Slowly, very slowly, dumb-ass Bush is waking up to Uncle Dick
when you don't have what it takes to do the job and you rely on a vp and a chief political advisor/deputy chief of staff who are both strongly allied with the forces of darkness and you accept their advice whole cloth, you better be prepared for the consequences...
bush is a big boy (some might argue otherwise), he makes his own choices, he has a brain (again, some might argue otherwise), and there's no reason on god's green earth why he couldn't have made his own independent analyses of the wisdom of what he was being told... but no... he didn't... and now, he's gonna pay... tough shit, george...
we'll all just wait to see if his self-proclaimed toughness and decisiveness will lead him to do what has to be done or if he's going to go into his usual avoidance and denial mode and hope that it will all go away...
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bush is a big boy (some might argue otherwise), he makes his own choices, he has a brain (again, some might argue otherwise), and there's no reason on god's green earth why he couldn't have made his own independent analyses of the wisdom of what he was being told... but no... he didn't... and now, he's gonna pay... tough shit, george...
we'll all just wait to see if his self-proclaimed toughness and decisiveness will lead him to do what has to be done or if he's going to go into his usual avoidance and denial mode and hope that it will all go away...
[S]ources familiar with Bush's thinking say Cheney's zealous advocacy for what has become a troubled Iraq policy has taken a toll - especially since Cheney's predictions about how Iraq would play out have proven optimistic.Submit To Propeller
These sources also said Libby's indictment was a wakeup call for White House aides who have long believed the Cheney national security operation has enjoyed too much of a free hand in administration policymaking.
"The vice president's office will never be quite as independent from the White House as it has been," said a key Bush associate. "That will end.
"Cheney never operated without a degree of [presidential] license, but there are people around who cannot believe some of the advice [Bush] has been given."
The source declined to offer any specifics, citing the extraordinary sensitivity surrounding the Bush-Cheney relationship.
The News reported on Oct. 24 that Bush has told associates Cheney was overly immersed in intelligence issues in the runup to the 2003 Iraq war.
A highly placed source said the President believes Cheney "got too deeply concerned with being portrayed as the source of the Wilson trip."
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posted by profmarcus at
11/08/2005
