Three More Years! Three More Years!
I’ve pointed this sad fact out on SLOG last week and today the New York Times makes the same point—and, no, I’m not saying the Times is lifting talking points from the likes of me. The New Yorker has decried this same sad fact, and everywhere I went on my book tour people brought it up.
George W. Bush has three more years—more than three, actually—left in office. From the editorial column in today’s NYT:
After President Bush’s disastrous visit to Latin America, it’s unnerving to realize that his presidency still has more than three years to run. An administration with no agenda and no competence would be hard enough to live with on the domestic front. But the rest of the world simply can’t afford an American government this bad for that long.
Okay, NYT, so the world can’t live afford an American government this bad for that long. Agreed. So what do you propose we do about it? Considering the lies, cronyism, incompetence, and man-made disasters that Bush has inflicted on this country and the world, and considering the groundwork Bush has laid for future disasters through his refusal to address global warming, shouldn’t an editorial pointing out the fact that the world can’t afford an American government this bad for that long end with something stronger than a call for Dick Cheney to kept “too busy attending funerals and acting as the chairman of studies” to do more harm? Isn’t the problem ultimately George W. Bush? And if we can’t afford three more years of lies, corruption, cronyism, and incompetence, shouldn’t your editorial end with a call for impeachment?