For quite a while it seemed that each week brought a new bad news story for the Bush Administration. Cindy Sheehan, the 2,000th Iraq fatality, Katrina, Duke Cunningham, a seemingly endless stream of bad news began hitting the fan.
As things actually turned worse, with Plamegate, Abramoff, then the domestic spying scandal bad news began hitting almost every day. The Bush Administration hasn't had a good news day in so long I doubt they'd know how to handle it. They are such a bunker mentality, bungling every situation, each new development gets spun out of control as the result of their insistence on spinning everything. No fact goes unspun, covered up, or simply obfuscated.
Has the Bush White House passed the tipping point? Have events gone so out of control they're unable to handle any situation anymore?
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The Tipping Point is a book written by Malcolm Gladwell, talks about the abstract concept that there is a point of no return, so to speak, called the tipping point, after which nothing can be done to reverse a trend. Some scientists fear we've reached the tipping point for global warming, for example. This means we are unable, whatever we do, to reverse the course of events because we are past the tipping point.
Is the Bush Administration past the tipping point? Have events spun so out of control, come so rapidly, that this Executive Branch will sink under the strain? Just this week we've seen the Katrina hearings, more torture pictures from Iraq, the Cheney shooting debacle, a debate on the Patriot Act and its infringments on civil liberties, the NSA scandal hearings, the subjagation of science at NASA, and who knows what else. We're only halfway through the week.
If more news erupts about Abramoff, Plamegate, or significant casualties in Iraq who knows how much farther the public sentiment about George W. Bush and his minions will sink?
As I watched Dick Cheney contradict his designated spokeswoman Mrs. Armstrong, then assert he chose her so the story would be accurate my rage against their lies hit a boiling point. How stupid do they think we are?
The average American is finally awakening to this reality. A local Republican officeholder lamented to me yesterday that her Party can't keep from shooting themselves in the foot lately. She said this with her face down, truly sad at the depths to which things have sunk. I like this woman. She's no ideologue and does her job and does it well.
The question is, what do we do now if they actually have passed the tipping point? If Bush's ratings continue to sink how do we capitalize on the situation to reverse the course the country has taken?
First we must keep the pressure on Bush, his cohorts, their apologists, and his minions. Cheney should resign. We need to keep beating that drum until he does. Combine this scandal with his association with the torture.
Secondly we need to press forward with full investigations into the NSA scandal, Abramoff, and Plamegate. This keeps these scandals and the corruption in the public eye so voters will not forget them.
Thirdly we need to support ALL of our Congressional candidates in this fall's elections. We need a common theme of combating corruption and cronyism. We must retake control of the House.
Fourth, we MUST develop a positive plan for the country. An agenda for turning the country around and resetting it on a positive course for the future. We need to present more than just opposition.
Let's use the tipping point to push these republicans over the edge with voters. Make sure they'll never forget the extent of incompetence, corruption, and cronyism. Forge it into their memories to guarantee its presence there through at least 2008.