WHAT WILL BUSH DO? STEAL THE ELECTION? FLEE TO PARAGUAY?

Panicked over his Regime's complete rejection by American voters, even George Bush now claims he isn't-- and never has been-- a "stay the course" kind of guy. Everything seems to be falling apart for someone being more and more recognized as the absolute worst chief executive in American history. Today the L.A. Times even exposes how his corrupt and venal family has cashed in on his devastating policies.

In his NY Times column today, Frank Rich says it's virtually impossible for the Democrats, despite themselves, to lose in 2 weeks. "The Democrats are so brilliant at yanking defeat from the jaws of victory that it still seems unimaginable that they might win on Nov. 7. But even the most congenital skeptic has to face that possibility now. Things have gotten so bad for the Republicans that were President Bush to unveil Osama bin Laden's corpse in the Rose Garden, some reporter would instantly check to see if his last meal had been on Jack Abramoff's tab. With an approval rating of 16 percent-- 16!-- in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, Congress has matched the Democrats of 1994 or, for that matter, Michael Jackson during his own version of Foleygate. As for Mr. Bush, he is once more hiding behind children in an elementary school, as he did last week when the monthly death toll for Americans in Iraq approached a nearly two-year high. And where else could he go? Some top Republican Congressional candidates in the red state he was visiting, North Carolina, would not appear with him. When the president did find a grateful campaign mate at his next stop, Pennsylvania, it was the married congressman who paid $5.5 million to settle a lawsuit by a mistress who accused him of throttling her."

So with every single poll and all the newspapers and television newscasters announcing that the Democrats will massively win in the House and may even defeat the forces of darkness in enough senatorial battles to take over the Senate as well, the Bush Regime mainstays are surely trying to decide what course of action to follow. "More than half of Americans, 55 percent, would like to see Democrats take control of Congress, according to a poll by Newsweek magazine released on Saturday... The poll found that 57 percent of those surveyed disapprove of Bush's job performance and just 35 percent approve. And it found that 67 percent are dissatisfied with the direction in which things are moving in the United States... 74 percent said a top priority for Congress should be to make changes to allow the government to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies to lower drug prices for seniors, and this included 70 percent of Republicans. And 68 percent of those polled said raising the minimum wage should also be a top priority." This is a gloom and doom scenario for Republicans, virtually all of whom have been rubber stamps for Bush, have voted overwhelmingly for his much-loathed Big Pharma giveaway and who all opposed raising the minimum wage.

So would they try to get away with just stealing the races electronically, like they did in 2004? Or would enough Americans scratch their heads and say "Hey this don't seem right. Where's that huntin' rifle, Betsy?"

Looks like Bush himself is preparing for any eventuality. Like a long line of disgraced tyrants before him, Bush may be getting ready to skip town and find himself a safe haven where he'll never have to face the Bar of Justice for his grotesquely criminal regime. "It has been reported that George W. Bush has recently purchased a 98,842 acre farm in Northern Paraguay. What on earth does the President of the United States need a 98,000+ acre farm in Northern Paraguay for?" Paraguay has some bizarre relations with the Bush Regime and in the past is known to have given safe haven to a wide array of dictators and war criminals from Juan Peron to a dozen escaped Nazis.


UPDATE: "STAY THE COURSE" FOR W HAS THE RING OF "READ BY LIPS" CIRCA 1992

The alternative title for this update was "Liar Liar, Pants On Fire." Does Rove really think Americans are that stupid? Even in Texas people know better. But just in case... Think Progress has put together a little video presentation to remind people of how Bush can barely open his mouth without lying.