No Lame Duck - Just A Dead One

This has got to be the dumbest post I have seen in months:

No Lame Duck
By Matt Margolis at 04:23 PM
Jayson over at PoliPundit explains how Bush has gotten a lot more done in the first four and half months of his second term than many people realize. I have to agree. The Democrats were calling Bush a lame duck even while we were all still celebrating his reelection victory (I do have to admit, just to be fair, that I am still celebrating his victory) but contrary to their claims, Bush has taken on a very ambitious second term agenda, and we still have a few years left!

Of course, when you click on the link, it simply takes you to another Bush blog making self-serving statements. And, god-forbid, you should try to post a disenting opinion! Daily Kos has a thread going on THAT!

As for duck soup:

Two days after winning reelection last fall, President Bush declared that he had earned plenty of "political capital, and now I intend to spend it." Six months later, according to Republicans and Democrats alike, his bank account has been significantly drained.

In the past week alone, the Republican-led House defied his veto threat and passed legislation promoting stem cell research; Senate Democrats blocked confirmation, at least temporarily, of his choice for U.N. ambassador; and a rump group of GOP senators abandoned the president in his battle to win floor votes for all of his judicial nominees.

With his approval ratings in public opinion polls at the lowest level of his presidency, Bush has been stymied so far in his campaign to restructure Social Security. On the international front, violence has surged again in Iraq in recent weeks, dispelling much of the optimism generated by the purple-stained-finger elections back in January, while allies such as Egypt and Uzbekistan have complicated his campaign to spread democracy.

Bush faces the potential of a summer of discontent when his capacity to muscle political Washington into following his lead seems to have diminished and few easy victories appear on the horizon.

I'd say the duck is done. Read more here.