[right wing]

Bush needs help, badly. He needs it soon. Some absolutely top-notch people must be found that Bush can have confidence in.

I keep fantasizing that Bush is pulling a rope-a-dope on the Democrats and that soon there will be a bombastic press conference from a NEW Press Secretary about the CIA & FBI uncovering numerous democrat high level elected officials who are/were engaged in treason and bribery.

Frankly, unless we get news like that, I'm sickened and devastated that this administration will not defend itself and demand the truth be told in public discourse. This negative democrat & MSM drumbeat is being trumpeted around the world & it needs to STOP NOW!

[gov_bean_ counter]

10000 plus pages of Iraqi Defense intelligence documents that needed to be translated. With all the leaks I am surprised we haven't heard about the results. However, a little noticed blurb a few days ago indicated that the Dems didn't want these findings to be included in their investigation of the runup to the war.

[strategofr]

"Frankly, unless we get news like that, I'm sickened and devastated that this administration will not defend itself and demand the truth be told in public discourse. This negative democrat & MSM drumbeat is being trumpeted around the world & it needs to STOP NOW!"

I agree. (by the way, I presume you know Weldon has been on Savage for hours.)

The way I see it, Bush way into some kind of euphoria after the election and lost touch with reality. then, when his fantasies didn't come through (such as Social Security reform), and then Katrina hit and everything, he seemed to go into some kind of psychological tailspin, along with ideological backpedaling.

He's getting better now, but the thing is, Bush needs some serious help running this country. I didn't see Cheney tonight, but I'm willing to bet, he compromised his health just a little bit to do what needed to be done. I really think he's doing that all the time now, whenever he's vigorous.

And consider this, Rumsfeld is like 77 years old. he's the one who made the Iraqi invasion work, when things fell apart, when Colin Powell stabbed us in the back, when we had one quarter of our army tied up and made unavailable in Turkey---Rumsfeld pushed it through. I believe he wanted to give way and let Wolfowitz takeover, but after Wolfowitz made so many mistakes, he just had to exit quietly.

I really think that Iraqi war took an awful lot of Rumsfeld. his performance was great, but 77 is still 77. I don't think his performance as the war has been great.

I think Cheney should focus his remeaning stretch on recruiting two or three really top people, for the inner White House team. Above all, they would need to be smart, truly conservative, and people Bush likes. Those things would be more important than experience to me.