheney, thus saving the country from suffering even a worse fate than Jimmy Carter, who has been a good guy after the presidency.
No matter what Fox News thinks of him.
Example.
Jimmy was building houses for the poor in the East Village. We ran into him at a Puerto Rican luncheonette. The former president shook our hands and told us to keep the faith. He actually made me feel good.
Pulling out of the White House like a car thief stealing a cop car is GW’s option to regaining his popularity.
Fast and quick with no intentions of ever coming back to the scene of the crime.
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