Bush faces new challenge amid flood of bad news

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``There isn't a week that goes by that the Republicans aren't involved in an arraignment, an arrest, a subpoena or an indictment,'' said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat.

With President George W. Bush and Congress both suffering from near-record-low approval ratings, analysts are drawing comparisons to scandals such as Watergate, which led to an influx of Democrats in the 1974 elections, and the series of ethical controversies involving Democrats in the 1980s and 1990s that helped the Republicans win control of the House of Representatives in 1994.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=was...id=acbmyg83_H_s

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Protests in Denver

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/protestbushbus.mov

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Americans Want Different Type of President Next Time, Poll Says

Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Three in five Americans want the next U.S. president to be completely different from incumbent George W. Bush, according to a poll by Time magazine.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=100...=top_world_news

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The US Military's Secret Information War

http://nytimes.com/2005/12/11/politics/11p...FXU+K35p/wEtl6w

If you truly believe your message, why try to hide where it is coming from? :reallymad:

Is there anything real about this administation?

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Bush battered by US pessimism, leadership doubts

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deep doubts about the Iraq war and pessimism about America's future have shattered public confidence in President George W. Bush and helped drive his approval ratings to their lowest level ever, pollsters say.

As Bush launched a series of speeches to drum up support for the war, a new round of opinion polls found growing skepticism about Iraq and distrust of Bush. His image declined sharply, with one poll finding "incompetent" to be the most frequent description of his leadership.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060316/pl_nm/bush_politics_dc

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Diplomatic Memo

Democracy Push by Bush Attracts Doubters in Party

Published: March 17, 2006

Even as it presents an updated national security strategy, the Bush administration is facing fresh doubts from some Republicans who say its emphasis on promoting democracy around the world has come at the expense of protecting other American interests.

The second thoughts signify a striking change in mood over one of President Bush's cherished tenets, pitting Republicans who call themselves realists against the neoconservatives who saw the invasion of Iraq as a catalyst for change and who remain the most vigorous advocates of a muscular American campaign to foster democratic movements.

Source: NYTimes

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PREWAR INTELLIGENCE

Insulating Bush

By Murray Waas, National Journal

Thursday, March 30, 2006

"As the 2004 election loomed, the White House was determined to keep the wraps on a potentially damaging memo about Iraq."

Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, cautioned other White House aides in the summer of 2003 that Bush's 2004 re-election prospects would be severely damaged if it was publicly disclosed that he had been personally warned that a key rationale for going to war had been challenged within the administration. Rove expressed his concerns shortly after an informal review of classified government records by then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley determined that Bush had been specifically advised that claims he later made in his 2003 State of the Union address -- that Iraq was procuring high-strength aluminum tubes to build a nuclear weapon -- might not be true, according to government records and interviews.

Hadley was particularly concerned that the public might learn of a classified one-page summary of a National Intelligence Estimate, specifically written for Bush in October 2002. The summary said that although "most agencies judge" that the aluminum tubes were "related to a uranium enrichment effort," the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Energy Department's intelligence branch "believe that the tubes more likely are intended for conventional weapons."

Source: National Journal

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There are so many reasons that this guy should be impeached, but if the Democrats don't win a majority in either the House or Senate, nothing will happen.

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Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War

Administration Pushed Notion of Banned Iraqi Weapons Despite Evidence to Contrary

On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."

The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a vindication of the decision to go to war. But even as Bush spoke, U.S. intelligence officials possessed powerful evidence that it was not true.

Source: The Washington Post

In other words...he lied...again

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LA Times asks for Cheney to step down!

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editor...0,6899990.story