while validly pointing out all the different powers that be in this country that are influential and heavily left leaning, the bottom line is President Bush has the ultimate say as his fingers are on all the controls that count
a) failure to clean-out the CIA after 9/11;
b) failure to go after the leakers starting in 2004;
c) failure to go after the press working with the leakers;
d) failure to go after the press hiring terrorists as stringers;
e) failure to go after domestic traitors like Code Pink;
f) failure to use the force necessary to crush the Baath and al Sadr and to restore order in Iraq;
g) failure to beef up ground forces for an extended occupation;
h) failure to kick the Dems in the nuts and to focus the national spotlight on their collusion with leftist cockroaches;
i) failure to enforce immigration control;
j) failure to recruit good conservative candidates for the GOP and supporting RINO's and any sleazebag member of the swinger's Club Incumbent.
k) failure to control spending;
Every single one of these failures led to a press filled with enemy and Dem propaganda, a heartened enemy abroad and a depressed base at home.
The Dems and our foreign enemies can smell the weakness now oozing out of the Bush Administration.