We’ll talk sex, religion, baseball, opera and even - Lord help us - television. But to stay in the middle of the deleterious snakepit of politics…no…there be monsters.
Now this engendered two reactions from me. The first I left as a comment on Glen's blog:
What's weird to me is that I still feel much the same way The Anchoress does.
I can't fully enjoy the GOP's panicky fall because I have no confidence in the Democrats' ability to do anything about it.
It's like they're still so hypnotized by this President, for some reason, that they just can't see that the mob has turned against him.
And if only one kid stood up, pointed and said "Look! The clothes have no emperor!" (to coin a phrase), the spell would be broken.
But the Democrats are too busy sewing, and don't want to disturb the circle.
And the second is, yes Anchoress, there are monsters, and the biggest and baddest is sitting in the oval office with your support. Heck of a job.
Original post: In Hullabaloo, Digby takes note of a recent poll comparing Bill Clinton's performance to Bush. As he says, it really shouldn't surprise anybody, much less progressives, that Clinton looks good and is looking better every day in comparison.
But he reminds us of something that should not be forgotten.
What the story fails to mention is that Clinton outperformed Bush while fighting off the rabid, slavering GOP congress of Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott that was determined not only to thwart his program but used every institutional lever of power they had to destroy him personally.
Emphasis Digby's. George W. Bush has had-literally-everything handed to him. From being a legacy at Yale to having a GOP congress and lapdog press corps, if he had been the slightest bit competent-oh what the hell I'll just say it:
If he had been a man able to rise to the occasion, to meet the context of the circumstances of his birth with character and integrity, who knows what he might have accomplished?
But he isn't, and he didn't.
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