Additional reporting: Nicole Duarte, Laurie Anne Agnese, and David Botti
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I'm impressed. It took four people to write six paragraphs. |
Posted on 11/22/2004 1:28:07 PM PST by dead
Hang in there. Things may not be quite as good as Bush-lovers think.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Poking their heads aboveground in the second week of the newly mandated Bush government, liberals are finding the countryside to be not as bleak as they had originally thought. Against the news announcing George W. Bush's mandate, last week's headlines already were portraying not mandate but chaos in the nation's capital.
Colin Powell, left to twist in the wind of Bush's WMD double-talk, is going, trying to save what's left of his image as a fair and decent general—not a messenger boy for the Bush White House. So too is Spencer Abraham, secretary of energy and the man who oversees our energy policy, which has resulted in the highest prices for oil and gas in years. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, much criticized for her almost lackadaisical handling of the mad-cow scare, and Education Secretary Rod Paige, of No Child Left Behind fame, are out. John Ashcroft is gone.
With Chief Justice William Rehnquist dying of cancer, there is nobody in charge of the Supreme Court.
The CIA, widely viewed as a Bush enemy during the war, is in turmoil, with new director Porter Goss forcing out top officials. Two big guns in the agency's Clandestine Service, Stephen R. Kappes and Michael Sulick, resigned Monday following infighting with Goss.
In Iraq, there's of course even more turmoil. The U.S. military appears to have the upper hand in Falluja, but whether the city can be even temporarily controlled is unclear. Fighting now has shifted to Mosul and other cities. All this is part of the U.S. pacification program to stabilize the country sufficiently to hold elections. But as The Boston Globe reports, Iraqis are wildly misinformed and underinformed about the elections. Nearly three-quarters think they are electing a president, when in fact they are first electing a national assembly. Also, in those regions where most of the intense violence is taking place (which are the largest cities), voter education is patchy and many city residents have fled (this is a part of U.S. military strategy—making a big show before the troops arrive so that residents can leave their cities).
Back home, add to the turmoil in D.C. the already tenuous connections between different brands of conservatives, and Bush's mandate could turn out to be artificial. The conservatives are not, as usually depicted in the leftish press, a monolith. Republican libertarians, whose major interest is pursuing free-market initiatives, are often at odds with the Christian right, who are all for using the power of the state to enforce social policy. Not to mention Bush's Keynesian pump-priming of the military and homeland-security industries. The libertarians have an anarchist tinge. They like less government, not more, want to keep sharp watch on the debt, and don't want foreign adventuring, They often don't care about borders, welcoming cheap labor from Latin America and the Caribbean, and are hands-off when it comes to social issues, being more than tolerant when it comes to changing sex mores and population control. Some old Reaganites are already up in arms against the neoconservatives for wrecking foreign-policy objectives by fashioning a new kind of gunboat diplomacy.
Additional reporting: Nicole Duarte, Laurie Anne Agnese, and David Botti
>>>Colin Powell, left to twist in the wind of Bush's WMD double-talk, is going, trying to save what's left of his image as a fair and decent general—not a messenger boy for the Bush White House<<<
I thought the librals were calling him an Uncle Tom, Now they call him a decent General?
Yep. Fairly drooling at the thought of the Iraqi people living in fear and squalor. Sick people.
Consider that Condi Rice is somehow simultaneously Bush's Pinocchio and Gepetto.
It goes back to the era when Reagan was the world's biggest evil genius/drooling moron.
Additional reporting: Nicole Duarte, Laurie Anne Agnese, and David Botti
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I'm impressed. It took four people to write six paragraphs. |
They should get us offices.
Or at least a hooker once in a while.
It's a pretty sad commentary when the Chief Justice dying of cancer and American troops bleeding and dying in Iraq is what offers you hope for the future.
Publik Skool, no doubt.
This allows all of them to take credit for the article on their resume!
Whatever you do, don't you dare ever ever question their patriotism.
If Condoleezza had hung up her pumps after Bush's first term, they would have lavished her with praise. Instead they heap scorn onto her. Reminds me of Paul O'neill. He was unfit for the treasury, until he was axed; then he was a beacon of virtue and truth amongst the Bush cabal.
I don't question it in the least.
There is no question they have none!
The left's "compassion" and "caring", exposed openly and honestly.
Yeah dead American soldiers! Yeah dead Iraqi children! Yeah dead conservative judges!
A more disgusting group of humans you won't likely find.
Pathetic tirade by a pathetic rag. Their meltdown has not bottomed out yet. They still have selfmutalation and suicide to go yet.
Back to Eisenhower actually.
Four more Bush years isn't enough ?
We've been on this forum for a long time.
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What's really spooky is, not ten minutes ago, I was wondering where you've been. |
By the way, I opted for the mobile home w/ hookers.
And Colin Powell will now be annointed as the greatest hope ( by the GOP rhinos and the MSM ) for the Republicans in 2008, assuming the love affair with McCain will be over.
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