Paul Deigman Should Resign
If not from blogging, then he should at least resign himself to the fact that President Bush, unlike Michael “I have no idea why I was transferred to D.C., so I guess I’ll just quit then” Brown, isn’t going anywhere. If you agree with Paul and think Bush should resign (for what on earth?!), be sure to say so. If you disagree, claim to agree anyway, but be sarcastic about it, and err on the side of not being too subtle. [I know, do as I say, not as I do, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.]
For an example of someone who really should resign from blogging, be sure to check out Sarah in Chicago’s pearls of non-wisdom on this thread at Amptoons.
September 13th, 2005 at 7:03 am
Do you think Brownie quit, or was he called back to Washington and told to resign?
September 13th, 2005 at 7:10 am
Given how many times he missed the clue bus over the past couple of weeks, up to and including claiming to have no idea why he was called back to Washington, I have to think someone took him aside and said “Dude, you gotta resign.”
September 13th, 2005 at 10:35 am
You’ve made some excellent points on Alas, and Volokh about the law. I simply say that I appreciate how have nailed those points. Many thanks.
September 13th, 2005 at 2:01 pm
Darn right Bush should quit.
It’s bad enough for him to have personally screw up the federal government’s Katrina response, but for him to have not learned from his mistakes is unforgivable.
Ophelia is still circling off the East Coast and yet Bush hasn’t ordered mandatory evacuations of Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina and Virginia (for now). There’s billions of dollars of beachfront property at risk because Bush neglected to include in his latest budget money to build a beachwall that would protect the entire thousand plus mile East Coast from storm damage.
And it’s not just hurricanes that Bush has left us vulnerable to. Kansas and Nebraska are still at risk from tornadoes. Nothing has been done to protect Chicago against the cold winter wind it will invariably face in the several months. It’s mind boggling that it’s been almost three weeks since Katrina hit and Bush still hasn’t ordered the Corps of Engineers to make California earthquake-proof (I’m thinking it’s because Bush doesn’t care about people from California). Nor has he brought home all of our troops from Iraq when we all know we need that money and those boys here at home so we can get on with the business of protecting ourselves from Mother Nature and our own stupidity.
While I’m at it, where was he and FEMA yesterday when half of LA was plunged into darkness and chaos? Why wasn’t he on the scene for the disaster that occured when I ran out of propane for my grill?
And gas prices are still high and Bush has done nothing to bring down the price. He didn’t sign on to Kyoto in the aftermath of Katrina, when we all know his not doing so was responsible for Katrina AND for the high gas prices we’ve all been having to pay. In light of the support we’ve been shown by France and Germany (ich bein NewOrleaner!), he hasn’t reciprocated by apologizing to France and Germany for pissing them off by invading Iraq…. and by not doing so, he’s spitting in their face.
And despite the valiant MSM showing how incompetent Brown was, Bush has done nothing to rid the Executive Branch of the other political hacks that have their jobs only because of the money they’ve contributed to the Bush campaign.
Bush has to go.
September 13th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
A doctoral candidate who calls his blog “info theory” and thinks he can use site visit numbers as evidence of support for Bush’s resignation? Ye gods!
September 13th, 2005 at 4:16 pm
Not support Bush’s resignation–estimate depth of support.
Right now, Bush is looking pretty bulletproof despite his drop in the polls.
September 13th, 2005 at 4:17 pm
Of course, (and this might be troubling), no one has yet made a good argument for keeping him.
September 13th, 2005 at 4:26 pm
One other thing is interesting. No left wing partisans are commenting–they are all right of center as far as I can tell.
That is also troubling. It means that Bush is a political liability.
September 13th, 2005 at 4:29 pm
Actually, Paul, I did last week… think of it as a bit of a cross between “you dance with the girl you brung to the dance”, “democracy stinks, but it’s better than all the alternatives” and “our quarterback sure stinks, but I don’t see anybody sitting on the bench that gets me all excited”.
September 13th, 2005 at 4:54 pm
Steve,
Of course (I read your link) there is no choice if it is one or the other–that was November’s decision.
If Bush resigns, Cheney (not Kerry) becomes CIC.
The question is if we let insanity dilute rationality. There is no need to compromise. By insisting on accountability in this time frame, it is possible to increase the quality of our government (look at the scare Specter got a while back in light of the Roberts hearings now).
Democracy doesn’t just happen once every two years.
September 13th, 2005 at 5:17 pm
Nah. Online polls mean diddley.
September 13th, 2005 at 5:44 pm
Think of this differently. It is not a survey or canvas, it is a suggestion (a first in the right) that provokes a response.
It is an experiment.
For example, when you strike a hammer to a material, you can tell something more than whether or not the material cracked–you can tell how it gave. Was it resilient? What was its shape memory? How much energy did it absorb?
The same thing is going on here.
I make a suggestion, “Bush Should Resign”. Immediately I begin to learn about impact of the suggestion — even the potential planes of fissure. Who speaks and what do they say, or not?
Bush will need to do a lot of work to keep his support from sinking to a critical level. He started today, but actions speak louder than words.