Bush's "Mandate" Now Getting More Scrutiny

Here's a Washington Post piece discussing it. I just wonder where the press was back when a good many of us were wondering how a fairly slim win last November gave him some universal signal that everyone loves everything he does. Since when does a 51%-49% win - and that's WITH some very questionable election scenarios - translate into a mandate?

I hate what he's doing. Almost everything he touches is ruined. Sure, I'd like to think that he's debasing so much, especially on key issues like Social Security, that he's setting the 2006 mid-term race into a situation where voters will say, "Enough's enough."

But by 2006, we'll see even more voter fraud. And wait too many people are still drinking the koolaid, although not always by choice - I've heard more than a few people say that it's just too dangerous to speak out.

Myself? I think it's too dangerous NOT to speak up, not when we're watching the U.S. turned into a very inefficient corporate empire.