The Week Ahead

It’s almost been a week since the citizenry of the U.S. displayed their disdain for the current political leadeship and started the country down a new path, and as we embark on the last few weeks of 2006 it is once again time for a little thing we like to call; The Week Ahead. Enjoy.

• 31%… that’s what Bush’s job approval rating is according to a new Newsweek poll. That sound you hear is more air being deflated out of the gop…


• Keep in mind that the final session of the current republican controlled lame-duck Congress begins today with legislation on the agenda that… that… well… that really doesn’t have any effect on life as we know it. Unless you count the Administration’s non-wavering desire to push through the nomination of John Bolton… which doesn’t sound like it’s really plausible anyway. And speaking of The Mustachioed One…


• Keep an eye on Bolton this week… no real reason… just keep an eye on him… that bushy mustache of his makes me believe he’s up to no good…


• Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he will NOT run for president in 2008 but instead will focus on his work in the Senate. (Unfotunately, this was one of the more-sterling possibilites that the Dems had, certainly better than Clinton or Kerry, and his annoucement has taken quite a few, including me, by surprise. Of course, that means that the possible field has now “dwindled” to approximately 123 potential nominees…)


• Pay attention to the war in Iraq as Democratic leaders in the Senate have already announced their “top priority” when the new (Democratically-controlled) Senate convenes in a few months. The plan can be summed up in four words: Phased. Redeployment. Of. Troops. (I’ll believe it when I see it…)


• You may want to keep an eye on conservative pundits in the next few weeks… lest they all commit acts of Hari Kari. Case in point: Bob Novak has stated that the republicans will re-elect its old leadership rather than go with someone new. Novak’s response to that was to label it an act of “supreme irrationality”… and he’s supposedly on their side…


• “President” Bush’s plan to push through his domestic surveillance legislation through the lame-duck congress ain’t gonna happen. This newsflash comes from both sides of the aisle…


• Pay attention as Daddy is coming to Dubya’s rescue to try and salvage what’s left of his “Presidency.” Interesting… he’s relying on a one-term president to bail him out. Is this a Greek Tragedy or U.S. politics?

That’s all, take ‘em as you will…