{"id":1838,"date":"2005-09-14T21:55:54","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T01:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2005-09-14T21:55:54","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T01:55:54","slug":"the-end-of-the-bush-eraan-epitaph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1838","title":{"rendered":"The End of the Bush Era…An Epitaph"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been working on a rather important story since I’ve returned home. You’ll recognize it when you see it. Hopefully very soon. So apologies in the meantime for things having slowed down here a bit since my return. Plus, the good David Edwards, Winter Patriot and Joseph Cannon<\/a> all deserve a bit of a break since pulling extra long Guest Blogging duty in the wake of my unexpectedly long summer “vacation”. Hopefully they will each continue to contribute here, however, after a bit of a well-deserved rest. They are welcome any time and I can’t thank them all enough for their tremendous work here while I was on the road. Especially since I’ll soon be heading out for it again to make my way up to participate in the National Summit to Save Our Elections<\/a> in Portland along with Thom Hartmann, Bob Koehler, Jesse Jackson Jr. and other illuminaries too numerous to mention at the end of the month.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, I can’t seem to get this E.J. Dionne piece<\/a> from yesterday’s WaPo<\/i> out of my mind. Though Dionne may be jumping the gun a bit (anything and everything could happen any day now), his epitaph for the “End of the Bush Era” seems to be right on target. Or at least provide a bit of welcome and smart perspective to an America in trouble, but perhaps soon on the mend. Perhaps.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Here’s a few key grafs, though I recommend you read the whole thing<\/a> if you haven’t already:<\/p>\n

The Bush Era is over. The sooner politicians in both parties realize that, the better for them — and the country.<\/p>\n

Recent months, and especially the past two weeks, have brought home to a steadily growing majority of Americans the truth that President Bush’s government doesn’t work. His policies are failing, his approach to leadership is detached and self-indulgent, his way of politics has produced a divided, angry and dysfunctional public square. We dare not go on like this.
\n…
\nHe failed to realize after Sept. 11 that it was not we<\/i> who were lucky to have him as a leader, but he who was lucky to be president of a great country that understood the importance of standing together in the face of a grave foreign threat.
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\nAnd what of Bush, who has more than three years left in his term? Paradoxically, his best hope lies in recognizing that the Bush Era, as he and we have known it, really is gone. He can decide to help us in the transition to what comes next. Or he can cling stubbornly to his past and thereby doom himself to frustrating irrelevance.<\/div>\n

As I said (twice) read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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