Billmon: Exit Strategy

"It appears the next 16 months in American politics are going to be particularly ugly -- even by Rovian standards."--Billmon


One last aside about Rove's imitation of Spiro "nolo contendere" Agnew, and then I'll give the subject (and Turd Blossom himself) a rest.

In retrospect, I think Rove's comments will be seen as both the GOP's opening shot in the 2006 congressional elections and the swan song for Bush's ill-fated Social Security "reform" campaign. Depending on how things go at the polls next year, it could even be remembered as a kind of howled lament for the death of Bush's entire domestic program (with the significant exception of his bid to pack the federal courts with the kind of judges who think Plessy v. Ferguson was a perfectly sound piece of constitutional jurisprudence.)