Second call?

[Disagreeable]

There’s no more supportive blog site on the internet than RedState.com. Yet today one of their most influential bloggers posted this. Apparently he was serious.

“Should Bush Resign?
By: Nick Danger · Section: Diaries
For the good of the country, I mean.
I personally do not have a problem with President Bush. I think he has been a truly visionary leader at a time when the nation desperately needed one. Had he, early on, fired and replaced whatever zero has been in charge of White House communications for lo these many years, more of his visions might have turned into reality.
But none of that matters anymore. For better or worse, by mistake or by design, Republican leaders in Congress decided to publicly humiliate George W. Bush as a statement of policy, thus rendering him impotent on the world stage and irrelevant in domestic politics. Foreign leaders now know that Bush is so weak at home that nothing he promises can be counted on to happen. For all practical purposes, George W. Bush is no longer the President of the United States. No one is. And that's a problem

Although Bush nominally has two more years left to run on his second term, he really can't do anything anymore. He is like a Prime Minister who has lost a vote of confidence. He can't propose anything new, or make any significant appointments. Foreign leaders look right through him; he is essentially "gone." His only function now is to keep the seat warm until the next election can be held.
This is neither a good, nor — in the present context (i.e. Iran) — a safe condition for the United States of America to be in. This is a time when the American President would normally be exerting considerable leadership in fashioning the West's response to Iran's provocations. But this President cannot do that. This President lacks the power to deliver even a sweetheart commercial arrangement, let alone anything substantial. Foreign leaders see the current President, correctly, as a has-been who need not be dealt with at all. His threats are idle; his promises are worthless.
We could literally be on the brink of atomic war, and we do not have a President that foreign leaders can trust to actually be speaking for the United States. He can't promise support in return for support. He can't promise anything to anybody. And he especially can't promise anything to Middle Eastern leaders who could provide on-the-ground assistance in the region. They know what they just saw. "Deals" made with Arabs need not be kept. Let us, therefore, have no such deals.
Bush is a sufficiently visionary leader that he can see this. With a potential nuclear confrontation on the horizon, it is essential that the United States be represented on the world stage by someone whose word carries weight. George W. Bush no longer has the support of the U.S. legislature or even his own party. Nothing he says matters.
We are fortunate in having in place, a man who can fill these shoes quickly. A President Cheney would command the immediate respect of Middle Eastern leaders, including those in Iran. Which may be exactly what's called for.
Although the opposition party would pause in its rancorous denunciations of the President only long enough to Search-and-Replace 'Cheney' for 'Bush' in their fund-raising letters and "news" stories, Congressional Republicans would probably think twice about rendering two Presidents ineffective in the space of a few months, especially since they are not in a position to direct events themselves should Iran 'go critical.'”

Read the debate among Conservative bloggers at:
http://www.redstate.com/story/2006/3/12/1682/46852

[Red Robin]

I'm certainly looking forward to your last call!

[jigs]

Amen, Red Robin

[Disagreeable]

I'll do my best to keep posting so you two will have something to look forward to.

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[theHiredMansWife]

This is a time when the American President would normally be exerting considerable leadership in fashioning the West's response to Iran's provocations. But this President cannot do that. This President lacks the power to deliver even a sweetheart commercial arrangement, let alone anything substantial.

So do you guys think this particular conservative's concerns aren't valid? Why, or why not?

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[theHiredMansWife]

Why bother to post if you don't care?


Twice, no less.

[passin thru]

Well it's fun watching some of these libs drool all over themselves.

Kinda like blind mice trying to find the way out of a maze.

[theHiredMansWife]

Redstate.com is a "libs" site?


I think they'd be surprised to learn that.

[passin thru]

Now where did I say anything like that............I was talking about libs hooking up there wagon with a dead horse.

[theHiredMansWife]

I think the point the blogger was trying to make actually was cutting the dead horse loose.