mama mia

Barbara Bush and the wretched Mr. Cheney
One of the few bright spots in an otherwise bleak news week was an oddball account of Barbara Bush going ballistic over the way her boy-George has been abused by other members of the administration. Huh?Apparently, Lady McBush got it into her steely-blue helmet-head that Dick Cheney and Co. have “undermined” the commander-in-chief and are responsible for his plummeting popularity. According to Steve Clemons of “The Washington Note” the First-mother is on the war-path and may “call on Nancy Reagan to get a refresher lesson on how she took on and kicked out then Chief-of-Staff Donald Regan”.“Cut-throat Nancy?”Normally, this type of “he-said, she-said” story is only moderately interesting, but the prospect of Nurse Ratchet unloading on Dick Cheney is bound to put a jolt in anyone’s pacer. Is this the “last throes” of the sneering V.P.?The Texas matriarch has plenty of reason to be irritated, too. Sure, she doesn’t waste her “beautiful mind” on the wretched minutia of Washington chitchat, but, don’t kid yourself, she knows what’s going on. She’s seen Cheney and his spectral-twin Donald Strangelove, dressing up junior in flannel shirts or navy flight-jackets and packing him off him to pitch the war to the wary public. She’s read the shocking reports from Colin Powell’s ex-chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, claiming that Bush was kept out of the policy-making loop prior to the invasion of Iraq. She knows her boy has been duped, manipulated, and dragged through the Washington mud by some real pros..................