Posted on 11/05/2005 5:36:08 AM PST by AliVeritas
PRESIDENT BUSH DIDN'T TAKE THE HINT. Clean house, find fresh blood, replace senior White House staff--and this will assure success in the final three years of your presidency, Bush was told. When he didn't respond, those offering the president advice in public got specific. Get rid of Karl Rove, the key presidential adviser, and things will get better. Bush ignored that recommendation, too. Then Rove himself was addressed. Your peers in the White House are turning against you and debating whether you should be fired, the Washington Post informed him on the front page. Besides, you're not only hurting the president by staying, you're making it harder for the press secretary, Scott McClellan, to do his job. Rove, the symbol of Bush intransigence, stayed put.
There's a classic pattern here. It's Washington's way of taming a president, getting him to knuckle under. And it's always offered as if the Washington political establishment--a center-left conglomerate of officials of previous administrations, the permanent bureaucracy, lobbyists, consultants, old party hacks, and the media--had the president's best interests at heart.
The establishment is most influential when a president or other political leader is at a low point (as Bush surely is). In op-eds, news stories, speeches, and TV appearances, establishment figures outline a recovery plan. In Bush's case, it's this: Apologize publicly for your White House sins, especially the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame; soften your policies, particularly in Iraq; start cooperating with Democrats; and fire Rove. Do this and good times will roll again.
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David Rodham Gergen. I wish he'd hack up that big booger that's hanging down the back of his throat and get it over with.
Fred is absolutely correct in this! Hope the White House listens
Just my useless opinion, but I say fire McClellan (just on principle) - he's a blubbering, bumbling fool and borderline moron. Probably the worst Press Secretary in history. And whomever recommended him for the job is undoubtedly on the DNC payroll.
"And whomever recommended him for the job is undoubtedly on the DNC payroll."
hmmmm. Down here in Texas we have our doubts about his Mom (Carole Keeton Rylander Strayhorn).
I read similar pledge in US News, where Gergen serves as editor at large. I switched from Time to US News because I didn't want to give money to a magazine that is too much liberal. For a while, US News as okay. Now, I cancel my subscription. Internet provides enough good news and articles.
The Democrat Party would vastly improve its chances for the long term if it lanced and drained a fat, pus-filled boil on its body politic, a boil named Clinton (him and her). It is clear the Party will not follow this advice. But it would be good for that Party and for the nation, if it did so.
Congressman Billybob
Ah yes. If there's a truth in Gergen's suggestion, it's time for McClellan to go. He almost never provides a good response to any attack. Bush is weak when it comes to firing somebody from TX, no matter how bad the appointee is. Perhaps there should be another pressure from conservatives against an unqualified appointee.
We have subscribed to US News for years. I have told my wife for most of those years to please not renew it when it runs out. So far, I have been unsuccessful.
This most recent issue really made me want to puke.
I must say that I agree with you on McClellan. He is a clone of that slime Clinton had doing the same job, McWhatisname. He sounds exactly like Clinton's man.
Isn't she the one that's running against Perry? Also, is Scott's brother in the administration ?
Yes. It was the recent issue that triggered me to cancel.
Well, if they're like some other magazines, the thing will still keep on coming anyway. We sent a change of address to one magazine and now we get two every month: one to the old address and one to the new. (We didn't move; the town finally got around to doing the E911 numbering.)
How refreshing it would be if someone with the nads of a Rumsfeld or Franks would be out front. That pack of hyenas would soon be running for the tall grass.
I'v often wondered what Rove's advice is about illegal immigration and the border.
McClellan always seems very hesitant and defensive. It could be helen makes him queasy, that's understandable. But the press smells the blood when he stands behind the podium. And they attack every time. If he would just slap one or two down, he would soon find himself enjoying his role.
Gergen works for the Democrats. The notion that he is non-partisan is pure eyewash.
Maybe "Conservatives" should break themselves of this childish habit of spending all their time firing on their own side and learn to actually stand up for things.
Maybe, the Whine all the Time Choir might, just once, learn to stand of for things instead of their usual bitching about everything. "Conservatives" have this really bad habit of falling into the psuedo-intellectual's trap of thinking being 100% rabidly critical makes them look "intelligent". It doesn't.
Being a knee jerk critic is NOT a sign of a thinker, quite the opposed in fact.
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