I would think that one of the toughest things about being President of the United States, is being the leader of your party. It isn’t like you don’t have enough to do running the country… you also have to ride heard on a bunch of elected official as well as office seekers who try to use you or your office to help them get elected.

In normal times this would be difficult, but considering what is going in in this country these days, it really must be awful!

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for you, hasn’t it?

I mean, first, your main political advisor, Karl Rove…
… is forced from office resigned under a cloud for his roles in the exposure of an active CIA operative, and for his involvement in the questionable firing of eight U.S. Attorneys for political reasons.

Next, you had to fire your Attorney General…

…resigns because he lies every time he opens his mouth, and got caught doing it.

Then the most recent National Intelligence Estimate tells us that, despite your claims of success for the troop surge in Iraq, the country’s government will become more precarious over the next six months.

Next on the hit-parade is a soprano-singing, staunch conservative GOP Senator…

…who gets caught trying to do the nasty with an undercover cop in an airport men’s room, forcing him to announce his resignation (nice mug shot, Senator).

As if all of these things weren’t bad enough, John Warner, a well-respected moderate GOP Senator (from my own Commonwealth of Virginia) has decided not to seek re-election, severely jeopardizing the chances of your party holding on to that Senate seat next year.

I’ll bet you are sure glad that August is over.

Now for the good news: The General Accounting office will be putting out it’s estimate of the situation in Iraq soon. Rumor has it that the picture that they paint will be none too Rosie. even before the military report that is expected from General Petraeus.

I’ll bet months like this make you look forward to getting out of the White House.

I know that I am looking forward to that happy day a lot more than you.

Sincerely,

Your pal,

Gunfighter

I hope you enjoyed the trip.

Gunfighter lives with his family in Washington, DC’s northern Virginia suburbs. When he isn’t coaching soccer, teaching sunday school, singing in the choir, or working in the yard, he makes a living as a tactical firearms instructor for a federal law enforcement agency. When he grows up, he wants to be a novelist… or hand out balloons at Disney World. You can read his blog at The View From Here, where he can be founding on a number of subjects.

This has been brought to you by the September Blog Exchange! This month, our theme was “Dear Mr President…” I want to thank Gunfighter for coming over and remind you to pop over to his place and see what my thoughts were on the subject  

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