"How much such moves reflect a genuine opening up for an insular White House remains uncertain."

even the most cursory review of the bush administration will reveal that every single move has been calculated solely for show and, once the surface is scratched, that's ALL there is - show...

a look at an earlier post tells the real story... bush may give the APPEARANCE of listening and inviting in critics, but it isn't changing a goddam thing... as with everything else in this nightmarish presidency, there are no substantive actions to back up the words, it's all smoke and mirrors...

When retired Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey criticized the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war three years ago, he was lambasted as an armchair general and deemed an adversary by the Pentagon. So even McCaffrey was surprised to find himself in the Oval Office this week giving President Bush his thoughts on Iraq.

A White House long accused of squelching internal dissent and ignoring outside viewpoints has been reaching out in its moment of weakness to prominent figures who have disagreed with the president. Bush just hired a Treasury secretary who opposed his policy on global warming and a press secretary who dismissed his domestic agenda as

How much such moves reflect a genuine opening up for an insular White House remains uncertain.

bush's credibility, at least for the cognoscenti, was slim to nonexistent beginning with the supreme court decision of december 12, 2000, and has been in sub, sub, SUB-basement territory ever since...

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