And as usual, he knocks home some pretty damned good nails!

About a week ago, TCF passed the handyman's van parked in the back of the homestead and spied what I thought was another one of those spurious, yellow 'Support The Troops' ribbon decals. Yet, on closer inspection, the decal actually read 'Bring Our Troops Home Now'. That stunned moment of validation was replicated this past Thursday, as TCF took in the passionate eloquence of Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha in what will no doubt count as a watershed moment when such history of the Iraq War is finally written.

Leading Conservative William Kristol and his sniveling sidekick Smithers (aka Weekly Standard Managing Editor Fred Barnes) recently implored George Bush from their magazine's editorial page to fight back against his critics, concluding that his plummeting approvals were merely the result of an embolden, flip flopping Democratic opposition capably aided by their conspirators in the Liberal News Media. The historically (and accurately) chronicled precedent of recent occupiers of the White House who faced serious crisis in their second term already reads like a ----- Gate For Dummies. Yet, although Bush #43 began his first term determined to avoid the mistakes of Bush #41, he has no such second term reverse playbook with which to guide him.

A recent CBS Poll ranks the Plame Scandal more severe than that of Clinton's Monica Lewinsky, Reagan's Iran-Contra, and even Nixon's Watergate. Yet, history tells us that the most effective and eventually successful response to these crisis were achieved by those who recognized that they needed to clearly demonstrate to the American public that proper and sweeping changes would be made, as a result. Of those three examples, it is clear which President made the wrong choice.

If the Bush White House were to heed Kristol & Barnes' call to fight back, the boys at RoveVision would have but one option, and that is to revise the successful '04 campaign strategy they used against John Kerry. Unfortunately, the Swift Boat Vets are not yet up to speed to take on Murtha, so it's left to the five Vietnam War deferments Vice-President with a 24% percent approval rating to take up the smear shovel. And, is TCF the only one wondering how Scott McClellan could have left out MoveOn.org as one of the Congressman's new radical pals on the far Left?

A new ABC News Poll shows that only 1 out of 10 Americans support an immediate withdrawal, although an overwhelming 67% percent believe the war was not worth it, and 55% percent now believe the administration deceived us into war. Bush Apologists prefer to focus solely on the close to 2100 American lives lost so far, which is precisely why those on the Left must not let the sacrifices of those 17,000+ troops wounded in this unnecessary war go unnoticed.

Honestly I knew the day was coming that the American people would wake up to the deception, bullshit and dirt (yeah dirt, not just dirty), politics of the Republicans. Almost 20,000 Americans are dead or wounded as a result of the war in Iraq, and the Iraqi's themselves have just about had it... I guess they ran out of Candy and Flowers huh? War can be a mutha! Seems like it's all coming apart at times. With revelations coming daily about how this administration has ignored the law and every concept of international diplomacy and decency.

One thing that the politicians never seem to learn, is that it WILL all come out in the end. Secrets are hard to hide, and BIG secrets are even harder...

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