Showing posts with label administration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label administration. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
The Cheney Project
Charlie Savage writes at TPM about his new book, Takeover, and explains some of its contents. It is a devastating look at the Bush administration and Cheney's thirty-plus year 'project' to return the Presidency to it's Nixonian Imperialism. The article is quite good and I have a feeling the book will be also. Well worth a read.
Sunday, September 09, 2007
All Hat, No Cattle
Joe at Americablog tackles a subject that's occurred to me so often I seldom think about anymore, just take it as a given. These boobs in the WH can do politics, but not governance; the can do PR for their policies, but they can't pull off the policies.
They can sell the war to the public (or at least to the DC crowd), but they can't manage the war. They can sell a report (or so they hope), but they can't make the environment they're reporting what they want it to be (hence, they HAVE to sell!)
Most of this administration (well, some of the original crew) had pretty impressive success in business (with the obvious exception of the serial Failure-in-Chief), so you'd think if they'd spent HALF as much time actually managing/planning the war as they did selling, it might have come off, at least better than it did. But that would be too much like actual work, and that's something Bush will never do, unless it involves innocent brush on the Crawford 'ranch'. Where he has no cattle.
Definitely, as we say in Texas, all hat, no cattle.
They can sell the war to the public (or at least to the DC crowd), but they can't manage the war. They can sell a report (or so they hope), but they can't make the environment they're reporting what they want it to be (hence, they HAVE to sell!)
Most of this administration (well, some of the original crew) had pretty impressive success in business (with the obvious exception of the serial Failure-in-Chief), so you'd think if they'd spent HALF as much time actually managing/planning the war as they did selling, it might have come off, at least better than it did. But that would be too much like actual work, and that's something Bush will never do, unless it involves innocent brush on the Crawford 'ranch'. Where he has no cattle.
Definitely, as we say in Texas, all hat, no cattle.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Oh Goody!
Monica Goodling is scheduled to testify before Congress next Weds. And Susan Ralston (ex-Rove and Abramoff gofer) is negotiating for immunity. MORE POPCORN!
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