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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 12:09 PM
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“Bush is an anchor,” Don't want him on the resume says Mathew Dowd
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/19/dowd-bush-anchor/

In the Texas Observer today, Anthony Zurcher describes how “no one’s been rolling out the red carpet” for Bush administration officials as they return to Texas. “For every Karen Hughes who lands a highly paid consulting gig, there’s an Alberto Gonzales, who seems condemned to wander the Earth in search of gainful employment,” writes Zurcher. Former Bush pollster Matthew Dowd explains why the Bush association makes it difficult “to make a go of a political career“:

If any of Bush’s Texas crowd wants to make a go of a political career, however, they’re going to have to do it in spite of their ties to the administration and not because of them, at least in near term.

“Bush is an anchor,” Dowd said. “I don’t think you can take your experience in Washington working with the Bush administration and emphasize that on your resumé.”

After leaving the administration in disgrace, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales found it difficult to find a job. Gonzales has only been able to find work recently, providing assistance to a special master on a patent case.
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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 12:15 PM
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1. Can we throw him over the side of a boat and cut the rope?
Please????

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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 12:20 PM
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2. the Alpha Sissies fukked USA good....real good
what a insane set up.... creeps who got the gall to disrespect Hugo Chavez and Fidel and Kim Jong il etc for trying to defy them in their nations' interests- and backed by a trillion dollar $ publicly funded security/police machine- and who tear good old 'western civilization' a new Anus (as in Coulter) by ripping off its economies in one bald-faced ripoff after another....it's too much...does not compute...does not compute...does not compute...ad nazism...
(notice Alberto Gonzalez was a good soldier, thus he gets pissed on while Ken Starr jack hisself off in some idiotic private school outside LA)
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phaseolus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 12:42 PM
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3. I heard Matthew Dowd on NPR's Morning Edition the other week
When they announced him, I thought to myself "Geez, he's going to be another David Brooks, parroting the party line", but he surprised me. He was analytical, detached, and his criticism of the McCain ticket was pretty scathing... As a commentator, he's independent-minded (for now anyway) and quite good.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 02:10 PM
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5. Mathew Dowd: Turning Sour on Bush
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 02:02 PM
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4. They deserve nothing less.
They are complicit in this nightmare, and ignominy should follow them all. Forever.
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