What has Bush done right? Well, judging by this new CBS poll, not much! (I highlighted the most surprising numbers in red)

WHAT DO YOU LIKE BEST ABOUT BUSH’S PRESIDENCY?

WHAT DO YOU LIKE LEAST ABOUT BUSH’S PRESIDENCY?

As we approach the 2006 elections, things are just getting worse and worse for President Bush and the GOP. It all boils down to one issue: IRAQ.

There is no good ending to a war that you’ve already won. We need to bring the troops home and then the GOP can fight amongst themselves on who is better at screwing up America’s national security.

Recently, we at DoubleSpeak noted the Bush administration’s attempt to frame the “War on Terror” as “The Long War.” It’s clearly an attempt to justify an endless increase to the defense budget and counter-productive to ever achieving peace. Today, NPR probed the same story today on Morning Edition. Give a listen.

This should come as a surprise to nobody, but the Republican strategy to frame the War on Terror as a long-term conflict with no plausible scenario for conclusion is no longer an assumption. Secretary of Offense, Donald Rumsfeld today laid out a 20-year plan to fight the War on Terror. Nevermind Iraq, nevermind Afghanistan, we need to take on the whole world.

“Compelled by a militant ideology that celebrates murder and suicide with no territory to defend, with little to lose, they will either succeed in changing our way of life, or we will succeed in changing theirs,” Rumsfeld said in a speech at the National Press Club.

Instead of attempting to change our foreign policies that have created the hatred abroad that led to the terrorist strikes at home, the administration instead looks to lengthen a conflict to perpetuate the stereotypes that in times of crises and war, Republicans are better suited to lead America. Our only hope is to elect Democrats in 2006 and 2008, and prove him wrong.