‘You Are Not Being Governed’
May 17th, 2006 at 8:12 pm by Susie
Dick Meyer, editorial director of cbsnews.com:
Washington - The great impulse of the punditocracy right now is to look at President Bush’s swelling problems with the public and his party in the context of the elections coming up in November and then in 2008. Big mistake.
Short of another disaster on the scale of 9/11, George Bush no longer has the power, credibility or ability to effectively govern for the rest of his term in office. Contrary to what you hear on television, governing remains more important than campaigning. Government is more important than elections - to the extent the two can be differentiated anymore. [...]
But what is apparent, is that George Bush has at his disposal none — none — of the tools presidents have used to turn bad situations around: public support, party support or skilled statecraft. He’s a lame duck less than two years in to his second term. You are not being governed.
