MUST READ . . .
ANDY CARD supports the President [Andy Card has always been a ‘class’ act!]
FORMER BUSH CHIEF: CRITICS WANT FAILURE
By Andrew Miga
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Congressional critics of President Bush’s Iraq policy “seem to be rooting for failure,” former White House chief of staff Andrew Card said Tuesday. In an interview with The Associated Press, Card said lawmakers’ efforts to mandate withdrawal timelines and threats to cut funding go beyond the scope of their duties. And he blamed critics in both parties for putting a negative slant on the war.
“We should be rooting for success,” Card said. “I’m very upset that I see many of his critics, who are partisans, Republicans or Democrats, who seem to be rooting for failure. You know, they don’t like his plan, therefore they want it to fail.”
You can read the entire article here:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/03/national/w144055D23.DTL
You will find reaction to this article featured on the following thread posted by SmithL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811467/posts
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MATTHEW DOWD stabs the President in the back and is taken to task for it by Jeffrey Lord
MATTHEW DOWD STOCKMAN
By Jeffrey Lord
Published 4/2/2007 12:08:03 AM
Why are the views of Matthew Dowd a surprise?
To the New York Times, the one-time “top strategist” for President Bush who has now turned on the President because of the Iraq War is a predictable hero, fodder for a front page story (”Ex-Aide Details a Loss of Faith in the President”).
Yet in reading of the defection of one-time Bush loyalist Matthew Dowd, the fact that Dowd “in a wide ranging interview” with Times reporter Jim Rutenberg “called for a withdrawal from Iraq and expressed his disappointment in Mr. Bush’s leadership” should come as no surprise at all. Why?
As Rutenberg’s article makes clear, Dowd was once “a top strategist for the Texas Democrats” who was “impressed by the pledge of Mr. Bush to bring a spirit of cooperation to Washington.” Says Dowd of Bush: “It’s almost like you fall in love, I was frustrated about Washington, the inability for people to get stuff done and bridge divides. And this guy’s personality — he cared about education and taking a different stand on immigration.” Now, the man who, as a Bush strategist in the 2004 Presidential campaign, criticized Democratic nominee Senator John Kerry for proposing “a weak defense” believes that “Kerry was right” about Iraq.
In other words, Matthew Dowd did not support George W. Bush because Dowd was himself a principled conservative. No, Dowd signed on to the Bush effort because, by his own admission, he “fell in love” with Bush’s personality.
You can read the entire commentary here:
http://spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11235
I adore you for posting that second article. Thank you so much!
(Rhetorical question).
Doesn't sound like poor Matty is a very well grounded person, does it?
I don't think J. Lord has quite gotten to the bottom of Dowd's disaffection. I don't think we ever hear the whole story on stories such as this.
How could a man go from saying Kerry's Kave-In Kalamity proposals are not good, to saying Bush's policies are not good? What changed in either politician's stance? They haven't changed but it looks like Dowd may have changed his views on the war -- or some other unnamed topic -- and then changed his views on the president ... that Dowd was no longer getting what he wanted out of the working relationship. This type of situation always makes me look for the smoke of some perceived or real personal injury, resulting in the former employee having an ax to grind.
Card said lawmakers’ efforts to mandate withdrawal timelines and threats to cut funding go beyond the scope of their duties.
Go Andy go!!!
Sounds like Dowd should be disenchanted with the DEMOCRATS, then! The President has gone out of his way to be nice to those folks, and is constantly being criticized by them. The UN-civil tone is not coming from the White House.