Posted on 05/05/2006 12:19:03 PM PDT by woodb01
I stated it here back at the beginning & got castigated for even thinking such. Some at that time had GW being on Mt Rushmore.
In my more cynical moods, I think the purpose of the Republican Party is to serve as a pretense that there is any opposition to the Leftist agenda
It's part of the game that this corrupt "Two-Party Cartel" inflicts on the nation & the sheeple can't for some strange reason see it. How many Charlie Brown missed kicks does it take before you know the outcome & then the worst is to keep doing the same thing. In political terms it is voting these same vermin back in.
He's already been named .. General Hayden. He's a staunch supporter of the President's NSA foreign spying program.
I think the CIA could use a little military discipline.
And .. this guy seemed to be ready and waiting for Goss to leave .. I mean .. this couldn't have been a suprise to the President.
How True Bump!
Clinton, when he came into office, fired every Federal Judge and put in his handpicked Judges.
Bush should have done the same, but we STILL have many Clinton Judges in power.
Bush dropped the (ca) bal...
Much as I can't stand Clinton, he didn't fire ANY Federal Judge. They are appointed for life and can only retire or be impeached.
Bush couldn't "fire" any federal judge.
Facts indeed. If I lean left its from medals and ribbons over the years and too much corrider walkin in Arlington prior to my "civilian" job. I've never voted Democrat in my life. But by any stretch Goss dropped the ball, it's bad for the President, the country and it's gonna get worse.Sorry to say.
Plenty of people told him myself included but he did it his way?
And continues to do so. The program is way more involved, time consuming, and just a royal pain the a$$, than it needs to be.
For example, there is absolutely no reason why armed pilots need be reserve federal marshals, none, nada, zip, but that's what they must become if they wish to have the means to protect their aircraft and it's passengers.
CIA, and OSS before it, always recruited analysts, and some others, from the most liberal of academic institutions.
That's what it is like to govern as a Republican in Washington, D.C.
The media is hard core Leftist.
Clinton could get away with mass firings. No one would report a peep.
Can you imagine the extended outrage that would have occurred if Bush had tried that?
It is not a level playing field.
Our Founding Fathers did one hell of a job, to set up a Constitutional Republic that has so far survived (sort of) even this massive, century long, onslaught of high treason from so many fronts, so well funded.
One Prodigy poster – a programmer and software entrepreneur named Jim Robinson – later wrote, "I became frustrated with ... Prodigy's frequent threats to censor users of the Whitewater bulletin-board. In addition, I was also beginning to realize that the Internet was a much larger audience than Prodigy, which was a 'subscription' service which was accessed directly by modem, rather than being accessed by the Internet." Robinson launched his own website – FreeRepublic.com – in 1996.
In effect, Robinson chose to "light out for the territories" – the wide-open spaces of the unregulated Internet – rather than submit to corporate censorship. Millions would do likewise in the years ahead.
But those wide-open spaces were not as free as they seemed. By 1996, Hillary's plan to suppress dissident speech on the Net was already in motion.
This is a huge blow!! The fact that there is no sign that Bush attempted to talk him into staying and/or to help him in his fight to clean up the CIA is disturbing. This tells me that the leftists like Risen, Mary McCarthy and this former CIA McGovern character are really running the show. Bush is looking very compromised!
I suggest you read "CIA 1-Bush 0" posted today on Free Republic.
A partial quote: "Goss is gone and so are his agents of change. Two of the CIA officials at the heart of that opening battle--Mary Margaret Graham and Stephen Kappes--have been promoted. And the old guard is happy. "The move was seen as a direct repudiation of Goss's leadership and as an olive branch to CIA veterans disaffected by his 18-month tenure,"
It seems that Bush was indeed compromised!!
GWB wasn't compromised in the least (and those in the know understand this completely) - It was the CIA and its role that has been compromised and the nation is better off for it.
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