I have so often wondered why Bush doesn't drill down on this stuff. After trying to wrap my mind around that story, I can only imagine Bush being briefed on this and saying, "that kitchen-fire is under control for the moment, meanwhile let's concentrate on the nuclear forest fire in the middle east where service men are dying every day--and counting on us to focus."
"that kitchen-fire is under control for the moment, meanwhile let's concentrate on the nuclear forest fire in the middle east where service men are dying every day--and counting on us to focus."
That makes sense to me, too, sam_paine.
What is all probably boils down to is that Bush is surrounded by piss poor advisors who are responsible for brushing off popular public correspondence regarding those issues we feel Bush is ignoring us on. Immigration....totally against the grain of the conservative base
Social security....bows to demoRats threats of filibuster and emotional hysteria propegated by the media
Iraq and the WOT...same emotional hysteria propegated by the media with distractions like abu graib, and everything wrong that can be fabricated against Bush.
The whole gist of this is making Bush look bad and a failure in everything he has a part in. And his advisors are totally dropping the ball and allowing the hysteria to rule the message, rather than allowing overwhelming public concerns to be heard out.
With the exception of the war.....which has been allowed to escalate the hysteria over the past 2 years during a critical election cycle. When Bush should have been fighting the dissidents squarely, he has blindly led the GOP into disorganization and ultimate defeat in the last elections. I believe much of the failures are totally based on the poor quality of Bush advisors and their disconnect of the principles of the electorate.