Reaping the Whirlwind

The GOP is pissing in their collective pants right about now.

70 percent of Americans think the country is on the wrong track. Bush's approval ratings are at an all-time low. Dick Cheney's approval rating is lower than Satan's.

(Okay, I made that last one up, but don't be surprised if I turn out to be ahead of the curve -- after all, I did predict that "Crash" would win Best Picture.)

Even hardcore Republican supporters, according to the AP, are getting disturbed over the way things are going. They quote Margaret Campanelli, a Connecticut retiree who says she votes Republican, as saying “I’m particularly not happy with Iraq, not happy with how things worked with Hurricane Katrina.”

That's a polite, retiree way of saying that her party is run by a bunch of fuck-ups. They lied us into a war they had no way of winning -- and now that 2,000 Americans and 30,000 Iraqis are dead because of their lies, they have no way out of the mess they created except a bloody civil war that will escalate the death toll immeasurably. And all they have to tell us in response to all of this bloodshed is that we have to "stay the course." What fucking course? you want to ask them, but you know better than to ask questions of these people, because this administration lies about as often as it breathes.

This has all the makings of a perfect political storm -- one that could blow the GOP away in the midterm elections and bring the Democrats back into control of both houses of Congress.

Bush is even losing support among his base -- stupid white men. His approval rating among Republicans dropped eight points in a month, and among white males without a college education he is losing support as well. Bush's approval rating is now at 37 percent -- Reagan and Clinton at the same time in their second terms had approval ratings in the 60s, according to the AP.

This does not bode well for Bush, because if the Democrats take over Congress this year, you can bet your ass that they will start impeachment hearings. Already 30 members of the House have signed on as sponsors or co-sponsors of H. Res 635, which would start the impeachment bandwagon rolling. If the Democrats take back Congress in November, expect that number to increase exponentially.

This midterm election is a referendum on President Bush and the nightmarish way he has run this country for the past six years. And it looks like election night 2006 may well be a very long, uncomfortable one for Republicans. To quote Bush's favorite book, "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind" (Hosea 8:7).

Which is why, if I was a Republican congressman, I'd be stocking up on Depends right about now.

Tom Moran