Newsweek:Bush and Republicans Have Little Margin for Error,Have Weakened Reputation

Newsweek ^ | 10-3-05 | Howard Fineman

[My Favorite Headache]

Delay's Public Denials on Knowledge of Handling of Campaign Cash 'May Have Some Holes In It'

NEW YORK, Oct. 2 -- Last week DeLay proclaimed his innocence of the charge leveled against him: that he had funneled streams of laundered corporate cash into legislative races in Texas. When it came time to discuss precisely what would happen next, discipline broke down. Members demanded full-scale elections sooner rather than later for a new permanent leadership, and if DeLay doesn't escape his legal problem by January -- hardly a certainty -- that vote will occur and he won't be in the race report Chief Political Correspondent Howard Fineman and Contributing Editor Eleanor Clift in the October 10 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, October 3).

[My Favorite Headache]

Quite the month October will be. Another SCOTUS appointment, hearings, Saddam's trial begins,MLB playoffs and World Series and hurricane season trucks on...

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I'd rather have little credibility than none like Newsweak does.

[Marine_Uncle]

I think a more appropriate title would be:
NEWSWEEK Has A Highly Weakened Reputation.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Subheadline:MSM attempts to "rewrite history".

[LaineyDee]

Newsweak?

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Once again Chris Matthews friend and cohort, Howard Fineman proves he is wrong again. I mean, c'mon, this idiot never learns. Well, Matthews isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer either, and the entire Newsweek staff is not known for being on the mark, ever!!! Howard, my lad, you are about as dumb as one can get!!!

[EagleUSA]

He once mockingly summed up the constituency of the Democratic Party as "Greenpeace, Queer Nation, and National Education Association [the teachers union]."
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And he IS DEAD-ON RIGHT!!!
In fact, he could have made the description more accurate and more colorful. But of course, he left out the welfare class, anti-American thugs, felons, and judical liberal activists...and the list goes on.

[JLS]

Looks like MSM wishful thinking has replaced news and analysis.

[finnman69]

Newsweek's credibility went down the toilet with the phony Koran down the toilet story.

[expatguy]

Strange .....

This is not true from where I sit.

Bush is viewed more positively now than ever before.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[Irish Eyes]

Newsweek:Bush and Republicans Have Little Margin for Error,Have Weakened Reputation Newsweek ^ | 10-3-05 | Howard Fineman

In their fondest dreams. They are following the idea that if it is repeated enough people will believe it.

[SuziQ]

Newsweek and the rest of the MSM is SO hoping that the Delay thing and the continual carping about FEMA's respone to Katrina will hurt Bush. They truly hope that his low poll numbers will intimidate the President into picking a more moderate person for the Supreme Court so he can avoid a fight.

I think they are mis-underestimating him again.

[the Real fifi]

Yeah--maybe it's time to run some more stories about flushing Korans down the toilets, Howard..

[Txsleuth]

I wonder if Fineman has to get his columns "okayed" by Chrissy Matthews before he submits them...LOL

Fineman makes a point of Delay's "high name ID in the country"...but, I have heard quite a few pundits in the recent past, say that to the middle of the country, red-staters, Delay would have NO name recognition...

Considering some of the "man on the street" interviews that have been done, I wouldn't doubt that a HUGH percentage of voters do NOT know who Delay is....and won't care in 2006 or 2008.

[My GOP]

I love it when the liberals "misunderestimate" President Bush. Everytime they do, Bush always proves them wrong and wins. I don't expect any difference this time.

[frankjr]

Fineman & Alter, the Lewis & Dean of our generation, except it is more like Lewis & Lewis.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Well, look at the unbiased, honest, truthful. holesome young reporters who wrote this.

Oh. Wait. NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DON'T LOOK!

[Burlem]

Maybe the Bush Administration should give Sandy Berger a call for advise .

[Raycpa]

The idea that there is no margin of error means even newsweak nows that no permanent damage has been done.

[sinkspur]

Also in this week's cover package Senior Editor Jonathan Alter examines House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's run in Washington. "Thus began what historians will regard as the single most corrupt decade in the long and colorful history of the House of Representatives" Alter writes. "Never before has the leadership of the House been hijacked by a small band of extremists bent on building a ruthless shakedown machine, lining the pockets of their richest constituents and rolling back popular protections for ordinary people. Congress has always had its share of extremists. But the DeLay era is the first time the fringe has ever been in charge."

Alter's full of...chemotherapy. He forgets the Jim Wright Democrats.