Does this guy, bush, have no shame at all, I was also thinking about Hezbollah, and the fact that the day after Israel stopped bombing civilians, and Hezbollah stopped bombing Israel, handed out $280m and promised to rebuild every single home, and as Sid say's 'have probably rebuilt many already'. Katrina is a shameful episode in US history, as is the phoney war on terror; this boys hands are drenched in the blood of innocents all over the world, from your country to mine, and he’ll probably get a library named after him, and it’ll have one book, My Pet Goat.

Heckuva job there, Mr. Nader, heckuva job.

Americans who don't look at politics through black-and-white colored glasses - (i.e. most of the Left) know and understand the lies perpetuated by the present administration. We know that Bush lied about Hussein and Al Qaeda, we know that he failed New Orleans, we know that he invaded the wrong country; we know that he and his cronies condone wiretapping of private individuals. We've read countless articles in Salon and other noteworthy news outlets about all these issues, and yet I for one, don't understand a couple of things.

Being politically minded, but not a politician, I'd like to know why Bush is not being held accountable for his failures and catastrophes; how can Bush not be impeached? I'd like more articles that talk about these hypothetical situations. Is it because the Dems are weak and not united? How did Clinton get impeached? Where is the hole in the proverbial, Republican dyke?

We've forgotten that those in public service are in power to serve us. Will this administration be brought down by their own hubris? Or will the next 2 years skate on by with nary a whimper from Bush's foes?

I wonder if Ralph Nader has been to New Orleans to help with the cleanup. I wonder if Ralph Nader has been to Walter Reed to kneel before legless, traumatized Marines and swear to fight for better treatment in Veterans Administration hospitals. I wonder if Ralph Nader has made a trip to Iraq to see what hell he had a hand in creating.

Oh, he had a hand in it all right. Him and his band of self-righteous supporters who insisted there was no difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. George Bush probably sent him a bottle of bubbly and a thank you note.

Where are all of you now, you "Nader's Raiders?" Get your asses to New Orleans and pick up debris. Get your asses to V.A. hospitals and volunteer to do something real for our wounded instead of just pontificating about the immoral war.

Where the hell is Ralph Nader now?

I thought this was a good article that laid out a lot of interesting comparisons, but do be careful:

"Though statistics are unavailable, it is likely that Hezbollah has already rebuilt more homes in southern Lebanon than Bush has a year after Katrina in the Lower 9th Ward."

This kind of unsupported and overblown analogy smacks of the kind of heavy-handed and unattributed tactics the other guys employ. But our side really has to take the moral high ground when possible. Fortunately, that's not usually not too difficult.

TH, you said it all. I have been thinking about the millions to be laid out for this "jerk to the 10th power" to have a library named after him when His Sorriness is finally gone home or back to whatever rock he slid out from under. Does anyone realy believe he read Camus or Shakespeare? This self-professed non-reader - maybe he got the Cliff Notes. What of any worth or of any truth could possibly be in a George Bush Library? And yet, it is coming, and he and Laura and Mommie and Daddy will be beaming at the opening cermonies, proud as peacocks (then again, maybe not really, except for Mommie). The money that this pitiful excuse for a man - much less a President of what once was the greatest and most respected country in the world, before he came - has wasted and what will have to be wasted in having a Presidential Library for him - WHAT A JOKE!! Really, that practice needs to stop anyway. It is way too expensive and not necessary. Whatever "papers", etc they have could be kept in Washington in a choosen special place for such, and George Bush is an excellent place to stop.

Yes, indeed, where are the Nader folk, down there building habitats for humanity?

I'm all for the idea of a third party and for people's freedom to vote as they wish. I do think that a third party should start small, run for local, then state, then congressional office before taking a chance on completely buggering up a presidential election. At least until we get proportional electoral voting (or elimination of the Electoral College altogether -- dream on).

But it really is a good question. Ralph? I can't hear you...

I hope he lives long enough to see his presidency compared, not to Kennedy or Lincoln, but to Andrew Johnson and Warren Harding.

GWB: "Houses will begat jobs"

Can't this clown even master his own crypto-Evangelical tropes? It's "will BEGET," fer crissakes.

fierymercury: "how can Bush not be impeached? [...] Is it because the Dems are weak and not united?"

Try "out of power," for starters. Yes, it sucks that it's that simple.

"Where is the hole in the proverbial Republican dyke?"

A little vowel is a dangerous thing...you're on your own here ;-)

Mr. Rumsfield was correct about one thing (only), I "blame America first." I blame America for electing an intellectually uninquisitive ideologue (as Paul O'Neill described him). I blame its twice-fooled citizenry for fortifying the administration's policies by awarding it with a second term. Greater still, I blame America because I believe the Administration would not be emboldened to pursue its megalomaniacal deceits were it not for the explicit approval of the majority of americans. When I witness Rumsfield beating the "fascist" pejorative to arouse hatred, and the "appeasement" pejorative to arouse indignity and the "terrorist" pejorative to arouse fear and then I watch as the impassioned America mob rushes into his war-mongering snare, I blame America first for the calamitous consequences ahead.