Amen

A spot-on editorial from the WSJ on the disgraceful way this nation has treated President Bush.

. . . it should seem obvious that many of our country's current problems either existed long before Mr. Bush ever came to office, or are beyond his control. Perhaps if Americans stopped being so divisive, and congressional leaders came together to work with the president on some of these problems, he would actually have had a fighting chance of solving them . . .

The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have. The president is not to blame for all these problems. He never lost faith in America or her people, and has tried his hardest to continue leading our nation during a very difficult time.

Our failure to stand by the one person who continued to stand by us has not gone unnoticed by our enemies. It has shown to the world how disloyal we can be when our president needed loyalty -- a shameful display of arrogance and weakness that will haunt this nation long after Mr. Bush has left the White House.

Evening Addendum: I did not realize/appreciate how viscerally I would feel about the results of this election - and it's kind of crept up on me over the course of the day. From a comment by Stormy at Guarino's, " . . . it is a good learning lesson for Republicans and conservatives that think that they can reach across the aisle and not have their arm chewed-off. This is the same mistake that John McCain made. He thought that he had made his mark as a party maverick, and Democrats would embrace him because of it. Not! Republicans and conservatives need to learn a hard lesson here. Democrats play for keeps. If you are foolish enough to think that you can be bi-partisan and move toward their positions to get agreement, this is what you will always get. "Mr. Bush has endured relentless attacks from the left while facing abandonment from the right." It's exactly what would have happened to John McCain, if elected."

Accordingly (Arabella), Dubya-haters need not post here today (and if you do, you've completely missed the entire point of the post). Your comments will be rejected. Tomorrow may be another day, but I am not feeling like reaching across the aisle tonight.

I want to keep my arm.

The true patriot you rejected cannot raise his.