Re: Working at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is "life in a hellhole"
- From: "E.L. Chamberlain" <indexai@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 Sep 2005 00:20:18 -0700
InkyDinky wrote:
> "Roger" <rogerfx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eCL_e.3420$KQ5.94@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sounds like the tightest WH in recent history is prime to
> burst.
> >
> > What truth will escape first? The real reason for Iraq? Who had
> the idea to
> > tie 911 and Iraq together?
>
> It's going to read something like this.... Somebody discovered
> 9/11 was being planned and that info reached Bush's desk. Bush
> buried the report and maybe even did subtle things to help the
> plan along. He knew that if 9/11 happened the nation would be
> hysterical and easily led into a war on Iraq.
>
> Why do I think he knew all along? Fahrenheit 9/11 showed Bush's
> immediate reaction upon hearing the news about the WTC towers.
> He barely flinched. He knew it was going to happen beforehand.
>
This is one of the things that's wrong with some (not many) on the
left. After 9/11 went down people were saying look how timid and
powerless Bush was when he heard the news. Now it's "He barely
flinched. He knew it was going to happen beforehand."
It seems like many are not interested in conspiracy theories
(although I find them interesting) but this isn't really even the
point. If all we do is bash Bush then that's a waste of our own time.
We should instead focus on what the positive, active vision of the
Democratic Party is for the 2006 elections. If we can manage to retake
the Senate then we can work at that vision while preparing for 2008.
But, no. My friends seem content to simply keep on bashing Bush. The
guy can't even run for the presidency again.
>
> >
> >
> > "Harry Hope" <rivrvu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:lb9mj1d2u00ud9repa80dlglpcqimv354t@xxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > >
> http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7445.shtml
> > >
> > > Sep 28, 2005
> > >
> > > Bush's Depression: Been There, Reported That
> > >
> > > By DOUG THOMPSON
> > >
> > >
> > > Depressed and demoralized White House staffers say working at
> 1600
> > > Pennsylvania Avenue is "life in a hellhole" as they try to
> deal with a
> > > sullen, moody President whose temper tantrums drive staffers
> crying
> > > from the room and bring the business of running the country
> to a halt.
> > >
> > > "It's like working in an insane asylum," says one White House
> aide.
> > >
> > > "People walk around like they're in a trance. We're the dance
> band on
> > > the Titanic, playing out our last songs to people who know
> the ship is
> > > sinking and none of us are going to make it."
> > >
> > > Increasing reports from the usually tight-lipped staff of the
> Bush
> > > Administration talk of a West Wing dominated by gallows
> humor, long
> > > faces and a depression that has all but paralyzed daily
> routines.
> > >
> > > "If POTUS (President of the United States) is on the road you
> can
> > > breathe a little easier for the day, knowing that those with
> him are
> > > catching hell and the mood will be a little easier in the
> Wing (West
> > > Wing) until he returns," says another aide.
> > >
> > > Capitol Hill Blue began reporting on Bush's mood swings and
> erratic
> > > behavior in June 2004 but the stories of an erratic, moody
> President
> > > circulating within the White House were ignored by the
> "mainstream
> > > media" until recently.
> > >
> > > Now more and more outlets have begun to report on what many
> > > administration staffers say is a President out of control.
> > >
> > > "A president who normally thrives on tough talk and
> self-assurance
> > > finds himself at what aides privately describe as a low point
> in
> > > office, one that is changing the psychic and political aura
> of the
> > > White House, as well as its distinctive political approach,"
> Jim
> > > VandeHei and Peter Baker wrote in The Washington Post over
> the
> > > weekend.
> > >
> > > "Aides who never betrayed self-doubt now talk in private of
> failures
> > > selling the American people on the Iraq war, the president's
> Social
> > > Security plan and his response to Hurricane Katrina."
> > >
> > > That sentiment is echoed by former Republican Speaker of the
> House
> > > Newt Gingrich.
> > >
> > > "I think the Administration realizes the larger system has
> failed,"
> > > Gingrich says.
> > >
> > > "They are not where they want to be on Iraq. Katrina was an
> absolute
> > > failure."
> > >
> > > "It's a standing joke among the president's top aides: who
> gets to
> > > deliver the bad news? Warm and hearty in public, Bush can be
> cold and
> > > snappish in private, and aides sometimes cringe before the
> displeasure
> > > of the president of the United States, or, as he is known in
> West Wing
> > > jargon, POTUS," Evan Thomas wrote in Newsweek on September
> 19.
> > >
> > > Thomas talked to "several aides who did not wish to be quoted
> because
> > > it might displease the president."
> > >
> > > Thomas went on to report "Bush can be petulant about dissent;
> he
> > > equates disagreement with disloyalty. After five years in
> office, he
> > > is surrounded largely by people who agree with him--Late last
> week,
> > > Bush was, by some accounts, down and angry. But another Bush
> aide
> > > described the atmosphere inside the White House as "strangely
> surreal
> > > and almost detached."
> > >
> > > At one meeting described by this insider, officials were
> oddly
> > > self-congratulatory, perhaps in an effort to buck each other
> up.
> > >
> > > Life inside a bunker can be strange, especially in defeat.
> > >
> > > To regular readers of this web site, this should sound all
> too
> > > familiar.
> > >
> > > Here is what we reported on June 4, 2004:
> > >
> > > "Worried White House aides paint a portrait of a man on the
> edge,
> > > increasingly wary of those who disagree with him and paranoid
> of a
> > > public that no longer trusts his policies in Iraq or at home.
> 'It
> > > reminds me of the Nixon days,' says a longtime GOP political
> > > consultant with contacts in the White House. 'Everybody is an
> enemy;
> > > everybody is out to get him. That's the mood over there.'"
> > >
> > > Last year, the naysayers said we got it wrong.
> > >
> > > But they got it wrong.
> > >
> > > Again.
> > >
> > > And we got it right and ahead of everyone else.
> > >
> > > Again.
> > >
> > > Yes, we're gloating.
> > >
> > > We all too often read reports in the big boys and have a
> feeling of
> > > deja vu because we're already been there and reported that.
> > >
> > >
> ________________________________________________________________
> > >
> > > Georgie has drowned in the bottom of his bottle.
> > >
> > > Harry
> >
> >
.
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