- Is it just me or does Scott McClellan look like crap
lately? Come to think of it, his boss doesn't look any too good either.
As a matter of fact, the whole Bush Gang has been looking like the tail
end of a week-long binge-drinking festival - except for Cheney of course.
He always has the look of a mortician with something mean stuck in his
lower tract. But ever since King George's disaster on Meet the Press a
while back, things just don't seem to be going so well for the Bushies.
- Actually, things haven't been going well for the Bushies
for quite some time now but lately we can actually see it in their faces.
You can almost see them looking out of the corner of their eyes while they
try to determine just where the life boats are.
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- I don't believe I've ever seen this administration on
the defensive for so long but, what did they expect? They have been allowed
by the media and their apathetic audience to systematically destroy any
sense of stability, both here at home and around the world. When you think
about it, there isn't one thing this administration has touched that has
worked out that well or hasn't been completely ruined. This administration
has pursued its deplorable ideology and dangled their lies in the face
of the global community while brazenly daring anyone - anyone - to confront
them.
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- Joseph Wilson and Paul O'Neill were the two most recent
folks to take up the dare and both were victimized by the Bush/Rove Revenge
Machine. In Wilson's case, someone in the White House, two as yet unidentified
senior officials actually, broke a federal law and "outed" Wilson's
wife who had been a CIA operative for thirty years after Wilson pointed
out that Bush had lied in the State of the Union speech back in 2003. Paul
O'Neill was attacked for his contribution to a book which painted Bush
as an uninterested President, except for when it came to Iraq and Hussein.
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- In between the ordeals of these two political martyrs
were the stories of Bush being AWOL, withholding the actual cost of the
disastrous Medicare bill, more deaths in Iraq, no WMD's in Iraq and a Democratic
primary season where the candidates pummeled Bush Inc. with the awful truth
regarding the long-and short-term effects of the administration's misguided
ideological assault on America. And of course, there was Bush's bumbling
and failed appearance on Meet the Press.
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- McClellan has been doing his level best through all of
these challenges and, I have to admit, he's perfecting his skills at not
answering questions posed by the press. He's really getting his rhythm
down. Next time there's a press conference, count how many times Scott
tells the reporters "I'm not going to answer that" or "You'll
have to ask so and so" or - my personal favorite, "I've already
answered that." That one always leaves me scratching my head though,
because if he's already answered the questions then why not answer it again?
Besides, some of the reporters might have been out sick the last time he
answered, y'know?
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- Now, as if poor Scott and his bosses didn't have enough
to worry about, along come the 9/11 hearings preceded by Richard Clarke's
book and his 60 Minutes interview. Now the Bush Gang has got trouble -
big trouble.
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- You can always tell how much the Bush/Rove Gang perceives
the threat level of any person who takes up the dare to expose these crooked
liars who temporarily occupy the White House by the intensity of the attack
they wage against the truth tellers. Wilson was scary at first for them
but all they ended up having to do was "slime and defend" before
bumping the whole mess to the DOJ where it proceeded to fall out of the
public conscience into God knows where. O'Neill was easy because, as he
had stated in his interview, "Why would they attack me for telling
the truth?" Anybody who honestly can say that about the Bush administration
with a straight face - and believe it - isn't going to last long. In fact,
has anybody heard from Paul lately?
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- But Clarke is another animal and he's got the Rove Machine
in such a state of overdrive that smoke and sparks are coming out of the
White House roof and the windows are blowing out. They've spent the first
wave of the attack on Clarke and they're tripping over each others' words.
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- First, Cheney tells Limbaugh's audience that Clarke was
"out of the loop" only to have Condi Rice say "no he wasn't."
Then poor Scott McClellan, in response to Clarkes reference concerning
a dialogue between the President and his advisor, made the ridiculous comment
that there was no record of Bush being in the Situation Room the day after
the worst attack in history! The White House quickly back-peddled after
realizing how foolish they sounded and admitted that the conversation Clarke
referred to "probably took place" after all. Rice has also criticized
Clarke for being the architect of failed Clinton administration policies
regarding counter-terrorism only to turn around and claim she retained
Clarke so the Bush administration could continue to pursue Clinton's terrorism
policies.
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- Clarke had stated on 60 Minutes that he fully expected
the administration to attack him - and he was right. In true Bush/Rove
fashion, they have employed the tried and true tactics of destroying the
messenger in order to distract attention away from the message. Fox News
helped contribute to the fiasco with their usual brand of slimy "journalism"
by digging up an old background interview with Clarke from 2002 in a transparent
and futile attempt to discredit him in front of the 9/11 commission. The
only thing they accomplished was making themselves look foolish and "occasionally
fair and balanced" in front of and large TV audience. You would think
after losing another war of credibility to Al Franken last year, that folks
at Fox would've learned their lesson and given up going after even bigger
fish. What was I thinking?
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- Republican Senate leader Bill Frist is the latest to
throw a credibility punch at Clarke by demanding that his 2002 testimony
before the senate investigation committee on 9/11 be declassified. Frist
and other Republican leaders want this declassification, not in the name
of national interest, but as a possible avenue to "prove" Clarke
guilty of perjury when compared to his recent testimony and the accusations
in his book. In true Bush-League fashion, Frist and other right-wing attack
dogs are ignoring the severity of the content of Clarke's testimony because,
should they acknowledge any hint of accuracy in that content, Bush's strongest
playing card in his presidential campaign will come under serious scrutiny
- as it should.
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- Bush supporters have always counted on his "strength"
as the God-anointed leader in the war on terrorism as their ace in the
hole back into the White House. But accusations like Clarke's and O'Neill's
which shed an unflattering light on Bush's obsession with Iraq - at the
expense of America's safety against terrorist attacks - are beginning to
give the Bush people nightmares. That the American people would even entertain
the notion that Bush ignored specific and multiple warnings of dangers
posed by al Qaeda to innocent civilians have driven the administration
and its supporters mad. The fact that this administration placed the Clinton
counter-terrorism policies, declaring them to be "warmed over,"
on the back burner is something they never wanted to come to people's attention.
But it has, and now they must once again attack one of their own for telling
the truth. But the big difference this time is that their target is fighting
back with the same determination of someone with the truth on his side
- something the Bush administration cannot possibly identify with, let
alone defeat fairly.
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- When you stand back and take a good look at how the staunch
Bush supporters are willing to wage such personal attacks against those
who help to dismantle the wall of secrecy that surrounds this administration,
you have to wonder just who and what Bush considers a greater threat to
America - al Qaeda and bin Laden or the American people learning the truth
about 9/11 and Bush rightfully losing the White House?
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- Stay tuned.
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