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Maureen Dowd - Rummy, W, Vice and Gates
From today’s NYT:
Poppy Bush and James Baker gave Sonny the presidency to play with and he broke it. So now they’re taking it back.
They are dragging W. away from those reckless older guys who have been such a bad influence and getting him some new minders who are a lot more practical.
In a scene that might be called “Murder on the Oval Express,” Rummy turned up dead with so many knives in him that it’s impossible to say who actually finished off the man billed as Washington’s most skilled infighter. (Poppy? Scowcroft? Baker? Laura? Condi? The Silver Fox? Retired generals? Serving generals? Future generals? Troops returning to Iraq for the umpteenth time without a decent strategy? Democrats? Republicans? Joe Lieberman?)
The defense chief got hung out to dry before Saddam got hung. The president and Karl Rove, underestimating the public’s hunger for change or overestimating the loyalty of a fed-up base, did not ice Rummy in time to save the Senate from teetering Democratic. But once Sonny managed to heedlessly dynamite the Republican majority — as well as the Middle East, the Atlantic alliance and the U.S. Army — then Bush Inc., the family firm that snatched the presidency for W. in 2000, had to step in. Two trusted members of the Bush 41 war council, Mr. Baker and Robert Gates, have been dispatched to discipline the delinquent juvenile and extricate him from the mother of all messes. [Read more →]
Where’s the Outrage? 11/4/06
Wow, I have gotten behind in posting my radio show.
Why aren’t elections held on Saturdays when most people are off? If you want folks to vote then why would hold elections on Tuesdays?
John Kerry’s gaff. If you watch the video he clearly loses his place. The Republicans go crazy over his gaff. His reaction to the Republicans fingerpointing was worse than the stumble in the first place.
How do you decide who to vote for? No seriously. How do you know who to trust? The newspapers? The TV? The Web? My answer is you have to go to the web and read a ton. Start with the candidate’s web site. Understanding that it will be biased. Then go to a site like the League of Women Voters. Trying to really find out information is a active process.
My guests are David Corn, Washington Editor of The Nation. We will continue our discussion of his new book which he wrote with Michael Isikoff (writer for Time Magazine), Hubris, the inside story of spinm scandal, and the selling of the Iraq War. I also have an excellent interview with Geoffery Nunberg author of Talking Right.
There’s more fun and information. Sit back and enjoy.
Remember I’m on iTunes on several other podcasting services.
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Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, fulltime sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
