Sometimes in poker you bluff. You take any two cards and you try to represent a winning hand. It's a nervewracking experience, shooting out chips with absolutely nothing, and the problem is you can't just do it once, or twice, but a truly successful bluff means pushing all your money into the middle knowing that unless you can get your opponent to fold you'll lose in a showdown. When unsuccessful, you're said to have 'played it to a bust'.
Well that's exactly where Bush is at right now.
From MSNBC.com:
"President Bush expressed frustration on Tuesday with the congressional debate on Iraq war spending and accused majority-party Democrats of being “more interested in fighting political battles in Washington than providing our troops what they need.”
"He also chided the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for visiting Syria, saying it sent mixed signals to the government of President Bashar Assad.
"Bush, speaking with reporters in the Rose Garden of the White House, renewed his veto threats on both House and Senate spending bills."
It's been a long and tiring hand for both sides but the American public has caught the worse of it. The neoconservatives have lied, cheated, and corrupted the very principals of our Constitution in order to bring us to this point in a war that has no legal basis, and a Middle East policy that boils down to weak rhetoric and bullying. But the tides are turning. We no longer believe that he's holding on to the strongest cards, or the truth for that matter. Walter Reed, the Alberto Gonzalez scandal, Katrina and its aftermath, the evidence that the war is getting worse and not better, and the fact that Osama Bin Laden is still at large are all proof that Bush and his administration is inept and incompetent if not out right criminal.
When Bush walked up to the podium in the Rose Garden today he might as well have leaned over the microphone and said, "All in." And the resounding and immediate answer of the American public is, "We call."
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