Washington Post on Demoralized White House
Washington Post on Demoralized White House
#0Washington Post on Demoralized White House
Posted: 10/21/05 at 1:06pm
I'm almost tempted to sympathize...but then I think of the groups of people these creeps have demoralized over the past 6 years: the gays they scapegoated, the women whose health they used as "wedge issues," the poor people they abandoned, the middle class they screwed, the African-Americans they disregarded, not to mention freedom-loving people all over the world...and then I think, "Karma IS a bitch, ain't she, Karl?"
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At 7:30 each morning, President Bush's senior staff gathers to discuss the important issues of the day -- Middle East peace, the Harriet Miers nomination, the latest hurricane bearing down on the coast. Everything, that is, except the issue on everyone's mind.
With special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald driving his CIA leak investigation toward an apparent conclusion, the White House now confronts the looming prospect that no one in the building is eager to address: a Bush presidency without Karl Rove. In a capital consumed by scandal speculation, most White House senior officials are no more privy than outsiders to the prosecutor's intentions. But the surreal silence in the Roosevelt Room each morning belies the nervous discussions racing elsewhere around the West Wing....
"People are very demoralized and unhappy," a former administration official said. "The leak investigation is [part of it], but things were not happy before this took preeminence. It's just been a rough year...."
Many allies blame the insularity of his team for recent missteps, such as the Miers nomination. Even some sympathetic to her believe the vetting process broke down because as White House counsel she was so well known to the president that skeptical questions were not asked.
Some GOP officials outside the White House say they believe the president rejects the idea that there is anything fundamentally wrong with his presidency; others express concern that Bush has strayed so far from where he intended to be that it may require drastic action....
At the White House and among its close allies, discussion about Rove's fate is verboten -- in part out of fear and in part out of ignorance about what his legal vulnerability actually is. No one in the White House wants to talk about an indictment. As another former official said, "No one wants to believe anything's going to happen." Nor do people easily discuss other staff changes. "Anyone who talks about that kind of stuff should be shot," said a third Republican with close ties to the White House.
Few Ready to Face Effects of Leak Case
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#1re: Washington Post on Demoralized White House
Posted: 10/21/05 at 1:09pmMaybe they all will quit?
#2re: Washington Post on Demoralized White House
Posted: 10/21/05 at 1:18pm
My new wacky prediction: We will see the first resignation of a sitting American president for "health" reasons, followed by an appearance by George and Laura on Oprah to discuss his problems with substance abuse.
Okay, okay, I SAID it was wacky...
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#3re: Washington Post on Demoralized White House
Posted: 10/21/05 at 1:22pmCheney has a heart attack, then Condi becomes President and appoints Bill Clinton as VP
#4re: Washington Post on Demoralized White House
Posted: 10/21/05 at 1:23pmGlad to see I'm not the wackiest!
#5re: Washington Post on Demoralized White House
Posted: 10/21/05 at 1:42pmbrdlwyr - glad you appreciate my respect for Ann Coulter and the depth of Bush's thinking!
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#6re: Washington Post on Demoralized White House
Posted: 10/21/05 at 1:43pmIt was laugh out loud for me.
#7re: Washington Post on Demoralized White House
Posted: 10/21/05 at 1:48pm
Well, then I can go through the day knowing that I brought joy to at least one similaly deranged corner of the world.
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