Via the Daou Report, Gina Cobb has this to say:
The immediate implications of the endless partisan attacks on George W. Bush are
obvious. It becomes harder for him to accomplish anything in the war on
terror, either domestically or internationally, no matter how much it needs to
be done. Keep in mind that America has only one chief executive and only
one executive branch that can actually take action on behalf of the federal
government. Congress can only pass laws; the judiciary can only apply such
laws to individual cases that happen to arise. If our commander in chief
cannot function, we cannot function as a nation, and least not in matters
military.
So, because we're speaking poorly about the President, he can't do his job. If this were really true, then the Republicans have certainly made sure that Bill Clinton has secured his place as the Greatest.President.Ever.
When they weren't making any progress hamstringing him with idiotic attacks, they were investigating every little things he did. We all remember Lewinsky, but let's not forget Travel-gate, Whitewater, Vince Foster. The list of real attacks - more than mere words - was endless from the beginning of his Presidency to the end.
Yet, in spite of that, he delivered welfare reform, true economic growth and prosperity, and a truly contained Iraq Dictator who was left with NO way to attack American interests, just to name a few of very long list of accomplishments.
Georgie has left us with Iraq, Katrina, torture, no habeas corpus, illegal wiretaps - just the tip of a very big iceberg representing the disaster that is his Presidency. Well, his attention span is a little small. Maybe we really did distract him.
