After Upheavals, President Seeks to Steady Course (no "housecleaning")

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: After Upheavals, President Seeks to Steady Course
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON and ROBIN TONER
Published: October 30, 2005


WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 - After weeks of political turmoil, capped by the indictment of a senior administration official, President Bush will try to give his second term a fresh start by naming a new conservative nominee to the Supreme Court and intensifying his drive to cut government spending, White House officials and other Republicans said.

But he appears to see little need for the wholesale housecleaning that previous administrations tried during times of upheaval to rebuild credibility, those officials said.

The administration's goal, they said, is to reassure its divided and demoralized conservative base, chalk up a few victories on Capitol Hill and set the stage for a more robust comeback next year after months of experiencing one misstep and setback after another.

But some supporters of the administration acknowledged that it was harder to get out of political trouble than into it and that with the leak investigation continuing, American troops still dying in Iraq and the Republican Party divided over a number of issues, the Bush strategy faces extraordinary challenges.

Even after the indictment on Friday of I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Mr. Bush has no immediate plans to bring in fresh faces or fire any top aides, especially if his senior adviser and deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove, is not charged in the C.I.A. leak case....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/politics/30leak.html?hp&ex=1130644800&en=b16221546e0b070c&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[fshrink]

1. Good. The cleaners are on their way anyways. eom

[Metta]

2. You seriously expected something different?

Did you forget he's blind and deaf, not to mention shallow? Any change from plan would imply that he wasn't right. He's obviously overcompensating for some perceived deficiency.

[MichiganVote]

3. Too many secrets among this bunch for any kind of change. n/t

[AntiFascist]

4. A BIG MISTAKE!

No housecleaning means impeachment....sooner or later!!!!!!!!

[thereismore]

6. exactly. * is whipping dying dogs. nt

[rodeodance]

7. good news for the country.

[MaineDem]

14. But he doesn't make mistakes!

Just add this to the list of non-mistakes this administration has made over the years.

This will very likely backfire, though. I sure hope so. As long as we and the rest of the world aren't ruined in his fall.

[jimshoes]

5. Yeah, maybe no one

will notice that your administration is full of crooks, liars, thieves, traitors, thugs, whacko's, spies, and assorted criminals and just let you continue to sink this once great country. Yeah, good plan.

[Rowdyboy]

8. Obviously, denial is not just a river in Egypt....

What part of "miserable failure" does Bush not understand? He can never begin to recover until he admits that there is a serious problem.

All in all, this is good news for our side. He'll just keep banging his head into the wall as time slowly runs out on his mal-administration..

[cassiepriam]

12. yes looks like he is still not accepting reality,wonder what it will take?

For him to face reality. He has an incredible denial system. Hard to get thru to those types. They deny until they are destroyed, then they go on total meltdown.

[goforit]

9. Psychopathic behavior challanging the rules of justice.

[KoKo]

10. The only reason they are sticking together like this is: 9/11 complicity.

Not :tinfoilhat: stuff here, but, logical deduction. Now we can see that they are incompetent blunderers after Katrina blew a whole in their image. I've never seen an administration so terrified of replacing anyone and so concerned with secrets (except Nixon) so, that means they are covering something so dreadful that to let anyone go means the whole thing might unravel. They either refused to acknowledge 9/11 intelligence or they were in on it in some way. Their behavior is so bizarre that it just is staring us in the face that they were responsible. When you've got David Gergen and others all over the Cables and Radio urging "Clean House...Start Over," amost in a panic, you've got to know that they WON'T because they CAN'T.

One of our posters on a thread said they could be the subject of Blackmail because of the PlameGate Coverup and that's what Fitz is worried about or that he maybe uncovered. That's a chilling thought and given everything else they've done in endangering National Security...probably not so farfetched either.

:scared:

[leesa]

18. You got it. That's the BIG enchilada! I don't think they will be able

to keep a lid on it though. The law's got a lot of the big players on the ropes, and let's face it, they are wimps and they will squeal. Discovering their role in 9-11 is what will bring the pitchforks and nooses out in this country.

[evermind]

11. "I won't be hiring (especially if my current staff don't go to jail)"

Wow - such credibility, such statesmanship, such elan!

[BlueManDude]

13. tacking right - far right - at least keep the base

the sc nominee will be real neanderthal.

[Plaid Adder]

15. Good. They remain as deluded and in denial as ever.

Bush cannot clean house, because that would require him to fire the people who tell him what to do. If he got rid of Rove, Cheney, and the other minions, he'd have to actually watch the news and try to understand it, instead of having it all summarized for him.

They can't save themselves; and they won't let anyone else save them either. They're goin' down, sooner or later.

:popcorn:

The Plaid Adder

[truthisfreedom]

16. and the Democratic Party had better capitalize on this serious mistake

during the coming weeks. we need a chant...

CLEAN HOUSE, MR. BUSH! YOU PROMISED!

[DeepModem Mom]

19. You're right -- I hope they can. nt

[hatrack]

17. Great - now detachment, isolation & cluelessness will be set in stone

More stage-managed bullshit photo-ops, more isolation from unpleasant realities, more denial of the truth, more unwillingness to listen to what needs to be done = more opportunities and ammunition for 2006.