Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing? UAE/Ports

[smoogatz]

So, if Rumsfeld didn't know, and Bush didn't know, and the committee didn't meet, and the 45 day review didn't happen--who the hell approved the UAE/ports deal? My guess: Cheney. Which means he's acting autonomously now, making policy without input from Bush. How long has THAT been going on?

[CottonBear]

1. Since Cheney was first inaugurated as VP back in January 2001. n/t

[Tamarin]

2. Since Bush decided he didn't want to be known as

Old Pellet Face.

[smoogatz]

4. Excellent.

"Old pellet face" is a keeper.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. 4 ever. (written in code to confuse the NSA)

[havocmom]

5. Either they knew or they 'didn't know' deliberately

Remember the Nixon years and 'plausible deni-ability'? It's deja vue all over again, but for higher stakes.

Nixon and all his megalomania was a tin pot dictator wanna be compared to these guys

[smoogatz]

6. Nixon, for all his megalomania, was reasonably competent

and actually cared about policy and how things worked. And in terms of social policy, he was to the left of Bill Clinton. Tells you something about how far right the pendulum has swung.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. I made that point elsewhere. That is so accurate about dick.

pity that the center today is how quickly we can dismantle our social policies and organizations.

Frankly, his social policies domestically were superb. Cambodia? bombing Hanoi? Mining the harbor? NOOOO. But, the man truly cared about helping out the needy.

In Georgie's book, the needy are an irrritant to be cured with tax breaks for the have and have mores.

what a sick society we have. And the sickness seeps down from the very top.