Wh-wh-WHAT? NOVAK critisizing his handlers?

[teenagebambam]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak08.html

[bee]

1. Im speechless.

:wow:

[OKNancy]

2. Here is a snip

'I've got this down,'' Michael Chertoff boasted to aides last weekend as he staved off questions on television about handling the Katrina disaster. It turned out that the secretary of Homeland Security did not begin to have it ''down'' when he subsequently was interrogated by Tim Russert on NBC's ''Meet the Press.'' Chertoff's miserable performance on the air reflected a fiasco at all levels of government.



''There'll be plenty of time,'' Chertoff told Russert, to ''do the after-action analysis.'' That bloodless dismissal made the human tragedy and physical mayhem on the Gulf Coast seem like a bureaucratic mistake. What Chertoff ''got down'' was the White House mantra, repeated endlessly, that the ''after-action analysis'' should not interfere with current recovery operations. It was similar to saying the Pearl Harbor attack should not have been investigated and nobody disciplined for failures until World War II was won.

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

3. This is likely the only time in history

I have ever agreed with anything Novak has said. Amazingly, I agree with most of it.

DBDB

[Barrett808]

4. Yeah, go figure.

<shakes_head/>

[bemildred]

5. More scapegoating. The usual disingenous spin.

Like Novak just noticed these folks have their heads buried in their asses.
Tell me how you're going to "make a new reality" this time blowhard.

[UpInArms]

6. sounds like No-Facts is attempting to distance himself

from those that will sink him.

When he comes clean on his outing of Plame and tells the truth about the entire cabal and shows his paystubs, I'll read him again.

'til then, he can sink to the bottom of the barrel with his criminal friends.

[Virginian]

7. Any openings on the Supreme Court?

Democrats have seized on the administration's performance in handling Katrina to bash President Bush, but Republicans are not much happier with him. The common complaint is that the president has let the lawyers take over. Chertoff, a former federal judge and assistant attorney general, is a quintessential lawyer who has surrounded himself at Homeland Security with more lawyers. Michael D. Brown, who as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is Chertoff's subordinate, is also a lawyer. Neither Chertoff nor Brown was experienced in politics or large-scale management before joining the Bush administration.

It looks like one of these two fine men could be Bush's next nominee. Either that or he will give them Gold Medals.

[Orion The Hunter]

8. Are we sure that was the real Novak and not some pod person..?

I am stunned that he would write such a piece!

[geckosfeet]

9. He is merely stating the obvious; trying regain some legitimacy. n/t