Thursday, February 12, 2004
Wither Dick?
TeamBush looks increasingly edgy with things not going their way of late. As Karl 'The Brain' Rove looks to jettison some dead weight from the team while simultaneously feeding a little raw meat to the masses, is Dick Cheney beyond his evil gaze?
Murmurs of dissatisfaction among GOP loyalists have been heard softly in the background for some time now. Joan Vennochi at the Boston Globe floated the idea of a Bush-Romney ticket, guessing that TeamBush might prefer a smiling hatchet man like the affable-but-venomous Massachusetts Governor over the snarling hatchet man Cheney has become in most American's eyes.
And you know its bad when a decidedly center-right publication like Time weighs in on Cheney. Haliburton, secret energy committees, Scalia, the neo-con connection, his championing of the War and the now-tired lines about al-Qaeda and Iraq and nukes in the basement are all beginning to be a drag.
Perhaps worse, though, is the threat of multiple indictments hanging over his office regarding the intentional outing of a CIA agent. Julian Borger reports here that three of the five targets of the investigation do or did work in Cheney's office. Of course, some people were crowing about this whole allegation for months, but TeamBush tried last year to push it under the rug with a trademark smirk. But CIA knew from their own investigation where this trail lead--to the same guys who were trying to pin the decision to go to war on them because of faulty intelligence gathering.
Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori, Dick.
TeamBush looks increasingly edgy with things not going their way of late. As Karl 'The Brain' Rove looks to jettison some dead weight from the team while simultaneously feeding a little raw meat to the masses, is Dick Cheney beyond his evil gaze?
Murmurs of dissatisfaction among GOP loyalists have been heard softly in the background for some time now. Joan Vennochi at the Boston Globe floated the idea of a Bush-Romney ticket, guessing that TeamBush might prefer a smiling hatchet man like the affable-but-venomous Massachusetts Governor over the snarling hatchet man Cheney has become in most American's eyes.
And you know its bad when a decidedly center-right publication like Time weighs in on Cheney. Haliburton, secret energy committees, Scalia, the neo-con connection, his championing of the War and the now-tired lines about al-Qaeda and Iraq and nukes in the basement are all beginning to be a drag.
Perhaps worse, though, is the threat of multiple indictments hanging over his office regarding the intentional outing of a CIA agent. Julian Borger reports here that three of the five targets of the investigation do or did work in Cheney's office. Of course, some people were crowing about this whole allegation for months, but TeamBush tried last year to push it under the rug with a trademark smirk. But CIA knew from their own investigation where this trail lead--to the same guys who were trying to pin the decision to go to war on them because of faulty intelligence gathering.
Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori, Dick.
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