Bush in PR blitz amid leak probe(D's-WhiteHousecleaning if indictments)

[Algorem]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/10/25/bush_in_pr_blitz_amid_leak_probe/

Fearing indictments, Republicans look to shore up support

By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | October 25, 2005

WASHINGTON -- It looked like business as usual at President Bush's Cabinet meeting yesterday. And that's exactly what White House aides wanted...

But seated along the edge of the room were two poker-faced men whose fates could determine Bush's effectiveness through the rest of his term in office. The possible indictments of Karl Rove and I. Lewis ''Scooter" Libby hang over virtually everything the president is doing these days, but behind the scenes, the Bush administration and its Republican allies have already launched a campaign to minimize the damage of any criminal charges...

Democrats say that if top Bush aides are indicted, they will use the fact that Plame's identity was leaked in connection with the drive to invade Iraq to intensify their criticism of Bush.

''We'll try to take it back to the president," one Senate Democratic leadership aide said, speaking on condition of anonymity. ''We'll call for a wholesale housecleaning in the White House, like Reagan did after Iran-Contra, and call on the president to put an end to this culture of corruption."

[nookiemonster]

1. "Culture of Corruption"

Keep sayin' it Dems. It's gonna stick.

:)

[Inland]

2. There's a scene in Sophocles's play Oedipus the King

Where King Oedipus is standing before his people who are suffering a plague. King Oedipus says to the people that he will discover why the gods are angry with the city, as plagues were assumed to be divine punishment, and cleanse the city of any sin that offends the gods.

What the audience would have known, and the characters in the play did not, was that Oedipus himself was the sin, having gained the throne by (inadvertently) killing his father and marrying his mother. As he stood before the city telling them that he would help, his very presence was the sin, his very presence bringing the plague.

Well. You can now see Bush's housecleaning speech as the real life analogue.

[skooooo]

4. Those Greeks knew something..

I'm continually amazed at how pertinent old Greek mythology and literature still talk to us today. We'd do well to learn their lessons.

[Inland]

5. They thought a lot about politics.

More than we do.

[reprobate]

8. The psychology of human nature does not change.

And I think your analogy of bush to Oedipus is quite instructive. Not that George the Boy Kink married his mother, but you can tell there's some jealousy of the father going on there, and you get the feeling that he's still trailing along on mama's apron strings.

[goforit]

14. Well, I don't think it is jealousy for Dad, its forever dutiful to Dad.

And.....Dad calls the shots 24/7.

Just that Dad has set up a cover just incase of failure of son,
which is where Snowcroft(his best bud)comes into the picture saying
even he was always against the war.

The Bush family went to war not to promote Democracy or conquere the evil doers, but they went to war for "profit and control of all resourses" and only this(which is profiteering as well).

They are mafia and mafia at all costs.

[RumpusCat]

7. We still act out these ancient scripts in real life

That's a really interesting analysis, there. I must say, tho', that I feel the need to scrub my brain after the image of W marrying Barbara... :scared:

[Melsky]

3. Great

I hope he will do some more press conferences! They are so effective lately.

[gratuitous]

6. That's interesting

In the not-so-distant past, if the Bush White House wanted everything to look like business as usual, that's all that would have been reported: Business as usual, nothing to see here, everything is okay, please go about your business, these aren't the droids you're looking for.

Now, right after the lede sentence and paragraph, the story notes that all was decidedly not business-as-usual.

Downright astonishing for those of us who have grown accustomed to the media serving as the echo chamber for whatever propaganda was being catapulted.

[sabra]

9. Bushies take aim at probe(war room offensive against possible indictments)

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/359006p-305893c.html

Bushies take aim at probe

WASHINGTON - President Bush's damage-control handlers are plotting a sophisticated war room offensive to fight back against possible indictments in the CIA leak probe.

Trying to change the subject yesterday, Bush announced a new Federal Reserve chairman and convened his cabinet to signal business as usual at his beleaguered White House.

Behind the scenes, however, Team Bush was finalizing its campaign to discredit and undermine special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's conclusions, sources told the Daily News.

The White House strategy is counting on major help from GOP allies and neocon commentators who turned on Bush for naming Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court and are now looking for redemption with a miffed President.

[54anickel]

10. Oh for cryin' out loud! Why are these idiots lickin' *'s boots.

Why give a crap that he's "miffed"? They should be infuriated for putting them in the position of even having to debate the confirmation of an incompetent "fawning" Harriet Miers to the SC.

...GOP allies and neocon commentators who turned on Bush for naming Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court and are now looking for redemption with a miffed President.

[ninkasi]

15. Really pathetic...

When will they learn that giving in to childish temper tantrums only encourages the brat to have more of them? I want a grownup, intelligent man as president, not a spoiled, arrogant brat. What a pathetic, miserable excuse of a man, and a president he is.

[grasswire]

11. "looking for redemption with a miffed president"???

What an outrageous statement that is.

It's the summation of the boy king's life. It's all about him and his feelings.

[jazzjunkysue]

13. They still don't get it that it's not about Shrub. It's about our country.

And this nasty illegal war.

[cassiepriam]

18. Yes, notice in the recent reports it is always about *'s feelings,

an UNHAPPY Bush, a MIFFED Bush, an ANGRY Bush.
What a co-dependent dysfunctional country we have become.
Our very lives are connected to this crazy man's feelings.

[robbedvoter]

17. Amazingly timely quote:

Asked in 1999 about Clinton's impeachment by the House, Bush responded, "I would have voted for it. I thought the man lied."

[WhiteTara]

12. Andy Card must be

in heaven and hell simultaneously. Soon he gets to be big dog, but then all hell will break loose for him and he could very well get swallowed up in the morass.

[xxqqqzme]

16. culture of corruption...

culture of corruption...culture of corruption...culture of corruption...culture of corruption...



Thank You Howard Dean!