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Monday, September 03, 2007

i don't like ANY of 'em

and it appears they really don't like each OTHER either (or is that too)

Book Tells Of Dissent In Bush's Inner Circle
White House Granted Author Unusual Access



By Michael Abramowitz Washington Post Staff Writer
Karl Rove told George W. Bush before the 2000 election that it was a bad idea to name Richard B. Cheney as his running mate, and Rove later raised objections to the nomination of Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court, according to a new book on the Bush presidency.
In "Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush," journalist Robert Draper writes that Rove told Bush he should not tap Cheney for the Republican ticket: "Selecting Daddy's top foreign-policy guru ran counter to message. It was worse than a safe pick -- it was needy." But Bush did not care -- he was comfortable with Cheney and "saw no harm in giving his VP unprecedented run of the place."..........

..............In recounting the Miers nomination and other controversies of the Bush presidency, Draper offers an intimate portrait of a White House racked by more internal dissent and infighting than is commonly portrayed and of a president who would, alternately, intensely review speeches line by line or act strangely disengaged from big issues.
Draper, a national correspondent for GQ, first wrote about Bush in 1998, when he was the Texas governor. He received unusual cooperation from the White House in preparing "Dead Certain," which will hit bookstores tomorrow............

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This isn't surprising, really. When you put a group of assholes in a room together without a clear leader, the descend into chaos, trying to tear each other apart to figure out who's going to be in charge . . . years ago, Cheney would've won, but that's before he died and was brought back to life by Dr. Frankenstein.

Unknown said...

you're too on the mark rick