All that's left of Bush support is the 30% rapture vote that actually hope he will screw up so badly in the Middle East that it triggers Armageddon - or that such is already predestined anyway. Kevin Phillips detected this 30% as the lemmings who will follow dear leader right off the cliff.

Still remaining are a latest Bush and larger GOP support block who have put their support on hold to see what happens. What needs to happen is for the Dem Congress to start revealing to these dolts exactly how they were fooled into war in the first place, how much has been stolen and by whom, and especially how the right wing pirated the AM radio dial to pump 24/7 agitprop into the body politic for 15 years, duping 50 million voters while swinging 5 out of the 6 last elections. If the Dem Congress doesn't push back against this GOP AM radio disinformation juggernaut, then it will roll right over them again on most every issue, breathe new life into demoralized rightists who should be crawling back into their holes, and continue stealing elections.

"It is a moderately Republican region of small cities, farmland and forest, whose constituents voted for Bush in 2004 by a 6-point margin."

This district also contains Erie, the forth biggest city in PA.

"People need to reflect their own districts,"

He just realized this? With all their gerrymandering, I wonder how serious he takes that statement.

I looked up "moderate" English on the American Conservative Union's ratings, and his lifetime rating was a 76, so he's still way off in rightist la-la-land, compared to most Americans. Thumbs down.

The only thing worse than the fawning sycophancy of the former GOP-dominated congress is the survivors' feeble conversion experience into war critics in the wake of the 2006 elections, as they scramble to save their political asses.

As I've said before, they're stil Republicans; they still represent the outdated value system that got us in Iraq to begin with; keep voting for them at your peril, regardless of what they say. If the US is able to actually extricate itself from Iraq in the next 20 years, they'll be the first ones to point the finger at the Dems and say that they lost Iraq.

More than ever, the Democrats need to lead strongly and not symbolically on the Iraq issue, on the War on Terror at large, and to reign in the abuses of the unitary executive and the general subversion of American rights for the sake of executive power.

Dunno, this is starting to all sound like Newts secret candidacy - let's trash the administration to install an even crazier more right wing craven brazen bunch of lunatics.

...could this English guy be called a moderate and a conservative.

According to the article: "He describes himself as a firm supporter of Bush's efforts in the war on terror, which he sees as part of a bigger battle that the United States must win against violent Islamist extremism."

so he supports the trashing of the Constitution and 800 years of legal tradition. He goes along with Bush's analysis "They hate us and attack us because they hate our freedom, so let's do away with our freedom."

So warrantless spying on US citizens is OK, the legal certification of torture is OK, doing away with habeus corpus is OK. We just had a little lapse of judgement in IRaq. What, pray tell, is moderate about this?

the article goes on:

"he opposed cutting funds for the troops. "I don't want to create a bad precedent by trying to micromanage where the president may put 20,000 troops," English said. "Once our troops are in Iraq, it's ultimately the commander in chief who is responsible for implementation. I don't think there is any way of effectively sharing power."

in other words, he doesn't believe in the Constitutionally comprised separation of powers. He doesn't want the responsibility of exercising the budget power of Congress. In what sense is this "conservative"?

Only in the demented landscape of Bush's amerikkka

With apologies to Dr. Johnson, nothing concentrates the mind like the prospect of being thrown out of office in two years.

English's justifications sound exactly like the desperate pleadings of a death-row inmate, clutching that cheap bible to his chest, disavowing his heinous crimes, promising to change and begging Jesus for a reprieve.

Unfortunately for English and his fellow wingnuts, but fortunately for those of us who cherish the Constitution and the Rule of Law, voters are not likely to be as forgiving as Jesus.

If English came in with the Gingrich crowd in 1994, under the Contract with America, he pledged himself to the sacred principle of TERM LIMITS, right? He's already stayed too long...

"There is a level of polarization out there that makes any thoughtful discussion of nuanced differences very difficult," said English....

Funny, no one wanted to hear John Kerry's "nuanced" views either a couple years back.

It comes under the Heading of ALABAMA. Or Check the OUTHOUSES BOYS "Colored Only" or "WHITE". Pilot this one.

Dear George Walker Bush is NOT the 'Great White Hope', AWOL from that as well.

sub sole sub umbra virens

What he, Bush, Cheney,Rumsfeld and the rethuglikan party have done to America is totally unforgivable. Now he has the gall to cry and whine about it, better he should cry and lament about what he and all the other rethugs have done to America, our democratic institutions and values and our now shredded Constitution.

But all he is doing is crying about the difficult situation he is in, namely that he may not get reelected. So you dumb ass go out and get a real job if you can even find one. And learn to live in daily concern about where we and hopefully you will find the money to pay our/ your bills just as the rest of us do every day.

Or given that he is a catholic rethug let him ask the pope for a job. I am catholic and abhor what the catholic rethugs are doing to us all. Besides some corporation will hire him and when the rethugs come around again he will be recycled as the rethugs like to do.

Up your nose with a rubber hose Phil English. Take Bush and the rest of the rethugs with you to Paraguay.