A Come-to-Daddy Moment

[rodeodance]

November 9, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist
A Come-to-Daddy Moment
By MAUREEN DOWD

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.

Mr. Gates, already on Mr. Baker’s “How Do We Get Sonny Out of Deep Doo Doo in Iraq?” study group, left his job protecting 41’s papers at Texas A&M to return to Washington and pry the fingers of Poppy’s old nemesis, Rummy, off the Pentagon.

“They had to bring in someone from the old gang,” said someone from the old gang. “That has to make Junior uneasy. With Bob, the door is opened again to 41 and Baker and Brent.”

[Buzz Clik]

1. Yeah, okay, but...

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.

That's great, Maureen, but the major players in the Bush43 administration were Reagan/Bush41 leftovers and handpicked by Bush41. Shrub is still the president, and we can look forward to 2 more years of screwing up.

[mainegreen]

2. APHEX TWIN!!!!

Sorry,
I couldn't help myself.

[savemefromdumbya]

3. maybe he'll make his daddy vice president?

just joking

[Silent3]

4. God, I just had an awful thought...

41 deciding to come out of retirement, and making a run at being #44 in '08. :scared:

(Yes, I know, not a chance in hell that could actually happen, but a scary thought nonetheless.)

[Dosaybe]

5. "Iraq Policy In Receivership: a bankrupt project..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15627055/site/newsweek/
By Howard Fineman
Newsweek
Updated: 5:11 p.m. CT Nov 8, 2006
"Nov. 8, 2006 - President George W. Bush's Iraq policy is now in the political equivalent of receivership—a bankrupt project that is about to be placed in the hands of the worldly-wise pragmatists who surrounded the president's own father"

Gates as lobbist was cramming HAVA evote sales down our throats.
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/45174.html
"Gates was on the board of directors of VoteHere, a strange little company that was the biggest elections industry lobbyist for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). VoteHere spent more money than ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia combined to help ram HAVA through. And HAVA, of course, was a bill sponsored by by convicted Abramoff pal Bob Ney and K-street lobbyist buddy Steny Hoyer. HAVA put electronic voting on steroids. "PERMISSION TO REPRINT GRANTED, WITH LINK TO http://www.blackboxvoting.org