Comments on: I Think I’ve Had The Wrong Fall Guy

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:46:23 +0000

Yes, brilliant, thank you for that scintilating analysis…now it’s back to the Keith Olbermann show for you, someone still needs to write tonight’s episode…

By: fiskhus jim

fiskhus jim — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:10:17 +0000

You are wrong about the Bush administration’s incompetence – oh, sure, they are, indeed, so incompetent that allowing them to continue in office borders on malfeasance.

However, you really should get out and read more widely. George Bush is, after all, a person even his own mother describes as “stupid like a fox.” That characterization, coupled with the President’s own assurances that “everything is going according to plan,” leads us all to no other conclusion than the conslusion that Bush’s only goal in occupying the White House is to enrich himself.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:30:58 +0000

Doug, I did just that: Kos said Lieberman sucked 2,383 times, but never found a way to express support for Israel.

Atrios: “Open Thread”

What was I supposed to learn?…

By: doug

doug — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:28:23 +0000

I just don’t understand, I go away for a couple of days and the world turns upside down. Maybe you guys should go read atrios and kos archives to catch up on what has been happening for the last 5 years.

By: Settembrini

Settembrini — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:55:53 +0000

Yes, I am coming from the left, but I’m just trying to figure out how this WH is run. From Suskind’s latest book I learned the Cheney is making many of the decisions, including limting what Bush himself knows (input from Scowcroft, the purpose of a meeting with the Saudi gov’t, intel queries and responses re: WMD from VP office to CIA, etc), but Cheney seems absent from a lot of the inner-workings. Now we have these warnings about the lack of post-war planning, (previous books, including Fiasco, detailed the plans coming from the State Dept. that were tossed aside) and Bush just sitting there making jokes. I’m almost beyond outraged and into fascinated at this point.

Also disturbing from Woodward’s book – a July 2001 meeting between Tenet, Black (ctc) and Rice warning of al qaeda attacks in the U.S., a meeting Rice did not mention before the 9/11 commission.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:33:50 +0000

Settembrini, I assume you’re coming from the left, and I’m pretty much on the right…but we can agree on this: the allegations from this book are very, very troubling…Bush can’t totally escape responsibility, but all signs are pointing towards Rumsfeld…

By: Settembrini

Settembrini — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:26:07 +0000

Everytime I read insider accounts of this White House I become more bewildered. The president is being told that his post-war plans are inadequate and cannot be handled by his post-war planning chief, including the most important aspects of the planning, and he’s concerned about the man’s accent? Nobody in the war room has any questions or response? We know Bush is notoriously uncurious, but shouldn’t the experts he surrounded himself with ask something? Whose idea was it to replace Garner with Bremer as soon as Garner got there? Were Bremer’s decision cleared by Bush? Rumsfeld?

Each revelation about the rampant incompetence of our nation’s top officials is more disturbing than the next. The sloppiness of these people is staggering.

By: Dmac

Dmac — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:52:19 +0000

Mark – well, one can always hope, can’t one?

“I think you’re too hard on fiskhus.”

…said Fiskhus’s sock puppet.

By: iaintbacchus

iaintbacchus — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:30:18 +0000

I think you’re too hard on fiskhus. It’s just wishful thinking on his part that the Bush regime is crooked instead of incompetent. If they were only dishonest that could be taken into account and we’d eventually figure out what they were after. But these are people who don’t know what they’re doing and refuse to listen to those who do. You can’t reason with a true believer.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:33:26 +0000

I’m convinced, aren’t you, Dmac?…