One MILLION dollars!

Bush has to be getting anxious at this point. His popularity ratings are in the toilet. DeLay has been indicted. Frist is sure to follow. Liddy Dole is running Republican fundraising for the mid-terms into the ground. His response to Katrina has shown him to be aloof and imperialistic at best...cruel, racist, and uncaring at worst. We're getting our asses handed to us in Iraq by an insurgency that they must have known would be a problem. Looks like they read their history books; this is exactly the same kind of guerilla warfare that wore us down year by year in Vietnam.

At least his daughters haven't been arrested lately, but this is most likely because they're over 21 and can no longer be arrested for underage possession. They can still be arrested for public intox, though, like Bush's nephew Jeb Jr. Ha HA! Quality runs in this family, and it runs fast.

I can't wait for the '06 midterms. I really can't. I have a feeling that the Democrats are going to gain a lot of ground, possibly winning back the Senate and sharply reducing the Republican majority in the House. Hell, if more top-ranking Republicans are indicted, we might just take both houses. The Republicans took over Congress in 1994, promising to sweep aside deeply-entrenched Democratic corruption and cronyism that took four decades to build. In the space of 10 years, they have managed to match the Democrats in the corruption stakes and outperform them in the cronyism stakes. Bra-VO, guys. Really. That must have taken a lot of effort.

And to sweeten the pie, the religious right wing of the party is running out of candidates to field in 2008 because they keep getting into trouble. So far, McCain and Giuliani look like strong contenders, but McCain is critical of Bush and Giuliani is a liberal Republican who will not please the religious right. Condoleezza Rice looks like a possibility, but I'll believe neocons will vote for a black woman when I see it. The next few years should be interesting.