How The President Can Still Win
by Vince Daliessio
President Bush has been sinking in the polls since before the election, with only the rational ignorance and ordinary fears of the public keeping him from defeat. Now the public, thanks in part to alternative news sources is waking up to exactly what a disaster this administration has become.
What is fascinating to me about the whole Valerie Plame case is the degree to which the Vice-President appears to be implicated. Specifically the trail leads to Dick Cheney's chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, apparently Judy Miller's chatty source on all things White House.
Telling, to me, is the fact that Libby asked, and Miller agreed, that his quotes regarding the Plame story and the CIA should be attributed to a "former Capitol Hill staffer", and not "an administration source".
This means, essentially, that these two dimwits thought that by lying, basically, they could protect Libby and his boss. Libby and Cheney apparently believed they had their own version of Susan Mac Dougal, the Clintons' professional fall-girl for their own brand of wrongdoing. Heh heh.
Especially illuminative is Libby's cryptic allusion in his letter releasing Miller from confidentiality;
'Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning,' Mr. Libby wrote. 'They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them.'
Far be it from us to want to try to help this evil bunch, but President Bush can still save what's left of his presidency if he fires Cheney and the neocon cabal that surrounds him, then apologizes to the nation for what has happened. Not that we think he'll do it, but we can dream.
Or, Dick can have that massive MI he's been saving up for. Either way, the neocons are leaving soon, thank God. Not sure whether it will help any of us, but at least they won't be able to make things worse.
Our advice to Mr. Cheney; better have your cardiologist on speed-dial...
Yep, and they HATE it when you point it out to them - see the post on Bruce Bartlett getting booted by the faux conservative National Center for Policy Analysis here; https://libertyguys.org/articles/detail.asp?ArtID=1025
• agree with the Carter thing. I always believed him to be honest and well-meaning. Completely misguided, but honest and well-meaning. • don't confuse republican with the term conservative. Sean Hannity hangs on the term conservative, and I'm convinced that it's to keep people from focusing on the fact that the modern-day republican party hasn't a conservative bone in all its masses
As bad a president as Carter was (though not as bad as this one), he is still twice the man of any other president of the past 30 years. Though he's invariably comically wrong on economic issues, and he buys into the Democracy schemes perpetrated by Bush, the europeans, and the UN, I still think Carter is fundamentally a decent man.
I think its comically tragic that this administration is turning out a lot like Carter's - an idiot surrounded by even bigger idiots. These guys couldnt count their balls twice and get the same number. I wish the R's would stop supporting the neocons because they hate the dems. They are making conservative a bad word (and it isnt in my world).
This is why Clinton was hounded for personal transgressions - his minions did a superb job of insulating him from his state crimes, but there isn't an underpaid staffer in the world who was willing to get between Clinton and a BJ from a fat chick.
Libby is basically saying that they were all in on the Plame thing, from the Vice-President to the guy who makes the coffee. Notice, however, that the top guy is still insulated. That is why we won't see a Bush impeachment here - the system has evolved to insulate the leader from the crimes of his minions. Nixon was a little too dim to get it, but Presidents since Lincoln have known it, and so do mayors and county commissioners.
'Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning,' Mr. Libby wrote. 'They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them.'
Huh?
