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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...Rovebud....Rovebud...
Stay the course Mr. President, and begin cleaning house at the CIA ! Make a few heads roll!
Cheny and Libby had their own counter-espionage op going against the CIA's espionage with their denaible espionage agent," Joe the Mole Wilson" and his treacherous wife "Plame the Flame." Cheny and Libby were doing their job.
Another item: No one voted for anyone in the CIA, since when do they vicariously make the nations foreign policy
by trying to hobble the president of the United States?
Christians In Action have to change or be disbanded!
David Gergen is just roasting under the diatribe of his
wing-nut MSM colleagues. Stand up to them you spineless
ninny!
Bush needs Rove to keep reminding him that neither the press nor the Washington establishment are his friends.
Definitely! Put her in a pair of bib overalls and she would be unbeatable.
Never surrender, indeed. It is the only way of honor.
Pray for W and Our Troops
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.
And that pertains to Scott "Mumbles" McClellan exactly how?!?
BTW, you misspelled "psuedo"
W needs to hire Dan Senor (of Iraq fame) to be his press person. He is AWESOME--brilliant, articulate, quick on his feet and fearless. He could take down the WH press corps in short order.
I never liked or trusted Gergen. You should have seen him on Fox and Friends a few days ago and when the fill in made a point in support of Scooter Libby (forgot exactly the subject matter), Gergen went off on him saying something like you and your friends may believe that....He was torked because someone challenged him. Like I said, can't stand him.
How about General Honore (STUCK ON STUPID) statement of claim to fame. Would love to watch this when addressing Helen Thomas.
Yes, Carole Strayhorn is running against Perry.
She has ads where she talks conservative but she acts RINO.
"Gergen went off on him saying something like you and your friends may believe that...."
I believe Libby is innocent until proven guilty. What Gergen believes is irrelevant.
My greater thought is that Andy Card had some extra influence of late (in Rove's distraction w/Plame). He reportedly pushed Miers, (and probably got Laura to second the motion.) My guess is that Chief of Staff Card idea's have been shown to fail. (there was talk that Card once pushed SC Justice Breyer years ago)
Whatever, or whomever, there has clearly been some screwy thinking going on lately. With Plame basically behind us, here's hoping we get back on the right track.
Point taken about the importance of the press secretary, but with W's apparent disdain of defending himself, SOMEBODY'S got to do it besides Rush, Sean, Laura, Hugh, and the internet.
Dan Bartlett would be good in the job. We saw him during the elections. I don't know what he's doing now.
Some have gone as far as saying Card could be the WH mole...I'm not sure about that, but I've seen some good arguments for the theory.
The MSM trot out Gergen all the time as a "Republican" balance on panel shows. What a load! He's now a Democrat.
You don't see them trotting out Democrats who've changed to Republicans and calling them Democrats.
Wouldn't you like to see Zell Miller on a panel as a Democrat representative?
I find David Gergen to be unsufferable to watch. I turn the channel everytime he shows up.
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