After 5 Years, White House Core Intact

AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/30/05 | Jennifer Loven - ap

[caveat emptor]

"They've been there long enough to qualify for the Medicare prescription drug benefit," quipped Paul Light, a professor of organizational studies at New York University. The big question is how much longer Bush's inner circle can hold together.

About 3 years and 3 weeks.

[festus]

The big question is how much longer Bush's inner circle can hold together.

Three years at the most I'd say.

[ClaudiusI]

The new Rat Pack? :)

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

"WASHINGTON - Loyalty and continuity have marked the Bush White House since early on. After two wars, devastating strikes by terrorists and hurricanes..."

It really makes me angry that the administration has failed to keep control of the language and terminology of this conflict. It's now almost a univerally accepted concept that Bush has 'fought two wars' - whereas the reality is that the United States has led an international coalition in two campaigns or operations (if you must) in the Global War on Terror. There have been other smaller operations, many of them covert. This notion of two wars does not necessarily allow people to understand that there will likely be continued operations over the long term, possibly decades.

Sorry for the rant, but I feel the words are important, because they mean certain things.

Semper Fi,

[hinckley buzzard]

"If people stay that long, group-think can set in, and that's dangerous for a president," Gergen said.

David Gergan, after a career of straddling the fence so vigorously that he no longer qualifies as male OR female, weighs in with another profundity of elephantine proportions.

[NormsRevenge]

David Gergan, after a career of straddling the fence so vigorously that he no longer qualifies as male OR female, weighs in with another profundity of elephantine proportions.

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queue Leon Panetta.. ;-)

[Mogollon]

"If people stay that long, group-think can set in, and that's dangerous for a president," Gergen said.

I see that FNC is now using Gergen as a commentator. More proof that FNC is going over to the dark side.

[El Gato]

the United States has led an international coalition in two campaigns or operations (if you must) in the Global War on Terror. Radical Islamism.

A small correction. Terror is a tactic, tool or weapon. One must properly identify the enemy if one is to have any hope of winning.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

Correction accepted...you're right. It is better to describe the enemy with all possible clarity.

[winodog]

The more I look at those pics the more I laugh.