The Democrat Burrowers Inside The Bush Presidency

Flopping Aces ^ | 02-15-08 | Curt

[Starman417]

A great section of author Kenneth Timmerman's new book Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender is the section about a supposed failing of the Bush administration. That failing being the fact that Bush didn't purge the CIA and other segments of the government of liberal influences as Clinton did of conservative influences when he came in. Who was at fault for this?

Carl Levin understood that no president could govern effectively without putting his own highly skilled political appointees into key government positions. Although their numbers were small - the congressional "Plum Book" that was published every time a new president came into office listed just 7,000 in the year 2000 - they were critical. These were the men and women who gave direction to the unwieldy federal bureaucracy. Effective political appointees were essential for any president to transform his political vision into action. Without them, a president was like a cork bobbing in the ocean, swept by the wind and the currents.

Levin and other top Democrats in the U.S. Senate were determined to prevent George W. Bush from getting the people he wanted into positions of power. Since all top nominees had to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, that gave the Democrats - who held a 50-49-1 majority once Vermont Republican James Jeffords quit the Republican party unexpectedly in May 2001 - powerful tools.

Senate confirmation has always been a contentious process. Since the Nixon years, Senators Edward Kennedy and Joseph Biden have held conservative judges hostage to a litmus test on abortion and other left-wing causes. But at the start of the Bush administration, the Democrats took aim not at judges (that would come later) but at the president's counter-terrorism and national security team.

For nearly seven months, Levin and this Democratic teammates prevented confirmation hearings of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's top advisor's - Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith, Assistant Secretary of Defense fo International Security Programs J.D. Crouch, and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Peter W. Rodman. "While Levin was holding up their appointments, the incoming Pentagon policy team had no legal or political authority to do their vital jobs - a fact that helps explain why it took eight months for the Bush administration to draw up a strategic operational plan to destroy al-Qaeda," wrote J. Michale Waller, a defense and intelligence policy specialist at the Institute of World Politics.

[SkyPilot]

Bush should have fired all 250 US Attorneys as Bill Clinton did.

The Liberal Communist Media gave Bush hell for firing 8 US Attorneys who were basically DNC agents. So, what did he have to lose?

[iopscusa]

This is treason and Levin etal need to be hung!
While Levin was holding up their appointments, the incoming Pentagon policy team had no legal or political authority to do their vital jobs - a fact that helps explain why it took EIGHT MONTHS for the Bush administration to draw up a strategic operational plan to destroy al-Qaeda,” wrote J. Michale Waller, a defense and intelligence policy specialist at the Institute of World Politics.

[Jack Black]

Elections are becoming pointless. When the losing side refuses to get out of power what’s the point? Bush should start firing Democrats in all these places NOW. That will save McCain the trouble if he wins, and if Obama wins he’ll have to rehire them, which is tit for tat in a nice way.

But, Bush is gutless as we’ve long seen.

[bboop]

Rush interviews Timmerman in his latest newsletter. It is chilling. I have to get that book. There were libs (CIA?) going to European heads of state, telling them that we all hated Bush, to just wait, that the UN Resolution re Iraq wouldn’t pass, that they were going to disable Bush. Sounds like a roomful of people who should be shot at dawn, imho.

[hinckley buzzard]

This is treason and Levin etal need to be hung!

Hanged. Otherwise, no argument. But you know what? GW Bush was hanging around the White House for much of his father's administration. He saw, first hand, what kind of obscene filth controlled the 'rat party.

After winning the election, and dealing with the aftermath, including the clinton crime machine's refusal to release transition funds and resources, thereby breaking the law and crippling the adminisrations ability to hit the ground running, he should have known what he was up against.

George Bush's failure to preserve and protect the integrity of the US government constituted dereliction of duty; and led not only to 9/11 but to the failure to manage the bureaucracy needed to carry out the policies of the government.

I don't blame diseased 'rat scum for being what they are. I blame George Bush for not seeing what any reasonably attentive observer could see in a moment. Willful blindness to facts is no defence under the law.

[iopscusa]

Yep, I think you have made the case for who to blame for this dysfunctional government and for the naivete of anyone who thinks that they can bring civility to Washington. But GW refused to do what needed to be done in the changing of the guard after elected. However can you imagine that Al Gore would have been anything more than a continuation and increase of power of the Clinton Crime Syndicate?

[Loud Mime]

The Democrats have held up every appointment possible, then complained to the public that nothing was getting done.