Posted on 05/22/2007 6:14:42 AM PDT by Theodore R.
Why Bush boggles the mind
Posted: May 22, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern
As if President Bush didn't have enough problems in his beleaguered Justice Department, a couple more key officials resigned last week.
One of them was a real surprise to me. His name was Lanny Davis.
Do you remember Lanny Davis from the Clinton years? He was the ultimate spinner – one of the very public faces of the scandal years, defending his boss come hell or Whitewater.
So why was his resignation from the Bush administration a surprise to me?
That wasn't the surprise at all. The surprise was that he was in the Bush administration in the first place.
When did this happen? Why? How? While Clinton wasted no time firing every U.S. attorney in the country to stack the department with his political sycophants, Bush apparently was busy filling Justice with people who were certain to turn against him.
Did anyone else know Davis had been appointed by Bush to serve on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board?
What were his qualifications? That he served as counsel to a former president who used the Internal Revenue Service to target his political enemies?
"In recent months, Davis has had numerous clashes with fellow board members and White House officials over what he saw as administration attempts to control the panel's agenda and edit its public statements," reports Newsweek.
Didn't Bush realize such a confrontation was only a matter of time? Does he not realize these people see politics as a blood sport? Doesn't he get that these people play for keeps?
Lanny Davis! Good heavens.
I hear Paul Begala is available, too. How did Bush miss recruiting him to the administration?
Not only is Bush a failed president, it is increasingly obvious he's not a very smart politician, either – unless he really has no principles at all.
Perhaps he doesn't care a whit about the Republican Party. Maybe he's the ultimate Manchurian Candidate – a Democrat who successfully infiltrated the Republican Party and became its president. It could be that he is actually very smart and has spent the last seven years actively destroying the GOP. If that's the case, he has done an excellent job. Mission accomplished.
Lanny Davis! Good heavens.
In no time, we'll be seeing him back on the talk-show circuit. This time he won't be defending his boss. He will be attacking Bush – the man who appointed him.
How predictable was this?
It wasn't a matter of if; it was only a matter of when.
Bush is such a loser.
I always knew this intuitively, but only now is the extent of his boobery becoming so hopelessly self-evident.
What was he thinking about?
I don't think we'll ever know. I don't think historians will be able to figure out what went on in this man's mind.
Lanny Davis! Good heavens.
Did Bush think he could win over Lanny Davis and secure for his own cause a loyalist who would defend him like Davis defended Clinton?
It boggles the mind.
Who else is working inside this Bush administration?
James Carville? Janet Reno? Webb Hubbell? Susan McDougal?
Seldom am I actually left speechless by the events of the day, but this one takes the cake.
It's too bad Bush will be leaving office in 2009. I hear Sandy Berger will be available for national security work again.
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Jack French Kemp, Jr., now that’s a laugh that never stops! Like the old Energizer bunny
Welcome to FRMust be nice to be a Bushbot despite the facts before us.
Qualifications have never been a requirement for hiring in this administration.
I did a little searching around and found that the fraternity was Delta Kappa Epsilon. Bush became president of the fraternity before he graduated.
I'd say that this is naive stupidity and not some sort of Skull & Bones plotting on Bush's part. He just doesn't seem to have understood that it is disastrous to pepper all your administrative bureaus with political enemies. He just doesn't seem to understand that a personal friend is not necessarily a political ally, or a suitable person to put into a position of trust.
It's one of Bush's greatest weaknesses. I would have said it was his worst weakness, until this immigration amnesty business and Law of the Sea Treaty business reminded me of an even worse weakness.
Thanks for the welcome.
So your position is that because I don’t consider GWB to be an anarchist or one of Lenin’s useful idiots that I must be a Bushbot?
I think that we must help our pols to do the right thing, help them with their PR, we must save them from themselves, it will take time, but we must compete.
If they see they have cover, they have a good machine, they will be more bold.
After all, the Dems have been able to say and do things unimaginable, lies, deceit, ect, for 40 years with their MSM cover.
Proof? Look at gov growth, culture, taxes, schools, ect, the left is winning. Republicans are becoming more and more liberal as a response to their voters who want more gov intervention with each election.
No, grassroots is the only way to go. We can’t just complain and make phone calls once the legislation is up for a vote, or not work until right before election time.
The DNC/MSM/Hollywood is a 24/7/365 political campaign machine, we should be also. Its a battle for the hearts and minds.
If this amnesty bill goes through, the Republican party would no longer be viable and would be a political party in name only. Actually that is the way it is now.
Yes, it’s a shell of itself, and Pat Buchanan figured that out in 1999, when I emailed him (as if he read the emails) and pleaded with him to stay in the GOP.
That’s why this cat has been meowing for years for either monarchy or anarchy. I tole you so, but you wooden lissen!
The very definition of the word "sock puppet".
The new tone in Washington.
So seven years later Crazy Joe points out the obvious to many of us oh about 7 years ago? So I take it he’s no longer hawking for the administration on some of its other failed un-conservative policies? This isn’t a suprise at all. Just more of the same ol’, same ol’. Politicians (well most of them) are all alike. After 20 years of the Bush/Clinton stranglehold on the Executive Branch, I’m suprised Chelsea isn’t dating someone closely related to the Bush family
Well, let me be the first to say that if George W. Bush was able to run again...rather than see Hillary and Bill once again, I’d vote for President Bush AGAIN!
Politics is compromise. It's a fact...not just a cliche.
Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.
No...insanity is voting for a Saul Alinsky-type Marxist like Hillary because you’re not happy with everything your candidate does.
No...insanity is voting for one person who wants to drive you over the cliff at 10 miles an hour versus voting for another that wants to drvie you over the cliff at 60 miles per hour.
But you don't see a single thing wrong with a Republican keeping Lanny Davis in any position of power?
Are you THAT 'botted???!?
At least, one would hope so.
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