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Friday, June 04, 2004 |
Can Bush Make it to November?
Can Bush make it to November without going 'round the bend? Via Washington Monthly comes a link to this piece: Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides:
“It reminds me of the Nixon days,” says
a longtime GOP political consultant with contacts in the White House.
“Everybody is an enemy; everybody is out to get him. That’s the mood
over there.”
In interviews with a number of White House staffers who were willing to
talk off the record, a picture of an administration under siege has
emerged, led by a man who declares his decisions to be “God’s will” and
then tells aides to “fuck over” anyone they consider to be an opponent
of the administration.
“We’re at war, there’s no doubt about it. What I don’t know anymore is
just who the enemy might be,” says one troubled White House aide. “We
seem to spend more time trying to destroy John Kerry than al Qaeda and
our enemies list just keeps growing and growing.”
..."Tenet wanted to quit last year but the President got his back up
and wouldn't hear of it," says an aide. "That would have been
the opportune time to make a change, not in the middle of an election
campaign but when the director challenged the President during the
meeting Wednesday, the President cut him off by saying 'that's it
George. I cannot abide disloyalty. I want your resignation and I want
it now."
Tenet was allowed to resign "voluntarily" and Bush informed his shocked
staff of the decision Thursday morning. One aide says the President
actually described the decision as "God's will."
...The Attorney General is tight with the President because of
religion,” says one aide. “They both believe any action is justifiable
in the name of God.”
But the President who says he rules at the behest of God can also
tongue-lash those he perceives as disloyal, calling them “fucking
assholes” in front of other staff, berating one cabinet official in
front of others and labeling anyone who disagrees with him
“unpatriotic” or “anti-American.”
Woo hoo!
4:03:19 PM Permalink
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Kerry Kerry Not Contrary. Drudge is red-inking a pre-transcript of a John Kerry interview with C-SPAN, where the Democrat nominee (in Drudge's paraphrase) "supports the current FCC crackdown on television indecency, but comes out against the greater scrutiny of pay cable channels like HBO and Showtime." Some direct quotes: "I am not in favor of government interference and censorship and restriction of what an individual privately can decide to do in their home, in their own space, so to speak," Kerry said, but he did seem to be OK with indecency regulation "where you have children involved, where you have a broader cross-section of the public, where there is sort of a sense of family time or hour." There's nothing I've seen to indicate that a Democrat-run FCC would be a damned bit better than Michael Powell's boobs, and Kerry's comments about media consolidation in the same interview indicate a stronger willingness to regulate. [Hit & Run]
I hope that once he's in office I can be as hard on Kerry as on Bush.
12:48:23 PM Permalink
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Kerry Kerry Not Contrary. Drudge is red-inking a pre-transcript
of a John Kerry interview with C-SPAN, where the Democrat nominee (in
Drudge's paraphrase) "supports the current FCC crackdown on television
indecency, but comes out against the greater scrutiny of pay cable
channels like HBO and Showtime." Some direct quotes: "I
am not in favor of government interference and censorship and
restriction of what an individual privately can decide to do in their
home, in their own space, so to speak," Kerry said, but he did seem to
be OK with indecency regulation "where you have children involved,
where you have a broader cross-section of the public, where there is
sort of a sense of family time or hour." There's nothing I've seen to indicate that a Democrat-run
FCC would be a damned bit better than Michael Powell's boobs, and
Kerry's comments about media consolidation in the same interview
indicate a stronger willingness to regulate. [Hit & Run]
12:30:48 PM Permalink
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