The End of the Bush Era?

President Bush has been pummeled this past month with relentless attacks and aspersions. Anti-American leftists, hiding behind the flag in order to conceal their glaring shades of red, have been attempting for months to whip up a significant number of anti-war and anti-Bush protests across the country. In this, they have failed. Their pathetic demonstrations number in the hundreds on a good day and even their limited success can only be accredited to their willing accomplices in the media, giving them far more attention than they deserve.

The climax of this onslaught of vitriol came in the aftermath of the flooding in New Orleans. Despicable calumniators on the left accused the president of intentional negligence, ultimately rooted in hatred for black people. Blind hatred for President Bush has always been, and remains, the prime fuel for the radical base of the Democrat Party. Unable to debate civilly in the arena of ideas and philosophy (and subsequently losing repeatedly at the polls) liberals have resorted to unparalleled scare tactics in a last-ditch attempt to weaken the president in the eyes of the American public. At the first taste of blood, the Left rejoices as the president’s approval rating has fallen to an all time low. Certainly, the countless poisonous arrows fired at the president have taken their toll. With Bush on the ropes, and the Furies of the left taking aim at the jugular, editorialists, dipping their pens in venom, are gleefully chanting the funeral dirge signaling the demise of the “Bush Era”. Despite the political rapture of the left at the weakened state of the president, this is hardly the mortal wound some may be hoping for. While the left is obsessed with and distracted by fickle polls and busy planting seeds of racial discord, the president is deftly remolding the judiciary, arguably the most powerful and influential branch of government, in his own image. The political impact of his appointments will no doubt be enormous and the influence of the Bush era appointees will extend decades after Bush leaves office. Already presented with the opportunity to fill two vacancies, and speculation is swirling that one more will follow next summer, the down-but-not-out-president is flexing his political muscles and reminding all skeptics that he is still a force to be reckoned with in Washington. The left has become so clouded by their own delusions and wrath that they cannot see this simple reality. Perhaps they do see it and choose to ignore it. Whatever the case, the left is fooling itself if it think that it can rise from the ashes of Bush’s supposedly moribund presidency. The president sees in the long-term, while the left is trapped in the limited prism of the past. At the present, the president may be wounded politically and in this respect the left has the advantage. Seeing a battle won, they refuse to recognize that they’re losing the overall war against conservatism. While the press would have Americans believe that President Bush’s agenda is DOA for the remainder of his term, time and history will prove that the president has more than enough strength to deliver a homerun for conservatism in the judiciary.
Judge John Roberts