Bush Blues

How much worse can it get? How long can it go on? Every day a new scandal, new horrors, yet no end in sight. How is it possible that people just do not care? Today even a senior Jewish politician said the behaviour of his government was akin to the Nazis:

"I saw on television an old woman picking through the rubble of her house in Rafah, looking for her medicine, and she reminded me of my grandmother who was expelled from her home during the Holocaust."

He was shouted down by the mob.

David Corn reviews all the horrible news from the past few weeks and concludes:

"The bad news about the bad news is that there is not much reason to expect a change in the trend. Forget the John Kerry plan--whatever it may be. If he is fortunate enough to win (and he ought to be careful what he wishes for), he won't assume office until January 20. By then the first round of elections are scheduled to take place. But, no doubt, the situation in Iraq will have changed so much that whatever Kerry has to offer today could well be irrelevant by then. For now, it is Bush the Infallible who is stuck with the mess in Iraq, and the nation [ and the world] is stuck with him. "