Chaos in the ME is always a silver lining to...chaos in the ME.
Grover is happy, happy, happy.
If the Pentagon had not wanted to create and sustain a viable enemy force for the US troops to combat for an extended period of time, it would have included targeting Saddam's explosives bunkers for destruction during the Shock-and-Awe phase. (And having "failed" that, it surely would have secured them from being "looted"...no? The military isn't really THAT stupid, is it?)
Only traditional fiscal conservatives would be outraged; but Neocon Grover Norquist -- who advises the White House at Wednesday morning breakfasts -- is responsible for the mal-admin's radical fiscal economics, and he has Karl Rove keeping the President in line:
He says everyone expected Mr. Bush to rubber stamp the plan under discussion: a big new tax cut. But, according to Suskind, the president was perhaps having second thoughts about cutting taxes again, and was uncharacteristically engaged.
“He asks, ‘Haven't we already given money to rich people? This second tax cut's gonna do it again,’” says Suskind.
“He says, ‘Didn’t we already, why are we doing it again?’ Now, his advisers, they say, ‘Well Mr. President, the upper class, they're the entrepreneurs. That's the standard response.’ And the president kind of goes, ‘OK.’ That's their response. And then, he comes back to it again. ‘Well, shouldn't we be giving money to the middle, won't people be able to say, ‘You did it once, and then you did it twice, and what was it good for?’"
But according to the transcript,
White House political advisor Karl Rove jumped in.
“Karl Rove is saying to the president, a kind of mantra.
‘Stick to principle. Stick to principle.’ He says it over and over again,” says Suskind. “Don’t waver.”
In the end, the president didn't. And nine days after that meeting in which O'Neill made it clear he could not publicly support another tax cut, the vice president called and asked him to resign.
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Bush Sought ‘Way’ To Invade Iraq?"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I
can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
Grover Norquist, on NPR 2001
“One of the steps for getting there is a permanent Republican government, in the sense of fifty-five Republican senators and a thirty-vote margin in the House and a Republican President for twenty years in a row. That’s when you can do to the left what the left did to us in the thirties and the forties.”
Grover Norquist, on how to accomplish the above
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