[Swanks]

Early on, the Bush team made a fateful decision about Clarke

Friggin' A. Learn a lesson Bush. See what being a partisan nice guy gets you (and us taxpayers; how much will this 6 month hatchet job cost the taxpayers)

If you are able to win a second term, better clean the Executive branch of the hang-over Clintoon Rats.

[torchthemummy]

"The not so pardonable reason was a phenomenon I noted in The Right Man: a reluctance to use the hiring and firing power to shape the NSC in favor of the president’s policies. For almost a year, Bush and Condoleezza Rice tried to use Clinton holdovers to carry out Bush’s policies. Unsurprisingly, the experiment has not been a happy one."

Frum is commenting on what our Prez now knows: after he wins this next election he will clean out all vestiges of Clinton-era folks and will in the meanwhile lay traps to expose the former Republican appointees that are inclined towards sabatage or are as such active as I write.