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Crawford on Bush Fatigue

by Jonathan Singer, Sun Mar 19, 2006 at 05:46:48 PM EST

Blogger and CQ Weekly columnist Craig Crawford hits the nail on the head with his column this week:

Ultimately, I do not see a way out of Bush fatigue. When people are tired of you, they stop listening to you. And that is the president's biggest problem. His message is not getting out because the relentless repetition of his rhetoric is sounding like reruns of a television show we have already seen several times.

Being a lame duck is bad enough, but when the public actually begins to tune a President out, it's just about over. Feel free to discuss this or use this as an open thread.

Tags: George W. Bush, Craig Crawford, Open Thread (all tags)

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not over until we hang Bush around their heads (none / 0)

We can't allow GOPers to run from Bush this year. We need to hammer away at their lockstep loyalty to Bush and everything he has ever asked them to do. I can't understand why we aren't doing this more. We need to tie all of them to all of his failed policies.

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by desmoinesdem on Sun Mar 19, 2006 at 06:52:39 PM EST

Re: not over until we hang Bush around their heads (none / 0)

What Congress doesn't understand - you can't divorce yourself from a President of your party. Think 1994, 1980, 1974, 1966, etc. If the public is unhappy with the President, they will take it out on his party.

by John Mills on Sun Mar 19, 2006 at 08:07:29 PM EST
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To think we have almost three more years of this. How are we gonna make it?

McCain is defining Obama, and Obama is neither defining himself, nor McCain. This is awful.

by jgarcia on Sun Mar 19, 2006 at 07:00:33 PM EST

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If we have Congress, next year could be fun. We could haul all his cronies before oversight hearings and screw around with all his budgets. If we don't have Congress, next year will suck!!!

by John Mills on Sun Mar 19, 2006 at 08:09:34 PM EST
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I'd rather see a major healthcare bill come up than hearings. Afterall, Bush will just say that foreign policy is the purview of the executive.

We need healthcare reform and I hope we would not blow the opportunity.

McCain is defining Obama, and Obama is neither defining himself, nor McCain. This is awful.

by jgarcia on Mon Mar 20, 2006 at 12:05:47 AM EST
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As a someone who was witness to the last debacle in 1994, we will not be able to move health reform without the presidency. Congress and the President need to be on the same page to make it happen which will not happen until after the 2008 elections. Sorry.

by John Mills on Mon Mar 20, 2006 at 10:40:38 AM EST
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Crawford, Texas is next.

Maybe they can zone him out of their city limits.

by zappatero on Sun Mar 19, 2006 at 08:00:56 PM EST

Bush = Baghdad Bob? (none / 0)

Saw dubya get off the helo from Camp David and address some reporters on the WH lawn this evening. As usual, he started a sentence with no idea of what he was about to say, then rambled on about how the Iraqi government was coming together.
All of a sudden it struck me: Bush has become this country's equivalent of Baghdad Bob. No matter how dire the circumstances, Bush is saying how wonderful things are. Is this administration in the throws of bunker mentality?

by Bob Miller on Sun Mar 19, 2006 at 09:32:31 PM EST

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The scariest aspect of people tuning Bush out at this point is that the last time most of the country began to tune him out, 9/11 happened. I'm not at all saying or implying that Bush caused or allowed 9/11 to happen (no tinfoil hats here), but if he gets to the point where only the diehard wingnuts pay attention to him, who knows what kind of stunt he's willing to pull to seize back attention? I.e. something no one could ever possibly imagine, like, say, Iran, Syria or N Korea?

by kovie on Mon Mar 20, 2006 at 01:59:38 AM EST

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Just the other day a two time Bush voter I know called Bush a loser.

by phillydem on Mon Mar 20, 2006 at 06:15:12 AM EST

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LOVED this from the Boston Globe re: Indiana Bush fatigue:
''The people of Indiana just think [Bush] is not very good at being president."

Susan Grimes, a waitress at the South Junction Café, a lonely outpost at the intersection of state roads 6 and 35. Grimes said listening to her customers complain has turned her off politics.
''I hear all these people come in and say: 'That President Bush, we got to get that guy out of there.' But you ask them who they voted for, and they hush up because they were the ones who voted him in. He's their boy."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articl es/2006/03/19/change_of_heartland/?page= full

by rodean on Mon Mar 20, 2006 at 07:06:25 AM EST

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