Party Like It's 2004

Didn't I say he was getting battle-ready? I believe I did. But I never knew President Bush would use Veteran's Day to rehash 2004 Election talking points. Or revisit the 2004 debates. He knows he won the election, right?

Unfortunately for Bush, the American people are having Voter's Remorse. Not supplying soldiers for a war that could have been prevented will do that sort of thing. As well as allowing torture (even if you don't publicly endorse it). And moving more swiftly for Supreme Court nominees than rescuing drowning and starving victims of a natural disaster. Yeah, those type of things tend to bend people the wrong way.

So Bush, like any person who is taking a beating, goes to his strength. Unfortunately, the Ol' 9/11 Well is starting to get dry. Most people accept that the terrorists that were behind 9/11 were not the same group of people running Iraq. New evidence is popping up everyday that further proves that the Bush Administration had the CIA use the information they gathered to justify a case for going to Iraq.

To make matters worse, his bread-and-butter speeches aren't cutting it anymore. People won't buy that Senator Kerry was all gun-ho for Bush's rather aggressive foreign policy initiative (read: invade Iraq) when Bush made it quite clear a year a go (when he was running for re-election) that Kerry was unqualified because he didn't support the Iraq War policy. The voters can't believe Bush's claim that everyone (meaning, presumably, all of Congress) knew what the Bush Administration knew when Bush shut off access to Senate members awhile back.

But when you think about it, Bush has little choice. Republicans who don't like him much (either because they think he's a fake conservative or they want to make a run for the White House themselves) are beginning to take bites out of him. Democrats are beginning to show the backbone the media said they never had (you'd think our last Democratic President was JFK).

In short, the list of VOTBAs (Villain Of The Bush Administration) is growing everyday. If you're against the Iraq War, you're a VOTBA. If you think that maybe cutting taxes during wartime is a bad idea, you're a VOTBA. Want a real investigation on the CIA leaks? Wonder why our troops don't have enough supplies? Don't agree with Alito or the President's Social Security Program? VOTBA, VOTBA, VOTBA.