Lowering The Bar A Bit More

USA Today's headline says, "Bush Has Big Plans For Final Year" and lets us in on The Shrub's grand proposals he will outline in the State of the Disunion Address: "A $150 billion stimulus package to jolt the economy and a measure extending the government's ability to monitor terrorist communications. Beyond that, he wants to make the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 permanent and win continued backing for military efforts in Iraq and diplomatic efforts in the Middle East."
Wow. After seven years of the most incompetent, disastrous and crooked administration in the history of the country, he's going to give us peons a pittance - in a few months - to get the economy back on track, wants to continue to spy on us, make sure his rich friends keep their tax breaks, and continue to destroy the American military so that he and his other draft-dodging war mongers can feel tough. This is supposed to pass for bold initiative and statesmanship?

Well, duh

Newsweek's cover this week is headlined "The Party's Over: A Dispirited GOP Struggles To Find Its Post-Bush Path." The there's an "exclusive excerpt" from Jacob Weisberg's "The Bush Tragedy." It's good that the mainstream media is finally recognizing what many non-expert observers - i.e., most of the rest of the country - figured out years ago. But then, like our leaders, the media are more adept at stating the obvious after the fact than they are at being ahead of the curve. It's just too bad Newsweek couldn't have written a little more objectively about the Bush and GOP failures a few months before the last election.