MAYBE IS AN IMPORTANT WORD

ITEM: THE senior political analyst of npr insists that it is somehow worse for a Republican Congressman to call b.o. a liar than it was for the dem Speaker of the House to have called President Bush a liar.
The saddest thing about the Republican’s outburst is the fact that he almost immediately apologized for stating the truth about the current Chief Executive.

It is definitely time for THE senior p.a. of npr to retire – way past.

ITEM: Did b.o. apologize for calling the police sgt. he shared a beer with at the White House stupid??

ITEM: And folks are rightly in an uproar over sending an elite team of British Commando into harm’s way to rescue a NYT's reporter who was warned to stay away from the place he went to and where he was subsequently captured by barbarians.
And now the Commando Unit is being criticized for ‘allowing’ or ‘causing’ the death of the Afghani interpreter – as though they deliberately planned to allow the death of the ‘non-white’.

ITEM: And b.o. appoints communists to office – folks who believe that President Bush conspired in bring down The Towers.

ITEM: charlie wrangle still holds his chairmanship.

ITEM: ACORN soldiers on – supported by lots and lots of Americans. What does that say about the overall health of The Republic??

ITEM: The Afghan war is the war b.o. said he wanted to fight. He said he wanted to draw down the US effort in Iraq.
He is now the President. He is drawing down US forces in Iraq. How is he doing in Afghanistan??

ITEM: It looks like Michigan is going to get the new Gitmo. Lucky Michigan. Good work, b.o.
Is a leader supposed to slavishly follow stupid campaign promises made to satisfy stupid voters, or is he or she supposed to inform the electorate of what has to be done and then do the right thing and take the consequences if his stupid constituency votes him out of office??

ITEM: It is being argued by some that the current political and cultural divisions in our Republic were not brought on by any single climatic event, that instead they are symptoms of a growing rot which is infesting the core values of our people.
The fact that so many Americans have so much patience with the policies of b.o. argues in favor of this thesis.
The American Republic is no longer a child nation. It is not as old as the oldest. But it is old enough to feel some of the aches and pains of maturity.

All other great civilizations have eventually declined.

It is a sobering thought to think that the exceptional positive qualities of the United States are already in a state of terminal decline.

A people eventually get the government they deserve.

Do we deserve b.o. and his brand of government??

Maybe we do.

And then again, maybe we do not.