01 July 2006
Bush is Not Incompetent
So says George Lakoff:
He's right. Bush has done everything he has wanted to do, and has had two Republican houses of Congress to support him. Republicans have set the course for this country for the last six years; they have had every opportunity to implement their conservative vision. That conservative vision has failed miserably. Republican dreams have become national nightmares.
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Joe Biden recently said, "if I had known the president was going to be this incompetent in his administration, I would not have given him the authority [to go to war]." Had Bush actually been incompetent, he would have never been able to lead us to war in Iraq. Had Bush been incompetent, he would not have been able to ram through hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts. Had Bush been incompetent, he would have been blocked from stacking the courts with right-wing judges. Incompetence, on reflection, might have actually been better for the country.
He's right. Bush has done everything he has wanted to do, and has had two Republican houses of Congress to support him. Republicans have set the course for this country for the last six years; they have had every opportunity to implement their conservative vision. That conservative vision has failed miserably. Republican dreams have become national nightmares.
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