Posted on 12/06/2006 2:06:31 PM PST by Sabramerican
JOHN Bolton's resignation as the American ambassador to the United Nations makes it official: The Bush administration is now drifting idly toward a mixture of centrism and impotence.
In less than a month, two of President Bush's stronger and more independent aides - Donald Rumsfeld and Bolton - have been dispatched. Rumsfeld's designated successor, former CIA head Robert Gates, is a leading member of the Beltway's permanent bureaucracy.
The administration seems to be waiting for the Baker-Hamilton commission of old Washington hands to dictate U.S. policy on Iraq. Leaks from the commission suggest it will recommend a gradual U.S. withdrawal camouflaged by negotiations with Iran and Syria over a new Mideast grand bargain.
All of this feeds an exaggerated defeatism in the United States over Iraq.
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Rumsfeld's abrupt firing was an act of flagrant disloyalty to a loyal subordinate. The defense secretary had made his share of mistakes - notably, his failure to crush looting immediately after the fall of Baghdad - but he had followed the president's policy faithfully.
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We don't know for certain the reasons for Bolton's departure: Either the White House wasn't prepared to fight for him, or he was no longer prepared to lend his voice to the diplomatic charade over Iran and North Korea. Either way, his departure demonstrates timidity on the administration's part. The net result will be that Bush has one less loyal subordinate in the shrinking ranks of his own administration.
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The Bush administration is the opposite of the month of March: It started as a lion but will end as a lamb.
The MSM's wet dream.
Drifting? Seems more like a steady march to me.
Misunderestimated again!
Why do they act like Bolton was approved by the senate .. or even had a chance of being approved before he resigned??
Puh-leaze! Get over that word. Rumsfeld was not fired.
There's so much garbage being flung around. And conservatives are not exempt from flinging it just as much as the left.
That pretty much sums it up. They've been adrift in those waters for a while, but now it's getting really obvious.
"Drifting? Seems more like a steady march to me."
More like a full sprint. The spines in the GOP were lost in November and we are being set up for Presdent Roddam in 2009. That would be the President's Sister in Law, by they way.
Only because many suffer from an addiction of wanting to be outraged at Pres. Bush.
It gets their adrenalin flowing...for some it feels good to be angry and Pres. Bush is the target at every turn.
Because they have a slant against the President and don't want such an inconvenient truth to get in the way of it...
Mr DailyKOS is saying that according to his sources, the nomination is now Barack Hussein Obama's to lose. He says Hillary cannot win, as things stand now.
All I have to say is that I will NEVER forget what so many in the media have done
How is it Bush's fault the nimrods in the Senate wouldn't approve Bolton?
Be careful what you ask for, as the saying goes.
You wish!
And expecting to find one from a Bush basher? Good luck.
The President has lost his way. I realize now he really is lacking serious intellect, heart, and courage. He is taking his administration and the GOP into mediocrity and irrelevance. History will judge him harshly, and his effect on our national security will be seen as detrimental.
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